Solved Guy's I really need your help!!!!

[damocles]

Geezer10...Hows the P5Q in your system? Is it a worthy purchase?

Chris

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Ted...I'm slightly worried my subconscious forced me into this situation..........Oh! how the human brain works.

Yeah, my doctor has warned me as to the severe repercussions of too much
independent thought ... :huh:









Later Ted

 

[usmc_nam_vet]

This is why I buy gigabyte mb with backup bios. If it ain't broke don't fix it is good advice. Hope you work it out. I take it you don't have the mb manual. Go to MB manufactors site and look for a manual.

 

[geezer10]

well if you don't need SLI its ok. I'm not impressed with the power draw - worse than p3X chipset - I believe the nehalem architecture will address that.

But its inexpensive compared to other Intel mobos and handles the fans beautifully with the Asus 6 engine utility. Ubuntu is a no go however.

 

[damocles]

I have the manual - but it's no good if the mobo won't post.

But, I hear ya.........and I'm kicking myself.....

EDIT: Geezer10 - I will only use one graphic card so I guess that's OK. How much juice powers your system - mine is on a 600w psu - should be enough.

BTW: Bios is definitely soldered on - I could RMA the board but I need a replacement asap and don't really want to wait weeks for that to happen.

EDIT #2: sorry Geezer10, just seen your specs.

 

[xguntherc]

Sadness man.. Good Luck.

I've jsut read that if I end up ungrading to a Q9550 CPU. an happen to get lucky and get the E0 stepping. then I'll have to flash my BIOS to a new one. thats only if I get the new stepping though. or even get that CPU. but I might be. so we will see.

I'll do some heavy research first after reading this. so Thanks for posting your experience so others can learn from it. +1 to you, and sorry at the same time.

Good Luck!

 

[geezer10]

sorry to hear that you have a soldered bios - all the recent Asus mobos I have seen are socketed - you would think DeLuxe meant something. I'm surprised Asus update verified the burn.

By the way, if your bios flash fritzed it may be due to electrical interference nearby - you may need an uninterruptible power supply or beefier surge protection.

I ran one of those power hungry 4850 graphics card with a 400W Zen PSU on an AMD mobo so sometimes quality of watts beats quantity I guess - I'm sure 600W is more than enough.

sorry to get your hopes up,

 

[damocles]

Update:-

Just bought a P5Q deluxe and swapped every thing out - all fine and dandy......

Bios posts and I can get into it OK to have a look around.

However, when I exit the bios it shuts down instead of resets - Is this normal?

And I get a blue screen just before Vista starts to load - Do I have to reinstall vista or run it from the DVD?

I have only have one disk and the dvd plugged in and bios flashes up really quickly 'no disk information' but recognises it in the bios - The bios also tells me I have 2gb ram when I have all 8gb plugged in ( tried just one stick and it still blue screens )

I don't have much time to see the BSOD codes as it turns off after 15 secs or so but I will try to note the errors codes down for you guys.

On the bright side, it has a bios back up on the board and they can be taken out.

 

[damocles]

0x0000007B

And during the safe mode load screen it crashes at crcdisk.sys ( I think....or was it cscdisk.sys ) - also I have tired to run vista from the dvd but it shuts down half way through the loading screen.

Any ideas.

EDIT 4pm: I reseated all the RAM and all 8gb shows up OK now.

...and the Stock CPU temp seems very high @ 85 C - cant be right?

Edit2 6pm: I disabled all the marvell IDE, Lan1/2, and firewire and I managed to get the vista dvd to run but it drops the power half way through repairing - that must be an overheating issue surely!!! Why would it just cut out?

 

[usmc_nam_vet]

I use MicroScope. It will test all your harware, memory, cpu and just about the kitchen sink. If you can obtain a copy from someone run the motherboard check and memory check.

 

[z3r010]

85° is very high....time to reseat that cpu

 

[damocles]

Hi usmc_nam_vet - that looks like an interesting and useful piece of kit. Not Sure I want to spend $500 on it though - can't see myself finding someone with it either.


@z3r010 I've just read that Core2's shut down at 85 c so I guess that's what's happened on that side - I wonder if I put the fan on correctly - I'll check that! The processor did fit OK in the socket and it closed fine - could be the fan - or thermal paste ( can you put too much on? ) - could this cause the bluey?

Was going to buy a new processor tomorrow (q9650) but will hold off until this issue is resolved.

 

[z3r010]

You should only have a very thin layer of thermal paste.

[YOUTUBE]OFEOd7nQbuQ[/YOUTUBE]​

 

[damocles]

ah!!!!!!

What's the best way to apply it?

 

[z3r010]

make sure the heatsink surface is clean, then put a little bit on and spread it with something like an old credit card until you have an even very thin covering.

 

[damocles]

thanks for the link

 

[z3r010]

Or

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[damocles]

Thanks for the tip!!!!! Redone it and temps are 35 -40 c...phew that's that one put to bed......Next ----vista reinstall and see if that helps.......


Should I flash the bios????? :O :O - version 0803

 

[z3r010]

I would think it's best to leave the bios alone for now

 

[damocles]

yeah I know - I was only half serious? actually I've read that the 0803 version is quite stable - Also now I've sorted the CPU the motherboard resets after the bios instead of shutting down - which is good.


I went for a system repair but that didnt help.

Memtest was good via diagonstics screen.

Do you think a vista reinstall would help resolve the issue?...it would be a shame to go through all that to have a bsod again....Maybe the boot sector is corrupt.