totally agree with you. the onboard Soundmax crap CAN’T record Audio over stereomix. there seems to be some onboard/chip bug, not only a driver bug – since the new driver doensn’t have steremox recording any more at all.

Time for pci card if you want to record anything!

soundmax is crap! and asus making more and more mistakes with their boards…. time to change

I’ll have to disagree with most of things you’ve pointed out. I had the experience of overclocking it a bit too much and it went dead. The RMA process was simple and steramlined. They said it’d take two weeks, and it took exactly that. Their cust. service was quick to reply and the girl on the line spoke perfect english.

The sound thing…I’ll agree with you here. I just updated the BIOS and soundmax won’t work. When I play games I get weird static and clicking noises. This happens with all games and all mp3’s. It’s not noticable when the volume is up at 30%, but crank it up, and you can notice it. Once I get soundmax reinstalled after this latest BIOS update, maybe it’ll be fixed. I was planning on buying a PCI sound card anyway…

I could not agree more.

I purchased my P5B (not Deluxe) just before Christmas and still do not have it working properly. Yes I did load “All Drivers” from the CD and that is where my problems began.

1. Soundmax…well let’s just call it “Silentmax”

2. JMicron…why was there a need to outsource the controlling of the IDE to a 3rd party piece of software instead of having it included in the Intel 965 chipset? I now have an DVD/RW that doesn’t work except if I boot into safe mode. What was Asus thinking? Here in Australia we have a saying, “If it aint broke, don’t fix it!”

3. Forget about running Linux on this board! There are workarounds to get it going but only just. Seems Linux and Windows have something in common…..neither want to work properly with the Asus P5B!

I have been an Asus man since the days of the P5AB, having upgraded every 12 months or so. My last board was the Asus P5ND2-SLI which I also had problems with but was prepared to write off. But now that Asus has produced this P5B piece of GARBAGE, I have decided to take it back to the store and exchange it for another brand. My longterm relationship with Asus has ended! The P5ND2-SLI, I have decided to return to Asus HQ here in Australia along with a “Good-bye letter”

So have you tried the newly posted (25 Dec) SoundMax drivers for 32bit Vista?

I tried the beta ones about 2 weeks ago and they messed up my control panel, but now I wonder if I should try the new drivers as they are not listed as beta anymore (note this is not true for 64bit drivers).

Just disable DST and the sound works fine. Try actually knowing what you’re talking about before pointing fingers.

I am on my 4th Asus P5b Deluxe, due to Issues/Rma.
I wish I’d stayed with my original purchase, Gigabyte DS4, which was capable of 3.2g on e6300 no problem.
The best Ive managed with this thing is 3.0g/ddr2 1070.

I can boot @ 3.5g 1:1, but cant get it stable.
Also, these boards make my e6300 run very, very hot!
I have had a zalman 9500led & then improved that to a thermalright ultra120 beast, but I still idle at 40oC, load= 55-60. There is no way I can explore more v-core with this board due to this issue. And its not any particular board… Ive had 4 of them… ALL the same!

I have a large amount experience in IT. I have found, Asus has a good name but all of their boards I’ve used have never lived up to expectation. They have either had chipset fan issues, driver issues, or just simply failing for no reason. I have found Foxconn to be the same as Asus.

Two companies I would like to mention, MSI and Gigabyte – both make pretty solid boards (okay a few are a bit poor – but the new high end versions are fantastic and great value for money). I have never had a Gigabyte fail on me, maybe it’s just me but my company builds systems with Gigabyte – not had one break down yet.. and we’re talking thousends of boards.

I rememeber an Asus graphics card – the drivers were terrible – so buggy over the no-frills nVidia.

Also, it’s similar to Seagate / Maxtor. Always found Seagate to offer the best reliability, but maxtor had a better name.

I did so much research before getting my P5B Deluxe and am delighted with the features. That whole 3 restarts before switching on is a worry…but I can live with it.

However, I can’t any more drives! As soon as I do, I don’t even POST. The best I get is the motherboard repeatedly firing up, then dying, then back on, then off continually until I manually switch it off.

I have revision 1.06. Was that a crap release ? BIOS is latests and I have a good PSU.

Donald:
I recently had similar problems due to an older PSU (seasonic 400W) which had always functioned fine in other systems. If the board does not consistently POST or is effected by the number of drives present, a more powerful PSU may help.

I just got the one today. Damn! Why now did i see this thread. Anyway, I can’t even install SoundMax. It keeps asking me to reinstall it. I have even downloaded the one on the net already. Still doesn’t work. What did you guys do to make the sound come out. NEED HELP BADLY!

After 3 days of ripping out my hair and cursing because nothing worked i found a solution to running raid. DO NOT use sata2ata adapters! The board will defenatly hang and cause problems. Bought new drives SATA2 and everything works like a charm!
E6600 asus p5b wifi Corsair 6400C4pro Seasonic s12 600w 8800gtx

I agree. I had an ASUS P5B deluxe w/ WIFI as well, and the jmicron controller completely fucked up DVD playback and crashed Window’s Explorer hundreds of times in the 2 weeks I battled with it. I decided that I would never use another product with Jmicron anything in it. A few noteable boards are Abit AW9D [ Max], eVGA 680i, and, my favorite and what I am using now, the DFI ICFX3200 Lanparty using the ATI chipset. FANTASTIC BOARD FOR KENTSFIELD!!

I have purchased a P5B a week ago and have been struggling to get it running stable ever since. Biggest issue is that I can’t get it to boot everytime, sometimes it takes 5-6 tries, turning the power off or just hiting the off or reset buttons. I have a brand new 400W PSU, C2D 6300, 2x 512 MB Corsair RAM, Maxtor 320 SATA.Here are some other weird things that happen:

On boot the dumbass JMicron BIOS shows only one of the two DVD drives.
After POST the screen just blinks an _
After POST the computer reboots.

Any ideas anyone? I am really thinking that I need to RMA this mobo.

