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OC3D have created a no-hassle, no hot-flash, no cpu-swap, easy to use BIOS flashing tool for the Asus P5W DH motherboard that will flash to the latest retail Conroe compatible BIOS and get you up and running with your new processor fast and painless!
Check out the full details and download the ISO HERE.
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Sounds good for people who havent flashed their bios or received a new one from ASUS! I got a new BIOS anyway so no matter :D. Thanks nonetheless!
sweet stuff! thanks
I thought Conroe Retail did not even post?
With the latest shipping BIOS (which is nearly all, some have an earlier BIOS) it posts but does not recognize the CPU correctly and gives a few errors.Quote:
Originally Posted by ewitte
Does 0502?Quote:
Originally Posted by FragTek
I'm not personally familiar with the BIOS codes for this board mate. Let me ask the creator of the CD and see what he has to say.Quote:
Originally Posted by ewitte
Edit: Here's the response I've been given:
Might have more info for you shortly regarding your previous question.Quote:
Originally Posted by XMS @ OC3D
Sweet! I already had ordered an 0701 BIOS chip from Asus, but in the future, this should let me flash whatever BIOS I want from CD, right? I won't have a floppy in this new rebuild in my Qpack, and I don't own any USB thumbdrives ;). I could just add the BIOS to the CD and then use, correct?
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Originally Posted by ewitte
it doesn't and won't even get to a cd. Asus is nuts. It doesn't give error mesasages, it just down't post period.
so if it cant even get to vd, u will still need a dif cpu in order to flash it?
Yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gun_Strife
man thats kinda lame
im pick up the ds3 till more "conroe ready" boards come out
Why not just put the BIOS ROM's on some flash memory and use the built in EZ Flash? It works flawlessly for me...
If the cpu isn't supported then nothing works. Neither cd-rom, ez-flash nor floppy. Nothing!
The only guaranteed solution is post with another cpu (if u have one), or hot flashing (if u have one)...
Have to love this. The only unknown CPU problems I've had before just:
Athlon XP mobile - Just had to specifiy manually. It booted up at like 800Mhz.
X2 - Only saw single core until BIOS update.
I'd take either one of those problems right now.
My board shipped with 0502 BIOS, when I stuck the E6700 ES in the system didn't POST. I went to get a Pentium D thinking that I'll need it to flash the BIOS to 602 or 701. Put the Pentium D in, same problem, no POST, just the fans spinning. Took out the OCZ 2x1GB Platinum PC2-8000 XTC ram and replaced it with a slower PC2-6400 Platinum, boom, system POSTs.
Took out the Pentium D, stuck the Conroe back - again, no POST. Reset the CMOS jumper, BIOS screen came up followed by the Chassis Intruded - System Halted error. Reset the chassis intrusion jumper and presto - Conroe boots fine with the Platinum 64000. Replaced the the 6400 with the 8000 - again nothing. RMA'd the RAM and another 8000 seems to work albeit with some weird quirks now and then.
What I am trying to say is for those who are building their Conroe systems with the P5W DH boards and don't get POST right away, it may not be that the board won't support the CPU at all, try different RAM and resetting jumpers first. And like JoeBar said, EZ Flash is probably the easiest way to update BIOS, I use it with a USB data key and it works like a charm every time (I've flashed it at least half a dozen times trying different versions) but the mobo has to support the CPU to begin with.
THIS DOES NOT WORK AS DESCRIBED!!! IT FLASHES YOUR BOARD WITH 0078 BIOS and renders the retail conroe useless. Not only that it would not flash a 502/retail conroe AT ALL. I tried to boot to it and was going to flash 701 to 901. WRONG! :stick: After 2 hours of taking the conroe out reflashing with a celeron and putting the retail conroe back in with the 901 bios, I found out the hard way. Please don't post links to this kind of untested crap!. :nono: Thanks, but NO THANKS> I AM PISSED!!!!!!!! :mad:
Well it was tested on two new P5W DH's in house and it worked just fine. So take a :banana::banana::banana::banana:in' chill pill and sit the :banana::banana::banana::banana: down.Quote:
Originally Posted by xgman
true that bring back small hickups not a big one like not postingQuote:
Originally Posted by ewitte
and frag u dont have to use such nasty bananas
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Originally Posted by FragTek
FU A hole!!! :stick:
(sorry mods, but this guy cost me hours of time wasted and he is just simply wrong)
As others have said this will only work on boards that already POST in some fashion. If the board won't POST it'll never get to the stage where it would read from a CD, or anything else for that matter.
I laugh at your wasted hours! :woot: But this is confirmed working on two brand new P5W DH's and retail E6600's compliments of SpecialTech in the UK.Quote:
Originally Posted by xgman
Wait so... they have the retail E6600?! But their website shows "Not in stock" :stick:Quote:
Originally Posted by FragTek
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if it works.. its great :D
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Originally Posted by FragTek
Lol
OC3D and SpecialTech are PARTNERS. We get the goods before the public :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Beenom
We (Overclock3D) have not got any Conroe's at the moment but this has been tested and is confirmed as 100% working on Asus motherboards that SUPPORT CONROE out of the box. Asus say that the revision that I actually own myself (bought from SCAN.co.uk on the 24th July) will POST and bring up a CPU error code.
You should then be able to use the CD to flash the board to the BIOS on it.
Motherboard that will not POST at all will not work. That's pretty damn obvious imo
Dont think we have seen any one report one starting with an error code so far.
Next you are going to tell us it will not work if the you do the vmod incorrectly and the MB catches fire when you hit the power button. :shocked:Quote:
Originally Posted by kempez815
rofl yeQuote:
Originally Posted by ewitte
We are not being held responsible for people burning their houses down due to VMODS ;):fact: :wierd: