Asus P5K-E bios 0806

[blinkin]

Hi,
yesterday I flashed new bios for my asus - 0806. I entered same settings as I had with bios 0603 beta and bang - BSOD while booting windows. I upped vcore from 1.3125 (which worked at 3.2ghz q6600) to 1.35 - it booted but while 4 core orthos it again BSOD after a few seconds. Strange thing is it showed in cpuz vcore is 1.26. As I remember correctly with earlier bios when vcore was at 1.31 it showed in windows 1.28 or so and now with 1.35 it shows 1.26 - wtf? I upped again vcore to 1.36, bsod after minute or so. Then I turned auto on vcore (showing 1.272 in windows) and after 5 minutes of 2x orthos one of them gave me an error.
So what's going on? 0806 bios is ****ty? Or I should simply up the vcore until I get stable? And which vcore (bios or windows) I should look at?

[dnottis]

I saw this on station-drivers last night and was gonna post. My P5K-E is about 3 days old and so far I love it. What is the deal with the BIOSes and the P5K-E Wifi? Last bios for wifi is 0601 but up to 0806 for P5K-E. I've seen people running these fine on the wifi, but whats the difference?

Sounds like that bios isnt very stable. Maybe the sub timings were changed in the latest one causing the BSODs.

[MTP04]

What is the deal with the BIOSes and the P5K-E Wifi? Last bios for wifi is 0601 but up to 0806 for P5K-E.

Just checked the Asus web site and there is a 0806 bios for the P5k-E Wifi as well.

[newls1]

Hi,
yesterday I flashed new bios for my asus - 0806. I entered same settings as I had with bios 0603 beta and bang - BSOD while booting windows. I upped vcore from 1.3125 (which worked at 3.2ghz q6600) to 1.35 - it booted but while 4 core orthos it again BSOD after a few seconds. Strange thing is it showed in cpuz vcore is 1.26. As I remember correctly with earlier bios when vcore was at 1.31 it showed in windows 1.28 or so and now with 1.35 it shows 1.26 - wtf? I upped again vcore to 1.36, bsod after minute or so. Then I turned auto on vcore (showing 1.272 in windows) and after 5 minutes of 2x orthos one of them gave me an error.
So what's going on? 0806 bios is ****ty? Or I should simply up the vcore until I get stable? And which vcore (bios or windows) I should look at?

If I was you, I would just flash back to your prior BIOS as it seems to have been fine for you. I've learned through all the BIOS updates for the P5K-DLX that I will not flash anymore until there is an absolute need for me to do it. I tried all the latest BIOSes for my MOBO, but I've always found the "OLD" 311 bios the absolute best, and I can achive my best OC using it as well

[Zeus]

I'm confused now.

Are you guys telling me there are two versions of the P5K-E?

P5K-E wifi and P5K-E nonwifi?

I didn't know that.

I have the P5K-E wifi and i love it, it came with bios 0401 and i flashed it to 0503 as 0401 didn't have the ''strap to northbridge" option which i thought was the same sort of strap as on 965 boards then.

I know better now.

I'm wondering what happens if one puts in a 45nm like the E8800 which has a half multiplier (9,5x), should that automatically release the half multi's (like they're hidden with 65nm cpu's) in bios or will we need a new bios that has half multi's to select already?

And if so, which bios do we (P5K-E users) need?

[blinkin]

If I was you, I would just flash back to your prior BIOS as it seems to have been fine for you. I've learned through all the BIOS updates for the P5K-DLX that I will not flash anymore until there is an absolute need for me to do it. I tried all the latest BIOSes for my MOBO, but I've always found the "OLD" 311 bios the absolute best, and I can achive my best OC using it as well

I'll go back to 0602 and see how it goes...

If my Q6600 G0 VID is 1.285 what vcore will be "safe"? Assuming it's 15% above it which is 1.47 then I could up vcore till this value in bios settings or up vcore in bios until the windows readings gives 1.47?

[blinkin]

And if so, which bios do we (P5K-E users) need?

I guess p5k-e bios is for p5k-e and p5k-e/wifi bios is for p5k-e/wifi :P

[WasabiX]

How is Vdroop on the P5K-E Wi-fi and is there a mod already if needed?

[NeedMoMegaHurtZ]

How is Vdroop on the P5K-E Wi-fi and is there a mod already if needed?

It is minimal if you enable voltage damper in BIOS

However there is a pencil mod for those crazy folks just look in the Mobo Mods section

[ChaosphereIX]

How is Vdroop on the P5K-E Wi-fi and is there a mod already if needed?

same as the deluxe

any difference seen between 0806 and 0603?

[dnottis]

I think I'm gonna leave mine alone for now

B3 and 4 hours Prime stable

[jVIDIA]

MY P5K-E WiFi/AP came with the 0503 bios.

All is OK (2,5H prime 25.5 stable ) using a Q6600 G0 @ 3600 ( 8*450MHz ) with 1,4vCore in bios.

I did the pencil mod and got 0.0v bios -> windows iddle droop and 0.008v windows iddle to full droop

With the 0602 beta bios all is OK too.

With the 0802 beta bios and now with the 0806 oficial bios I get a bios -> windows iddle vdroop of 0,092v !!! So I get 1,408v in windows with 1,5v in bios !!

Are you guys with this issue ?

But now my iddle -> full vdroop is 0 !

[blinkin]

jVIDIA - yeah same issue here with vcore... 0806 sucks

same as the deluxe
any difference seen between 0806 and 0603?

except that it sucks I've noticed they changed naming of some settings (like volt damper is called line calibration or something)

[iMAX]

0806 so sucks

vdrop about 0.1V, bios set 1.4V and get 1.28V in windows load

and no have voltage damper in Bios

[citrofenwick]

0806 so sucks

vdrop about 0.1V, bios set 1.4V and get 1.28V in windows load

and no have voltage damper in Bios

i have exact the same problem


i set 1.4 and I get 1.29v, even when idle

*edit: 0602 pwns!
voltage damper + very much more stable vcore

[tuanming]

What's the best overclocking bios for P5k-e wifi/ap?

[vera]

What's the best overclocking bios for P5k-e wifi/ap?

+1 Which is the most stable bios for this mobo ? 0503 or 0601(beta) ?

[jVIDIA]

0503 and 0602 (beta) seens to be the best bios for P5K-E Wifi.

But I dont now if those bios will suport the new Yorkfield CPU's family !!

The 0806 does ....

[Zeus]

The 0806 does ....

Oh noes!

Let's hope the Vcore issue doesn't effect Yorks and wolfdales but i'm afaid this is wishfull thinking.

Come on Asus, bring out a decent bios before the 45nm becomes mainsteam!

[blinkin]

glad it's not only me having 0806 problems

0602 FTW!

[citrofenwick]

What's the best overclocking bios for P5k-e wifi/ap?

0602 for sure!

[Freeboy63]

If we are good with a bios, is there a reason to upgrade?

[Eversor]

If we are good with a bios, is there a reason to upgrade?

It's still boring to know that newer BIOS have newer bugs and not less.
Eventually you may have to upgrade if you need to have support for newer CPUs.

[Pub_Randy**]

0602 for sure!

I'm on 0806 coz i figured i'd just go straight to the newest, seems like a mistake now, also, in 0806 i can no longer find the vcore damper? Is it hiding or enabled by default?

I forget what BIOS my board came shipped with...
is it possible to roll back to 0602? think i might go look for it..

btw i've got the WiFi edition

[TEDY]

Weird problem, LAN is weirdly slow on P5K-E. I flashed to 0806.