***OFFICIAL Asus P5K-E/WiFi Thread

[AriciU]

A friend of mine just got his E8500 and an Asus P5K-e. He was worried about the board not booting up with the default bios but it works fine apparently. Bios 0703.



I may try to go back to 0602/0603 but i'm a bit worried i'll keep staring at a black screen afterwards

[AriciU]

Ok. I had him do some Prime to see what multi he gets and it's 9x only. So you still need latest bios to see the multi correctly.

[trt740]

put two different E8400 ,different batch number, in the same motherboard with the same cpu cooler and got 15 degree idle temps difference and one core on the second chip was reading ten degrees higher than the first core. I have been reading about this problem I think that core temps errors when readig certain batches of wolfdales. The first chip matches or very closely matched probe at idle and the second chip was 25 degrees higher on one core with core temps, than with Asus probe. Anyone else seeing these problems with core temps. I do have the newest version aswell.

[vocch]

I may try to go back to 0602/0603 but i'm a bit worried i'll keep staring at a black screen afterwards

I know what you mean....looking @ one right know .....EZ Flash + Asus bios are a POS! ...flashed bios more times than i can remeber with numerous other makes ....done one on this board worked ok....then tried to update to 1002 looked like it went fine....checked file, erased bios, writing bios, then boot block Done!...your computer will restart in 5 seconds....WHAT A JOKE!..tried everything to get it going....now RMA time.

So be WARNED!

[AriciU]

I know what you mean....looking @ one right know .....EZ Flash + Asus bios are a POS! ...flashed bios more times than i can remeber with numerous other makes ....done one on this board worked ok....then tried to update to 1002 looked like it went fine....checked file, erased bios, writing bios, then boot block Done!...your computer will restart in 5 seconds....WHAT A JOKE!..tried everything to get it going....now RMA time.

So be WARNED!

Ouch I though about it yesterday and there's no point in doing it really. 1002 seems like a good bios. I hope they'll fix the EIST problem in the next release... i hate EIST.

BTW: i recommend using Asus Update from windoze next time man. I used it countless time and has never failed me once. EZ Flash didn't even work for me when i tryed it so i guess i may call that lucky seeing your troubles.