ASUS P5K Deluxe - Intel P35 Bearlake + E6600 B1 / Q6600 B3

[synergy]

Well 0501 beta bios for p5k deluxe sucks!

* It locks up during BIOS POST when you boot with various USB peripherals
attached e.g motherboard -> USB hub -> bunch of USB peripherals including
downstream hubs, keyboard, mouse, etc.

* It doesn't properly indicate memory it reserves and maps for
things like ACPI and peripherals is reserved so the OS can't use it,
so you get errors and ACPI failures and errors form LINUX saying
there is a BIOS bug that doesn't reserve the e840 region or
something to that effect.

* It obviously is screwing up ACPI because LINUX says the BIOS
isn't reporting power management capabilities for the Q6600 even
thouch ACPI, APM, SpeedStep, C1E, et.al. are all enabled in the BIOS.

etc etc.

How freaking hard is it to make a BIOS that works these days when you've
had what 20 years to practice getting it right over several dozens
of similar BIOS versions for similar chipsets?

I just checked the asus support page for a bios update for my gf's computer. The beta 1302 was from 2006/06/19, the 1303 final is from 2007/07/13. This is for the A8n-sli premium board by the way. It's an old one, but still
Asus initially releases a lots of different bios, enhancing and optimizing performance. But when the mainstream settles for a good bios, even the beta won't go final. At least that's what I'm thinking. They have too many boards released recently..I guess they focus their resources where the money is...

[safan80]

Well 0501 beta bios for p5k deluxe sucks!

* It locks up during BIOS POST when you boot with various USB peripherals
attached e.g motherboard -> USB hub -> bunch of USB peripherals including
downstream hubs, keyboard, mouse, etc.

It obviously is screwing up ACPI because LINUX says the BIOS
isn't reporting power management capabilities for the Q6600 even
thouch ACPI, APM, SpeedStep, C1E, et.al. are all enabled in the BIOS.

no usb problems here I have two hubs, 2 mice, keyboard, usb drink cooler, SD/CF card reader, and an ipod. as for your ACPI troubles enable ACPI 2.0 in the power section of the bios. I get no such errors with several Linux install CDs. I don't have speedstep or C1e enabled. you might need to get a newer kernel and compile your kernel because it sounds to me like your running an old kernel.

[chessman]

QX6700 @ 3977 MHz @ P5K Deluxe
no 4.0 GHz so far !

[xgman]

Well 0501 beta bios for p5k deluxe sucks!

* It locks up during BIOS POST when you boot with various USB peripherals
attached e.g motherboard -> USB hub -> bunch of USB peripherals including
downstream hubs, keyboard, mouse, etc.

* It doesn't properly indicate memory it reserves and maps for
things like ACPI and peripherals is reserved so the OS can't use it,
so you get errors and ACPI failures and errors form LINUX saying
there is a BIOS bug that doesn't reserve the e840 region or
something to that effect.

* It obviously is screwing up ACPI because LINUX says the BIOS
isn't reporting power management capabilities for the Q6600 even
thouch ACPI, APM, SpeedStep, C1E, et.al. are all enabled in the BIOS.

etc etc.

How freaking hard is it to make a BIOS that works these days when you've
had what 20 years to practice getting it right over several dozens
of similar BIOS versions for similar chipsets?

I had some of these sort of usb issues with earlier P5K dlx bioses. I don't think it has much to do with the bios version at all actually.

[sofarfrome]

Well 0501 beta bios for p5k deluxe sucks!

I have it on 2 boards with usb devices connected and no problems so far.