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asus P5N-E SLI is begining to drive me mad with vista !!!
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20. March 2008 @ 12:48 |
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Well foaks straight away dont get me rong its a lovely mobo but geez when i try and install vista on to it just wont it install? i have probably serched all of google for awnsers lol but hardly nothing.
I have Updated my bois to see if that would do anything,, i created it on one full partion instead of having two but that didnt work? i even tryed upgrading it from windows xp its self but no again it didnt work. what happens is that when installing vista it begins to and when it gets around the 60% mark it just freezes and does nothing, this is at the compleating installation part. Now it is probably due to the fact i have copys of vista instead of the real thing, should i go and buy one and see if this is the case? if not what next? well i hope some one out there with the same mobo knows what im talking about lol
many thanks paul
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20. March 2008 @ 12:56 |
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Yeah, the P5N is full of problems. Almost everyone that I know on the forums that have one have sent theirs back and gone with the Striker Formula or the 780i board from EVGA.
I dont know if I can really help out... What happens when you try to install Vista, what errors do you see?
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Now it is probably due to the fact i have copys of vista instead of the real thing, should i go and buy one and see if this is the case?
You know you should never really pirate a OS - the most important piece of software your computer has... I would go buy a real copy - although I am not 100% sure it will fix the problem.
Do you have any other computers that you can try installing Vista on to see if you get the same results?
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20. March 2008 @ 13:01 |
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You can't install Vista on the P5N-E SLI, it's not compatible. I tried!
You really ought to replace the board, the P5N-E SLI is a REALLY crappy board. I went with a Gigabyte P35C-DS3R.
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20. March 2008 @ 13:01 |
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Yeah i am no :( thing is i just splashed out aload of cash on a new system.. and couldnt a ford it :(
But actually getting back to the pirate copy.. it actually works on my lil laptop fine.. is this something asus nos about real windows copys and fakes? by the way it runs on xp like a charm. i only wanted to get vista beacuse of direct x 10.. becasue i have the 9600 gt :D hehe
what i could do is give it a couple of weeks and try again? with a geniune copy?
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20. March 2008 @ 13:04 |
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oh my god realli :O well there was me going to buy a geniune copy of vista lol haha but i think i will though. ah poo that hasnt made my day atall :(
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20. March 2008 @ 13:08 |
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No, I tried, but it hanfs on the "installing devices" section - turns out something on the board isn't compatible with vista, though nobody can tell me what. My P5N-E board failed prematurely, but it had performed so poorly up to that point, rather than getting it replaced, I just bought a better board instead.
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20. March 2008 @ 13:18 |
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hmm well that sucks.. lol :( dont get me rong its running xp like a charm. Your motherabord doesnt suport sli ? right? i need that because i be getting and other 9600 gt this summer but now i found out my board is shit LOL i will have to have a good look around.. does anyone know whats a good motherboard out there then? coz i thought this board was.. obviously not
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20. March 2008 @ 13:26 |
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Well the Striker II Formula is fantastic! Although it runs on a slightly older chipset (780i), it still is a great board.
What is your budget? You could get one of the 780i/790i boards from EVGA - they're great too.
Gigabyte boards a pretty reliable as well - you can ask sam that, he has one.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 20. March 2008 @ 13:27
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20. March 2008 @ 13:26 |
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20. March 2008 @ 13:31 |
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Yeah im a bit of a nvida fan im afraid lol hehe.. um yes that board looks good.. and is cheep, is it avaliable in the uk atall? or just in the states?
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20. March 2008 @ 13:45 |
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21. March 2008 @ 13:05 |
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well im going to get that board next.. such a shame though you would of thought a top name like asus wouldnt have problems like this. today i thought i give it one more go, i got an old machine and istalled vista on it (ide) too it out put it in this one and well again it loaded up and then a blue screen a restarted. so it dont buy this board if you want vista :(
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21. March 2008 @ 13:13 |
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Computer: Intel Core i7-920 Nehalim;Asus P6T Deluxe V2
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21. March 2008 @ 13:23 |
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oh ha i deleated it anyway.. was old information, sorry about that, haven't been on for a while.. thanks though :D
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24. March 2008 @ 16:30 |
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I'd edit that to say:
"Don't buy this board" - it's not good for XP either.
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24. March 2008 @ 17:23 |
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Really i find that its running xp wonderful?
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24. March 2008 @ 17:24 |
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Mine did to start with, and then it all went pear-shaped.
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24. March 2008 @ 17:39 |
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What started to happen?
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24. March 2008 @ 17:47 |
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randomly not POSTing, and then the keyboard/mouse input was completely messed up (big delays in input) and then it stopped POSTing altogether for a day. When it did start working again, I'd had enough.
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31. March 2008 @ 21:07 |
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oh dear ive done a stupid thing lol.. i bought another asus board and guess what this one was WORSE. It was the P5N-T DELUXE hmm more like hell then deluxe i tell ya!!
Well got it instaled everyfing as usal cpu, ram etc installed vista and i was really enjoying it untill 3 4 mins it started to freeze and it kept on doing it. So i went searching on some other forums and it turned out that bored was just as bad, very unstable and i can see why and what a waste of money!!! Ive hurd very good reports about asus but im begining to wonder, there website is not very good either. Now im on a tight budget becuase ive wasted my money on these useless boards.
I have heard some good reports about the EVGA 780i, asus users said that they swaped there boards for this one and it ran like a charm well what do you people think? I like the striker 2 but its 2 expenisve for me and well its asus lol and there not in my good books at the moment lol
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31. March 2008 @ 21:54 |
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Why did you get another P5N board? You should have gone with a Striker II or something - or even a 790i. Yeah the 790i boards are nice...
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1. April 2008 @ 05:52 |
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1. April 2008 @ 07:33 |
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well waymon i did it because a friend told me lol, and i thought i would of been much better obviously not :( the only reason i want nforce is becasue of sli, but is it really necessary? like for example i have one 9600 gt card and that was playin crysis realy well. are intel chip sets alot more beter then nvida, is because intel have been on scene much longer?
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1. April 2008 @ 07:37 |
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no, it's because nvidia focus on as much PCI express bandwidth as possible with their chipsets, and as low assembly costs as possible, they're very poorly made compared to Intel chipsets, which typically cost more but don't fall to pieces. All the 650i boards seem to have issues, and the 680i/780i ones don't seem immune to problems either. You don't hear of many issues with Intel chipsets. I just recommend Gigabyte/Intel boards over Asus/Intel ones because Gigabyte actually have tech support...
You really don't need to focus on SLI that much, I know lots of people who bought an SLI board and put one nvidia card in it, intending to add another later. Not a single one of them did.
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1. April 2008 @ 07:50 |
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ah okay then.. well just to cleart things up i am a gamer and well i love my games LOL
At the moment i have:
q6600
500 gb sata harddrive
9600 gt card
2 gbs of ram
i heard a rumor that the intel quad processors were clonflicting with nvida chipsets is this true also, because i do have one and that could be another case why the p5n-t was so rubbish?
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