Yessssssss!

[Mr. Smith]

I was in the middle of writing a thread but then a knock at the door came! Its my P5B and E6600... :yumyum:

So, I'll cut to the chase. Which BIOS? 0507 or the new 0614 ? I know the 0507 alows the clock multiplier to be changed, so will the new one too? Answers ASAP i'm getting building.

Man my 7900gts will be here soon - hacked SLi... Watch this space!

On the up side the singature series arrived, they look absolutely mint, love that copper heatsink lol...

 

[JN]

I'm on O507 - not tried the newer one, but i'm getting 475x8 atm

 

[Mr. Smith]

It's Christmas! I'll go with the 0507 cheers XMS.

I think i'll be posting as i get stuck!

 

[FragTek]

TTIUWP TBH

 

[FarFarAway]

TTIUWP TBH

QFT

 

[Mr. Smith]

KMA lol. You want pics? Of the whole process? I'm sure you have seen these components before!? I'm more than happy to as I have literally only opened the case and boxes of stuff... Tell you what, I'll get on with this, take a few shots along the way and put something together later

 

[FragTek]

KMA lol. You want pics? Of the whole process? I'm sure you have seen these components before!? I'm more than happy to as I have literally only opened the case and boxes of stuff... Tell you what, I'll get on with this, take a few shots along the way and put something together later

Yes but we want to see YOUR parts being assembled and becoming the pwnage So yeah, take some shots and post em up when ur done

 

[Mr. Smith]

Update: things are going ok! Moving on to installing everything

 

[Dav0s]

good luck!

 

[mrapoc]

ahh that will be me soon

if you see a large explosion...

 

[FragTek]

Ahem ahem ahem, I don't see any pix yet and its like 8 hours later

 

[dave87]

he's having faaar to much fun to be posting here tbh

 

[Mr. Smith]

he's having faaar to much fun to be posting here tbh

Dave - LOL. You got it! That and a few problems...

To all technical genius/guru's -

The PC works fine but there are a few glitches, can someone could enlighten me about how to fix them?

Firstly, my 250gig hard drive has lost 100gig when i formatted it during installation of XP, WTF? It came up as 238gig on my last system, now its 128gig... What do i need to do? (i think it was set as a dynamic disk previously?)

Also, when booting up, I get the asus splash screen, then a beep, followed by 'Intel CPU uloader error' (can't remember the exact details, i'm at work, i'll update that when i get home) 'Press F1 to continue' I hit F1 and everything seems to run smoothly!? This doesn't always appear, sometimes it just boots normally.

Thirdly, I didn't have much time but one gfx card works fine on the hacked drivers, havent had chance to stick the other in. However, a quick stock test on 3dmark05 (stock everything - CPU, GPU, etc) gave a dissapointing score of 10,500 or there abouts... Was I being unrealistic expecting more? I'm going for the 2nd card in tonight. The distance between the SLi connectors is a rather odd 7.5cm... The only Sli bridges i have seen are 4cm.

Oh, last issue, promise, the WiFi on the mobo won't work, the led on the back next to the antenna connector is off, tried installing drivers - 'device not connected' ?

Any help will be gratfully received. Cheers guys.

 

[FarFarAway]

Dave - LOL. You got it! That and a few problems...

To all technical genius/guru's -

The PC works fine but there are a few glitches, can someone could enlighten me about how to fix them?

Firstly, my 250gig hard drive has lost 100gig when i formatted it during installation of XP, WTF? It came up as 238gig on my last system, now its 128gig... What do i need to do? (i think it was set as a dynamic disk previously?)

This is an issue with large sector drives. Goddamn it if I can't remember the fix

Also, when booting up, I get the asus splash screen, then a beep, followed by 'Intel CPU uloader error' (can't remember the exact details, i'm at work, i'll update that when i get home) 'Press F1 to continue' I hit F1 and everything seems to run smoothly!? This doesn't always appear, sometimes it just boots normally.

