ASUS P5N-E SLI 650i Thread

[mcogan10]

yeah...462 is more than enough, hell I only use 400 for 24/7 use.

[marsey99]

not for my new chip its not

i run 7x500 now

[SickStew]

I only run @ 1500 QDR / 375 x 9.5 = 3.56 Ghz

I want to push it more but i will when i get Vista installed

1600 QDR / 400 x 9.5 = 3.8 Ghz now that would be a DREAM

[diddler1979]

Originally Posted by MrQ

The only complications that will exist is if you use vista 64-bit and do not have an IDE disc drive.

Enjoy your OC!!

Vista 64 shouldn't be a problem. I'm running it perfectly at 3.0Ghz.

I've since started lapping the Q6600 but I think I need to go a bit more as the temp changes haven't been what I was hoping for. Might try again over the weekend to get that mirror shine.

[SickStew]

is here any NB & mosfet heatsink and cooling for this board.

[stucknnola]

Howdie all,

My machine was working great. Setup a dual boot with XP Pro on my 160gb drive and Vista Ultimate 32 on my 500gb drive in a dual boot setup. She was running perfectly and I was loving it. Randomly my keyboard would not register on reboot—hit reset and no problem. Oddly it never gave me a “no keyboard” detected error regardless of whether or not the keyboard not worked at Vista login.

Currently have a few issues going on that I need help with.

Problem 1:

Today I decided I wanted to turn off my XP drive and see if the machine would single boot Vista without problems. I went into the bios, 0701 at the time I think, and set SATA 1 so that it was off. (That is what I thought I did at least.) Saved the settings and rebooted. The machine posted and then gives me "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER." I then went back into the bios and reset the SATA 1 so that it was on, then saved and rebooted. Same problem. Went into bios and reset default settings… same problem… not sure if my memory timings changed with the reset to default or not now that I think of it.

The only way my machine will boot is to have the Vista disk in the drive. I do not need to boot from disk, it just needs to be there.

In the middle of this I flashed the bios to 1002, not sure if that was a good idea in retrospect. I had hoped that the new bios would solve my problem, but it did not. I still need the Vista disk in my disk drive to boot, still don’t need to boot from disk.

I tried disconnecting my XP drive and not having the Vista disk in …"DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER." At that point I needed to go to work… why I decide to do these things in the 30 minutes before I go to work is beyond me… before I left for work I reconnected the XP drive and booted with my Vista disk in without difficulty.

Also now when I try to boot into XP my keyboard will not function so I can’t login.

Not sure if this will help, but before this change my machine was Prime95 stable for 24 hours without errors.

Does anyone have an idea of what is causing this problem and how I can fix it?

Problem 2:

Ever since setting up my dual boot my OC settings don’t show in Vista with CPU-Z. I am new to OCing so I just used the AI OC setting in the bios without problem. I realize that I should have booted into XP and see if the setting showed in CPU-Z or not, but for unknown reasons I never got around to it.

I am not sure if this is a CPU-Z problem or a Vista problem or a dual boot problem… regardless I think fixing number one should come first. Not even sure if the OC is working, because I don't know if CPU-Z is showing me the correct data.



Thanks in advance.

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[salphire]

Hello..i want to change my cpu cooler...can someone tell me if the Thermal Right 120 extreme fit with the motherboard..I currently used the artic cooler 7 pro...

Thanks..

[SickStew]

Hi

Chipset Drivers for Vista

I've just downloaded new chipset drivers for vista does this work ok?

http://support.asus.com/download/dow...Language=en-us

[mack728]

Hello all. I have a question on OCing my P5N-E SLI with a Q6600 Quad Core 2.4MHZ CPU.
I recently updated my BIOS from rev. 0703 to a 0901 to try to see if I could get some success in OCing of which I had none. As I've been seeing in these forums this MB and CPU combo are not real condusive to very high OC's, 3.0 MHZ is pretty much it in most cases. I've been attempting to down grade my BIOS to 0603 using the guide posted by diddler1979. I believe I created my boot CD correctly but when I reboot the screen I get is just a blank screen with a flashing cursor that will not allow me to enter any information. I wait for a period of time before I abort my attempt. The first time I tried it, it blew right past post and started loading Windows (I did change my boot seqenence to CDROM 1st) The only way I got that to stop was to disable all my other drives, that's when it hung-up at the blank screen. Has any one here use this guide and had success and could offer any thougts as to what my problem might be?

This is what I have on the bootalbe CD;
0608 BIN file, 0703 BIN file, 0803 BIN file, 0901 BIN file, FLASHCD UltraISO file, AWDFLASH.exe

Does this look correct?

[stucknnola]

Yeah new chipset driver helped. other problem I had was my XP drive had the boot file on it so when I turned it off vista got pissy.

I ended up formating both HDs and installing just Vista. She runs great now, but I still have the second problem from my earlier post.

CPU-z never shows me as being overclocked despite OCing in the bios. I don't know if I am actually OC'd and it just isn't showing or if I'm not OC'd.

Any one have an idea as to what is going on?


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