*Official* ASUS P5Q Deluxe Intel P45 Board Thread

[nathanmarks]

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[n7]

I replied to your PM.

 

[ShadoutDH]

Originally posted by: The Odorous One
Not sure if the Deluxe and the P5Q-E are different but the manual states:

"If one of the PCI-e x1 slots is occupied, the Universal PCI Express x16 slot (bottom black slot) will downgrade to max. x1 speed."

Is that real? Sounds fucked up :/

 

[tr1kstanc3]

Originally posted by: ShadoutDH

Originally posted by: The Odorous One
Not sure if the Deluxe and the P5Q-E are different but the manual states:

"If one of the PCI-e x1 slots is occupied, the Universal PCI Express x16 slot (bottom black slot) will downgrade to max. x1 speed."

Is that real? Sounds fucked up :/

i want to go ahead and plug my asus xonar dx into one of the pci-e x1 slots and see if my intel nic switches to x1 speeds. i have disabled the marvel pci-e onboard nic to see if it frees up an additional pci-e lane.

does anybody know of a good system board monitoring utility that will tell me what speed my peripherals will be running on the pci-e buses? i do not want my teamed network adapter running at x1 speed.

 

[ShadoutDH]

Not sure if you can get the info without having something in the slot. But shouldnt CPU-Z be able to tell you if you placed your GPU in the lower 16x slot?

Damn, I'm 5 min away from placing my order. And I want both this MB and a Xonar, would surely like to know if one of the PCI-E slots got nerfed to oblivion in such a setup :S

 

[tr1kstanc3]

Originally posted by: ShadoutDH
Not sure if you can get the info without having something in the slot. But shouldnt CPU-Z be able to tell you if you placed your GPU in the lower 16x slot?

Damn, I'm 5 min away from placing my order. And I want both this MB and a Xonar, would surely like to know if one of the PCI-E slots got nerfed to oblivion in such a setup :S

i dont believe you will have any issue unless you decide to add additional pci-e peripheral devices such as myself. in my case i am using an x4 intel pci-e network card which i plugged into the last universal x16 slot (x4 electrical). if you do not have any x4 devices than using the xonar (which is only x1 electrical) will have no impact on the board even if you use crossfire. the only situation you will find a problem is if you have an x4 device such as a hardware raid controller or a server-class network adapter thrown into the mix in addition to an x1 device like the xonar plugged into the x1 physical slots.

 

[ShadoutDH]

Oh, maybe I have misunderstood it then. The affected PCI-E slot is not the second x16 slot (used for crossfire), but the x4? Guess it wont matter then, placed my order already anyway

 

[GundamF91]

Originally posted by: nathanmarks
I recently purchased a P5Q-E and want to overclock my processor but I can't find the PCI clock synchronization setting in the bios....

I flashed the bios to the most recent release and it still isn't there, can someone help me out?

Where did you read about the PCI sync? There's adjustment in the AI tweak in BIOS for PCI, so just leave it at 100, and that locks it down so you dont' overclock PCI.

 

[Cookie Monster]

So just what are everyone's settings?

Im currently stressing out the E8400@3.6Hz (400FSB, with a 3:4 divider) all on stock volts except the memory at 2.1V. So far so good though.

Temps are roughly at ~52C/56C load. (core0/core1)

 

[secretanchitman]

ive got my Q9450 at 3.6Ghz (450FSB)

benched and its rock solid stable too. at 1.25vcore, LLC disabled!

 

[Cookie Monster]

I can reach 3.6GHz with stock setting with ease. Voltage as low as ~1.16. Hm, im not too sure since i could have a good chip or just haven't fully stressed the chip out at those settings. (The latter probably isn't since ive tested using orthos, 3d games, idle etc and not a single hiccup).

Anyway, using load line calibration (should i enable this or not? i did anyway), im sitting at a rather conservative 3.6GHz @ 1.2V, using a 4:3 memory divider (400/533), with memory at 5-5-5-18 (2.04V).

What kind of NB voltage you guys using? and apparently 1.2V is recommend for the SB according to users from XS.

edit - temps settled to ~55C for both cores. Nice.

 

[xeltox]

I just updated to BIOS 0803 and now CPU temperature that PC Probe II said before to be around 40ºC is now around 13ºC. Is this normal?
Motherboard temperature is now 40ºC. No OC.

