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A new BIOS has just been mailed to a "ForumFriend" from http://www.forumdeluxx.de. BIOS number 1503 - i thinmk its beta, but it has been tested by at least 10 Useres including me. The Rebootbug has been fixed!:woot:
LINK: http://pinky.rolpein.de/P5WDH1503.zip
2nd Link: http://taskforce.no-ip.info/pics/ASU...P5W-DH1503.zip
iLL
love to try but the fact that i cant understand a word from the site u gave gives me strength to wait for others :D
I didn't try the BIOS, but i can say you that you can trust this forum.
It's the best German Forum.
(behind Awardfabrik:D )
thx. from what i read in p5w dh thread i guess the site can be trusted..
gonna flash it soon :D
i just flashed it. I had the RebootBug @Fsb333 but now i boot @Fsb340 without the Bug. thats what i can say. Even if u dont understand a word in that Forum u still can load&flash i hope^^ If u dont know the Rebootbug, then u dont OC and so u dont need to flash.
iLL
ahaha of coz i know what is Rebootbug. I just prefer to know sthing in detail, before take any action, esp when it comes to beta bios.. ;)
alright about time.
this bios is worth a try! so far i manage to gain extra 12fsb (from 413 to 425) with my E6400 :D hopefully can pass orthos at more than 430x8 which is my highest orthos stable on biostar 965p dlx & gigabyte ds3 rev c2
nice, tRFC in the bios yet??
oo I like this bios, it got me back to stable @ 356fsb Manual Timings (after flashing I think 1403 and later my stability went)
no tRFC though :(
That's great news. I hope they pass the fix to the whole 975X line...
I tried up to 410Mhz and the power down has dissapeared . Will try for more when my new E6700 arrives and try it on my SS .
Finally i don't have to worry about my raid arrays . :)
Finally, Asus managed to get one Step forward with the BIOS - i didnt notice any news since the 1101BIOS except for the RatioChangeOption. All Voltages@Auto i'm booting with 340FSB - BIOS1407 did not boot at 335
iLL
This is good news, Thank You Asus
definitely going to try tomorrow, thx!
Uh, what's the rebootbug? When are they gonna fix the shutdown on Windows restart problem?
Good News :) I think i'll give it a shot ;)
Thats what WE call rebootbug :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Brahmzy
iLL
SWEET.
Shall try it as soon as i get home, maybe i can get 430mhz stable!!!
Any new options in the BIOS, or just fixes and maybe a little more mhz without spd?
Someone to check memset subtimings before and after flashing to 1503 at same FSB/Divider ??? Also performance changes in let's say 32M ?
I'm very happy with this bios. the reboot fix is working great. I also bumped my OC to 4.02 and it's humming along just fine. (I was running 3.6 before) I'm going to run orthos for a while to verify my OC. I've got some good droop going on, but its running great to 1.57v as reported in PCProbeII.
turns out it didn't lol :slap:Quote:
Originally Posted by lawrywild
finally... !Quote:
Originally Posted by NO1B4ME
is it worth upgrading from 1101 NO1B4ME ?
you and I still use this one ..;)
Friggin' awesome ASUS! No more dang cold reboots.
works great for me, thx asus!
now just fix that darn kentfield bug with cores 1&2 overclocking and cores 3&4 not
Yeah I am running a little less Vcore with this one......Quote:
Originally Posted by Mykou
Try it and let me know how you do.
You have the Golden chip:toast: .
It is not working for me, my board dont recognize this BIOS! I have first rev of MoBo, maybe is that BIOS for newest revisions?
EDIT: It working NOW, i ad to flash it from Windows ...
GERAT news is, thats work, no hard restarts after reset!
Brilliant, now i can overclock again.
Well done Asus.
you mean less vcore with 1503 ?Quote:
Originally Posted by NO1B4ME
( 1101 let me already use less volts than others I 've tried till now and stable )
I'll take a look .
edit:seems you got hands on a nice chip too .. ;)
Question regarding flashing....
If you have OC'd your system, do you have to bring all settings to stock before flashing to new BIOS? Or can you flash to new BIOS even with OC'd settings?
Thanks.
It's possible, but not advisable. This is because if your computer crashes during a flash, then your motherboard will probably be royally buggered. Flashing while at stock greatly minimises the chances of a crash happening.Quote:
Originally Posted by mickey79
So it's up to you, but i'd say it's good practice to always go back to stock speeds before flashing, since you can never be 100% sure your overclock is rock stable.
oki :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by NO1B4ME
so after running orthos large ffts 3 hours what I can say with 1503 ..
