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

[djdare]

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

[eyes.only]

Just shipped my p5e back to the onlineshop.
can't wait to get a new one.

[ea6gka]

2.06 V , ballistix 667, asus p5e , not stable 100% thou

[DiscoTech]

Hello,

I am trying to choose between the maximus formula and the p5e to go with a q6600. I will pair them with 2 3870s in crossfire.
And for memory I am thinking about crucial ballistix pc2-8500.

Does the maximus formula also have that 3rd generation 8-phase power for the cpu? because that latest gen thing only shows up on the P5e's page on asus.com.

Which x38 board would you guys recommend?
Any other suggestions for memory?

Thank you

[ea6gka]

ok guys need some help here , sometimes the mobo hangs on post and i need to press reset to get it going. its not happening very often but sometimes it does. the PSU is an enermax 620 liberty , with a quad @ 3600 , memory stable at 1066 and a bit higher than default voltages at NB+SB+PLL , vga is a X550...any ideas what is causing this?

[Sparx]

How do your voltages look:
3.3?
5.0 ?
12.0?

I don't know how anyone can run with less than a 750Watt power supply these days.

[ea6gka]

a friend of mine runs the same setup with an enermax 450W , 12V looks 11.89(using pc probe) now the others are fine

[Zophet]

Which audio driver is the best? I'm using the driver on the CD. First of all I can't use the Front Panel Audio and the jack on the Soundmax soundcard at the same time. The second annoying thing is that I can hear the mouse movements! Shall I use a different USB probably?
BIOS 0107

[eyes.only]

New board has arrived (P5E) and i'm running stability tests now.
Bios is 0107 and was wondering which biosses everyone is using.
Is it worth upgrading?

[Sparx]

Using 0401 --flashed from AZ Flash.
Had problems with my RAM but I think it was the RAM itself. New RAM is on the way.

[Bigchrome]

I just got an E6850 and the board is acting weird... won't post over 485 but if I move up slowly in bios with each reboot I can orthos at 495fsb but then it crashes trying to restart.... Anyone else have this?? Didn't happen on E6600...using bios 0401

[camouflage]

Finally broke 11GB/s read on P5E:

[sauria]

I just got an E6850 and the board is acting weird... won't post over 485 but if I move up slowly in bios with each reboot I can orthos at 495fsb but then it crashes trying to restart.... Anyone else have this?? Didn't happen on E6600...using bios 0401

I'm testing now on 0107 BIOS - My E6850 doesn't like High FSB currently at 370 MHz

[Brahmzy]

Wow - I just got this board hooked up and OC'd tonight. Amazing freaking board! This thing demolishes my P5W DH in terms of memory and overall stability. Running my E6600 @ 9*378 (3.4GHz) with my RAM at 3:4. Good golly this thing is snappy. And I just added a 3rd Raptor to my RAID0 array.

I'm so happy with this board and memory. Now I just need my E8500 and I'll be set!

Thanks all for the valuable info in this thread.

[~Woomack~]

At 1st hello to all because it's my 1st post here

I have P5E for maybe 5 days and board is really nice except bios.
I'm not sure if it's issue with quads but I can't pass stable 458MHz FSB and can't boot over ~480MHz while the same cpu ( Xeon X3210) can be stable on about 490MHz FSB on other boards ( much cheaper boards like Foxconn P35A ) and benchable up to 505MHz.
I see that some people are making 550MHz+ FSB but on duo cores.
Other thingies:
- vmem is bumping by 0,3V and overall my D9GKX are error free on about 20MHz less than on other boards ( so its about 600MHz 2,4V now )
- pencil vdrop is working good but still 0,02V ( better than 0,08V without mod )
- most stable bios for me is 0402 ( only on this one strap to 333 and 400 is working on other biosses only one of them )
- I couldn't downgrade bios - I had ID errors , checksum errors, too old bios and other bugs ... finally I restarted pc while flashing latest bios and I made bios recovery what is working perfect
- on over 460MHz FSB I can pass about 1,5h in Prime95 then I have only black screen without errors or something else
- after all night of prime95 I had weird temps in bios and asus soft, 100*C on cpu ( while all cores had max 70*C ) and -114*C in case ... i wish

Finally all looks stable after night of prime on 3,66GHz X3210 1,56V, 458MHz FSB , 550MHz 2,1V mem ... and I'm waiting for new bios ...

