ASUS P5K Deluxe - Intel P35 Bearlake + E6600 B1 / Q6600 B3

**CERO** · 10-09-2007, 09:18 AM

Originally Posted by RLM

Not sure that is the case.

After reading this and also reports of the P5K deluxe killing ram, I needed to check for myself.

I don't know how accurate my readings are, but with a mm my readings are.

Bios Set | Real Bios | Real OS
2.25 | 2.23 | 2.23
2.1 | 2.1 | 2.1

Obviously not all P5K deluxes are going to be the same, but these readings are somewhat re-assuring. For me anyway

RLM

heh RLM yea it was on a P5K3 Deluxe tho, but I thought it might reflect to the P5K Deluxe, but I could be wrong

as u stated they are pretty much the same as real, hmz about P5K Deluxe killing ram? I dunno about it at least not noticed, I just hope mine ballistix would last me some time. Before upgrading to DDR3, if this rumor is true:X

**genec57** · 10-09-2007, 10:45 AM

I noticed that Asus have removed the 0501 and 0503 beta bios from their web site leaving only the 0403. I don't know what, if anything, this means to us. has anyone tried and tested the new 0601?

**Dazog** · 10-09-2007, 01:08 PM

I would assume that 0601 will be final and the bios will be placed on there site tomorrow, as usual.

**san~man** · 10-09-2007, 01:31 PM

My Gigabyte mobo took a dump, so I RMA'd it and ordered one of these instead.

As far as Ram compatibility, the Asus site didn't have any specs. Will my Ballistic PC8500 ram be fine?

**GueD'S** · 10-09-2007, 01:35 PM

Originally Posted by san~man

My Gigabyte mobo took a dump, so I RMA'd it and ordered one of these instead.

As far as Ram compatibility, the Asus site didn't have any specs. Will my Ballistic PC8500 ram be fine?

Yeap, look at my sig

About 601 Bios, its a final or beta?

**san~man** · 10-09-2007, 01:37 PM

Originally Posted by GueD'S

Yeap, look at my sig

Thank you. Cool avatar

BTW, no SATA issues with the deluxe that the premium version has, correct? I searched through about 100 threads and didn't see any problems (the premium it seems is "hit or miss" with SATA drives).

**CERO** · 10-09-2007, 01:46 PM

Ballistix runs superb here got mine 1167mhz @ 5-5-4-9 @ 2.05v , got one of those newer d9 batches

**RLM** · 10-09-2007, 03:30 PM

First mug to try 0601. No new bells and whistles. Not sure of anything different to 0503.

We'll see.

RLM

**safan80** · 10-09-2007, 05:26 PM

0505 works great for me.

**Supershanks** · 10-10-2007, 12:52 AM

Great thanks will give it a whirl.

**jVIDIA** · 10-12-2007, 01:42 AM

Can someone please show me where is the vmem reading point in the P5K-E/Deluxe ?

**GMX** · 10-12-2007, 06:32 AM

Originally Posted by jVIDIA

Can someone please show me where is the vmem reading point in the P5K-E/Deluxe ?

I don't remember. But here is my explanation, I just poke around, it's one of the easiest to find

**jVIDIA** · 10-12-2007, 06:48 AM

I'm looking alot and didn't find any pic here yet

**GMX** · 10-12-2007, 06:59 AM

Originally Posted by jVIDIA

I'm looking alot and didn't find any pic here yet

I mean poke with your DMM on the board.

Don't worry, hope this helps:

StimulatedBoy · 10-12-2007, 01:36 PM

Originally Posted by RLM

First mug to try 0601. No new bells and whistles. Not sure of anything different to 0503.

We'll see.

RLM

After upgrading from BIOS 404 to 601 last night, I have run into a couple of "Bad BIOS checksum. Starting BIOS recovery". Kind of getting nervous and will revert to 503 or 404 unless someone advices me not to...

**jVIDIA** · 10-12-2007, 03:35 PM

All beta are very buggy.

In my P5K-E the 0802 gave me -0.1v in the vcore readings @ windows.

Back to 0503.

**GMX** · 10-12-2007, 05:39 PM

I went from 311 to 601 and I got much better stability at high ram clocks (around 1200+)

**msgclb** · 10-12-2007, 06:39 PM

Originally Posted by Rob Halford

After upgrading from BIOS 404 to 601 last night, I have run into a couple of "Bad BIOS checksum. Starting BIOS recovery". Kind of getting nervous and will revert to 503 or 404 unless someone advices me not to...

You didn't say whether you could reboot but every time that I flashed my BIOS and got the "Bad BIOS checksum" I cleared the CMOS RAM and flashed the new BIOS again using the BIOS EZ Flash 2 Utility. I haven't decided whether I'm going to upgrade to 0601.

**jcniest5** · 10-12-2007, 09:19 PM

Originally Posted by msgclb

You didn't say whether you could reboot but every time that I flashed my BIOS and got the "Bad BIOS checksum" I cleared the CMOS RAM and flashed the new BIOS again using the BIOS EZ Flash 2 Utility. I haven't decided whether I'm going to upgrade to 0601.

I always jump on the latest BIOS without any problem. I'm now using 0601 without any issue.

**Supershanks** · 10-13-2007, 12:15 AM

Thanks GMX will get my multi out later

, also for the heads up on 0601
think thta's the 1st time i've seen anyone say that a bios improves on 0311 stability, I've been trying them all & eventually gone back to 0311.

cheers:

**The Asgard** · 10-13-2007, 07:34 AM

Using 601 with no problems. Doesnt seem any different to 503 tbh. I'm sure its fixed/enhanced something ,lol.

**Chri$ch** · 10-13-2007, 10:54 AM

hey guys, is there a bios option on P5K-E / Deluxe to use Crossfire?

i tried it with 2 2900Pro but windows found only one card!

**jVIDIA** · 10-15-2007, 03:03 AM

Originally Posted by GMX

I mean poke with your DMM on the board.

Don't worry, hope this helps:

I did the VDDR2 in that vdimm reading point, and the reading gave me the exact value set in bios !

Is it "normal" ?

Is there any P5K-E exclusive thread ?

**sobol** · 10-15-2007, 11:02 AM

The new bios 6.01 is out, download link:
http://dlsvr02.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/...eluxe/0601.zip

The only change I've noticed is that there is different naming used for SATA modes:
AHCI is now called Enhanced ( and is enabled by default ).
Also when I was selecting AHCI in previous bios versions I've always ended up with BSOD and Vista wouldn't load, while Enhanced is working just fine.

**xgman** · 10-15-2007, 11:18 AM

601 is fine here, but so were all the others.

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