I have bought my self an ASUS P5B deluxe MB… And put that in a 3R System HTPC cabinet with somthing that was called IMON VFD. Nice lite LCD display in the front. And on top of that i have instaled Windows MCE. And it crashed all the time. I thought it was maybe the MCE’s fault but after unisntaling the software for the VFD it got solved and it all works perfekt. Exept for the sound… Thats a diferent problem. I’m using an coax cable between my sourond reciver and the intergrated spdif coax output on the MB. F*** that…
Every time I play a song or make a sound its all ok… but after the sound I play stops the PC makes difrent pitched noises… I have tried to do all the things like turning off the DTS( but i need that for suround), Tried to disconnect all unnessery sound devices. Upgraded the bios, NOTHING… could anybody halp me.?

I was wrong. The system still hangs up!!! F***… what could be the problem? It usually hangs up after I start mediacenter in windows. :evil:

hello

I have probably the same problem as ProdigalSlacker.
I can’t even install audio drivers. The message showin’ up keep tells me to reboot before installing them, and suggest that this drivers probably aren’t fitting to my audio chipset. Total crap. Of course I’ve loaded the latest BIOS and audio drivers for P5B Deluxe.
And this global silence in IT media about this shitty chipsets, makes me wanna kick someone’s ass both in “media” and ASUS.
Bartek: zobacz mój post na forum.chip.pl nikt nie odpowiada… zalosne

I absolutely agree with The patriot.

First let me say that I didnt purchase the mobo you’re talking about but Asus commando mobo instead, and, you know?, well I HAVE THE SAME PROBLEMS than you with those dammned Soundmax drivers. Darn thing!

In fact I came over to this web because I was kind of looking for a solution all over the net. But it seems my mobo is a brand new one and although you have fantastic available reviews taking about its the superb overclockability there are still no problems reported on the net and yes, those reviews never dare to mention that silly little problem with the soundmax drivers (very common I must say to a lot of other Asus mobos). oh oh , well The patriot has pretty well explained why so!!!

oh, yeah! so you put that funny drivers CD provided by the great Asus and your panic is just about to start. Well whenever you succesfully install them (and dont take it for granted) they mess everything up! and I mean it!. Everything slows down, boot time goes up, funny popping sounds and noises all over there, and absolutely poor performance and noises while playing games. It even made my replaced Pentium D look like a race champion in front of the super Qx6700 I just installed for this mobo.

This Asus issue looks to me very much like the rise and fall of the roman empire because of the decline of roman morals and values, so it is going to happen to Asus provided they dont take the corrective actions!

Welcome to the fall of the Asus empire!!!!

And I forgot to mention that Asus commando is a ROG mobo!. yes, it is supposed to be the jewel of the crown for all braggy players! well, right that very much could be but provided that you buy a new sound card!

Buy a new Soundblaster for your Asus Commando or whichever Asus crappy soundmax integrated audio mobo you have and say goodbye to problems. I had the same problems here stated until I went to buy one. Really a pity a so wonderful mobo being spoiled because of this. I cant understand why Asus didnt do anything at all and what kind of bizarre agreement they have with this soundmax people. Better they didnt provide any audio at all and put a lower price on mobos. Besides,(and this one is for those deaf Asus marketing guys), if its targeted to gamers, sure thing is a priced gamer never relies on integrated audio but buys his own soundcard!

* Intel Core2 Extreme QX6700 Conroe XE Quad Core
(Overclocked @3,4Ghz)
* Asus Commando
* XFX Geforce 8800GTX XXX ed 768MB GDDR3 PCIe
* Creative SoundBlaster Xfi Fatal1ty pro series
* Geil 2GB Ddr2-800
* Silverstone 600w PSU
* Thermaltake Bigwater 735 liquid cooling

I must just be very lucky, though perhaps time will change that. I just setup a new system using this board as the base, installed XP, and loaded the drivers from the CD. So far it’s worked flawlessly, though I haven’t done any OC’ing yet.

Antec 180 Case (great case!)
Core2 6600
EVGA 8800GTS
OCZ RAM 2GB
OCZ 600w PS
Samsung 500GB SATA2

It runs great! If the sound ever does become an issue as I update drivers and set it up to dual-boot Vista, I’ll probably just buy a Soundblaster rather than pull my hair out over the onboard sound.

Ariel77 is completely right – you know nothing. This board is fantastic and nobody here has had problems with any of them. You must be doing something wrong.

Gabe: I cant really understand how did you come to that conclusion so quickly. Are you really saying NOBODY has any problems at all?. So, as you were lucky enough and didnt suffer any problems, the problems do not exist!.Well sorry but if youre not biased in a big way your reasoning sounds quite illogic to me!

I mean, youre right and the rest of the guys on planet Earth are wrong: Did you ever read THOROUGHLY the arguments of all the people posting here?. If you do a little googling around you will find HUNDREDS of threads all over the net pointing to the same problems with several other Asus mobos and the Soundmax, not only with the ones herein mentioned.

So in case youre not biased I very much recommend you a little reasoning as a good and healthy sport!

This MB is basically fucked by design. I’ve had mine less than half a year and yet I’m going to buy a new one, I’ve never had so many problems with a MB. :sad:

Well boys, i recently bought a p5b and the first unpleasent surprise was that with 2 devices on ide a dvdrw lg and a hdd seagate plus 2 samsung on sata the system hasn’t boot from dvd at all! in fact the dvd was not even recognised by the bios, ofcourse i load from a floppy the latest bios but the problem with that crappy j-micron controller remains.Anyway after 2 days and nights of googleing i remove one ide device (the hdd)an install xp… than vista… than ubuntu… but what a mess!noting went right!So-called little details upon crappy sound from soundmax and crappy j-micron thing were in fact the determinative factor for me to let go asus mb’s forever! i wonder how is possible a vista ready mb not have drivers fully compliant with vista??
but hey what about xp? Seems to asus that none of these OS are good enough to p5b. I don’t even dare to go further to the OC stuff cause allready my brand new pc costs way too much and could not aford to lose a good cpu e6300…
I had epox mb’s for a long time, since they deliver a bios update on ep8rda6 pro mb witch totally f** the mb luckely the bios has a socket for bios and luckely i have a friend who accept to swich the bios with mine in order to flash it again with the old version…
than i had a p4p800se a good one, but no driver suport vor vista on soundmax ad1985 drv.
Now that i’ve seen what is the trend on asus I’ll give up and turn my face on intel mb’s, i’m not much a overclocker anyway…
Spread the word that asus gives free lunches to IT magazines just to keep their products on top to fool people or to induce them the ideea that asus is a name you can trust, anyway i hope that asus sales will drop badly after i’ll give this link to all my friends.

