Asus P5B Deluxe WiFi (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 BIOS PROBLEMS PLEASE HELP ME

[Bald-Eagle11]

I have had serious problems with this board ,

Rigg as follows ,,,,

Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail (CP-128-IN)

Asus P5B Deluxe WiFi (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-150-AS)

Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C4 TwinX (2x1GB) (MY-108-CS)

Thermaltake VC3000SWA Armour Jr SuperMidi Tower - Silver (CA-038-TT

With a 7900GTX to play it on ,,,



I have updated my Bios to the new version

http://support.asus.com/download/dow...Language=en-us Which was on the site on Friday the 11 of August ,,,,,,it has now dissapeared ???

The update states the following

0507 2006/08/11 update



Description P5B Deluxe Release BIOS version 0507
1. Support Conroe CPU ratio adjustment
2. Fix some DDR 800 frequency will show DDR 533
3. Enhance performance when using NVDIA 7950GX2 VGA card
4. Fix fail to read files from some ODDs
5. Fix "Hit 'DEL' message display" item function fail
6. Support Max FSB from 500 MHz to 650 MHz

I falshed it using EZ2 falsh utiity in the Bios and eveything seemed hunky dory .

When i rebooted it killed my graphics card ( i know this as i tested in another rigg ). Don't worry it's going back under warranty .

1.Now my question is since i cant find the Bios update anynore on the ASUS site i cant double check that flashed the right one ?

2.Also if i did flash the wrong one what would happen ?

[Shintai]

BIOS file is still there:

ftp://dlsvr01.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socket775/P5B%20Deluxe%20Wifi-AP/P5BD0507.zip

I cant see how a BIOS flash can kill your GFX card. Sounds more like your GFX card was to die anyway.

[sluzbenik]

Well, in the hopes that someone else looks at this...

After screwing around with Asus's AI NOS and overclocking (it seemed to work) I can't get the thing to overclock or go back to defaults.

I have it on manual, with 280 FSB and ram at 4/5 (I have DDR2-6400). CPUZID is reporting it running at 266x6, so somehow the multiplier got changed, despite the fact in the BIOS it says 8 and multiplier modification is set at DISABLED! However, Asus AI Suite is reporting it as 266x8 though...wtf.

Speedstep is disabled too. This is weird as heck.

Maybe I'll try 405...

[Bald-Eagle11]

BIOS file is still there:

ftp://dlsvr01.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socket775/P5B%20Deluxe%20Wifi-AP/P5BD0507.zip

I cant see how a BIOS flash can kill your GFX card. Sounds more like your GFX card was to die anyway.


Was the above bios ready a Asus P5B Deluxe WiFi (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 or a PB5


Help ??????????

[Shintai]

P5B Deluxe Wifi as the link says

[FusionZ06]

After I flashed my P5B Deluxe with 0507 it hung upon reboot and then stated OC failure press f1 for setup and f2 to load system defaults. For some reason after the 0507 flash it pushed my FSB to 400 with a 9x multiplier or 3.6ghz...no wonder it wasn't booting.

The main thing to do with these boards is to constantly check for bios updates. All of these conroe boards are very new and are still being tweaked. I'd check every few days for updates from Asus.

[sluzbenik]

This issue bugs me...I think clearing the CMOS would fix it, but resetting to defaults didn't. Something is clearly not reading right...

--edit

oh, I'm a dumb#($*. If you enable any power saving options in Windows, Core 2 Duos start downclocking the second they are idle, even if Speedstep is not enabled. Still, not sure why my overclock wouldn't hold. Switched back to 405 bios for now.