Archive for December, 2006

Asus P5B Deluxe Drivers

Posted by The Patri0t 7 December, 2006 (91) Comment

Last Updated: February 07, 2007

Going to Asus, then to Downloads area, then going through the lenghty process in order to get your Motherboard’s drivers and well, something seems to be wrong with the Asus guys because LATEST driver appears on their FTP but it’s no where shown on the P5B Deluxe motherboard website. Here I present direct download links to most of the drivers, taken off Asus’s FTP. How? Using COMMON Sense. So enjoy downloading and do I need to say do all at your own risk because I am providing you ASUS links and some directly from INTEL. Keep the comments coming please…

(1) SoundMax Analog Devices AD1988B – Audio Driver:

Operating System: Windows XP/2000

Operating System: Windows XP 64 bit

Operating System: Windows 2003

Operating System: Windows 2003 64 bit

Operating System: Windows Vista 32 bit/64 bit

Operating System: Linux

(2) Intel Chipset Inf Updates – Chipset Driver including Intel 965 Express Chipset:

Operating System: All versions of Windows except Windows 98 SE and Windows ME

(3) Intel Matrix Storage Manager – RAID/AHCI Driver and Software:

Operating System: Windows 2000 / Windows XP / Windows 2003 / Windows XP 64 bit / Windows 2003 64bit

(4) JMicron JMB363 RAID Controller Driver :

Note:- DO NOT INSTALL THIS IF YOU ARE NOT USING THE JMICRON’S SATA CONTROLLER AS RAID OR YOUR IDE DEVICES, WHICH ARE ALSO PROVIDED BY THE SAME CHIPSET IN P5B DELUXE WILL NOT WORK PROPERLY. YOU DO NOT NEED TO WORRY ABOUT INSTALLATION OF IDE DRIVER EITHER. WINDOWS DEFAULT DRIVER WORKS BEST. PLEASE REMEMBER THAT THERE ARE KNOWN ISSUES WITH THE SAID DRIVER INCLUDING PERFORMANCE SLOWDOWN, BURNING SOFTWARES NOT WORKING PROPERLY WITH THE IDE DEVICES. YOU WILL ALSO BE NOT ABLE TO USE THE BURNING FILES – COPY/PASTE WAY OF BURNING FILES USING WINDOWS.

Operating System: Windows 2000 / Windows XP / Windows 2003 / Windows XP 64 bit / Windows 2003 64bit

Operating System: Windows Vista 32 bit/64 bit

(5) ACPI Driver :

Operating System: Windows 2000 / Windows XP / Windows 2003 / Windows XP 64 bit / Windows 2003 64bit / Windows Vista 32bit – 64bit

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Asus P5B Deluxe Features

Posted by The Patri0t 5 December, 2006 (0) Comment

Just thought I should write this too, to tell what this sw33t thing holds. Too bad Asus is not providing correct Audio driver.

CPU Support:
LGA775-based Celeron, Pentium 4/D, Core 2 DUO processors, Core 2 Extreme and the Quadcores too!
North bridge:
Intel P965
South bridge:
Intel ICH8R
Interconnect:
DMI (2GB/s)
Expansion slots:
2 PCI Express x16
1 PCI Express x1
3 32-bit/33MHz
Memory:
4 240-pin DIMM sockets
Maximum of 8 GB of DDR2-533/667/800 SDRAM
Storage I/O:
Floppy disk
1 channel ATA/133 via JMicron JMB363
6 channels Serial ATA with RAID 0, 1, 10, 5 support
2 channels Serial ATA with RAID 0, 1 support via JMicron JMB363
Audio:
8-channel HD audio via ICH8R and Analog Devices AD1988B codec
Ports:
1 PS/2 keyboard
1 PS/2 mouse
1 serial
4 USB 2.0 with headers for 4 more
1 1394a Firewire via Texas Instruments TSB43AB22A with header for 1 more
1 eSATA via JMicron JMB363
1 RJ45 10/100/1000 via Marvell 88E8001
1 RJ45 10/100/1000 via Marvell 88E8056

1 analog front out
1 analog bass/center out
1 analog rear out
1 analog surround out
1 analog line in
1 analog mic in
1 TOS-Link digital S/PDIF output
1 coaxial digital S/PDIF output
BIOS:
AMI
Bus speeds:
FSB: 100-650MHz in 1MHz increments
DRAM: 533,667,800,889,1067MHz
PCI-E: 90-150MHz in 1MHz increments
Bus multipliers:
CPU: 6x-10x (with Core 2 Duo E6700)
Voltages:
CPU: auto, 1.225-1.7 in 0.025V increments
DDR: auto, 1.8-2.45V in 0.05V increments
FSB termination: auto, 1.2-1.45V in 0.05V increments
North bridge: auto, 1.25-1.55V in 0.1V increments
South bridge: auto, 1.5-1.8V in 0.1V increments
ICH: auto, 1.057,1.215V
Monitoring:
Voltage, fan status, and temperature monitoring
Fan speed control:
CPU, system

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Windows XP vs Windows Vista – Performance

Posted by The Patri0t 3 December, 2006 (3) Comment

I have been looking forward to read “Windows XP vs Windows Vista” articles. Here is the first one I found. It is not in English so being translated through Bablefish’s online translation service.