Hey Guys!

I just wanted to post here to comment about a very rare problem I had that fortunately I solved but the origin of which still remains obscure to me and may be perhaps related with the J-micron drivers issue but really dont know and wanted some inputs from you.

So everything starts when I tried to install XP x64 on this mobo for the very first time all ide and sata devices were pretty well recognised on J-micron bios and during the installation process everything just went ok till it finished: well the first time I start the OS everything just looks fine only it isnt. I mean the OS is a kind of reduced one in which you cant find the explorer and a lot of other system resources and several other services are not even started: For example the security center is unable to start because the “ipnat.sys” is being used by another process!. How in hell can it be if I even didnt load any external driver yet just started the OS for the first time?.

I tried something like 4 more boring and time-spending installations connecting and disconnecting sata and ide devices at no avail. The only thing I changed on bios was that I disconnected the Sondmax because I new about the problems and bought a separated soundcard. Finally I succeeded by re-installing the OS from within the reduced OS I had!.

Please, could anyone more trained than me figure out what the cause of this problem could be. Can you help Mr. The Patri0t?.

Yo!

I’ve almost similar board [P5B-E Plus]to this one . Isstalled everything correctly but the SoundMAX is just crap! Terrible sound, it can’t even compare to X years old Soundstorm on ex NF7-S. I’ll have to go for an extra sound cart.

Hey, I sent an e-mail to Asus support center commenting about the j-micron/soundmax probs I was experiencing and after 4 weeks they answer back with the following solution: Update to last bios or buy a new mobo!!. ha,ha,ha,haaaa. Ayone got any idea as how to suit this Asus mobofuckers??

This blog sucks. I’ve built a few PC’s at work and 1 for a friend using this motherboard. Absolutely no problems at all.

Obviously those of you who are having problems arent fit enough to build your own computer.

James: Obviously you are not only a pedantic but an ignorant and obviously you dont even have the slightest idea of what you are talking about and obviously the only one that sucks here is you because you not only scorn the people here but even dare to write a meaningless comment.

May be you are one of those funny people whose lunch is being paid by great Asus and you have been scared because this blog is very visible on the net when you type words like: ASUS, PROBLEMS, CRAPPY SOUNDMAX, FUCKING JMICRON, ….(I repeat them in order to become even more visible now).

Is the only way to explain your stupid comment!!!

Hey guys;

Asus integrated audio sucks a big deal! It doesnt matter which mobo youre talking about! It sucks and it will suck and Asus will never do nothing about it! it has been months since all this problems and it cannot be that Asus is not aware of them, so this means Asus doesnt give a damn, they dont care at all about it!.

This Asus carelessness and negligence with the people like me that trusted them by buying their products is unbearable but fortunately at an end because I decided N-E-V-E-R again trusting this people: I will go for Gigabyte instead as they never gave me any problem.

James,

I have been building my own computers all my life and hundreds of computers for the people I work with.These problems related with Soundmax and Jmicron are not always visible: I mean, you may think everything is OK if you only use your computer with the office package but when you run a video intensive or audio intensive program, or you happen to have a CD unit or hard disk not well recognized by jmicron, you may see the very problems revealed.

Just because you didnt realized any problems so far that doesnt give you the right to insult the guys that are experiencing problems and presume to be the master of all masters on computer building. I agree with the Mate and there are only three posibilities. Please choose the one that fits you:

a) You are stupid.

b) You work for ASUS.

c) You are an stupid working for Asus.

Be more humble my boy and may be then you could learn something from the other people.

Hi all,

I already read on another forum that the people reporting computer slowing down and sound problems like crackling sounds or low FPS while on games say that they have tracked the internal processes and that the problem is undoubtely related with the soundmax drivers. They say that these drivers are using up to 20% of CPU on idle state!. If this is true I cant really understand why the last update for the soundmax that you can find on Asus website is one that solves a problem with the japanese language!. I dont think this is as important an issue as the ones reported here! Could it be that this Asus guys are really unaware of these problems?. When you talk to Asus customer service they act as if they didnt know nothing about it and as if you where the one to blame! is it true ignorance or company policy?. In each case it is a shame for the brand…

hahahaha is not God guiding them but Mr. Money a much more powerful guy I suppose…at least on this side of the world. Dont even think they are gonna recognise publicly anything. May be they come to solve the problems in the near future on later mobo versions, but they will never provide any solution for the present stuff. They will deal with these issues as stealthy as they can afford and with the backing of all hardware review sites of course whose silence is already well paid.

And problems shouldnt be so hard to track: I just disabled Soundmax on Bios and didnt dare to load any of that crappy Soundmax drivers stuff and put a Soundblaster and problems are gone!. So good so far.It is at least a Soundmax driver issue. No doubt about it.

Hi can i know wat DST mean?

Thank Goodness for sites like this. We need free speech and the right to let motherboard makers know about their mistakes. The P5B Deluxe is one big mistake waiting to happen (and has)I would recommend that everyone wanting to buy new motherboards especially with the next generation NVidia and any temp “Legacy” 1333Mhz FSB specs be very wary and wait 4-6 months which allows us to check for problems with these boards, since reviewers lie for free lunch and try to protect the manufactures.
NVidia quiet cover up:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/editorial/display/cebit2007-6_2.html

You can read about my fun with the P5B-Deluxe Wi-fi and no answers ever getting back to me by Asus here:
http://www.houseofhelp.com/forums/showthread.php?s=f03714dfb9385d56dda2eb3f50cee50f&t=54343
2008 may be better and faster with “Penryn” 45nm cpu’s and DDR3 ?? Time will tell, but right now too many changes and everything is a rushed to market for best shining specs, without longterm testing.
Tim.

