ASUS AMD Beta BIOS Releases

[CrimInalA]

5 people first posting on 1 page in this thread . wow .
Beta bioses ARE popular

[HeliosNorlund]

5 people first posting on 1 page in this thread . wow .
Beta bioses ARE popular

high interest in beta bios is a bad sign because it shows that the actual release bios have some throubles and people hungry for fix

but i can understand that whole X6 CPU for "old" AM2+ mainboards did give a lot of work to the mainboard bios teams at asus

but when i pay like 150 euro more for a high end mainboard i also expect high end support and that include failure free bios with maximun adjustable settings

people who dont touch settings buy a 100 euro mainboard instead of a 250 euro high end one

and not to be able disable thuban turbo in bios is just a big lack customizeable mainboards

it would be so great if u could just define own volt+multiplyer settings for each P state together with setting CPU load change P state up and down

as long as mainboards not able provide a customable cool&quit and turbo they need to have at least the option disable cool&quit and turbo so we can use the existing software tools that allow us dynamic set this values as a OS service

if i would be a asus manager i would just hire the developer of that tool http://phenommsrtweake.sourceforge.net/ and make it a free to use for everyone tool but a great advertise for asus

like MSI did with afterburner on the GPU side (which is in the end just a easy to use rivatuner with a better look)

[Praz]

i have also a m3n-ht deluxe and all i want from a new bios is the ability to disable thuban turbo funktion

but when i pay like 150 euro more for a high end mainboard i also expect high end support and that include failure free bios with maximun adjustable settings

These things take time. Already posted the issue of BIOS updates with boards like yours.

M3N Series - We will have another beta shortly with a few core code changes but the board just is not going to clock as well as the 890FX boards, there is only so much you can do with a chipset designed before Thuban was a twinkle in somebody's eye.

[cartago2202]

Update - C4F BIOS passed first qualification today. If the second set of user beta testing goes well tomorrow then we should have it posted late this week.

Friday

[Leeghoofd]

it says we should have it posted, it doesn't say it will be posted... be patient all

[Madise]

We have been patient for 3 months already tho... All we hear is "...late this week or ...next week or ...week after and ...after"

[Leeghoofd]

Patience is a virtue... not all bugs can be replicated in their HQ and it's not like it's a zillion of bios engineers working on it either... some fixes screw up another thing and then they have to start all over again... would love to pass you a few review (read pre retail) samples see what you can figure out in a matter of hours/days... patience, patience... at least they are working on it...

[Praz]

We have been patient for 3 months already tho... All we hear is "...late this week or ...next week or ...week after and ...after"

This BIOS has to be right when released. Once flashed there is no going backwards by reflashing. So any issues, even if the board is unusable, is where most users would have to stay until another BIOS release. Wonder how much patience there would be if that was to happen.

[CrimInalA]

This BIOS has to be right when released. Once flashed there is no going backwards by reflashing. So any issues, even if the board is unusable, is where most users would have to stay until another BIOS release. Wonder how much patience there would be if that was to happen.

exactly what i was thinking .
this one needs to be spot on

[birdiex]

Crosshair IV F BIOS 1005 is out but no idea about changes

[CrimInalA]

it's only out until bingo13 informs us that it's out

[birdiex]

It's out in ASUS ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/so...ir_IV_Formula/ and in my USB so I guess it is .

[nex_73]

^^It's not containing the latest AGESA (Compared it to the M4A89GTD Pro USB3 - BIOS 1605 from first post)
Also: BIOS Date: 08/06/10
Will skip this one and hope bingo13 will post a newer one later on today

[Fire4Wire]

Bios 1005 Crosshair_IV_Formula


ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/asus/mb/so...-ASUS-1005.zip


[ 1005 ]
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Improve system stability

[birdiex]

Yup, nothing 'new' until next BIOS version

[Cyberlink_20]

I am starting to get impatient bring out a new beta or something for the M3NHT Deluxe mobo. I may have to just order a gigabyte mobo now! my patience is running dry.

[CrimInalA]

I am starting to get impatient bring out a new beta or something for the M3NHT Deluxe mobo. I may have to just order a gigabyte mobo now! my patience is running dry.

It's probably going to be for next week . Or if not , at the end of the week after

[pcnazz]

Bios 1005 Crosshair_IV_Formula


ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/asus/mb/so...-ASUS-1005.zip


[ 1005 ]
----------------------
Improve system stability

Thank you .

[Cyberlink_20]

Hey CrimInalA thanks for the updated news, now I will hold off on buying a new board I will keep it. I can wait two weeks for an updated bios. I would just like to get my new 1055T working stably thats all mabey overclock it a little as well.

[CrimInalA]

I was just kidding mate , i dont know anything about asus bios releases .
The only one who knows is bingo13 .

the bioses posted above are old .. don't know why asus is putting those on their ftp .

[birdiex]

BIOS 1005 is from this month, if you count later testing & QA it's not old at all, don't expect a BIOS dated 27/08/2010, if you don't like 1005 you can always wait for the next unless you need more stability overclocking. BIOS is now mirrored on ASUS download sites so you can even use ASUS Update (I do it from the BIOS personally).

[Dolk]

BIOS 1605 for M4A89GTD-PRO.

Bugs:

USB Sound Cards cause BSODS.

[Daveburt714]

Has anyone flashed 1005 for the C4F yet?

I'm going to later on tonight as long as I don't hear any horror stories...

BTW: I'm with you birdiex, I can't imagine there are 2 versions of 1005 and that this is not the one bingo has been talking about.

[birdiex]

I have installed it, since there are so many settings I didn't notice anything new but I tried Level Up and it worked just fine with a X4 965

[zoomee]

hmm - not had much luck with this 1605 BIOS with my 1090T / M4a89GTD-PRo UB3 / 4 x Corsair CMX4GX3M2A1600C9

Used to use these settings for 24/7 Prime95 blend stability:
Using DCOP for standard mem specs
1600Mhz 9-9-9-24 - 2T @ 1.65v (Had to manually set tRC to 41 as per mem specs)
200x20= 4Ghz - CPU Volts 1.46v (set to 1.428 in BIOS with load line calibration takes it upto 1.46v when needed)
200Mhz FSB - 2200 CPU-NB (because of 4 sticks of ram) @ 1.2v
CPULoad line Calibration enabled
CPUNB Load line Calibration enabled

All with a Corsair H50-1 - get about 34Degrees C idling, 45 - 48 Degrees C gaming (BFBC2) and 62Degrees C when fully whacked with Prime 95 blend for solid 24hour stability test

Tried for 2400 on CPU-NB with 1605 with more vcore and more cpu-nb volts to no avail so went back to what I deemed stable (as per above) - however this is now not stable either!!!

Heres hoping on a newer BIOS as we can't downgrade - teaches me for being impatient and trying a BETA bios I guess lol