| Forum Home | ||||
| Press F1 | ||||
| Thread ID: 85084 | 2007-11-29 08:26:00 | memtest86+ fails only when there are 4 sticks of RAM installed | george12 (7) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 616272 | 2007-11-29 23:41:00 | Could be right, as the 0703 bios says P5N-E SLI BIOS Release Version 0608 1. Fix it fails to change ratio by EIST when using certin Conroe CPU. 2. Reduce S3 resume time. 3. Support new CPUs. Please refer to our website at: support.asus.com 4. Add USB 2. 0 support under DOS. 5. Enhance memory compatibility. 6. Enhance USB device compatibility. 7. Fix it shows incorrect L1 and L2 cache size when using Conroe-L CPU. P5N-E SLI BIOS 0703 1. Enhance compatibility of certain memroy module. 2. Support new CPUs, please refer to our website at: support.asus.com 3. Add support for SLP 2. 0 The BIOS is now up to 0801 beta as of 5/11/07 P5N-E SLI beta BIOS 0801 1. Fix system hangs when using Razer Copperhead USB Mouse. 2. Improve compatibility with Creative X-Fi sound card. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 616273 | 2007-11-29 23:49:00 | It's a darn good start, because I'm on 0401. The thing that horrifies me, though, is that this did not occur to me at all, and it's the most obvious thing of all surely! |
george12 (7) | ||
| 616274 | 2007-11-29 23:54:00 | Here's the 0801 beta (dlsvr01.asus.com) And the 0703 bios (dlsvr01.asus.com) And AWDflash (dlsvr01.asus.com) |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 616275 | 2007-11-30 00:06:00 | I'll have to burn a floppy image to CD, because the BIOS's flash utility thinks its version is newer than this one, and it's not (another common problem for this board) | george12 (7) | ||
| 616276 | 2007-11-30 00:09:00 | Make a bootable USB key, if you've got one. And copy the unzipped BIOS and AWDflash to it. Saves a CD. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 616277 | 2007-11-30 00:57:00 | I had a CD that booted DOS and recognised my USB key, so that worked fine. Now it's less stable than ever, but I'll hold off judgement until I manually set the timings. | george12 (7) | ||
| 616278 | 2007-11-30 01:12:00 | Hmmm. It tends to freeze before I even get a chance to set the timings now. Reading more it looks like the last stable BIOS is actually 0608 (as of this month)... | george12 (7) | ||
| 616279 | 2007-11-30 01:30:00 | What voltages is the board running the RAM at, if all 4 slots are full, sometimes, you have to increase the voltage a little for stability. Also, are you running T2 or T1 timings, try relaxing them if nothing else is working. |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 616280 | 2007-11-30 03:22:00 | I set the timings to 5-5-5-18 and the RAM voltage to 2.09V (the second lowest setting, lowest being 1.92V). It might be OK now that I've flashed it to 0608, the one everyone on that forum seemed to get it working on. They also recommended bumping the north bridge voltage up a notch which makes sense. I'll try those steps this evening. Thanks for all your help guys, you might have saved me an unnecessary RMA. Edit: Running T2. |
george12 (7) | ||
| 616281 | 2007-11-30 06:59:00 | Well, now, if it has four sticks in it won't boot at all - it beeps continuously until I turn it off. Any combination of three works perfectly as always. I put the RAM voltage up to 2.18V which didn't help. |
george12 (7) | ||
| 1 2 3 | |||||