Official ASUS X38 Boards: P5E, P5E3 - Info/BIOS Thread

**Ace-a-Rue** · 10-30-2007, 07:07 AM

Originally Posted by Bigchrome

Will do.... Just Dling aquamark first.

Edit: Ok, fails in all slots with all sticks. at One core on it's own passes orthos but two toghether= instant fail. Cpu dead?

are you sure your water system is functioning properly?...how's the temps doing when you orthos?

what kind of thermal paste do you use on the cpu IHS?

if all is normal then the board would be the suspect...BUT...it is working but you are just getting a lower overclock.

**dMITIj** · 10-30-2007, 01:07 PM

Hello all on Xs.

Can any one tell me which air coolers will fit on the P5E motherboard? whitout any modding on the pre-installed coolersystem?

best regards.
dMITIj

Ps. sorry for my bad english.

**oscar3d** · 10-30-2007, 02:46 PM

Originally Posted by purecain

ok just found a bug with the p5e bios, not sure if all bios revisions will have this , i think mine is 201. anyway my pc would work fine and then the next day my overclock (i thought) became unstable and wouldnt let me into windows xp or vista.
i could here this spinning which i thought was one of my hard drives trying to access data. well i was sort of right. if you have a disc in your dvd drive the bios for some reason starts to search for info from it. constantly spinning up and obviously failing as its accessing the wrong drive.
this is a really wierd one as i have never seen this kind of problem before or had a bios ignore my settings this way. i got my ear close to the pc and realised it was the dvd drive spinning up so i took out the W.I.Conflict disc and it booted up no problems.
i've had this issue every morning if i ran my ram above 1000mhz. but with disk out the problem is gone. hope this helps anyone else having similar issues booting up in a morning.
by the way my boot time into vista is usually 15 seconds....from bios to user selection screen.

I have the same exact thing happened to me on the P5E3 deluxe. For some reason I could run my Q6000 @ 3GHz and mem @ 1333MHz. Then suddenly by rebooting the computer, it doesn't post anymore and then gives me an overclocking error. Ridiculous!!

It happens randomnly, but now that you mention the presence of a CD ROM drive, that might be the reason that triggers " this BIOS amnesia" good finding.

I'm going to try this if this ever happens again on my rig.!

**~~purecain~~** · 10-30-2007, 07:31 PM

the thing is i've tried everything to get rid of the issue but eventually the board will let you boot but only after upping vcore and nb voltages, but then of course the problem returns.
so first thing i did was lower all my voltages back to my original findings which impressed me so much when i got the board. i'm prime stable @3.6@1.38vcore real, with mem@ 1004mhz 4.4.4.12 with 2.2v. NB at 1.41v.

with this info in hand i'll be pushing my memory and experimenting with the differant nb straps.....
i'm sure this won't just be happening to me......

**dMITIj** · 10-31-2007, 03:07 AM

Originally Posted by purecain

the thing is i've tried everything to get rid of the issue but eventually the board will let you boot but only after upping vcore and nb voltages, but then of course the problem returns.
so first thing i did was lower all my voltages back to my original findings which impressed me so much when i got the board. i'm prime stable @3.6@1.38vcore real, with mem@ 1004mhz 4.4.4.12 with 2.2v. NB at 1.41v.

with this info in hand i'll be pushing my memory and experimenting with the differant nb straps.....
i'm sure this won't just be happening to me......

Can you plz take at screenshot of your BIOS settings @ 3.6ghz were it's stabel?
then ill try your settings later on to day wehn i got my P5E installede

**Infa** · 10-31-2007, 06:02 AM

Ahh got board in sign, also got problems, and i gotta test lower voltage, maybe thats the cure?? we are used to push high voltage to push it, now its diffrent...

**Chri$ch** · 10-31-2007, 11:57 AM

Bios 0303 for Asus P5E X38 is available on Asus FTP

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/so...5E/P5E0303.zip

**STaRGaZeR** · 10-31-2007, 12:56 PM

Originally Posted by Chri$ch

Bios 0303 for Asus P5E X38 is available on Asus FTP

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/so...5E/P5E0303.zip

Changelog?

**Chri$ch** · 10-31-2007, 01:08 PM

i dont know, found this bios only on FTP. cant test it (have no P5E)

**STaRGaZeR** · 10-31-2007, 01:44 PM

I´ll test it as soon as I finish my new WC setup. I will lap my E6600 too.

purecain can you give us some preliminary results?

**Bigchrome** · 11-01-2007, 03:20 AM

Originally Posted by Ace-a-Rue

are you sure your water system is functioning properly?...how's the temps doing when you orthos?

what kind of thermal paste do you use on the cpu IHS?

if all is normal then the board would be the suspect...BUT...it is working but you are just getting a lower overclock.

This I'm not positive about...I posted about it months ago in the WC section... MY temps at 3.6ghz when I first got my E6600 were 48c load MAX and now a couple months later they're at 60+ load (but idle temps are more scary...over 40c)

I tried with Artic Silver and ceramique..

I ripped apart the whole loop twice and I couldn't see anything wrong. My gpu temps are still ok so it's not pump or radiator..That would leave cpu block; so i swapped apogee for storm and got the same results.. I think either the cpu is majorly dying, or It got dented and needs to be lapped what do you think?

Thanks for helping me out on this btw!

**china** · 11-01-2007, 06:43 AM

New bios! I'll definitely test it later tonight. Maybe the LLC will finally work!

**camouflage** · 11-01-2007, 08:05 AM

Some of U asked for - here is a working download link to BIOS 0201:

http://www.xfastest.com/viewthread.p...a=page%3D3

BTW, maybe someone here can help me.....:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...&highlight=P5E

**china** · 11-01-2007, 10:50 AM

Well, the LLC still doesn't work with the new bios. Too bad, that was what I was really waiting for...

