Quote Originally Posted by synergy View Post
I understand from what I've heard from someone who
said they did it is that you CAN boot a Q6600 G0 with
BIOS 0202 or 0311. You MAY see some kind of
"ucode error" message somewhere, but evidentally
that does NOT prevent you from using the BIOS'
built in flash utility to reflash to a newer BIOS that
does support the Q6600 G0 -- which would be 0404 at
least.

That's what I'll be attempting in about 3-4 days since
my motherboard is likely 0202 BIOS and I have no
other compatible CPU to use to reflash the motherboard
to the newer version before using the G0.

I think ASUS MAY still have options enabled that
overclock / overvolt the CPU by default even on
"AUTO" configuration. So if you want to be safer,
I'd quickly hop into the BIOS, head straight to the
Health/Temperature screen, make sure your voltages
and temperatures are sane, head to the
"reset all settings to BIOS defaults" and execute that,
then go to the clock/voltage control stull and disable
automatic overclocking, change any timing/voltage
you NEED to for your RAMs, exit & save all that,
go into BIOS again, reflash to 0404 or newer,
and then go through the careful process of setting
up and checking things in more detail.

Let us know how it works. I'll post an update on this
attempt when I get my CPU installed in a few days.

EDIT:
Here's the thread where I saw it confirmed what some of the options and behavior to expect are:
http://forums.anandtech.com/messagev...keyword1=ucode

I've been looking for this info EVERYWHERE.
Thank-you. I didn't want to tear apart my P5NE-sli to borrow the 3060 to flash the P5K Deluxe, unless I had to.
I'm a firm believer in K.I.S.S.
Keep It Simple Stupid!!!