Asus p5B Deluxe and E6600 wont POST

[Mossy]

Ah! Is that the official recommendation from scan to use with a P5B deluxe wifi motherboard for overclocking (esp as Intel don't seem to mind there CPUs are being overclocked).

Not officially but a lot of our systems use P5B motherboards as they are generally very good and Dominator is used all the time with no problems. (of course it is also good for overclocking)

We do recommend Corsair of course!!

[redsky009]

Glad you got it working

Lee

thanks, me too

[Clunk]

erm on Anandtech...... Official ASUS P5B / P5B Deluxe Thread.......there are 36 pages of problems of different sorts.
Maybe I should delay my upgrade to P5B deluxe to at least March.

The P5B has been around since the launch of Core 2 Duo and is arguably the most solid, and best overclocking all round board.

The more people that buy them, the more people are going to report problems, most problems are either due to people not researching their list of bits properly and buying parts that dont work well together or bios issues, which eventually get resolved.

erm Not a very good state of affairs as companies like Dell, Mesh etc can't be expected to swap ram around on each computer, it's gotta work first time for volume production.

Im pretty sure that Dell dont use the P5B in their PC's, no idea about Mesh.

[excalibur2]

Not officially but a lot of our systems use P5B motherboards as they are generally very good and Dominator is used all the time with no problems. (of course it is also good for overclocking)

We do recommend Corsair of course!!

Thanks....Is this one OK for the P5B deluxe and overclocking as the other ones are expensive:-

LN16496.......2GB (2x1GB) CorsairTwinX XMS2 Dominator,DDR2 PC2-6400,240 Pins, NonECC Unbuffered, CAS 4-4-4-12, EPP......£220.49 inc

[excalibur2]

Im pretty sure that Dell dont use the P5B in their PC's, no idea about Mesh.

Mesh do indeed use a type of P5B:-

ASUS P5B-TMX PCI-Express Mainboard.

But on my sister's old Mesh she has an unlocked AMD Barton 2500, so I said I would overclock it for her....erm when you get into the bios it is very basic and you can't do anything......:-(
So I guess Mesh's P5B board has a special bios as well.

[Mossy]

Thanks....Is this one OK for the P5B deluxe and overclocking as the other ones are expensive:-

LN16496.......2GB (2x1GB) CorsairTwinX XMS2 Dominator,DDR2 PC2-6400,240 Pins, NonECC Unbuffered, CAS 4-4-4-12, EPP......£220.49 inc

LN16496 are the ones I have work fine and will overclock just as good

[redsky009]

my first post from the new PC awesome, really quick and HL2 runs like silk, eeexcellent

[Clunk]

my first post from the new PC awesome, really quick and HL2 runs like silk, eeexcellent

Well done, Orthos for 12 hours and you can get overclocking it

[redsky009]

yup

gonna leave the O/C'ing till the weekend when I can give it my full attention. going to have to find a few good guides too

Thanks to everyone for their help!

[Barrichello]

My Corsair TwinX XMS2 Dominator work fine straight away no problems what so ever! Strange

Same here - im using "LN16496" 2gb Corsair Dominator with my P5B and it booted fine under the supplied bios. I have updated the bios 0804 (as it has a fix for ati1950pro) and its been rock solid since.

Also thanks to chunk (seeing as you in this thread) i used all those bios settings you showed and my E6600 is running at 3.3GHZ perfect over the last couple of weeks.

[redsky009]

I have updated the bios 0804 (as it has a fix for ati1950pro) and its been rock solid since.
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Did you use the floppy update method or the Asus update windows util?

[Barrichello]

Did you use the floppy update method or the Asus update windows util?

i used the Asus update windows util. Worked fine. Just make sure to back up your current one just in case of any issues.

[redsky009]

windows update kept throwing some NT service error and wont start up or reinstall - went the USB update method, worked fine orthosing now..