Asus P5W DH Retail Conroe BIOS Flashing CD!

[FragTek]

OC3D have created a no-hassle, no hot-flash, no cpu-swap, easy to use BIOS flashing tool for the Asus P5W DH motherboard that will flash to the latest retail Conroe compatible BIOS and get you up and running with your new processor fast and painless!

Check out the full details and download the ISO HERE.

[Beenom]

Sounds good for people who havent flashed their bios or received a new one from ASUS! I got a new BIOS anyway so no matter . Thanks nonetheless!

[Direwolf]

sweet stuff! thanks

[ewitte]

I thought Conroe Retail did not even post?

[FragTek]

I thought Conroe Retail did not even post?

With the latest shipping BIOS (which is nearly all, some have an earlier BIOS) it posts but does not recognize the CPU correctly and gives a few errors.

[ewitte]

With the latest shipping BIOS (which is nearly all, some have an earlier BIOS) it posts but does not recognize the CPU correctly and gives a few errors.

Does 0502?

[FragTek]

Does 0502?

I'm not personally familiar with the BIOS codes for this board mate. Let me ask the creator of the CD and see what he has to say.

Edit: Here's the response I've been given:

hmm, not totally sure. Asus basically said to us that the two boards we've got should be able to post with the conny no problems. It will just display a CPU Error but still allow access to DOS for a flash. If i can get hold of kemp he can give the exact message they sent us.

Might have more info for you shortly regarding your previous question.

[GoldenTiger]

Sweet! I already had ordered an 0701 BIOS chip from Asus, but in the future, this should let me flash whatever BIOS I want from CD, right? I won't have a floppy in this new rebuild in my Qpack, and I don't own any USB thumbdrives . I could just add the BIOS to the CD and then use, correct?

[xgman]

I thought Conroe Retail did not even post?

it doesn't and won't even get to a cd. Asus is nuts. It doesn't give error mesasages, it just down't post period.

[Gun_Strife]

so if it cant even get to vd, u will still need a dif cpu in order to flash it?

[horrorwood]

so if it cant even get to vd, u will still need a dif cpu in order to flash it?

Yes.

[Gun_Strife]

man thats kinda lame
im pick up the ds3 till more "conroe ready" boards come out

[MrGarrison]

Why not just put the BIOS ROM's on some flash memory and use the built in EZ Flash? It works flawlessly for me...

[JoeBar]

If the cpu isn't supported then nothing works. Neither cd-rom, ez-flash nor floppy. Nothing!
The only guaranteed solution is post with another cpu (if u have one), or hot flashing (if u have one)...

[ewitte]

Have to love this. The only unknown CPU problems I've had before just:

Athlon XP mobile - Just had to specifiy manually. It booted up at like 800Mhz.
X2 - Only saw single core until BIOS update.

I'd take either one of those problems right now.

[Igor01]

My board shipped with 0502 BIOS, when I stuck the E6700 ES in the system didn't POST. I went to get a Pentium D thinking that I'll need it to flash the BIOS to 602 or 701. Put the Pentium D in, same problem, no POST, just the fans spinning. Took out the OCZ 2x1GB Platinum PC2-8000 XTC ram and replaced it with a slower PC2-6400 Platinum, boom, system POSTs.

Took out the Pentium D, stuck the Conroe back - again, no POST. Reset the CMOS jumper, BIOS screen came up followed by the Chassis Intruded - System Halted error. Reset the chassis intrusion jumper and presto - Conroe boots fine with the Platinum 64000. Replaced the the 6400 with the 8000 - again nothing. RMA'd the RAM and another 8000 seems to work albeit with some weird quirks now and then.

What I am trying to say is for those who are building their Conroe systems with the P5W DH boards and don't get POST right away, it may not be that the board won't support the CPU at all, try different RAM and resetting jumpers first. And like JoeBar said, EZ Flash is probably the easiest way to update BIOS, I use it with a USB data key and it works like a charm every time (I've flashed it at least half a dozen times trying different versions) but the mobo has to support the CPU to begin with.

[xgman]

THIS DOES NOT WORK AS DESCRIBED!!! IT FLASHES YOUR BOARD WITH 0078 BIOS and renders the retail conroe useless. Not only that it would not flash a 502/retail conroe AT ALL. I tried to boot to it and was going to flash 701 to 901. WRONG! After 2 hours of taking the conroe out reflashing with a celeron and putting the retail conroe back in with the 901 bios, I found out the hard way. Please don't post links to this kind of untested crap!. Thanks, but NO THANKS> I AM PISSED!!!!!!!!

[FragTek]

THIS DOES NOT WORK AS DESCRIBED!!! IT FLASHES YOUR BOARD WITH 0078 BIOS and renders the retail conroe useless. Not only that it would not flash a 502/retail conroe AT ALL. I tried to boot to it and was going to flash 701 to 901. WRONG! After 2 hours of taking the conroe out reflashing with a celeron and putting the retail conroe back in with the 901 bios, I found out the hard way. Please don't post links to this kind of untested crap!. Thanks, but NO THANKS> I AM PISSED!!!!!!!!

Well it was tested on two new P5W DH's in house and it worked just fine. So take a in' chill pill and sit the down.

[Gun_Strife]

Have to love this. The only unknown CPU problems I've had before just:

Athlon XP mobile - Just had to specifiy manually. It booted up at like 800Mhz.
X2 - Only saw single core until BIOS update.

I'd take either one of those problems right now.

true that bring back small hickups not a big one like not posting

and frag u dont have to use such nasty bananas

[xgman]

Well it was tested on two new P5W DH's in house and it worked just fine. So take a in' chill pill and sit the down.

FU A hole!!!

(sorry mods, but this guy cost me hours of time wasted and he is just simply wrong)

[Durzel]

As others have said this will only work on boards that already POST in some fashion. If the board won't POST it'll never get to the stage where it would read from a CD, or anything else for that matter.

[FragTek]

FU A hole!!!

(sorry mods, but this guy cost me hours of time wasted and he is just simply wrong)

I laugh at your wasted hours! But this is confirmed working on two brand new P5W DH's and retail E6600's compliments of SpecialTech in the UK.

[Beenom]

I laugh at your wasted hours! But this is confirmed working on two brand new P5W DH's and retail E6600's compliments of SpecialTech in the UK.

Wait so... they have the retail E6600?! But their website shows "Not in stock"

[Waus-mod]

if it works.. its great

[RAGING DRAGON]

Well it was tested on two new P5W DH's in house and it worked just fine. So take a in' chill pill and sit the down.

Lol