 

[tr1kstanc3]

Originally posted by: xeltox
I just updated to BIOS 0803 and now CPU temperature that PC Probe II said before to be around 40ºC is now around 13ºC. Is this normal?
Motherboard temperature is now 40ºC. No OC.

definitely not normal. that temperature is way below the actual temperature. have you tried using realtemp or coretemp? i personally have not tried the latest bios file since i have not run into any issues as of yet.

 

[n7]

Asus's temp measurement = joke.

Use CoreTemp or RealTemp or Everest's core temps, etc.

 

[secretanchitman]

hey guys, i just read through the asus support forums on the p5q deluxe and also on the xtremesystems thread...whatever you do, DONT flash to the newly posted 1003 bios on asus' site. it screws up RAID and also apparently AHCI sata drives as well (i dont think sata drives under ide emulation are affected though). stick with 803 or lower (i think 1102/1101 whatever the latest beta bios should still work fine too).

also, how in the world do you get AHCI working with xp sp3?

 

[GundamF91]

Originally posted by: secretanchitman
ive got my Q9450 at 3.6Ghz (450FSB) benched and its rock solid stable too. at 1.25vcore, LLC disabled!

I see you got your Q9450 to run at 3.6Ghz at 1.25vCore. I got my Q9450 to load Windows and run fine at 3.6Ghz, but it keeps crashing in Prime95.

I've tried vCore up to 1.30 and still the same issue. so I'm wondering if there are other modification in BIOS. I've tried increasing the other values by about 10%, but so far no dice.

Could you let me know what settings you used for vCore, PLL, FSB Termination, NB, SB, and GTL Ref values?

And what's your Q9450's factory default VID? You can probably find out from the latest CoreTemp0.99 version. Also another way to see what default VID you have, is to set vCore to auto, and other stuff in auto as well, and then see what the vCore is under Hardware monitor screen in the BIOS. My shows up as 1.20v by the way.

I'm also running 4x2GB, so maybe there's some weakness in the memory that I haven't figured out.

 

[egale]

Originally posted by: xeltox
I just updated to BIOS 0803 and now CPU temperature that PC Probe II said before to be around 40ºC is now around 13ºC. Is this normal?
Motherboard temperature is now 40ºC. No OC.

My board varies depending on each boot. Sometimes the CPU temperature is correct and sometimes it is in the teens which is completely wrong. I suppose the next bios update will correct this.

I find that all utilities that display temps are exactly the same except for Realtemp which displays CPU core temps 5 degrees less than the other utilities. Asus Probe doesn't display core temps but all the other utilities will display a 13 degree cpu temp if Probe is displaying that. Its not the software where the problem is but how the motherboard is reporting.

 

[hotel77]

So, I read through this thread and didn't locate a specific answer to my problem, maybe some of you have an idea.

I've built multiple computers (5?) over the past few years, and yesterday I received the following parts, and plugged them into my case with a 600w OCZ PSU, SATA lite-on dvd drive, and 4 hard drives (3 sata(one of which is a raptor), 1 ide)

P5Q3 Deluxe
E8500 (Q815 Batch)
Ocz 14400 DDR3 Platinum
(Exact ram: http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16820227254)

I'm currently at work, so I don't know what bios version I have, but I'm assuming it's "somewhat" up to date simply because it was delivered yesterday.

After installing everything, I went into the bios to only adjust the boot order so I could run my windows XP Pro setup disk (Sp1). Everything else was stock settings.

Scenario 1: on reboot, I see the windows setup begin to start, and after it loads all the drivers (BEFORE you get to hit "enter to setup windows") it just hangs, and stops there.

So I try again,

Scenario 2: on reboot, i see the windows setup and it gets to the point where I can hit enter to setup windows, and then it says "examining hard drive XXXX MB at ID 0 etc etc"

So, I've tried multiple things such as disabling certain on board features (firewire, etc), anything I could think of that could possible cause it to hang. I also unplugged hard drives except one, then rotated a few others with that one, none of which allow me to get through setup.

I know the disc is good....I used it a few weeks back for a friend.

I fell asleep last night around 1am and woke up at 6am for work, and after scenario 2 (examing the HD) it was still sitting at the same spot...This morning it hung at "debugging kernel" or something of that sort...which is before "setting up windows" in scenario 1...

Any idea's on what the problem could be here?