- needed less vcore 1.47v bios vs 1.48v ( bios 1101) to be stable at same 3.7ghz and same settings bios and comparing with large ffts ran with 1101 same time .
- could increase fsb +5 mhz with P5W DH no mod ,could take 451 fsb ( 445/447 before ).... x 9 @1.57vcore :banana:
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=132533
still crappy ram although D9 g skill tss.. IMO
and think my last lapping job was not bad ....:rolleyes:
http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/1565/yesmu7.jpg
Sure I need less vcore to run stable small fft and blend . ;)
large is tougher IMO
Have to wait for my new graphic card and run some games testing .
had to replace 2 days ago my PSU with antec smartpower 500W ( Enermax 620 dead as 7900 GT too lol ) but very excellent !! ( did sli with it and former 3800 x2 ) and graphic card actually is Radeon X300 SE ( ROFL 5 fps in gothic 3 @1280 x 1024 non modded nor overclocked... :woot: )
Regards :)
coldboot issue is resolved for me aswell, the one thing I noticed is I needed to slack my ram timmings :/
1405 ram @ 850 4-4-4-8
1503 ram @ 850 4-4-4-12
does seem I can run 425 fsb at less volts now though , so comes with good and bad
mickey79 + all
While applying the 1503 bios it froze, so I had to power off. The recovery procedure kicked in and searched for a file called p5wdh.rom, which I put on a USB device. My p5wdh.rom contained the 1503 bios.
It also searches floppy and CD/DVD drives for this file too.
A very useful feature. I suspect this happened as I've been overclocking!
Geoff
My RAM settings are the same, 850MHz@8-3-3-3.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kemp3
BIOS1503 is now the official AsusFTP - not linked on the SupportSite yet
ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/so...20DH%20Deluxe/
iLL
Un-OC'd my system back to stock, flashed to BIOS 1503 without any problems. OC'd back! All is groovy!
shows up on asus download page now;
Beta Version 1503 2006/10/25 update
OS DOS
Description P5W DH Deluxe Beta BIOS 1503
Latest beta BIOS.
File Size 685.78 (KBytes)
Download from Global USA Europe China
Guys, with 1402 I can set my Corsair XMS2 6400 5-5-5-12-5. But with 1503 it wont boot. To make it boot I had to enable SPD. WHat would be the workaround please? Thanks.
Anyone here using this bios with an XtremeMusic soundcard? I'm trying to figure out if it's the cluprit of my 2D artifacting problems which occured when I installed the soundcard. Very, very odd problem.
I have an xtrememusic card without problems since first bios (it works with 1503 also) .Quote:
Originally Posted by jagt
Try to remove your drivers because x-fi has often problems when you change cards .
I have same ram as you, but i thought you had to enable spd for oc'ing??Quote:
Originally Posted by zaina
If you did not enable spd, you could not oc??
Thank goodness hard boot is gone. :D
I have same problem with 1503 but only at the 800mhz memory setting all other settings I can boot with manual timings.Quote:
Originally Posted by zaina
I think its a bios bug.
Interesting. I had an Audigy2 in there before. I think I removed the drivers properly (via add/remove programs, I tried driver cleaner as well, but that didn't seem to do anything). Is a reformat the only way to get rid of POS creative drivers? Jebus.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stelios
1 thing that did happen to me on the new bios update..
I went to use Asus Update and was getting an error bios.dll message when tring to load up the update program..
It is caused by the creative drivers/software..
So anyone tring to flash to 1503 and is having issues with Asus Updateand using a Creative Soundcard , you have to go into the registry and make a small change..
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Wow6432Node
add a letter a infront of the Wow6432Node so it looks like the aWow6432Node
That's it..
Yeh, that's the way to do it. BTW, change it back after flashing. The annoying thing is you need to rename that registry entry and restart the computer everytime you want to use asus update... so use afudos tbh..Quote:
Originally Posted by Potato Salad
When i changed my audigy2 for the x-fi , i also deleted manually all files begining with ct* and some sb* . I finally did some registry clean job .Quote:
Originally Posted by jagt
Format always is a solution but it's always better if we can repair windows without formatting.
What happens if you don't change it back??Quote:
Originally Posted by lawrywild
well something in the Creative drivers won't work probably. I don't know, I always changed it back.Quote:
Originally Posted by Potato Salad
maybe the newly released xfi-drivers can fix that Probs...
iLL
Ahhhh OWNAGE for my LS and my HDDs :D
what is the different between flashing bios using AFUDOS en AsusUpdate???
From personal experience I'd say Afudos is safer. Just make sure your floppy drive is working.