Getting RMA would Asus P5Q Pro be a good replacement?

[alexp999]

Pictures!!! The board is now setup and I'm running it while typing on it! . Will get some pics up when it is properly finshed. Ran into a few problems on the way. The AC Freezer 7 pro JUST clears the heatsinks, but the fan cant clip on. I had to mod it by trimming off the corners of the fan shroud so that they didnt hit the Mobo's heatsinks.

The IDE connection is also a fair bit lower than my old mobo, so the cable with the board wasnt long enough, I have had to re-jig the case to get it to work, but no fear I have ordered a 70cm IDE cable of ebay! (You can even get 1m ones ). When it comes through and I have fitted it and the case is all back nice and neat I;ll take some pics of the setup running.

Also, I have used AS5 this time, and tbh it isnt working very well, my temps are about 5-10*C hotter on idle than with the AC MX-2 and AS Cermaique, and yes I applied them all in the same way. Might have to get some more MX-2 or use whats left of the ceramique. Unless anyone uses any better stuff??

Anyway let me know what you think about the above, on to the pics!!!

 

[Gam'ster]

Asus makes some mighty fine mobos and this being one. thats very nice, fitsieries posted about his board saying its rock solid stable with hardly if any vdroop due to the 16 phase..and all, you should have some major fun with that.
But on another note with a bit of luck and patience i should be getting me a p45 asus, my build should be done in around 4-5 weeks.

But thats a damn nice set up you got now alexp

 

[alexp999]

Asus makes some mighty fine mobos and this being one. thats very nice, fitsieries posted about his board saying its rock solid stable with hardly if any vdroop due to the 16 phase..and all, you should have some major fun with that.
But on another note with a bit of luck and patience i should be getting me a p45 asus, my build should be done in around 4-5 weeks.

But thats a damn nice set up you got now alexp

Gonna be even better when I get my second 3870 Turbo . The money was going to go on that but now I have had to replace the mobo, the graphics card will have to wait a month or so till I next get paid

 

[JrRacinFan]

Nice board man. You working on your clocks yet?

 

[Gam'ster]

Gonna be even better when I get my second 3870 Turbo . The money was going to go on that but now I have had to replace the mobo, the graphics card will have to wait a month or so till I next get paid

You not waiting to see how the 4870 turns out ?

 

[alexp999]

Nice board man. You working on your clocks yet?

Not until I get the AS5 replaced, temps are hotter than they should be. Then once I get temps down I'll start to OC

 

[alexp999]

You not waiting to see how the 4870 turns out ?

nah, the 3870's will prob drop in price cus of them anyways, unless there is no difference in price and a 3870 can xfire well with the 4xxx series.

 

[Gam'ster]

Im sure W1z posted that the 38xx and 48xx don't cf at least not at this stage, but yeah prices will no doubt drop a few ££.

 

[alexp999]

All set up! . Just waiting for some MX-2 to bring the temps down before I start OCing!

 

[JrRacinFan]

Nice, good looking cable management. It really looks good.

 

[Gam'ster]

WOW nice, some nice air flow be going over that also the q-connectors look dab handy

 

[alexp999]

WOW nice, some nice air flow be going over that also the q-connectors look dab handy

And there is a 120mm front fan blowing straight at the CPU!

And yeah those Q-connectors are really useful. My case has every pin for the firewire separate .

Will report back with my findings of replacing the AS5 with MX-2. Then we will see what OC i can get out of it.

 

[alexp999]

Before I go crazy and blame it on the mobo, has anyone else had the install of the Orange Box Retail (2xDVD) cause their entire system to lock up??

 

[alexp999]

My PC did it again after setting all values manaully and safe in the bios. Is it jus steam? I just hit the reinstall button after reboot and it installed okay. But after getting the AI disabled bug in HL2 right at the beginning (as you step out of train) , I checked the integrity of games files incase it was that. Then PC came to slow down, I checked task manager and saw this.

is it a driver...steam...mobo??? Plz help!!!

 

[SirKeldon]

Doing a XP fresh install to the P5Q Pro (i was having several problems with ATI drivers corrupted on Vista x64 ... sucked) ... i'll tell you!!!

 

[alexp999]

Do you think it might me a memory issue. I was thinking of upgrading to some of that stuff that does 1150MHz and has optional WC (for furute upgrade).

Thinking it might not like 4 sticks?? Maybe 2x2gb would be better. i keep getting it turn on then switch off then back on again after it has been left off overnight.

I think I'm gonna try taking out two sticks. see if I can install Orange box properly.

I got a BSOD once when installing Orange box (i have tried quite a few times to get it to install propberly start to finish) and it said something about memory in the error code so...

Any ideas, really appreciated guys!

 

[RandomSunchips]

I have to say that this board is looking really nice. Out of curiosity, why did you pick the Deluxe over the Pro, -E, or vanilla version?

Edit: Hey, I finally have a star!

 

[alexp999]

I have to say that this board is looking really nice. Out of curiosity, why did you pick the Deluxe over the Pro, -E, or vanilla version?

Edit: Hey, I finally have a star!

Vanilla??

I chose it cus it had a SB heatpipe as well as the Express Gate SSD. They r the main reasons

 

[SirKeldon]

Vanilla??

I chose it cus it had a SB heatpipe as well as the Express Gate SSD. They r the main reasons

Vanilla version uses to be the "common" version, it's the "P5Q" with no extra's

@RandomSunChips here you have a comparison of almost all the ASUS P5Q* Motherboard series, specs & features, hope it helps to the inconclusives

 

[alexp999]

Okay, I took out two sticks of RAM so it was only running on 2 x 1gb And it still locked up during orange box install. I'm gonna try the sticks I took out and replace the ones in there. Then if that doesnt work, im gonna swap the ram from his with mine and see if it makes a difference.

WTF is it??

 

[alexp999]

Wtf!!!!!

Okay. have tried my dads mem, tried new bios, tried different drive.. Then I decided to keep an eye on task manager.

(i am uninstalling each time) and I have never had a successfull install.

(Sorry for the bad pics )

Check out the memory leak. Is it just a buggy installer which is crashing my comp and there is nothing wrong with hardware?? Can I use the files on the disc to "restore" rather than install??

 

[ZenEffect]

now see if it can flash to a mfII!



i just tried on my p5q-e and its a no go, however your board is very very similar... the dual bios prevents any need for rma to recover the bios. if it does not post, reset cmos, turn off the power from back of psu till the lights all go off, hit the reset button, turn back on psu and power up. it should recover from the 2nd bios as it did for me.

 

[alexp999]

now see if it can flash to a mfII!



i just tried on my p5q-e and its a no go, however your board is very very similar... the dual bios prevents any need for rma to recover the bios. if it does not post, reset cmos, turn off the power from back of psu till the lights all go off, hit the reset button, turn back on psu and power up. it should recover from the 2nd bios as it did for me.

different number of PCI-E slots. different sound chip. It wouldnt work.

Also, how do you go about flashing the bios in dos. i have to either use the ez flash tool in the bios or windows cus the bios file is too big for a floppy.