Sushihunter

Cool GTX
Turning off hardware acceleration in your browser settings might help with the crashing when videos are played
 
I'd also suggest that you set your RAM's voltage manually in the BIOS, if set to auto - it could be adding to your instability woes
 
Mixing RAM sticks from two different companies is Never a good Idea.
 
IDE cables can be another point of failure.  I've had some that worked - most of the time - cause big stability issues, even reboots

1- My video card does not have the option to turn off hardware acceleration.
 
2- Haven't tried this yet. Did play around with CPU voltage a while back - only increased CPU temperatures, didn't help stability.
 
     What voltage would you suggest?
 
3- I only have the 2 sticks of G.Skill RAM installed at the moment. The OCZ RAM was put into the "Bridge Computer" - each one has 4 GBs. Also, RAM has been thoroughly tested with MemTest86.
 

   Dec 19, 2007, 4:34 AM
 
    I've had exactly the same intermittent boot problems with my Vanilla P5K since buying it a month ago. Coupled with a Q6600 G0 stepping, it has been nothing but trouble... I have given up on it and bought a Gigabyte P35-DS3P - haven't had a single issue since. The ASUS P5K in combo with a Q6600 is a complete lemon imo.

Base BIOS was 0404; started having boot issues straight out of the box, no OC, no tweaking, default BIOS settings - took at least 10 reboots to POST. I have tried every possible Voltage setting, DRAM timing, voltage tweak, all peripherals disconnected, single RAM stick, no HDDs, diff Vid card, PSU, cleared CMOS ....updated, reupdated BIOS ... Dutifully upgrading to BIOS 0604, then 0703, then 0801, then 0803, then 0805, has made absloutely no difference. Once 'upgraded' to the 080X BIOSes, no utility was able to downgrade my BIOS. Even with the DOS asus update tool booted off a FDD with MSDOS-6.22; the BIOS from the ASUS CD and the original bin file I saved with the EZ Utility in BIOS , even the DOS util returned a msg " Incompatible with your motherboard " -- I gave up at this point. Going up the BIOS 'upgrade chain' the problem seemed to get worse, requiring more reboots  each time. This has nothing to do with ambient temperature or cold joints, as leaving the board powered in 'limbo' for up to 1/2 hour has no effect in helping it boot faster. I have tried every BIOS in order that was published on the ASUS ftp site for the P5K, and the latest 0805's answer to this issue is to enable Intel SpeedStep by stealth and C1E and TM2 support  by DEFAULT - toggling them in BIOS has NO effect, as a reboot will reset those two CPU feature settings to ENABLED automatically and regardless of whether it has been toggled to DISABLED in the BIOS. The effect of this is to POST at the OC speed, but then when the OS boots ...C1E and SpeedStep will reduce your OC to default again. So instead of fixing it, the solution appears to be prevent it OCing in the manner desired/specified in the BIOS. Mutton dressed up as Lamb. Utter rubbish engineering and design.

I will personally never buy nor recommend any ASUS board or product to anyone. Simply rubbish compared to similar product from ABIT and GIGABYTE, even MSI and FOXCONN. If you own one of these disasters, my suggestion is to save yourself wasted hours , and throw it away.

Sajin
Glad you received your cpu. 
 
MSI & Kingston make fine products. I usually run g.skill ram myself.

Sajin
I've ran plenty of g.skill ram and have never had any issues. I'm currently running some corsair ddr4 with a cas latency of 10 at the moment.

rjohnson11

OCZ was absorbed into Toshiba a very long time ago.