Yes, you can. Just search the Internet.

This thing is driving me nuts!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have Vista 32 version instaled on my brand new PC with this P5B Deluxe WiFi junk and I am getting NO sound. I checked the BIOS and sound is enabled. I have also installed the latest SoundMax drivers. Nothing seems to help. Either I go and buy a sound card or take it to a technician and pay $$$$$$. I have lost hope with ASUS.

This board works quite well on Ubuntu linux. Every thing was detected and works fine so far.

Windows is another story as we all know.

Hi All!!!!

u people have pushed me in a big confusion… i am going to buy Asus P5ND2-SLI with in a day or so… now i am stuck by seeing ur comments on ASUS boards…. please help me buy a board having functionality like this one if this is not ok
i want to place a simple P4-2.8ghz HT LGA775 proccessor on it just for now……. and want to upgrade latter…

just reply me to buy this one or not… if not please guide me to the replacement of this functionaly and support…

thanks for such comments and save me from ruining my mony

I have just built up this board. E6600 and two 36g raptors in raid 0 and two sata 200 wd 3.0 in raid 1. All running on the intel controllers. One LiteOn dvd player and one LiteOn dvd burner. Both are sata. I am running 4gig of ocz platinum at 4-4-4-15, (I had to manually set that in the bios or it would only see 3gig). Also a creative x-fi fatality gamer audio card. I’m in the U.S. and can call Asus in California directly. They have answered the phone in no more than 3 minutes each time. Agreed it was pretty much a waste of time because they simply read to you from the manual. One even quoted page numbers to me.

The jmicron controller will only support one internal drive. If you want to use this for raid you have to use an external drive. Can’t imagine why anyone would want to do that but it is documented in the manual. That’s actually why I called Asus, I refused to beleive the manual.

So far the only problem I have encountered is the delay at the end of post before boot.(The bios post is so fast I can’t read it) I found a thread that may have solved that. It seems that it takes a really long time to seek the sata dvd. I discovered this when installing xp.(It took so long I thought it wasn’t seeking it) If you disable this drive in the boot order it is supposed to fix this. How often do you boot to a cd that you can’t change this first. My questions are, and pardon my ignorance if its obvious to every one but me, 1. Why use the jmicron and 2. Why spend the type of money that your system builds describe and then even attempt to use on board sound? I have built Gygabyte, Epox, Abit, Asus, Shuttle and Intel systems. (Intel being the glitchiest so far) None have had on board sound that was good for anything except a work station. You can get a really good sound card from 30-50 dollars. All manufactures board have one glich or another. I have never built a system that something didn’t have to be resolved. Remember trying to install devices in Windows 95?

Advice from the old: Don’t believe everything you read, and some problems just aren’t worth the effort.

I know, I know…. it says you can so by God your going to do it. That has cost me more money and TIME than you can imagine.

Final statement: and I don’t work for Asus, is of all the boards that I have built Asus has been consistently the most stable and easy to set up.

guys i dont know about you, but i have asus p5b deluxe and frankly speaking i am having no problems whatsoever. maybe i am lucky. Thanks God. but i have this problem that i cannot record sound though as i used to do under stereo mix :( thats sad. but the rest if very good. i dont get any crackling sounds and any sound problems.

one more thing i am using the stock sound drivers that i got with this motherboard, though i have frequently been updating my bios as and when they were available.

Hi Vinceau:

I don’t know why you say you don’t work for Asus if nobody ever ask you about it!. (are you really not working for Asus after all?).

Your first question is why use jmicron: Sorry but I never had the freedom to choose. Is something Asus put on their boards for some reason without asking us. Just ask Asus why we should use it!.

Your second question is why spend the type of money that our system builds describe and then even attempt to use onboard sound: well, sorry Vinceau, but this is a real funny question. I just paid my onboard sound when I bought the mobo, as it is an integrated feature. So I expect my integrated sound to work WITHOUT A GLITCH!.If Asus knows this is a glitch(as they already surely now)better they didnt provide this feature at all and charge a lower price!. So are you really saying we must expect crappy onboard sound and spend a considerable extra amout of money to compensate for the incompetencies of board manufactures like Asus??. NOT ME, NOT EVER!WHAT A NONSENSE!

Lord Tiger:

First you say you are lucky whith your board and then you say you are experiencing sound problems (in fact like everybody else!). So, are you lucky or not?. Are you happy with the money you spent?.Then you say that “the rest is very good”, well sorry but I should be expecting EVERYTHING to be very good: these boards are not a bargain and cost a lot of buckets!. It seems to me that guys like Vinceau have lots and lots of money to spend (even to waste!). Well, don’t expect me to waste even a dime!. ASUS lost all credibility for me!

yeh just ordered and ASUS p5b delux,,glad u guys spilled the beens,unlike other scrupulas sites,which mention great oc features and nothing else,,well i canceled the order pronto,,and will look at either msi or gigabyte

Hi

I just built a P5B Deluxe machine and was experiencing sound problems. At first XP didnt recognise the onboard sound and the drivers on the cd from ASUS did not work. Got it working using an old driver from net and experienced hissing and crackling. I got rid of the crackling by downloading the latest audio drivers and software from Asus web site. There was still hissing problems but I turned off the mic which got rid of the hissing.

ok guys here is a driver i found, know its a bit older version but it worked for me. this is the best drivers i have used. i can record with stereo mix and the music quality is not bad. if u dont trust me, so go ahead and use it yourself. the version is 5.10.01.6110.

Can anyone tell me if the P5B is compatible with an Asus en7600gs graphics card? As it the only thing I can think of that could be causing the computer not to boot

seth
both your vga card and mobo are compatible no doubt. there will be another problem.

Ok, thanks I know this isn’t a pc help forum.