Have you tried flashing the BIOS? Deffo worth a go. Get the latest one from Asus website then use the Asus flash tool to flash the BIOS using the file you just downloaded

Thirdly, I didn't have much time but one gfx card works fine on the hacked drivers, havent had chance to stick the other in. However, a quick stock test on 3dmark05 (stock everything - CPU, GPU, etc) gave a dissapointing score of 10,500 or there abouts... Was I being unrealistic expecting more? I'm going for the 2nd card in tonight. The distance between the SLi connectors is a rather odd 7.5cm... The only Sli bridges i have seen are 4cm.

In a word: Yes

I'm going for the 2nd card in tonight. The distance between the SLi connectors is a rather odd 7.5cm... The only Sli bridges i have seen are 4cm.

Asus SLI bridge is flexible and should fit afaik

Oh, last issue, promise, the WiFi on the mobo won't work, the led on the back next to the antenna connector is off, tried installing drivers - 'device not connected' ?

Any help will be gratfully received. Cheers guys.

Damn Wifi!

Try uninstalling the wifi (physically)and booting up.

Restart, go into BIOS and I think there's a setting to enable it in there.

Put the wifi back on then boot up and see how you go

 

[PV5150]

I take it you're doing a fresh installation of Windows XP on this 250GB drive

If so, you need a Windows XP CD containing SP1 or SP2 on the CD. If your Windows XP CD is a Release To Manufacturing (RTM) CD (i.e. no service packs), then you cannot format an IDE/SATA drive with a partition larger than 137GB/127GiB during Windows setup.

There are 3 solutions:

1. Go into the system BIOS, change the ICH7R mode from Legacy/IDE to SATA Native/AHCI. Then download and put the Intel ICH7R SATA AHCI drivers on a floppy disk. Run Windows setup, hit "F6" at the first part of Windows setup to tell it you have a manufacturer-provided driver disk. When Windows comes up and says that it can't find any mass storage controllers in your system, hit "S", and give it the floppy disk. Select the SATA AHCI driver. That driver and mode will allow you to format larger partitions during setup.

2. Format and install Windows on a 137GB/127GiB partition during Windows setup. After installation, update the Windows installation to SP1 or higher. Then resize the partition to the full size of the drive using Partition Magic, BiNG, or the diskpart utility in the Windows XP recovery console.

3. Create a Windows XP SP2 slipstreamed CD, which is a Windows XP CD that already has SP2 installed on it. Use this CD to install Windows, which will allow you to format the drive with a larger partition.

 

[Mr. Smith]

I could have sworn I posted a reply to this saying thanks...? So, thank you for taking the time to help.

Still got issues. Tried updating the BIOS via a floppy and the EZ BIOS flash feature. Failed. I did want to use the windows based environment, however 'ASUS' is missing from my start menu; as the manual says click this i was shafted. I'm going to try with a flash drive tonight as both were at work grrrr.

As for the HD fix, not yet had time; I am using an update/upgrade version of XP btw...

The wifi can wait as i'm using my previous wireless with no probs.

SLi - Well, what can I say? I put the second 7900gt in, installed fine, reboot, nvidia balloon pops up - 'you can have SLi, click to activate'. I activate. 'You do not have a SLi bridge, this may affect performance' OK. I run 3dmark05 as a reference test as i previously ran this with the single 7900gt - SAME SCORE?

Started downloading 3dmark06 to see if it was because 05 didn't use SLi but it was taking too long and my patience had ran out.

Just out of interest, as I have to reinstall everything anyway to fix the HD problem, what order should I do all the fixes? BIOS flash now, then install all mobo drivers again, then XP again, finally the sli drivers? Maybe the order I am doing things is the reason for all the conflicts/problems?

:worship:

 

[FarFarAway]

The order you said sounds ok mate. SLI won't work well at all unless you have an SLI bridge. The PCI-E lane interconnects aren't fast enough to carry the data and the upper range cards don't work unless you have bridged the cards

 

[PV5150]

Hopefully the HDD fix'll get you sorted mate As far as your other question: re install. I'd do BIOS flash, Win XP install, mobo drivers and then SLI

 

[Mr. Smith]

I spoke to ASUS about the bridge, they advised the mobo doesn't support SLi but will sell me a bridge for £5. Sounds fair to me!

Lets hope tonight I get things sorted!

 

[JN]

Fingers crossed for ya fella