ASUS P5N-E SLI 650i Thread

[3rdworld]

Originally Posted by ccarey13

Major problemo, Since I had to reinstall vista I have been having internet problems. I have a great connection for about half the time I am online, then other half I am not connected at all. I downloaded Itunes it kept going around 600Kb/s then it suddenly stopped for 15-20 seconds, then started up again. Visiting websites is spotty, even my google homepage. What is up? I re-re-reinstalled the drivers from Nvidia and still no luck

did you install all of your MOBO drivers?

[dasparx]

Ugg,
Cant seem to get SLi working on this mobo..
Put the sli selector on dual, added bridge..
Both cards work seperately..
in hw list, it displays one 9600gso.
And i cant fin an driver option to enable sli.

[dasparx]

Okay, the Sli selector card wasnt connected good -.-.
ANyways ,SLi works now, overclocked my cpu. works all fine
But, in some gamesi notice a big performance drop when Sli is enabled.
(@ CSS, 81fps w/ Sli, 125 w/o Sli. @ 1600x1200 everything max.no AA and AF)
Ive tried changing rendering methods, but no fps increase, also i'd like to know wich rendering method works the best..?
ANd my dualscreen setup is with a Matrox dualhead2go

[Perry]

I find that only some games are coded to run in SLI properly. Lord Of The Rings Online...not coded well.

It's hit and miss.

[3rdworld]

Has anyone tried the Raid on this board. I am wanting to use this board for my HTPC with 4 hard drives. Has anyone had any issues?

[UkGouki]

Originally Posted by 3rdworld

Has anyone tried the Raid on this board. I am wanting to use this board for my HTPC with 4 hard drives. Has anyone had any issues?

to set raid on this you have to have the mobo disk in and boot from it i think the only issues my brother had was that he could only set raid 0 couldnt figure out how to set the other options i havent tried and would look into it if i had matching hdd's i have 4 seperate sizes

[Barkers101]

Im having problems with this little bugger. I just had to RMA it as i was at my wits end. I received the board last Wednesday. Installed in the same day - all plugged in and ready to boot - green light on motherboard. Push power and Bingo! everything spins and everything lights up, no beeps from motherboard so i think im set to go.

Sadly nothing happens - the bloody thing doesn't even post. It just hangs there everything spinning.
Hmm i think - prolly just some loose cables. So i check every connection and every damn slot. Nothing still no post. So this is where it gets ugly.
This is what i tried next:
Took my GFX card and RAM to work to test
Took my motherboard out and tested on cardboard
Tested PSU in another system
Cleared CMOS - around 15 times...
Borrowed another set of RAM and tested it
Barebonesed the system - just CPU, Mobo, GFX and RAM

Nothing would work - i then read on the Asus forum that alot alot of people are having a similar if not exact problem with this board and the Quad Core Q6600. Seems like they just dont like each other - i would have to pick the motherboard that is bundle with a CPU that it doesn't bond well with ...

I also read - to my dissmay. That this board gives all sorts of problems... though hopefully when i get sent my renewed board it will work like a charm... Hopefully...

[UkGouki]

^i had to update bios on my board i had 0403 bios when i got it went to 0608 and it worked like a charm :-/

[dasparx]

@ Barkers, my pc takes a while to post too, first it spins up all fans 100%, then after ~40 sec i get a beep and it goes into post

[Barkers101]

How do i do that if the system wont Post?