Its true what people say, all the magazines give it great reviews but they don’t mentio the problems. I had an Asus p4p800 and the onboard ethernet controller wouldn’t work.

Can anyone recommend another board other than Asus?

Thanks

seth
i think u should go with gigabyte ds3 the latest rev that is 3.3 i think. its cheap and is just like the p5b deluxe in overclocking. take a look at it. i have heard real good things about it. on the other hand p5b deluxe is not that bad, but only a little bit expensive though. i have it and luckily i have no problems. i had a prob with the sound card a bit but when i installed the 5.10.01.6110 drivers. things are quite good now

Most troublesome mobo Ive ever bought. Had it a month now, and still cant get Vista to install. It all points to a problem with the SATA drive … but Ive come to a dead end now. The manual is useless, and the website no better, and Ive had no response from ASUS themselves.
This is the last ASUS board Ill ever buy. Not recommended.

I have had the p5b deluxe since Jan 1 07. Best MOBO of all time! over clocked a 6400 to 3.5. orthos stable at 43c. for over 12 hours (cant wait much longer, never stops) I’m running raid 0 from 2 sata drives. Parallel drives work great. Bios updates often. Are you people inexperienced? Retarted? What is it? I’ve run vista and xp and even both simultaneously with a dual boot. I don’t understand why everyone has problems. I think you all need to read the manual, or have someone with expeirence. And as far as onboard sound goes, it runs perfect even with my audigy 2 running simultaneously as well. I don’t mean to sound rude but how in the heck could I have done this all without any problems EVER! and then you guys all have meltdowns?

I could not agree less, mine has been working perfectly, and everyone knows that installing extras slows down the computer. It has to outsource to the Jmicron because the P965 does not support EIDE. That is Intels fault, NOT Asus’s Mine is working fine. The P5B is designed for Overclockers, who don’t install extras, and leave it at its max potential, If you install the extra’s, you know what you’re getting. I bet none of you have your processor at speeds of over 3ghz.

I baught the board with the label “premium vista edition”. I came from an old P3BF (the master of stability working with P3 Tuallatin (extra slot card) @1500 oc) that had some headaches after 8 years of oc work and lately with some strange uata133, usb2 – firewire pci cards.
First time I powered the machine (just pluging it) it started, stopped and started again without pushing the power button. Thiw was done every time I plugged the power cord. When I installed windows XP without any drivers the system was very fast but after automated cd installation of all drivers (audio, lan, screen duo, ir etc.) slowed down on starting the programs but not processing things (eg doing certain jobs in autocad or photoshop). Some …tsik and tsak were badly heard time to time from the soundmax audio outputs.
Then I decided to upgrade bios (402), I installed latest audio drivers and got rid of screen duo (not very useful for me) and asus remote control (I have rc from terratec cinergy 600 tv card that controls also other software eg. Media player etc.).
Results : 1) audio noises got away for all, 2) The machine does not start and stops when the power comes on from plug, 3) faster start up, shut down and loading of software, 4) system stable when c2d 6320 (2 corsair 1gb each) overclocked very easy from 1.8 till 2.5mhz without any voltage tweaking (further the system hangs but I have to test many things till I say that this is the top) BUT
1) audio is worse, when music is heard from external amplifier and large speaker connected after the pc, when compared with an old SB 5.1 pci card (P3BF), but the same when heard from 5.1 pc speaker system. (this was expected from me because no MB audio is better than any, even mid-good, audio card)
2) when overclocked beyond the steady limits the auto system that return the bios to default values for starting the machine does not work most of the times and I have to use the battery out – jumper old (…good) method. This was NEVER happened all these years to old P3BF that came alive every time and under any oc circumstances.
3) I have not tested this specific cpu and memory modules on other mb to determine if this is a really high class oc mb , as it is written around from internet and magazine testers. (I confess that I bought it for the asus name (P3BF experience) and the i965 chipset that I think is very good for my – non extreme games – needs)
4) No problem with ide j micron controller and 2 dvds (old Liteon player, old Plextor recorder) on board.
Finaly I think that the board is good enough (till now and for my way of oc use) but what if was bought from a beginner or at 100 pieces for a company or internet café. Who would have done the job for the audio noises and for the start annoying problems? Nobody most of times and the mb and asus will take a reasonable bad name without deserving it because the problems got away easy enough and this would have done from the production stage.
These problems are NOT ACCEPTED for this brand and for this price (almost 1.5 or even 2 times the money for the same chipset on other brands). How can I suggest it to a friend when I know that I have to service it personally after the installation?
For me, and till now, good enough but I expect a lot more (because of brand name and price) hopping for better oc attitude after some bios upgrades. I could have bought it without the screen duo (nice gatzet for impression but useless) and ir receiver.

“skeet said, Are you people inexperienced? Retarted? What is it?”: Well Skeet or whatever other nicknames you use here, it is in fact that you are always the same ASUS scared funny guy that whenever some of us write a negative comment here, you immediately answer back insulting everybody as if it was to blame all of us ignorant people but ASUS was never guilty of anything!. Why if you are not expierencing any problems at all you dare to write your meaningless comments here?.You are not helping anyone!. Just go hell son of a retarded dumbass! :grin:

Retarded dumbASUS y would say…

fully agree with you!
the performance is okay, overclocking works good, but the rest…i`ve wasted DAYS with the soundbug! and i still can`t use my 5.1 headset over USB, the background noises (cracklecrackingcrack…) makes every game UNPLAYABLE!
and the IDE-devices don`t work duly, of course they do their duty, but it`s not possible to install an OS to harddisc.
i fucking hate this board!!1
but it`s not good enough for my trashbin, so i will give this fucking piece of shit to ebay…marked as an exotic sadomasochistic toy.

For those of you saying “I did it fine, it is user problem” I say “get more experience in life”. Just because one board works fine does not mean all boards will work fine as well. The name of the problem is “Quality Control”.

At the moment my board is working fine, but I’m afraid of installing Asus Probe and IR.

My last rma’d board was acting the craziest I’ve ever seen. Did I get smarter? Doubt it, since I’ve been building my systems since DX2 ruled the earth (not talking about directx here youngsters).