PS - I read somewhere in my research this morning (beginning of this thread?) that because the voltage on my ram is 1.95V and my mobo is all default settings (auto?) that the mobo might not be happy giving that much voltage to the ram, which is causing the problem. If you think that is the problem, what should I set the ram voltage at?

 

[egale]

My first P5Q-E did something similar. I was able to install Windows but the next day I could no longer boot the machine. It would get stuck as the Windows loading status bar was displayed. I tried to boot from the disk so I could reinstall and the same thing happened.

Finally RMA'd the board and all was well. You may just have a bad mobo. But I would check for a bios upgrade though.

 

[tr1kstanc3]

Originally posted by: secretanchitman
hey guys, i just read through the asus support forums on the p5q deluxe and also on the xtremesystems thread...whatever you do, DONT flash to the newly posted 1003 bios on asus' site. it screws up RAID and also apparently AHCI sata drives as well (i dont think sata drives under ide emulation are affected though). stick with 803 or lower (i think 1102/1101 whatever the latest beta bios should still work fine too).

also, how in the world do you get AHCI working with xp sp3?

you should read this

 

[secretanchitman]

gundamf91 - hey sorry that i didnt get back to you...been swamped with work. ill get the values to you ASAP, aka later today.

tr1kstanc3 - thanks for that! but i see that the thread applies to ICH9...i did luckily find a post that a guy had written about ICH10 AHCI under windows xp though and i just now got it to work!

 

[BRDiger]

Hey guys, one question about the advertised Asus noise filtering: Does it actually work, or is it more of a marketing gag?

 

[Howie]

Sorry if this has been asked. I tried doing a search but couldn't exactly find the answer. Is the P5Q Deluxe worth the money over the P5Q-E? I plan to put the E8500 in there and would overclock a bit. Will most likely put a Radeon HD4850 or 4870.

 

[GundamF91]

You can get Deluxe for about 200, E is about 160. Is it really 20% better? I don't know, but I went with Deluxe since it has better power phase...whether it really makes difference I dont' know, but after my old board blew its caps, I want one that'll last me a while.

Think of this as the last hurrah of LGA775, and whatever you get here, it's not upgradable to future. So this will serve as a future media center, or a server, etc. So you want it to be durable.

 

[ZedHash]

I have a few problems and questions and I'd appreciate it if someone could help me out.

1.

My current bios is 0603 if I'm not mistaken. I tried to use to upgrade using EZ Flash 2, but the screen was not the same as described in the manual. I couldn't choose a path and at the bottom where it says "note" there is nothing. I put the usb drive before booting my PC. Also is it safe to upgrade the bios in windows using the Asus program?

2.

When I use Q fan in the bios to control my 2 Scythe 80mm fans (pmw) I installed at the front the rpm drops from about 2500 to about 700. This is great because the fans don't make any noise any more. But it doesn't matter which setting I use (silent, standard or turbo) the rpm will always be about 700. Is this a bios issue or will the fans run higher when they need to?

3.

Some setting in the bios can't be changed from auto. For example cpu ratio and other tweaking settings can't be modified.

4.

This is the most important one. Earlier today I succesfully installed XP on a 200GB ATA drive (not SATA). Afterwards I installed a SATA drive for storage purposes and then something weird happend. After restarting booting XP from the ATA drive didn't work any more. It tried to boot from the SATA disk... I went in the bios to indicate that I wanted to use the ATA drive and I noticed that some settings were changed.

From that point on I kept having problems. When booting I get a black screen when it's supposed to start windows. Just before the black screen there is the initialization of the onboard ATA controller followed by a screen with stuff that dissapears really fast. I think it says checking or clearing NVRAM on the last line.

So I tried installing windows again but then accessing my SATA DVD drive didn't work. After a while I found out that it took about 10 to 15 minutes before I could access the DVD for the windows setup. I tried reinstalling XP, but accessing the ATA HDD also takes 10 to 15 minutes.

I probably did something wrong in the bios. What could be the cause of this ? Everything works but accessing the drives is taking ages... At the moment windows xp is installed but every time I boot up it takes about 10 to 15 minutes to get into windows...

5.

When I successfully managed to install XP earlier I had the following problems. It kept saying it found new hardware even though I installed the LAN and sound drivers. And every time I started up, a DOS screen appeared for about 20 seconds saying the USB drivers will be installed. I'm using XP Professional.

Thanks in advance for any help. I would really appreciate it if someone could help me out with 4. as fast as possible. I'm probably just overlooking something.