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

[djdare]

What did you exactly do?
I'm sending mine back today, so wanna try your method.
So I select default settings and what do I change more?

I got my board with 0203 bios. Later was updated to 0303 bios. With this bios everything worked ok.
Next update was 0401 bios. After flashing, first boot was ok, but when i restarted computer it wont boot anymore. Good thing with that bios was that i could flash back to 0303.
At last i updated to 0402. Same as 0401, first boot ok after restart not booting anymore. Well problem now is i can't flash back to 0303 or 0203, it just wont let me.
So i tried with AFUDOS (i used an old version v2.10 and 2.07. Latest v2.29 wont let me flash, says: Your bios is older than...)
With older version it starts ok (verifying files), but before flashing i get this error: Main bios checksum error.
To make my board work after flashing with 0402 bios i have to manualy (F1) change settings in bios and save.
With option F2 (default settings) after rebooting computer it wont boot anymore.
The only thing that i have to change in bios to make board work is to set in Ai Tweaker -> Ai Overclock Tuner from Auto to Manual.
Then i can boot and reebot without any problems. Bad thing is that i can overclock my ram only to 428MHz.
I'm at work now, when i get home i'll try more.

[eyes.only]

I got my board with 0203 bios. Later was updated to 0303 bios. With this bios everything worked ok.
Next update was 0401 bios. After flashing, first boot was ok, but when i restarted computer it wont boot anymore. Good thing with that bios was that i could flash back to 0303.
At last i updated to 0402. Same as 0401, first boot ok after restart not booting anymore. Well problem now is i can't flash back to 0303 or 0203, it just wont let me.
So i tried with AFUDOS (i used an old version v2.10 and 2.07. Latest v2.29 wont let me flash, says: Your bios is older than...)
With older version it starts ok (verifying files), but before flashing i get this error: Main bios checksum error.
To make my board work after flashing with 0402 bios i have to manualy (F1) change settings in bios and save.
With option F2 (default settings) after rebooting computer it wont boot anymore.
The only thing that i have to change in bios to make board work is to set in Ai Tweaker -> Ai Overclock Tuner from Auto to Manual.
Then i can boot and reebot without any problems. Bad thing is that i can overclock my ram only to 428MHz.
I'm at work now, when i get home i'll try more.

Hmm, problems seem related:
When I get sometimes a boot block (or something error) and I choose f2 (boot with default settings and continue) and run memtest86, I get no errors whatsoever. But when I reboot again (hangs most of the times) the problem with the errors is back. Will try your trick when I get home from work.

[camouflage]

I got my board with 0203 bios. Later was updated to 0303 bios. With this bios everything worked ok.
Next update was 0401 bios. After flashing, first boot was ok, but when i restarted computer it wont boot anymore. Good thing with that bios was that i could flash back to 0303.
At last i updated to 0402. Same as 0401, first boot ok after restart not booting anymore. Well problem now is i can't flash back to 0303 or 0203, it just wont let me.
So i tried with AFUDOS (i used an old version v2.10 and 2.07. Latest v2.29 wont let me flash, says: Your bios is older than...)
With older version it starts ok (verifying files), but before flashing i get this error: Main bios checksum error.
To make my board work after flashing with 0402 bios i have to manualy (F1) change settings in bios and save.
With option F2 (default settings) after rebooting computer it wont boot anymore.
The only thing that i have to change in bios to make board work is to set in Ai Tweaker -> Ai Overclock Tuner from Auto to Manual.
Then i can boot and reebot without any problems. Bad thing is that i can overclock my ram only to 428MHz.
I'm at work now, when i get home i'll try more.

You can't flash back to older versions in Windows - just save the BIOS files on a CDROM and flash it with the EZFLASH option in BIOS.

[eyes.only]

You can't flash back to older versions in Windows - just save the BIOS files on a CDROM and flash it with the EZFLASH option in BIOS.

Tried to flash back from 0402 to 0401 and 0107.

Did it with afudos (2.29 I think) and EZFLASH.

All complained about bios being older then the one installed.

[djdare]

All my flashig is done with EZFLASH or AFUDOS.
I'll try even older version of AFUDOS.