ASUS P5N-E SLI 650i Thread

[lord_legion]

Originally Posted by OptimusPrime

anyone ? help me out with above problem.

Can't frikin get this board to install with SATA as primary ... today i removed my other ata drives and have my SATA only.... still having problems booting from it. NTLDR missing

I had a very simalar problem if not the same i have 2 x 250gig drives on a raid and several IDE drives in my machine.

I installed vista onto the raid several times and it would work the first few times then i would receive the ntldr message also my solution was as follows.

"if you have a raid set that up in raid bios first".

Next set the bios settings to default so that all the boot settings and drive prioritys are defaulted leave the SATA drive in what ever postion it set its to in my case it would put my IDE drive at 1 and 2 and my 3rd drive would be my Nvidia Raid.

I then install vista onto the RAID in this configutation.

What i found was my PC would always boot fine when my OS drive was set to priority 3 in the bios if i moved it above my IDE drives to number 1 i would receive the NTLDR message straight away then putting it back to 3 it booted back into vista no problems.

My suggestion is set the book prioritys to there defaults install your OS onto the selected drive and then make a not of there positons and leave them at that.

No idea if this will help your situation but it was my work around.

[leterrible]

Hello everyone!

im brand new to this site and this will be my first post yayy! ok so ive been reading about overclocking alot and decided to tinker around with my rig a little bit. i was increasin the fsb (333mhz stock) and kept testing things out with Everest Ultimate's stability test and things were showing pretty good. Eventually i got to that point were i needed to increase the voltage. thats where i think i need more knowledge because i think i screwed something up with the vcore. its showin stock 1.35v and i think i was setting the vcore to something like 1.4 or something. things ran ok for a couple of days and in the middle of a game it went kapoot. i knew right away it was the power supply because i'd press the button and the led's would flash for a split second then nothing.
i guess the point of this is i dont really know much about voltages which is whats makin me think that thats what fried the PSU

if theres any info i probly should have included just post and i'll get back to answer an hopefull we can get to the botom of this.

ty in advance!

[lord_legion]

Originally Posted by leterrible

Hello everyone!

im brand new to this site and this will be my first post yayy! ok so ive been reading about overclocking alot and decided to tinker around with my rig a little bit. i was increasin the fsb (333mhz stock) and kept testing things out with Everest Ultimate's stability test and things were showing pretty good. Eventually i got to that point were i needed to increase the voltage. thats where i think i need more knowledge because i think i screwed something up with the vcore. its showin stock 1.35v and i think i was setting the vcore to something like 1.4 or something. things ran ok for a couple of days and in the middle of a game it went kapoot. i knew right away it was the power supply because i'd press the button and the led's would flash for a split second then nothing.
i guess the point of this is i dont really know much about voltages which is whats makin me think that thats what fried the PSU

if theres any info i probly should have included just post and i'll get back to answer an hopefull we can get to the botom of this.

ty in advance!

poop my friend i presume you have tried reseating all componants and resetting the bios to defaults using the onboard jumpers?.
normally from my experience if the psu goes you wont get any life from it and wouldnt even have the PC turn on for a second.

Do you have any other machines or maybe a trusting friend with a simalar machine you could test componants with also is there any raised capacitors on your motherboard etc?

im no expert when it comes to voltages by far but im suprised that only 1.4V has blown something specially when the stock is 1.35.

see if any of the componants are dead and cauing the problem and send it back for a replacement as DOA

[Gauvenator]

Originally Posted by leterrible

Hello everyone!

im brand new to this site and this will be my first post yayy! ok so ive been reading about overclocking alot and decided to tinker around with my rig a little bit. i was increasin the fsb (333mhz stock) and kept testing things out with Everest Ultimate's stability test and things were showing pretty good. Eventually i got to that point were i needed to increase the voltage. thats where i think i need more knowledge because i think i screwed something up with the vcore. its showin stock 1.35v and i think i was setting the vcore to something like 1.4 or something. things ran ok for a couple of days and in the middle of a game it went kapoot. i knew right away it was the power supply because i'd press the button and the led's would flash for a split second then nothing.
i guess the point of this is i dont really know much about voltages which is whats makin me think that thats what fried the PSU

if theres any info i probly should have included just post and i'll get back to answer an hopefull we can get to the botom of this.

ty in advance!

