ASUS P5B Deluxe 0711 BIOS Cold Boot solved

[Cappie]

Its more of an educated guess, windows comes with firewalls, virusscanners, memory clogups, whatever, pure DOS is allways better, some users here already pointed that out. I'll have my friend do an update to 0711 from DOS and if he stops having the cold bug issue then there's some truth to it cuz he already tried flashing from asus windows update and he's still got the cold boot bug. Will report back when he has flashed with AFUDOS.

[bachus_anonym]

0711 fixes the problem, period. PC will still ocassionally shutdown when coming out of BIOS, e.g. often after changing CAS latency or at certain FSB speeds. But it is way, and I mean way, less frequent compared to previous BIOSes, when system would always shutdown, regardless If you even changed anything in BIOS or not. Plus, with the new BIOS, I have yet to see machine to shutdown when restarting from Windows (which was always the case before). Also, system will still do the "double-start" or "double-spin" (or whatever you want to call it) when starting up cold (e.g. after normal shutdown and then turning off your PSU). That's no biggie at all, as power to HDDs is not being cut-off.

AFUDOS will flash whole area, including NVRAM and DMI. In some cases it's better than Asus Update or EZ Flash (btw, I flashed 0711 using EZ Flash and had no problems after clearing CMOS). For instance, for those that have problems with PC Probe II install (saying mobo does not support it), look in CPU-Z Mainboard tab and check if mobo information is there. After one BIOS flash before I had this happen that this info was missing (blank) and I could not instal either PC Probe II nor AiSuite. No flash helped until AFUDOS was used. After that, all went back to normal. Just something to keep in mind...

[kman540]

Within the 0711 Bios, Is there an option to enable the Serial ATA BootRom for a raid configuration like it says on page 5-30 of ythe manual or am I missing the obvious?

[Pjoeloe]

yes bachus_anonym, it`s nice that the cold boot problem is almost gone, but what I realy want to know is, what solved this problem in the bios?

I mean, why is asus not aplying this to all the bios updates ? I`ve bought a second sound card, so I must get a 2 pci based board

only option is asus and my local dealer only has the DH version but this board has the shutdowns on starting ( and restarting ) HDD power downs with scary clicking and I think it`s time to solve this thing

[bachus_anonym]

yes bachus_anonym, it`s nice that the cold boot problem is almost gone, but what I realy want to know is, what solved this problem in the bios?

I have no idea what they did but latest BIOSes for P5B non-Deluxe and P5B-E (both i965) also have this "feature" removed (at least according to changelogs).

[Rattle]

I still get cold boot with new bios and I had lots of problems with FSB, back to 614 for me.

[Devious]

For people having problems flashing bios or are afraid to use the EZflash or Winflash follow below tips to do a simple clean DOS flash. And this without the need of having a Floppy drive,

Follow this link,

http://www.boodaa.de/index.php?optio...d=22&Itemid=31

and make sure you also have .NET framework 2.0(http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...isplayLang=en). Then just download the 0.6 final,

http://www.boodaa.de/download/BootDi...ick%20v0.6.exe

and download this tool,

http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vm...d21-050404.zip

then just follow the onscreen tutorial,

http://www.boodaa.de/download/Videos...o-Tutorial.wmv

and make sure your USB-stick is connected to your PC, it sure works like a charm. You'll have a USB bootable dosstick in under 3 min with help of these little tools.

Enjoy!!!

Followed that tutorial and got my pen drive to be bootable, the problem is it only has the 1.44mb capacity so cant also hold the afudos and bios rom.

[Mark099]

I still get cold boot with new bios and I had lots of problems with FSB, back to 614 for me.

Flash 0711 twice, then clear the CMOS. I think you'll be fine. I have been using 0711 since it has come out and haven't had any stability issues.

[Cappie]

Followed that tutorial and got my pen drive to be bootable, the problem is it only has the 1.44mb capacity so cant also hold the afudos and bios rom.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=118576

Check for my updated tutorial and that should fix your problem, just burn biosfiles to cd and off ya go. Remember to read the stuff in RED.

[ken]

Followed that tutorial and got my pen drive to be bootable, the problem is it only has the 1.44mb capacity so cant also hold the afudos and bios rom.

how come? afudos and the bios rom fit nicely on my bootable floopy disk

[Mark099]

how come? afudos and the bios rom fit nicely on my bootable floopy disk

Not the more recent Asus BIOS files. They will fit on a blank disk, but not one with boot files on it (unless you have managed to compress them).

[ken]

Not the more recent Asus BIOS files. They will fit on a blank disk, but not one with boot files on it (unless you have managed to compress them).

huh? Ive just flashed my mobo with the 0711 :S depends on how you make the bootable disk I guess I use DrDOS, everything incl the afudos + bios rom + files take 1.16MB

[scoobysix]

Going from 0614 to 0711, my E6600 running at 3ghz on the exact same BIOS settings, what used to be 13 hours Orthos stable now reports an error after 9 hours.

The only other difference I can think of is going from a 7900GT to a 7950GX2.

I also noticed that the CPU fan now seems to spin 100rpm slower.

[Devious]

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=118576

Check for my updated tutorial and that should fix your problem, just burn biosfiles to cd and off ya go. Remember to read the stuff in RED.

Tried it but it fails to load the correct ASPI for my cd rom, ive even tried all of them manually.


EDIT* I seem to have fluked this.

I used the original bootdisk2bootstick tutorial and just erased all the non hidden system files. So Autoexec.bat, command.com etc are still on there. WIth only these files i have room for afudos and my bios rom

The flash drive boots but gives and error and leaves you at the A: prompt. I flashed using afudos / ip5bd0711.rom /pbnc /n and it went fine. I cleared cmos afterwards.

Unfortunatly it still doesnt install Probe2 or Ai suite though

[Pjoeloe]

I have no idea what they did but latest BIOSes for P5B non-Deluxe and P5B-E (both i965) also have this "feature" removed (at least according to changelogs).

ok, so no extra option of the world famous tRD / read delay and Row refresh cycle / Trc in the bios ? Because these things fix the cold boot...

[Cappie]

Tried it but it fails to load the correct ASPI for my cd rom, ive even tried all of them manually.

I used the original bootdisk2bootstick tutorial and just erased all the non hidden system files. So Autoexec.bat, command.com etc are still on there. WIth only these files i have room for afudos and my bios rom

The flash drive boots but gives and error and leaves you at the A: prompt. I flashed using afudos / ip5bd0711.rom /pbnc /n and it went fine. I cleared cmos afterwards.

strange that it should give you an error, it works perfect on my comp, I just used my image, flashed it on and done. Maybe you have a strange dvd/cd player, mine is just a nec.