P5RD1-V PCI Express problems: System lockups.

[Ray]

Hello,

I have an ASUS P5RD1-V motherboard that I am having a bit of trouble
with. I've added a PCI-Express video card (an ASUS Extreme128 MB
N6600) to the motherboard. The PC boots up fine. Where I run into
problems is when I try to watch a DVD or play a game. After about 5
minutes Windows XP Pro will lock up completely and I have to turn the
PC off and on again. This problem does not occur when using the
onboard video. Unfortunately, the onboard video sucks for playing
games

The specs are as follows:

ASUS P5RD1-V motherboard
ASUS Extreme 128mb N6600 PCI-E video card.
Intel P4 530J 3.0 GHz processor
512MB Corsair "Value Select" RAM
Hitachi Deskstar 80GB SATA hard drive
Plextor 12x SATA DVD-RW drive

I have ran tests on the RAM and all tests pass with flying colors.
And, again, the problems only occur with the PCI-E card in the system.

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

Additionally, is anyone using this motherboard successfully with a
PCI-E video card? If so, what make and model?

I hate to have to tear down and return this motherboard. It was
fairly highly rated at newegg.com, and at one motherboard review site
I visited. I'm frustrated to say the least.

Many thanks for any replies.

 

[Paul]

Hello,

I have an ASUS P5RD1-V motherboard that I am having a bit of trouble
with. I've added a PCI-Express video card (an ASUS Extreme128 MB
N6600) to the motherboard. The PC boots up fine. Where I run into
problems is when I try to watch a DVD or play a game. After about 5
minutes Windows XP Pro will lock up completely and I have to turn the
PC off and on again. This problem does not occur when using the
onboard video. Unfortunately, the onboard video sucks for playing
games

The specs are as follows:

ASUS P5RD1-V motherboard
ASUS Extreme 128mb N6600 PCI-E video card.
Intel P4 530J 3.0 GHz processor
512MB Corsair "Value Select" RAM
Hitachi Deskstar 80GB SATA hard drive
Plextor 12x SATA DVD-RW drive

I have ran tests on the RAM and all tests pass with flying colors.
And, again, the problems only occur with the PCI-E card in the system.

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

Additionally, is anyone using this motherboard successfully with a
PCI-E video card? If so, what make and model?

I hate to have to tear down and return this motherboard. It was
fairly highly rated at newegg.com, and at one motherboard review site
I visited. I'm frustrated to say the least.

Many thanks for any replies.

Try running Prime95 "Torture test" option. Downloadable
from mersenne.org . This is a useful test of CPU and
memory, and should run for hours error free, if your
stuff is 100%. Then, if you still have hanging
problems, you are down to looking at the video card
or the storage subsystem. Playing a DVD should not be
taxing the power supply, as the CPU doesn't run at 100%,
so I won't ask any questions about the adequacy of your
power supply.

Another thing to try. Uninstall the Asus video card software
and switch to standard Nvidia drivers, right off the Nvidia
site. I see one report in Google that the Asus drivers caused
a problem.

Do you have an IDE DVDROM you could try ? Perhaps the Plextor
SATA has something to do with it. There are many possibilities
at this point...

Paul

 

[Ray]

Try running Prime95 "Torture test" option. Downloadable
from mersenne.org . This is a useful test of CPU and
memory, and should run for hours error free, if your
stuff is 100%. Then, if you still have hanging
problems, you are down to looking at the video card
or the storage subsystem. Playing a DVD should not be
taxing the power supply, as the CPU doesn't run at 100%,
so I won't ask any questions about the adequacy of your
power supply.

Another thing to try. Uninstall the Asus video card software
and switch to standard Nvidia drivers, right off the Nvidia
site. I see one report in Google that the Asus drivers caused
a problem.

Do you have an IDE DVDROM you could try ? Perhaps the Plextor
SATA has something to do with it. There are many possibilities
at this point...

Paul

Thanks for the tips, I will give them a try. I've already tried going
with the drivers straight from nVidia, and that made no difference.
In fact, I tried those first. Thinking they might be the problem, I
fell back to the drivers ASUS provided on the CD that came with the
card. Again, same problems were encountered.

I am not alone with having this problem. Several others have posted
about it on ASUS' site. Speculation is that it is a problem with the
motherboard itself or the latest BIOS release. I'm just trying for
any resolution which would make things run without crashes and negate
the necessity of returning the motherboard.

Ray