What has changed? The physical unit has changed!

So keep your little egos in check because anyone that writes anything here to defend Asus, is either on Asus’s payroll or has not enough experience to be heard. Meaning SFU!!

Ok people who are experts here i want you to help me answering this little question however it has alot behind!
:arrow: I bought my P5 B Deluxe about 5 mounths later and have been with it till today and ofc suffered all its performance and quality issues. But now i decided to change it with a new board that carries Nvidia 680i SLI chipset thats why i am aiming for gaming and having a Nvidia chip on board is always better for gaming performance. so i searched over the web and found some boards with that chipset here is the options i have :
1-ASUS Striker Extreme
2-Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6
3-MSI P6N Diamond
Well all 3 boards have nearly common specifications but the thing that make me boubt is the On-board sound chip of those 3 boards Asus has the fucking ADI 1988 same as P5B Deluxe , Gigabyte has a RealTek and the MSi caries Creative X-Fi :idea: Now the question is will i get the same issues if i purchase Asus Striker Extreme?

I would take Gigabyte as I personally never had any problem with this brand but I would recommend you to do first some little search over the web to look for reviews and known problems. Striker extreme is too expensive and its not worth the money (in my humble opinion). Too many features that in practice you dont really need but allows Asus to charge you a lot more money. Is a marketing thing.

I have many of the problems people before me pointed out.

The on board sound didn’t work properly from the start and it had even more problems when I put an audigy sound card into it…. Then if that wasn’t bad enough, four days after I bought it, the mobo itself just stopped displaying video. Every other asus board I’ve ever bought worked great, this one however is a huge disappointment.

I bought this and I must be one lucky guy. Installed 4 SATA Drive’s and only used the IDE for the DVD drive. I never Installed any sound drivers. Vista Installed them from the disk.

I don’t have any of these problems that you all have.
Everything works great. I don’t over clock. I’m running the 6600 core2 chip, along with 2 1gb of ocZ DDR2 ram. I’m running a nvidia 8800 video card.

Maybe It’s I’m not running the sound drivers that were on the enclosed cd. After the install and vista was up and running, everything was working so I never Installed or needed to install any add-on drivers.

About the only problem I’ve had with this board is the built in lan with vista. It’s only after when it awakes from sleep that the lan connection will not connect to the internet. This is a vista problem. Other’s have the same problem. For the time being till MS can fix it I’ve Installed a 1gb lan card.

I bought this a few months ago. So maybe It was after the reported problems were fixed in the bios. I’ve updated the bios twice as they fix things but again,
Maybe I’m real lucky.

My mobo is ASUS P5ND2 SLI DELUXE, it perfect in winXP except its firewall but I don’t care. When I upgrade to win Vista 32bit, audio is terrible with some noise.I thing I will buy a new soundcard. It really horrible because I’m use computer for movie,anime and music.

I just had my P5B Deluxe install last night…booted up and install XP fine. Had a little problem with BIOS since the version was 1004…so update is in order. Installed version 1215 and everything went smooth as butter.

IMO, don’t even bother using integrated soundcard. They either buggy or sound crappy. Use dedicated soundcard like Creative X-fi. I have it and no problem so far.

Usually I wait 4-6 months before I buy anything..usually this give them vendors sort out their drivers’ issues. Works everytime. :)

Cheers

I’ve had the p5b deluxe wifi since last august (06), running with xp sp2 oem and pentium d 950, sata drive.

The buggiest component was actually the wifi at the time. The wifi connect app was horrible. prone to lockups and crashes, and the gui just buggy.

Though soundmax naturally had problems too, and even with improved drivers was sometimes crackly.

After a year it seems perhaps windows was due to a reinstall. Upgraded bios to 1215… fortunately possible with windows app, cuz I didn’t install a floppy and the old bios didn’t recognize usb flash drives. Unfortunately, the 1215 bios seemed great w/even USB drive on boot, and windows fast and wonderful for the first minutes. But perhaps after my driver install for HP 4180c, the system hanged; admittedly was partly my fault for not having printer hooked up.

I switched to Mcafee internet sec. suite from Norton’s suite b/c I heard it might be faster, but right now the alerts lockup in 1st 24hrs of system use, (made sure to install b4 online). (But Mcafee firewall control sucks… NAV was finicky but more configurable …looking forward to linux control)

Admittedly something is jacked the system restore must not have done well recovering from HP install or openoffice. Perhaps one of these had a virus undetected by NAV on other machine, b/c I think after these weird stuff began, like even taskmanager not appearing or responding. Am baffled how this ASUS MB has had so many problems; notably the MB was my only hardware not in a sealed package when I got it. Perhaps was a clue.

Something is jacked, and waiting for linux disks to arrive. Most settings were set to auto (not NOS overclock(?)) and SATA only to IDE not ahci. Just hope 1215 Bios fully compatible with my board’s revision… Or that something is not kaput. Do regret not verifying that my Patriot mem is on verified list… Wish I knew how to check system stability w/o lengthy OS install; ANY ADVICE here. Plan to try 1 more clean XP install w/o HP drivers.

Will probably end up with one of latest opensuse and ubuntu/ultimate ubuntu distro’s. Have read linux driver support for this board should finally be mostly okay.

I noticed that nvidia (vid card manuf) has drivers specifically tested for opensuse… in their driver repository… in case anybody else wants to try linux… Hardware support checking seems tedious and another hit and miss affair for various distros but my newbie perspective.
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-9755/README/index.html

Last note: vendors’ no return policy should have been a warning in MB purchase… MB was too bug-prone at time of release. I agree reviews are not critical enough, and marketing hyped up. Latest pricegrabber for p5b deluxe wifi lemon has only 1 seller. Duh. Not a safe MB choice, after poor history, even as mature…

For my worst-case scenario, MB alternative RECOMMENDATIONS, anyone?