Nothing should have fried with 1.4v, unless you are using a cheap power supply. Have you tried clearing your cmos?

[leterrible]

Originally Posted by lord_legion

poop my friend i presume you have tried reseating all componants and resetting the bios to defaults using the onboard jumpers?.
normally from my experience if the psu goes you wont get any life from it and wouldnt even have the PC turn on for a second.

Do you have any other machines or maybe a trusting friend with a simalar machine you could test componants with also is there any raised capacitors on your motherboard etc?

im no expert when it comes to voltages by far but im suprised that only 1.4V has blown something specially when the stock is 1.35.

see if any of the componants are dead and cauing the problem and send it back for a replacement as DOA

yes i put in my stock 550w psu and stock 8600gt and everything is now fine, telling me that there was no other damage. and yes i did not get any life from it whatsoever with the other psu. BTW the power supply was an 800w BFG tech so im thinkin maybe it was just faulty? the only other hardware that is not in there is my 8800 ultra but according to all the symptoms ive been readin about PSU's crappin the bed makes me deffinately think it was the psu. and the more i think about it im thinkin i had the vcore set to the higher 1.5's...

as far as returning it then that's out of the question..i got it at the closing of comp usa for 100 bucks.

[Gauvenator]

Originally Posted by leterrible

yes i put in my stock 550w psu and stock 8600gt and everything is now fine, telling me that there was no other damage. and yes i did not get any life from it whatsoever with the other psu. BTW the power supply was an 800w BFG tech so im thinkin maybe it was just faulty? the only other hardware that is not in there is my 8800 ultra but according to all the symptoms ive been readin about PSU's crappin the bed makes me deffinately think it was the psu. and the more i think about it im thinkin i had the vcore set to the higher 1.5's...

as far as returning it then that's out of the question..i got it at the closing of comp usa for 100 bucks.

rma it with the manufacturer, BFG. It should still be under warranty.

[Krosious]

hey i just stumbled on this forum searching for answers to my problem on google lol... anyways...

my problem is i have RAM that is stock at 800mhz speed but my system will only work when i underclock the RAM to 667mhz.

when the ram is at 800mhz the comp locks up before the ability to get into the bios becomes available or sometimes it makes it past that point but then locks up just b4 or as windows starts loading up...

the board is capable of using 800mhz ram so idk what im doing wrong... should i be using a diff bios?

Future note: i want to run 1066mhz RAM but ide like to figure out how to fix this problem before investing the money into the RAM

[Gauvenator]

Originally Posted by Krosious

hey i just stumbled on this forum searching for answers to my problem on google lol... anyways...

my problem is i have RAM that is stock at 800mhz speed but my system will only work when i underclock the RAM to 667mhz.

when the ram is at 800mhz the comp locks up before the ability to get into the bios becomes available or sometimes it makes it past that point but then locks up just b4 or as windows starts loading up...

the board is capable of using 800mhz ram so idk what im doing wrong... should i be using a diff bios?

Future note: i want to run 1066mhz RAM but ide like to figure out how to fix this problem before investing the money into the RAM

what is your stock voltage for your ram? You most likely just need to set that manually so it is stable.
btw this board can do 1000mhz tops with ram.

[Krosious]

my voltage is on auto... i just restarted and set everything to stock clocks and started it up and it works fine... so i restarted then OCed everything that was OCed b4... and it works fine... im lost lol... this board confuses me, and for 1000mhz RAM what is your recommendation?

also im curious if a Q9300 will ever be able to work in this board? cause i have one but its sitting in a box lol do i need new board or you think this will support it anytime soon?

[Gauvenator]

Originally Posted by Krosious

my voltage is on auto... i just restarted and set everything to stock clocks and started it up and it works fine... so i restarted then OCed everything that was OCed b4... and it works fine... im lost lol... this board confuses me, and for 1000mhz RAM what is your recommendation?

also im curious if a Q9300 will ever be able to work in this board? cause i have one but its sitting in a box lol do i need new board or you think this will support it anytime soon?

it's possible that the q9300 will work, but it will probably not oc well at all.

as for the ram, you said yours is advertised as 1066 right? I would use the same timings and voltage as they advertise for 1066 at 1000mhz.