ASUS P5B Deluxe 0711 BIOS Cold Boot solved

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10-04-2006, 06:04 PM
NO1B4ME

With this bios i am now able to stay at 3.2gig on my e6400. Before Orthos would die instantly. It now dies after 1 hour.

The cold boot issue is solved for me 2 : )...
10-04-2006, 06:37 PM
ssabripo

WTF mate?@@@ :mad:

so now my PC reboots even in 614!!! ARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH

the only thing different is that I installed BlackIce firewall, and Symantec Antivirus....I unistalled BlackIce now, and I will try...if that happens again, I will uninstall Symantec...and if it happens again, then I'm clueless!!!

geezus, this is frustratign! :mad: :(
10-04-2006, 06:50 PM
Mr.Bones

Guys how are your games running?......All my games a running real slow for some odd reason:mad: Never had this problem before:nono: Chugga Chugga
And BTW black screen seems have been fixed?
10-04-2006, 07:01 PM
ssabripo

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr.Bones

Guys how are your games running?......All my games a running real slow for some odd reason:mad: Never had this problem before:nono: Chugga Chugga
And BTW black screen seems have been fixed?

well...before this piece of crapola started rebooting on me, the first time I ran 711, I ran 3dmarks05, and I went down from 9662 to 9212, with everything being the same.:confused:

I went back to 614, and the rebooting continued, so I am trying to figure wtf is going on.....running memtest86 right now as we speak (on 711...reflashed to see what is going on)

EDIT: I re-flashed 711 and removed BlackIce...kept symantec. Ran memtest86 and passed. Ran 3Dmark05, got a 9645 (instead of 9662 as before...but close enough), and no reboot....I dont know if I should run Prime95 or somthing just to be sure.
Still, SuperPi is behaving a little worst now:
614: 18.25
711: 18.45
10-05-2006, 12:20 AM
Bail_w

Quote:

Originally Posted by ssabripo

well...before this piece of crapola started rebooting on me, the first time I ran 711, I ran 3dmarks05, and I went down from 9662 to 9212, with everything being the same.:confused:

I went back to 614, and the rebooting continued, so I am trying to figure wtf is going on.....running memtest86 right now as we speak (on 711...reflashed to see what is going on)

check your PCI Express Link Width x1 or x16? cuz mine shown as x1 after flash to the 0711 bios

http://s2.supload.com/thumbs/default/x1.JPG
*this is what happend after i flash to the newst bios. X16 -> X1
10-05-2006, 12:55 AM
sierra_bound

Memory testing with 0711 bios and Corsair 6400C3.

4:5

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/5497/32m41845rq6.jpg

DDR2-1200 @ 4-4-3

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/3913/600it1.jpg
10-05-2006, 01:02 AM
Rol-Co

nice :) 600 for corsair......2.45v i suppose?

do you think 0711 is a better bios as the 0614 ?
10-05-2006, 01:04 AM
sierra_bound

Yes, 2.45v:)

I think 0614 is better for high FSB. But 0711 is worth trying because there are no more cold boots.
10-05-2006, 04:46 AM
ssabripo

Quote:

Originally Posted by sierra_bound

Yes, 2.45v:)

I think 0614 is better for high FSB. But 0711 is worth trying because there are no more cold boots.

agreed!

I ran the following tests:

SuperPi @ 1M:
614: 18.25
711: 18.45

3Dmark05:
614: 9662
711: 9625

Not huge differences but definitely not as good IMO....I'm gonna keep 711 for now just because of the cold boot, but I hope this is not a trend for the BIOS updates on this board: better stability for less performance.
10-05-2006, 05:07 AM
heikis

anybody had a successful flash with asusupdate? i really dont bother messing with my old fdd
10-05-2006, 05:17 AM
ssabripo

Quote:

Originally Posted by heikis

anybody had a successful flash with asusupdate? i really dont bother messing with my old fdd

I did it....and I didn't do any of the load defaults stuff etc the last time I did it, and it worked fine.

just goto asus update, select update from file or update from internet, flash it, and it will reboot....it may hang in the 1st reboot, so simply do a cold boot, and you are good to go.
10-05-2006, 05:19 AM
heikis

Quote:

Originally Posted by ssabripo

I did it....and I didn't do any of the load defaults stuff etc the last time I did it, and it worked fine.