I haven’t had a single problem with it, and this was the first computer I ever built. I overclocked it slightly when I had windows XP, but now that I have 64-bit vista I have to reinstall that utility and have been too lazy to do it so far. Anyway, I had that sound problem for about 10 minutes until I simply downloaded the latest driver. Oh, by the way I have an E6600 and 2 gigs corsair ram. But yeah, I’m baffled that any of you have had any sort of problem with this board; it’s solid

My P5B Deluxe is working fine. Had a little trouble with the SATA, but that’s because I’ve never used it before lol.
As for the audio… well, I personally havn’t had any problems, but I never trust integrated audio anyway… Just never seems to do the job. I’ll be upgrading my sound system soon and will buy an audio card regardless of how well it’s currently performing.
Someone mentioned overheating issues? Haven’t had one… in fact this system is so cool I’m wondering if it’s actually producing any heat. lol

:neutral: i want to buy asus commando how can get it in karachi pakistan.please help you can email me

Greetings !!! I have read through the postings of this thread, and I agree that my ASUS P5B dlx-wifi mobo had lousy sound coming from the integrated Soundmax. A more major problem is that my idle and load temps are way too high at 48/72C with my QX6700 and the Zalman 9700, even though I was not overclocking. It was not unusual for the Probe II to buzz loadly while watching a DVD to warn that the cpu temp is approaching meltdown. I have since moved to the Gigabyte P965 DS4 using the same 9700 cooler without those temp problems. I have also read some online blogs about the Asus P35 mobos having temp problems compared to Gigabyte and wonder if others also get the same hot boards I mentioned earlier. :mad: :???:

People says that this is the best driver at the moment (v5.10.01.6110 2007/02/08) so how about this newest driver (v5.10.02.6110 2007/03/03)??

People says that this v5.10.01.6110 is the best driver at the moment so is it exacly this driver what people means? There are 3 different drivers (in support.asus.com website) with the same name but this one seems to be without DTS(not needed for me).

v5.10.01.6110 2007/02/06 update
AD1988B SoundMAX Audio Driver v5.10.01.6110 WHQL for Windows 2000/XP
1. Fix text display problem under Japanese OS

File Size 10.69 (MBytes)

I had asus products over the years wich worked pretty good, i changed to asus p5p on a core 2 e6550, and i can t tell you how much this p5b sucks , to begin with the audio problem incompatiple low quality audio performance loud background noise coming from the audio output, then the thing that gets me more pissed of is the serial port ( i know nobody uses that anymore , but some do ) first of all it doesn t have an exterior serial connector, for that a buy a separate external connector,then after doing that the serial port is defective it doesnt work properly to be more exact it s useless (i use serial port for programing serial microcontrollers ,my income comes from this because of this i lost a week of income )another problem is that my xp doesn t see more than one sata device ( the same windows on the preavoius board worked perefct) i hate the P5b so much i regret buying this and now i miss my old asus board (k8n ).once again if you buy this you WILL BE SORRY , you have been warned !

Hi,

I can understand the bad karma if this is what you’re getting, and yes I agree the sound was crap from day one. Not a problem for me as I never use onboard sound because it generally is crap to mediocre at best on any board I’ve ever owned and that’s been quite a few.

I bought this board quite a while back and have had no problems with it apart from the above. I’m not running anything special or over clocking just an Intel Core2 6400 with 4 Gig of memory and an Indeo 7300 graphic card running 4 Seagate 500Gig Sata. Sound is provided by an Xfi platinum.

Admittedly I don’t use this machine for games only for recording multi track music (wave) and processing midi and this can be as tasking on the system as any game and more.It has frozen a couple of times but this was due to software program conflicts or too much for the Xfi to process.

It’s never crashed or loop booted. Basically it’s never failed to perform for me and I’ve been quite happy with it. In fact I was thinking of buying another one for my new Core2 Quad Q6600 machine that I am soon to build for gaming and stumbled upon this page while trying to find if they are still available.

I guess its just the luck of the draw.

Regards

Willis Styles
CEO ASUS Corperation

Just kidding
:lol:

I have this board with 4gig DDR800 and a Q6600 quad. Couple of standard SATA disks. My motivation is VMWare. I dont care about sound its a server not a desktop. It is awsome. Updated bios day one to latest. Changed BIOS to allow 4 GIG. Loaded Longhorn RC0, all drivers detected except most likely the SATA RAID. It plays sounds which is handy for testing.

I’ve loaded two 2k3 vms its using 50% ram (they have 360meg each). The machines are running very well. I will do some testing on them. I guess if you just need power and VMs a QUAD or good Core2 Duo, forget sound, dont even load the SATA raid. It also runs cool acording to SpeedFan 4.33 CPU 38C system 26C CORES all below 33C. Thats running 2 VMs not doing much.

The other points appear to be get real sound and stay away from the SATA raid. If you already have the board maybe even a SATA card and forget the onboard SATA?

I’ll post back when ive used it some more regarding VMWare performance.

Running two 2k3 servers and one xp workstation vm on this board /Q6600 / 4Gig DDR2800. XP is playing a MP3 from the network with full screen media player random effects. sound (under longhorn rc0 64bit, via the xp VM is excellent (given my pretty basic 2 speakers and a base). However if this was an issue I’d buy a sound card. The CPU cores got up to 54% (stock fan with another case fan above it). The power is awesome. perhaps a better cooling setup is needed.

i have an asus P5B mobo..at first it was quite fine..everything was smooth,then came that crappy hd audio error, my usb ports also malfunctioned..i tried reinstalling the drivers, it didnt work..ASUS customer support is terrible

Its strange and suprising to see so many problems suddenly creeping from a very well piece of hardware. I am not sure why people canot figure out the cause of problem and solve it, but for me the board has turned out to be an absolute stunner. I am using the board for the past one year with e6300 OCed at 3.304 Ghz with 50-52 C at stock cooling,(its a hot place I stay). I have not faced any crashes, halts or anything except maybe while performing OCing (which is obvious,I read somebody posting that it takes loads of bootup while OCing……lol….that a perfect normal way to OC a machine.) THe only problem which I agree is what Werner said in the very first post. The board sound drivers does not record srteaming music over stereo mix or any sound over stereo mix for that matter. Apart from that the board is rock stable, and perfect for OCing……….One blog over 100s n 100s of people on various fourms using the same board does not prove a thing……

My P5B was running fine for about 11 months, then it died last night, I tried to clean out BIOS setup (unplug battery, short CLRTC jumpper), but no help, now it totally dead can not boot up, no beep after turn on the power, it continous beeps if I unplug memory, I also unplug most of the devices ( except CPU), still no help. Does anyone see this before, any help appreciated.

