Official ASUS X38 Boards: P5E, P5E3 - Info/BIOS Thread

[scottath]

Anyone have a multimeter and a P5E running the Rampage bios [or any for that matter]?
Just wondering if the extra fan headers are working so i can solder on pins to them for extra mounts.....

[Th0r]

Hi,
i have tested my P5E (WS Pro.) today successfully at 480MHz FSB with a Q6600 without any problems. I will update to a Q9550/9650. Is there a chance that this board will also reach FSB480 with a 45mn CPU ? Or will this x38 Board generally not reach this FSB with 45mn CPUs ?

[Cranox]

flashed my p5e to the 403 rampage bios today and upon restart it is dead, no post at all , nothing , fans run but monitor is blank (no signal) , has any one got a solution to overcome this problem?, i have cleared cmos, removed battery , stripped the board bare, still nothing. any help would be much appreciated. cheers

Strange i did it also ( a time ago ) and everything was fine , its sound stupid but remove cpu and install it again , u never know.

Anyone have a multimeter and a P5E running the Rampage bios [or any for that matter]?
Just wondering if the extra fan headers are working so i can solder on pins to them for extra mounts.....

Nothing on the cha_fan 3 and opt_fan 3 here

Hi,
i have tested my P5E (WS Pro.) today successfully at 480MHz FSB with a Q6600 without any problems. I will update to a Q9550/9650. Is there a chance that this board will also reach FSB480 with a 45mn CPU ? Or will this x38 Board generally not reach this FSB with 45mn CPUs ?

I dunno wat the record is but 480 is not so unreachable , but its not only the board its also the cpu , my old qx9650 dit max 425 my new can do 445 but its a QX so i dont need more fsb , i just take a higher MP

[scottath]

Nothing on the cha_fan 3 and opt_fan 3 here

You using the right 2 pins of the 3?
What about the other?
Thanks for trying them for me

[Cranox]

opt_fan 1 also nothing , i measured every combo ( 2 right , 2 left and one left and one right )

[DINGO]

@ Cranox

this is my second p5e, the first one was flashed to this same bios and all was good, i was playing with the PCI-E freq and it black screened the same as this,
so i RA'd it, only had this for a week or so and it has the same symptoms. i did remove the cpu and start again but still no post

[DINGO]

ok, now im lost for words,stripped the mobo bare again for the 3rd time, left it for bout an hour with no battery, put it back together and
wot do you know, its goin fine , everything running and reading as it should , absolutly baffled , thanks for your input Cranox

[scottath]

opt_fan 1 also nothing , i measured every combo ( 2 right , 2 left and one left and one right )

I wonder why they don't work - since the board si the same as the maximus etc.....

[DINGO]

i also have no readings for any of the optioal points

[scottath]

Anyone know how to enable them?

[Cranox]

ok, now im lost for words,stripped the mobo bare again for the 3rd time, left it for bout an hour with no battery, put it back together and
wot do you know, its goin fine , everything running and reading as it should , absolutly baffled , thanks for your input Cranox

Glad i could help

Anyone know how to enable them?

Maybe the traces are cut somewhere

[pmp]

ASUS P5E64 WS Professional BIOS build 0901
ASUS P5E3 WS Professional BIOS build 0803
ASUS P5E3 Deluxe BIOS build 1401

[JohnZS]

Hi
Hope it is not too rude to ask but is anyone willing to link to a P5E3 standard (non-Deluxe) BIOS newer than the latest 1002 BIOS?
I am having a few issues relating to erratic 3mark06 scores apparently it is due to PCIE-Bandwidth problems, I was also wondering if ASUS managed to tweak the 45nm support a bit more to.
Thanks
John

[Xelation]

Guys the combo of a P5E with a 9800X2.

What was it again that you had to change in the bios in order for the card
to work/peform better?

Thanks,
Xel!

[fatguy1992]

Hi, I have a P5E and this is the best overclock i'v got. I haven't found max FSB yet.







I'd go higher but my temps were getting high plus I needed a lot more volts to boot with even a 1 FSB increase.

[JohnZS]

Hi guys

I have a P5E3 vanilla, standard non-Deluxe or Premium. Does anyone get random freezing?

System is OCCT stable, Memtest Stable, and Windows Vista memory diagnostics stable...3dmark Vantage Stable, etc

QX9650 @ Qx9770 1.225V Vcore.
4GB OC 1600Mhz Platinum EB edition CL7 RAM (2x2GB)
G92 GTS 512MB
X-Fi
Vista x64 with SP1
Enermax 720W PSU

I cannot put my finger on what is causing the problem, CPU has been RMA'd, Graphics card has been RMA'd and the RAM was changed from 4x1GB to 2x2GB

Freezing/Hard Locking is entirely at random, sometimes even when system is idle.

Thanks

John

[WeldZilla]

Nice clocks fatguy. Glad to see you are getting along with your P5E. Thanks for posting up enough cpuz pics to see you are using bios 702. Too Bad you can't squeeze more from your memory. It would probable put you into the high11.xxx range on pi. Still you got some serious good clocks there!!

WZ

[Cooper]

Guys

can anyone recommend me please a software fan speed controller for P5E which works under Vista x64 and does not require hard reboot to apply changes?

[fatguy1992]

Nice clocks fatguy. Glad to see you are getting along with your P5E. Thanks for posting up enough cpuz pics to see you are using bios 702. Too Bad you can't squeeze more from your memory. It would probable put you into the high11.xxx range on pi. Still you got some serious good clocks there!!

WZ

I could get more out of my RAM, I didn't know it made a difference back then. I probally could have run 4-4-4-12. I might try it again some time .

[sauria]

The only thing I have found to be gimped around this board is it's owners!!!!!!!!

Damn this miserable board!!

WZ

What BIOS are you running and doing so well?

[WeldZilla]

I really like bios 601 and here of late I have been using 702. I actually scored my fastest pi time with 607 but for some odd reason that bios just did not feel right overall.
When I was running my Q6600 I really liked 502. Although as you can see from fatguy's post 702 is working well with the Q6600. I have tried as many mem sticks as I have different bios setups and I always
go back to my G.skill 6400 HZ (I have 10 Sticks of that). So there are a few different bios' that work well with this board!!

WZ

[sauria]

Thanks Weldzilla, I just popped in an e8400 (Q807) to go with my new G.Skill RAM --G.skill 6400 HZ (mine has a green PCB though). Not sure it's a good as your older stuff -- black PCB?

It's better than the PC 8000 2 x 2G that I had -- right now I'm at 1129 MHz 5-5-5-15 2.0 VDIMM in BIOS

[mu||et]

NEW BIOS P5E 0903

ftp://dlsvr02.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socket775/P5E/

[Brahmzy]

NEW BIOS P5E 0903

ftp://dlsvr02.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socket775/P5E/

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[lowtcell]

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I had no trouble seeing it. Just downloaded. Back soon