burtethead

thanks! Thats a good idea about ntune, i did just update my forceware drivers. but thats not the important part, the fact that i cant change any of my bios settings is the problem. i will check all the settings, but they are all on default, which should be fine (except the ram which is undervolted by this board). let me know if anyone else has any ideas.

Dostoyevsky77

Most people agree that nTune is absolute rubbish. My recommendation is to not install it ever. There are plenty of freeware tools available that do what it does far better.

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barrysgoods

I am having trouble overclocking my cpu, I have all the volts set my vcore is at 1.35, my ram is unlinked 5:4 ratio. I am not sure what I am doing wrong, any help would be appreciated.

burtethead

alright, ntune is gone. but that wasnt the point. does anyone have any idea why my 1404 bios always comes up with a 'bios checksum error' and wont boot any time i save and exit from the bios? even when i havent made any changes? if i cant change bios settings i can kiss my dreams of oc'ing goodbye, so help would be greatly appreciated.

Dostoyevsky77

Have you tried reflashing?

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Metal425

Does this board have problems with 2x2GB PC-8500 Ram? Because I plan on picking some up tonight @ the egg.

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shnoops

Hey anyone have aftermarket cooling on their

asus p5n32-e sli 680i board?

I Need to RMA my board and am looking to buy the stock cooling heatsinks as mine are lost....

vietdood

Hi all. New to the forum and new to overclocking. I'm looking for some advice on overvoltage, cpu stability, and core temperature. Right now my cpu is stable at 2.93ghz (9x325) with all voltage settings on auto except for memory at 2.2v. At 3.0ghz I get an error on one of the cores on Prime after 2 minutes.

So my question is what voltages should everything be set at for my cpu to run at 3.0ghz? Also will manually setting my voltages decrease cpu core temps?

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okay so i used the voltages listed on the first page then i started to mess around with the vcore voltage. currently i have it set at 1.35v and i'm not getting any errors in prime95. however, my chip is running at 75C on the 8k test and once i saw that i stopped the testing. is it safe at that temperature? and is there anyway to bring down the temperature by changing the vcore but still have it stable at 3.0ghz?

Agnostik888

Anyone had any issues with BIOS 1404? I was running 1205 and noticed that it was no lonjger listed on the asus site so figured that meant it was bad. Upgraded to 1404 and first off, I had to clear the cmos to get it to even boot right after flashing. Secondly, first time I applied my settings i got some error and it failed post, but went into setup, changed nothing and exited and just F1'ed and now it seems to post fine.

However, the FSB & ram screen is a bit glitchy. When you set to unlinked and arrow down the ratio thing flases from grey to blue and you can change it. I dunno if that is right.....


Just wondering if anyone else has noticed this or if I need to reflash....


Thanks

t4ct1c47

I've noticed sporadic issues with the 1404 BIOS where FSB settings revert to default after I make changes and then save and exit. I've found that making a new save of my settings to the onboard overclocking profiles of the BIOS and then loading it before exiting keeps any changes I make. Other than that the 1404 seems no different than the 1203 when it comes to Quad clocking potential. However, my current Q6600 does have a VID of 1.3250v which may be the biggest limiting factor.

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