**Ace-a-Rue** · 11-01-2007, 11:55 AM

Originally Posted by Bigchrome

This I'm not positive about...I posted about it months ago in the WC section... MY temps at 3.6ghz when I first got my E6600 were 48c load MAX and now a couple months later they're at 60+ load (but idle temps are more scary...over 40c)

I tried with Artic Silver and ceramique..

I ripped apart the whole loop twice and I couldn't see anything wrong. My gpu temps are still ok so it's not pump or radiator..That would leave cpu block; so i swapped apogee for storm and got the same results.. I think either the cpu is majorly dying, or It got dented and needs to be lapped what do you think?

Thanks for helping me out on this btw!

hmmmmm...the only thing to do now is to lap the cpu and see if that helps...one thing about thermal paste, you don't want to use to much as that can cause higher temps.

**camouflage** · 11-01-2007, 03:03 PM

Maybe someone here with similar P5E problems.....:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...36#post2528236

**~~purecain~~** · 11-01-2007, 03:55 PM

Originally Posted by dMITIj

Can you plz take at screenshot of your BIOS settings @ 3.6ghz were it's stabel?
then ill try your settings later on to day wehn i got my P5E installede

gonna take the pics for you now m8......(in the morning with new bios m8)
oh just read the post about the new bios.... will flash and test tommorow but i've been building and overclocking customers rigs all day.... i'm worn out..... tommorow morning i'm free so will definatly test it out for you.....

**DualCore** · 11-01-2007, 05:27 PM

Originally Posted by purecain

gonna take the pics for you now m8......(in the morning with new bios m8)
oh just read the post about the new bios.... will flash and test tommorow but i've been building and overclocking customers rigs all day.... i'm worn out..... tommorow morning i'm free so will definatly test it out for you.....

nice, maybe this bios help to all of us ! try it 'n tell us !

**Unbornchild** · 11-01-2007, 06:44 PM

Originally Posted by smoothmove

I bought the P5E. Intel heatsink Xeon X3220, 2x 1 gb OCZ 800. I set the FSB to 400, Ram to DDR2-800 and the FSB to 1:1. Dropped the multi to 6 instead of 9.

I can't get the board to adjust the Ram voltage. The selection is fixed on AUTO and can not be changed. I am using bios 203.

Other than that, great motherboard, simple setup. Worked without any hitches.

Originally Posted by china

Just type a value for the ram voltage, hit enter and then you can adjust it with +/-. A really strange feature someone could even call a bug...

Maybe it is this? >>>

Originally Posted by Palandri

@ http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=446902
4. First time in the BIOS, I change my SATA to RAID, I set my memory timings, and I can't find where to set my RAM voltage. I discovered I had to set my Ai Overclock Tuner to manual so the RAM voltage line shows.

dunno, just caught my eye... and it seems logical to me.

I am considering this board, seems my best choice for 45nm Quad while keeping DDR2-PC8500 and better OC-potential than my P5WDH Del

**~~purecain~~** · 11-02-2007, 04:53 AM

0303 ]
----------------------
1. Support new CPUs. Please refer to our website at: http://support.asus.com.tw/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx
2. Update EIST control code
3. Enhance PCIE card compatibility
hmmm it says nothing about any fixes.... gonna try it now...

ok its given me more memory options but every single perameter seems to of changed. everything needs to be reconfigered bit by bit untill i can see whats affecting what. atm i'm still trying to get my original 3.6gig and 1003mhz mem stable. maybe then i can push the ddr2 a little more.
i'll take some photo's of my bios settings once they are prime stable....

**china** · 11-02-2007, 07:38 AM

I'm having some very interesting problems after putting in the new bios. If I start priming, my internet connection dies.

I have a wlan-adapter in a pci-slot that use to access internet through my wlan-modem. Somehow it's stability is now affected. Any ideas?-)

I'm thinking of reverting back to the 0203 bios.

**sauria** · 11-02-2007, 07:56 AM

Originally Posted by Chri$ch

got today my P5E

first test

but it need ~1.50v NB voltage (P5K-E do it with 1.25v!)

Btw VCore Droop is 0.024 - 0.032v (Voltage damper enabled!), P5K-E only 0.008v

Great, what are you using for a CPU cooler? I want to air cool one these. Thanks!

**~~purecain~~** · 11-02-2007, 08:26 AM

Originally Posted by Chri$ch

Bios 0303 for Asus P5E X38 is available on Asus FTP

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/so...5E/P5E0303.zip

this bios file has stopped the board from working after 5 or 6 boots. there is a reason why this isnt available on the asus p5e support page and thats because its corrupt.......

and people were asking me to try it out.... lucky for me i was able to fix the corrupted/broken bios...........

i nearly lost everything then

**~~purecain~~** · 11-02-2007, 08:28 AM

Originally Posted by china

I'm having some very interesting problems after putting in the new bios. If I start priming, my internet connection dies.

I have a wlan-adapter in a pci-slot that use to access internet through my wlan-modem. Somehow it's stability is now affected. Any ideas?-)

I'm thinking of reverting back to the 0203 bios.

revert back immediatly m8, this bios should never of been posted.....

just so you know everything stops working on the board untill it doesnt boot at all, luckily taking out my sound card and one of my gpu's to get to the battery and bios reset button made it boot again. but it will only boot once and then the battery must be taken out and the reset button used again. i'm fumin........

**Bigchrome** · 11-02-2007, 08:36 AM

Originally Posted by Ace-a-Rue

hmmmmm...the only thing to do now is to lap the cpu and see if that helps...one thing about thermal paste, you don't want to use to much as that can cause higher temps.

I lapped the cpu and despite it being much harder to get a good mount now i have much better temps (only 5c more than when I got it first)

Problem is still there

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