ASUS P5N-E SLI 650i Thread

[r0b126]

Oh, I wasn't trying to sound insulting at all and I apologize if it came off that way.

Unfortunately, I only have 1 single PCI slot and 2x PCIE.



Also got the 0801 USA download to work. Gonna reflash with that one and see if it makes a difference. I downloaded, flashed, and tested the 0801 global bios and 5 minutes into WoW, the comp froze again with the sound turned on. Note that it only freezes in WoW with sound on...I can have sound on everywhere outside of gaming and it never has an issue. Also note that with sound off in WoW, it never freezes.

[aleiro]

I forgot you have the same board... go to the realtek website and get the new sound card drivers:

http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/...Audio%20Codecs

That solved my problems in vista, the asus website has a driver that is really old.

Originally Posted by r0b126

Oh, I wasn't trying to sound insulting at all and I apologize if it came off that way.

Unfortunately, I only have 1 single PCI slot and 2x PCIE.



Also got the 0801 USA download to work. Gonna reflash with that one and see if it makes a difference. I downloaded, flashed, and tested the 0801 global bios and 5 minutes into WoW, the comp froze again with the sound turned on. Note that it only freezes in WoW with sound on...I can have sound on everywhere outside of gaming and it never has an issue. Also note that with sound off in WoW, it never freezes.

[Perry]

Originally Posted by Awesome

Woohooo I am overclocKING! LOL... I'm running stable at 2.92 Ghz, 1300 Mhz FSB, 600 Mhz RAM, 4-4-4-12-2T RAM timings.

Now I just need that cooler and some faster memory and I'll be really cooking.

Problem though: when I try to update my BIOS to 608 it says something about a BIOS downgrade not being possible because it is unsuitable for my system.

You may want to grab CPU-Z and see what your current BIOS is. Did you upgrade it before or would the new mobos come with 0608? I can't see that but who knows?

If I remember correctly you can't "back flash" a BIOS using the EZ Flash utility from within Windows but if you put it on a floppy and flash it that way you should be able to roll it back.

You may want to double check on that before you move forward. I'm sure some of the OCN members here can verify it.

[jesusiscool]

nah dont worry about the cmos jumper, just go into the bios and set the default option so everything is at defult. then have ur usb device pluged into ur pc with the bios file (0608.bin) then run EZflash in the bios tools and then itll show 3 drivers, A:\ B:\ and C:\ i think. or it might just show one, but thats what came up for me, and the just click on each one till you find the 0608 bios file. or a much easier way is to just use asus update in windows. This program is on your Motherboard installation CD. and that way you can change the startup picture to lol. hope this helped

[Awesome]

I wasn't trying to flash back... my BIOS version was 401, but thanks to the Cool guy here, I remembered that ASUS has that in-windows flash utility and am now at 608.

[r0b126]

Ok, to TriBeCa, I stand corrected... I do have a 2nd PCI slot. Forgot there was another one right next to the lower PCIE slot on the board. I moved the sound card to this slot, but in doing so, I took away almost all the room the 2nd video card had to use as breathing room. I have 2x 7600GS cards installed in SLi configuration. Moving the sound card to the upper PCI slot leaves the bottom 7600 about 4-5mm of breathing room. The GPU on that card stays relatively low anyway, so I can assume that at best the ambient temperature around the GPU will go up, but shouldn't impact performance in any way.


To aleiro. I used to have the realtek drivers installed, however, on my most recent install of XP pro, I neglected to reinstall those drivers because I have no intention of using the on-board sound. I use the SoundBlaster Live! 24-bit sound card.


I still haven't had a chance to reflash the bios using the USA version of the 0801 to see if that helps. I used the global one an hour or 2 ago and it didn't fix anything. Will try turning sound in WoW on with the card in the upper PCI slot first, then the USA 0801 bios. If none of these things work, I'm definitely open to advice / suggestions and appreciate all the help offered thus far.


edit: something else thats been happening....ever since a recent reformat and changing of HDD's (which should impact nothing), I switched to the latest version of the nvidia drivers. When I did that, any time I loaded more than 1 WoW character at a time in windowed mode, the 2nd UI would always have a line that flickered across the screen whenever I jumped or anything. Additionally, any time 2 or more characters are loaded in windowed mode at the same time, if I have something on target (including myself) only half of the avatar showing my target appears. This never used to happen before. I used to load 4 characters at a time and never experienced any graphical errors in WoW at all. In EverQuest I'd loaded 6 characters at a time before there was even any video delay and still no rendering errors.

[r0b126]

Progress report: No more freezing with the sound after changing slots so far. I loaded 2 chars in windowed mode, turned on sound at character in both and duelled one against the other (lots of graphical play + sound) for about 10 minutes with no freezing.

Still has the avatar issue and graphical issue with the 2nd UI, which I think is attributed to the change in drivers. Am going to revert back to the one just before nvidia's latest for the series 7 cards and see if that resolves it. Will post if so.

[r0b126]

For anyone that wants to know, Nvidia released a new driver for the series 7 cards last night... Driver date 11/6/2007

Gonna give this one a shot.




edit: sadly this doesn't fix the small video glitch I get in multiple WoW instances...LF old driver =/

[Gauvenator]

Just making sure: The Cooler Master Blue Ice without the fan on it will fit on the southbridge with dual videocards, right?

I want to make sure before I open everything up and glue it down with AS Alumina Adhesive. I will (hopefully) be getting 2 8800GT in SLI.

[r0b126]

anyone happen to know if you can still achieve 5.1 channel surround sound using the RealTek on-board sound?


moving the sound card to another PCI slot only worked for a few hours, then the freezing came back =/