just goto asus update, select update from file or update from internet, flash it, and it will reboot....it may hang in the 1st reboot, so simply do a cold boot, and you are good to go.

and you got rid of the coldboot problem, right?
ive done tens of flashes for this board with asusupdate. just someone mentioned that using asusupdate may not fix the coldboot problem
10-05-2006, 05:21 AM
bing

Don't you guys know how to read a thread "properly" ?
10-05-2006, 05:25 AM
ssabripo

Quote:

Originally Posted by heikis

and you got rid of the coldboot problem, right?
ive done tens of flashes for this board with asusupdate. just someone mentioned that using asusupdate may not fix the coldboot problem

the 1st reboot it hung up....but after that, no more cold boots
10-05-2006, 05:42 AM
-n7-

This = great news :woot:
10-05-2006, 05:44 AM
Avman

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bail_w

check your PCI Express Link Width x1 or x16? cuz mine shown as x1 after flash to the 0711 bios

http://s2.supload.com/thumbs/default/x1.JPG
*this is what happend after i flash to the newst bios. X16 -> X1

Mine did the same thing - I fixed it by going back to 0614 and then re-upping to 711 using e-zflash accessed through the bios (not alt-F2). I also went straight to my OC settings immediately after the update - no cmos clearing or step by step stuff.

Now running fine (Spi 1m is maybe .010s faster) and the PCie link is back to x16.
10-05-2006, 11:00 AM
Jonny Manc

Yay for no coldboot!!
10-05-2006, 11:00 AM
JoeBar

This is a magical day! :)
After 4 asus m/b's (P5WDG2-WS, P5WD2-E, P5WDH and P5B-Deluxe) i can finally restart properly my pc! I don't care about performance or oc'ing diffs. I'm not reverting to any warm restart problematic bios and most likely not to a problematic m/b... :p:
10-05-2006, 01:01 PM
Mr.Bones

Quote:

Originally Posted by Avman

Mine did the same thing - I fixed it by going back to 0614 and then re-upping to 711 using e-zflash accessed through the bios (not alt-F2). I also went straight to my OC settings immediately after the update - no cmos clearing or step by step stuff.

Now running fine (Spi 1m is maybe .010s faster) and the PCie link is back to x16.

Confirmed......Works now x16:woot:
10-05-2006, 03:55 PM
Mark099

Quote:

Originally Posted by Avman

Mine did the same thing - I fixed it by going back to 0614 and then re-upping to 711 using e-zflash accessed through the bios (not alt-F2). I also went straight to my OC settings immediately after the update - no cmos clearing or step by step stuff.

Now running fine (Spi 1m is maybe .010s faster) and the PCie link is back to x16.

Yes, but what happens when you reboot a few times?
10-05-2006, 04:07 PM
Mr.Bones

Yikes right back to x1:slapass:
10-05-2006, 06:10 PM
Mark099

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr.Bones

Yikes right back to x1:slapass:

Same thing happened to me. I reflashed 0711 using EZ flash and have rebooted several times with the FSB at 407Mhz. The key might be NOT to load defaults after the flash and load them before.

Anyway, at least we know the cause and Asus can now work on fixing it.
10-05-2006, 06:55 PM
techm

I had lots of issues with 0711:

1. CPU reported at .40 Ghz ftw?
2. Random crashes - even memtest.

Finaly I gave up on it - back to 0614, stable and happy. I'd rather live with cold boots.
10-05-2006, 08:51 PM
earthman

Quote:

Originally Posted by techm

I had lots of issues with 0711:

1. CPU reported at .40 Ghz ftw?
2. Random crashes - even memtest.

Finaly I gave up on it - back to 0614, stable and happy. I'd rather live with cold boots.

I had the same problem as described in point 1. As some have pointed out that you need to clear CMOS after you have flash the BIOS. That solved my problem.
10-05-2006, 09:37 PM
techm

Quote:

Originally Posted by earthman

I had the same problem as described in point 1. As some have pointed out that you need to clear CMOS after you have flash the BIOS. That solved my problem.

First thing I did was reset the CMOS. The only way I could get it stable was all at auto. Anyway - I'll wait some more - looks like others are having problems too - off the bat this doesn't seem like a good BIOS upgrade (at least in my case).

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