I bought P5B deluxe in may 2007… along with my e6600 and a decent PSU an 8800 gts… 2 gig of ram.. All’s good i dont get over heating or anything.

But ever since i started up my computer, i would get problems with my sound. Yes i get the crackling untill i had to disable my 5.1 to just 2 speakers. On top of that, my MAIN issue was the recording.

I could record fine using mic, the array microphone was a genious idea. BUT there was no Wave/Waveout mix/stereoout mix….

So i couldn’t stream my music to friends…. all the option i had was ‘Wat u hear’ (a piece of crap useless function that records with a limit to what your volume is adjusted to) (and no, i will not bother manually lowering the volume from my speakers).

Why else is Wat u hear useless? because its not accurate. If you try to stream online/website/even your own music. You will notice a significant drop in quality. And a clear discovery that when vocals of the music (guy or girl singing) there voice sounds weird and distored/echo’y.

Then i bought Soundblaster X-Fi Extreme Audio, thinking that installing it and its driver would fix the problem and give me back Proper recording features. Sadly not, it seems that even when disable the onboard sound and installing ur own, the motherboard will still be the dominant one and will not allow any further recording features.

If anyone is in a similar situation please let me know that when you tried buying your own soundcard it was solved… because it didnt for me :(

Possible Fix:

I just spoke to a level 2 tech at ASUS and they pointed me to updated drivers for the P5B Deluxe integrated sound chip. These V5.10.01.6240 soundmax drivers are NOT included on the P5B Deluxe support section for some weird and wonder reason (to the techs great confusion) but they are under the P5B Premium Vista Edition Motherboard section.

The tech assured me that these drivers will work for the P5B deluxe because they both use the same integrated sound chips.

I have hope that this will work because if you look at the fixes listed under these newer driver versions, they list microphone and stereo mix fixes.

So tonight I’m going to update to this driver and see what I find. I’ll post back here with my discoveries.

I have a problem with the usb ports.
nothing seems to register anymore in windows xp Media Center 2005. All I can get is the power from the usb ports. nothing else.
official media center remote lights up, and the infra red reciever lights up, but nothing in windows will respond to the remote.
Audio works fine.
Can you post a link to the drivers please…

Avoid this board. It is buggy. The latest BIOS (1803) has difficulties. Some , at wits end, actually downgrade their BIOS. I hop ASUS is not becoming shabby bit-slappers :cry:

sry, but the latest bios is version 1232.

I never had probs with this board. it runs cool, it overclocks very well, never had freezes,…

The only prob was the onboard sound, it was and still is crappy, but since my Creative sound card everything is working fine for me.

And it seems that the new procs overclock very well too. My new E8400 is very stable on 4Ghz. The P965 Chipset just likes the new procs :grin:

Grtz, Zep.

Michael Van Grunderbeeck,

Do you have Wave out mix / Stereo out mix available in your recording settings?

Or just “What U Hear” and other ones..

TOTALLY AGRRE!! Cannot make the sound work correctly! I am a ASUS fanatic since 10 years, and this is the worst ASUS motherboard I had ever have from them! I didn’t read all the remark here, even your full article! I am just fed up of reading everything of this motherboard! I just want something that works! That’s why I put 300$+ for this piece of shit. My next computer (after 20 PC and 15 ASUS)? APPLE!

Other comment: I am on Vista64, and I need to shut down the computer because it cannot go on sleep mode, it always restart! I have a Bluetooth keyboard, need to manually remove and reinsert the bluetooth “jack” for all restart, Get this Audio malfunction all the way (no I will never buy another audio card!, why not a lan can and the printer port card on the same time? this is ridiculous). I dont understand how ASUS could deliver this shit AND WHY BO REVIEW MENTION TI??

I totally agree with the author of this thread. I had bought Asus P5B deluxe and sound sucked in Windows XP. I moved to Windows vista 1 day ago, cause I knew that Vista is now supported by software, drivers.

In windows xp the sound was glitching. In Vista sound is perfect (NO NEED TO INSTALL SOUNDMAX DRIVERS).

Anyways Asus customer support DOESN’T exist, that’s why Asus suck.

Hi all
i have p5b in my pc, and until few days all have worked ok, but now when i install windows xp on it and i install all drivers…after 2 3 days the sound fk with me…if i put some music, don’t metter with what player the sounds interrupt every 2 sec, every sound on pc interrupt,movies, music, games, even sounds from windos…and that only on windows xp…i have try to install windows vista on it, and it’s work all ok…but on vista i don’t have drivers for usb, and my internet modem have usb port:|
i try to install lastest driver for audio, same as that one from the motherboard cd.

I don’t know what to do anymore,have anybody some kind of problem with sound? can give me someone clue how can i fix this shit?
Thank you, Emanuel

I have four friends that bought the Asus P5B board within a week from each other. All four boards failed within the next 12 months. When I say failed I mean totally non-functional. Some of them developed symptoms little by little until they failed completely. It clearly indicates very poor quality control. Something very bad has happened to Asus. They used to be my favorite MB manufacturer. Not anymore. I mentioned these four boards because they are the most dramatic case, not because they are the only ones. My brother bought a P5GC-MX/1333 four month ago. Within a week of having purchased it the on-board Ethernet port failed. Because he didn’t had time to wait for a replacement he is using an ethernet PCI card now. I don’t think I’ll ever buy Asus agin.

Hi
I have hooked Pioneer vx819 av-reciver
to p5b coaxial output and have incredible sound.
No problem with sound at all!

Best motherboard i ever had.