[djdare]

Just shipped my p5e back to the onlineshop.
can't wait to get a new one.

Well i manage to fix my P5E. This is how i done it:
1. Copy 0402 bios to your USB stick and any bios you want to use on your P5E and rename it to P5E.ROM
2. Boot your computer and go to EZFlash
3. Start flashing with 0402
4. When flashing gets to like 90% switch off your psu
5. Now you have bad bios and motherboard will search for new one to flash.
Here you need the P5E.rom file Motherboard will automaticly recognize file
and start flashing bios
6. Wait until it's all done
7. Reboot and the board should work with bios of your choice

I hope it will work for anybody, it did work for me.
The day after the board was fixed, i have return it to the store and get my self Asus Maximus Formula SE...
I must say its much beter board and better looking.

[STaRGaZeR]

^^^ I have done the same. is the only way to downgrade to any previous BIOS than 0402.

[camouflage]

Why all U guys have probs with back-flashing? I flashed dozends of time back, from 0303 to 0107, from 0402 to 0303 and so on.

All I have done is to save the BIOS files on a CDROM and flashed it back in BIOS with EZflash - 100% working, never had a problem.

Only ASUSUPDATE in WINDWS doesn't allow U to flash backwards......

[Sparx]

I am still having RAM problems, but then again maybe not.

My first set of RAM was G.skill 8500. I have a q6600 on my P5e.

I downloaded Memorytest86 version 3.4 and got a ton of RAM errors with this set up 310 x 9.
So now I have Corsair Detonators 2 gigs of 8500 same errors with memtest86 3.4

So for the heck of it I put memtest v 3.4 in my current P5w Dh, which has been a rock for over one year. SAME MEMORY ERRORS - entirely different rig and RAM!

Finally I went back and tried Memorytest86 version 3.2 I ran the test on the new rig with COrsair ram and got NO ERRORS????????????

I am wondering if version 3.4 is buggy? Does anyone run Memtest86 version 3.4?
TIA
sparx

[sauria]

http://www.memtest.org/ 1.70+

[sauria]

Is there a pre-vDroop mod fsb limit that anyone has hit?

[Sparx]

http://www.memtest.org/ 1.70+

I download Precompiled 1.70 for floppy DOS.
I hope that is the correct one since I run it from a floppy with a fresh BOOT.

I will try this
Thanks Sauria
sparx

[STaRGaZeR]

Why all U guys have probs with back-flashing? I flashed dozends of time back, from 0303 to 0107, from 0402 to 0303 and so on.

All I have done is to save the BIOS files on a CDROM and flashed it back in BIOS with EZflash - 100% working, never had a problem.

Only ASUSUPDATE in WINDWS doesn't allow U to flash backwards......

Yes, ASUSUpdate allows you to flash backwards, if you set it in options

But when flashed to 0402, neither ASUSUpdate or EZ Flash will let me flash, they said not compatible EEPROM. So the only option was to corrupt the BIOS and use Crashfree BIOS and P5E.ROM contained in the driver CD to restore it

[Sparx]

Yes, ASUSUpdate allows you to flash backwards, if you set it in options

But when flashed to 0402, neither ASUSUpdate or EZ Flash will let me flash, they said not compatible EEPROM. So the only option was to corrupt the BIOS and use Crashfree BIOS and P5E.ROM contained in the driver CD to restore it

Interesting, and a $hitty job of engineering in my opinion.
Good job sorting it out Stargazer.
sparx

[STaRGaZeR]

Yeah, I don´t really know what´s happening here. Maybe is my mobo revision or something like that. Anyway, 0107 is the best BIOS for me, high clocks, way better stability and working C1E