Windows XP vs Windows Vista – Performance Review

I was particularly interested in the RAM usage after installation of Windows Vista and also the number of services running, right after install and without any addition of the user. Seems like:

Windows XP runs with 24 active processes taking up 223 MB of RAM and Windows Vista runs with 41 active processes taking up 436 MB of RAM. If I am doing my Maths right, hopefully I am wrong. Where 512 MB RAM was suggested for Windows XP, 1 GB suggestion is not enough for Vista.

223/512 * 100 = 43.55 % – Memory usage in Windows XP
436/1024 * 100 = 42.57 % – Memory usage in Windows Vista

This has made me think again what to get. 1 GB or 2 GB? Since in my case, 512 MB suggested for Windows XP was and is not enough with me. I don’t want same thing happening with Vista for me. The price difference between 1 GB and 2 GB memory kits is 70$ minimum.

There are two Performance features in Windows Vista, which if tackles the above problem and works efficiently. 1 GB will be more than enough… I am talking about,

    Windows ReadyDrive

From WinSuperSite Vista Review:

The hybrid hard drives combine a standard hard disk with large amounts (1 GB or more) of non-volatile flash memory. This memory acts a cache of sorts, providing a number of benefits. First, the system will boot up and resume from various sleep states much more quickly, allowing users to get back to work more quickly. Because the hard drive, with all its moving parts, spins up much less frequently, you’ll experience better overall performance and better overall battery life.

Windows ReadyDrive, the hardware used for it, I have read will be available in first months of 2007 perhaps and that too mostly for Laptops. So I don’t see it helping the users soon either. Depends on the price too? and I wonder what use it will serve for desktop users with 2GB of RAM except speeding up the start-up and shut down times.

    Windows ReadyBoost

From WinSuperSite Vista Review:

ReadyBoost uses spare space on USB-based storage devices like memory keys to increase the performance of your computer. It does this by caching information to the USB device, which is typically much faster than writing to the hard drive. Information cached to the device is encrypted so it can’t be read on other systems.

There are a number of caveats. Your USB device must meet certain speed characteristics or Vista will not allow it to be used in this fashion. Space that is set aside on a USB device for ReadyBoost cannot be used for other purposes, unless you reformat the device or remove it from service with the PC. And you cannot use one USB device to speed up more than one PC.

ReadyBoost seems to have the most impact on systems with less than 1 GB of RAM, which makes sense, and it clearly will benefit notebooks more than desktops, since it’s often difficult or impossible to increase the RAM in a portable machine. Microsoft recommends configuring ReadyBoost with one to three times the amount of RAM you have installed in your system. So if you have 512 MB of RAM, you should try to dedicate between 512 MB and 1.5 GB of space for ReadyBoost on a USB device.

So “the most impact” on systems with less than 1 GB of RAM? This seemed the cheapest option, incase it will have an impact even on a system with 512 MB of RAM, since the USB Data Travelers/USB Memory Sticks are very cheap. That said, you would want to get 1 GB or 2 GB of RAM for Windows Vista? I wonder if it’s possible for memory makers to have 768 MB + 768 MB = 1536 MB memory kits. The price difference then between 1 GB and 1.5 GB will end up being 30-40 $ perhaps? I am no Business degree holder. *sigh*

This had to come when I decided to go for 1 GB. :\

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Just before . . .

Posted by The Patri0t 2 December, 2006 (2) Comment

I always wonder, what a person feels just before their last breath is removed by the Angel of Death, what that person thinks at that very moment… Don’t laugh but I heard this in a game called, “Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30″, the main character of this game, an American World War II Hero, says something like, “My father used to tell me, you can know how a person lived his life when you see his face; his face expressions and his eyes just at the moment when he realizes it’s all over.” May be it’s true.

Came across a very effective video. Might be VERY DISTURBING for some but fine and sad for others, including me. There is a little poem played in background and the video shows a footage LIVE of a once Football match, in it you see a player, he’s smiling but his time came, he tries to catch his breath, bends a little but falls on ground, other players came running to him, he breaths hard and slow then everything is over… You see his fellow team Players amazed and some even cry… Want to hear the poem?

From those around, I hear a cry, An awful soft, a hopeless sigh
I hear their footsteps leaving slow…and then I know my soul must fly
A chilly wind begins to blow within my soul from head to toe,
And then the last breath escapes my lips, its time to leave and die like all…
So its true but its too late
They said each soul has its given date
When it must leave its body’s core
And meet with its eternal fate
Oh! Mark the words that I do say Who knows tomorrow could be your day
At last it comes to heaven or hell decide which now do not delay
Come on my brothers let us pray, decide which now do not delay
“Oh God! Oh God!” I cannot see, my eyes are blind, am I still me?
Or has my soul been led astray and forced to pay a priceless fee?
Alas to dust, we all return, and shall rejoice while others burn
If only I knew that before, the line grew short and came my turn
And now as beneath the soil, they lay me with my record flawed
They cry not knowing that I cry worse for they go home I face my GOD…
Oh! Mark the words that I do say Who knows tomorrow could be your day
At last it comes to heaven or hell decide which now do not delay
Come on my brothers let us pray, decide which now do not delay

I do have the video but due to it’s size I cannot upload it. I will see if I find it online on You Tube.

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