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

[DualCore]

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

U have good luck , tnks to try this, i think its better to wait an official bios from asus !

[china]

I just went back to the old, latest official, bios. Now everything seem to as they used to be. I've been on all sorts of "beta" bioses in the past with other mobos, so it's nothing new that they aren't exactly perfect. Luckily I didn't corrupt anything.

[happ]

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

Bios 0303 is now available on the asus p5e support page. So what to do, upgrade or not?

[DualCore]

Bios 0303 is now available on the asus p5e support page. So what to do, upgrade or not?

it's a risk but, all ways save your previous bios version !

[china]

It could well be that it is actually a different version from the one that leaked out earlier. Someone else may test it for me...

[STaRGaZeR]

Just finished rig changes... WTF with this BIOS. So lets wait Asus releases an official one then

[camouflage]

I flashed 0303 and it works fine. Got only two problems, AI SUITE does not start and BIOS is reading wrong temps.

BTW got the same trouble with the 0203............

For the safety burn a CD ROM with all 4 BIOS versions out so far, so You can always flash back with the EZ FLASH tool in BIOS to the version You like.

When flashed to 0303 it kept all my settings from 0203 - nice.

0303 is now available on official ASUS site.

[STaRGaZeR]

So 4:5 divider and 400+ FSB is working for you with the new BIOS? It was broken in 0203.

[purecain]

i'm giving this one a miss..... i dont even want it unless its improving performance in some way. #whats the new bios offering, are the options actually working now. if i hear its stable on peoples machines in a few weeks i'll flash but it really gave me a scare today.......
both xp and vista are acting a little wierd still....

[DualCore]

i'm giving this one a miss..... i dont even want it unless its improving performance in some way. #whats the new bios offering, are the options actually working now. if i hear its stable on peoples machines in a few weeks i'll flash but it really gave me a scare today.......
both xp and vista are acting a little wierd still....

bro what U think if I put 4gb of crusial ballistix in this mobo p5e ? i see in your signature that you're using 4gb now, i have 2gb of dominator 1066, but the crusial are chip now

[oscar3d]

Dualcore I have 4 GB of Ballistix 1600Mhz at 8-8-8-24

Since I'm running 4 sticks, it's a big push for the chipset, so I'm running them stable at 1333Mhz 9-9-9-24. I can say they are very stable problem free, I'm happy. But I wouldn't adventure to push them more, unless I'm running only 2 gigs. :-)

I'm currently overclocking my Q6600 @ 3.01Ghz with 1.275VCORE.

Machine is 100% stable.

[safan80]

has anyone tried an areca card in the second pci-e slot?

[purecain]

bro what U think if I put 4gb of crusial ballistix in this mobo p5e ? i see in your signature that you're using 4gb now, i have 2gb of dominator 1066, but the crusial are chip now

the boards circutry is good, it really does run your ram well so i can only give you a complete go ahead on your chioce of 4x1gb sticks. enjoy the performance m8.....

[lowbid]

has anyone tried an areca card in the second pci-e slot?

I was wondering that to.I would like to run a areca 1230 in the second or third pci slot along with c/f water cooled.

[purecain]

need a new board, i think the north bridge is damaged. since that bios ed up my pc i can not get it cosistantly stable.... i'm having a really annoying issue with my mouse aswell where the pointer keeps jumping all over the place......

[vmsein]

has anyone tried an areca card in the second pci-e slot?

Yes I have. My current configuration has an Areca 1230ML in the second PCIe X16 slot working just fine. It was giving me trouble in the X4 PCIe slot where the computer would not always boot for some reason. Never was able to determine why other than hearing that the X38 chipset has some inherent problems with certain raid controllers. Can anyone confirm this?

[camouflage]

So 4:5 divider and 400+ FSB is working for you with the new BIOS? It was broken in 0203.

Nope - still broken, use 5:6 or 3:5. Hope ASUS will fix it soon with another BIOS release.

Did first tests with the 0303 - looking good so far (RAM is only at 2.34 volts):



I use the CELLSHOCK DDR2-1150 (the red devils )

[Skyline GT-R]

If got a P5E incomming too I'll post my findings as soon as I have the board! And I hope it'll get my early E6600 a bit faster then my P5W DH does, 9x356 is max

[STaRGaZeR]

Wow nice results and overclock camouflage

Can you test if 2:3 divider is also working? When my new 2x2GB finally arrives (I´ve been waiting 2 weeks for them grrr) I´ll be using that one.

[bingo13]

Yes I have. My current configuration has an Areca 1230ML in the second PCIe X16 slot working just fine. It was giving me trouble in the X4 PCIe slot where the computer would not always boot for some reason. Never was able to determine why other than hearing that the X38 chipset has some inherent problems with certain raid controllers. Can anyone confirm this?

The x4 slot is run off the ICH9R, that is why there are issues with it, it's not the X38 chipset.

[vmsein]

The x4 slot is run off the ICH9R, that is why there are issues with it, it's not the X38 chipset.

Thanks for the clarification bingo13. At least I now know why the controller works well in the X16 slot.

[Skyline GT-R]

I'm going to do a comparison between the 975X and X38 chipset to see how much faster X38 is compared to the old 'high end' chipset of intel. Which benchmarks should I run? I'm planning on running my E6600 @ 9x333 for the tests And my 7900GS @ stock (wish I had the money for a 8800GT)
So far I have in mind:

• Super PI 1M and 32M
• 3D Mark 01 SE, 05 and 06
• PC Mark Vantage
• Cinebench
• Everest RAM Read
• Everest CPU Queen

Any suggestions?

[purecain]

well seen as my board is done for i thought i'd try the new 303 bios. first impressions..... my board is still acting up...
spent a few quid on a new mouse just to see if its my mouse that is broken and causing the random jump up the page.....
just really annoyed with myself for trying that other bios in the first place....

[STaRGaZeR]

I'm going to do a comparison between the 975X and X38 chipset to see how much faster X38 is compared to the old 'high end' chipset of intel. Which benchmarks should I run? I'm planning on running my E6600 @ 9x333 for the tests And my 7900GS @ stock (wish I had the money for a 8800GT)
So far I have in mind:

• Super PI 1M and 32M
• 3D Mark 01 SE, 05 and 06
• PC Mark Vantage
• Cinebench
• Everest RAM Read
• Everest CPU Queen

Any suggestions?

Do Everest cache and memory benchmark instead

Some game tests would be good. In my own tests I feel X38 sighly faster than 975x at the same clocks in games.

[Skyline GT-R]

Do Everest cache and memory benchmark instead

Some game tests would be good. In my own tests I feel X38 sighly faster than 975x at the same clocks in games.

I'll run every Everest Benchmark

And yes I was about to add some game tests aswell but I think my graphics card is a bit of a bottleneck