The Unofficial ASUS P5N-E SLI 650i Board Thread

[JWalker55]

Not sure if anyone here is still running this board or not, but i'm having some issues running 4 memory sticks. So far, I can only get the board to post at 2.2v+, but it locked up in Windows shortly after booting @ 2.2v. At 2.3v it seems to be running fine, though I haven't thoroughly stress tested it yet. 2.3v seems pretty high though....I still need to try upping the NB though....maybe that will allow me to drop the mem voltage down to a more reasonable level?

I'm running 1GBx4 @ 5-5-5-18. Playing with the timings didn't really seem to do much of anything.

If I take 1 stick out (from any slot), I can run with all settings on Auto with zero issues.

 

[cloudzero]

Not sure if anyone here is still running this board or not, but i'm having some issues running 4 memory sticks.

I still have it. Yeah, I had 4 sticks running for a couple months but had to run them at 667Mhz instead of 800. I also increased the voltages on the sticks and the NB. Unfortunately, I'd have lock-ups and finally gave up on that.

I grabbed a 4GB set, 2 x 2Gb, and that works well. I can put in another 1GB and run that too, but the 4th stick doesn't allow the system to post. I've been thinking of building another system here soon anyway, so I've given up on trying to get this thing to work with all the RAM I have sitting around.

 

[DeadMan3000]

Hi there. Having some issues of my own. Just upgraded from 2 x 1GB Crucial Ballistix 800 to 4 x 2GB and filled all slots. Running 1406 firmware. Been having random restarts with spurious errors in event log and BSOD's under Win7 64.

Running memtest reports no errors. Changed a few timings. Now at 1.4v Vcore for E6600 at 3.2Ghz using 9x 1424, nb at 1.56v, memory at 2.178v

Memory timings at 4,4,4,12,2T and 24 tRC.

What's odd is that I was running 6GB in all slots with 1403 beta BIOS for a few weeks no problemo and the only thing set to manual was the vdimm at 2.178

But after upgrading to 8GB things got flakey. It was not like it would do it whilst stress testing either it would reboot whilst idle. Hard disk fully surface scanned. No errors. Reinstalled Win7 same probs. I have set stuff manually as above now and disconnected some hardware I do not use much to see if it's the PSU not supplying enough power (Enermax 525w MODU82+).

I could do with some pointers if I continue to get BSOD's.

 

[alex_c]

if i remove that thing on the north bridge heatsink to put arctic cooling mx2 thermal compound will the heatsink sit well on the motherboard or i will have problem? Has anyone tried this?

 

[Wirebird]

Hi all,

I'm having a problem with my P5N-E SLI. Every time I boot, the fans go to full spin and nothing happens for a long time. However, if I press the reset button immediately after the power button, it will start normally.

I've recently changed graphics card from 8800 GTS to 5850, but it made no difference. Also, I just updated to the latest BIOS, 1406, and this made no difference either.

Also, is a max CPU temperature (during maximum usage) of 66 degrees Celcius too high? I've overclocked (but this has nothing to do with the boot problems, it was like that before).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers
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[jommy999]

HEllo. anyone could help me ? The pci express 2.0 card will work on this board pci expressX16 ?

my set up on the P5N-E SLi ( Bios 1406) .Q6600 4Gram533hz and 2X8800 320mb GTS (SLi)

i would like to upgrade to a single card of GTX 285 or GTX 475 . Have anyone upgrade to those two and working ok ? as i heard this mother does not support some of new cards.

if anyone know please let me know as i want to upgrade my system for final fantasy 14 that is coming in September,

Thank you so much .

 

[tolsonmx]

Hi all just like Wirebird, I'm having a problem with my P5N-E SLI. Every time I boot, the fans go to full spin and nothing happens for a long time. However, if I press the reset button immediately after the power button, it will start normally.

I've recently changed graphics card from 8800 GTS to 5770. Also, I just updated to the latest BIOS, 1406, and this made no difference either.


Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers