ASUS P5K Deluxe - Intel P35 Bearlake + E6600 B1 / Q6600 B3

[Pretender]

Yes jeeka, thats the one. After restart i have the same issue again. And you?
EDIT: My memory performance is about the same as it was with 0603 bios

[jeeka]

Yup, I restarted, and it STILL has the yellow sign...I have my onboard wireless disabled. I wonder if that has anything to do with it? I will change BIOS to enable it and see what happens.
-jeeka.

EDIT: I turned ON DRAM Static Read Control, or whatever it's called in the BIOS and now I am getting 8541Mb/sec. in Sandra...

[Dazog]

same issue here with the 0703 and usb.

My wireless is disabled also.

Must be a bios bug?

[jeeka]

This is my front USB port, which is plugged into the headers that are nearest the JMicron IDE Ports at the bottom of the MB. To clarify, it's the right header, which is nearest the JMicron IDE Port.

[Sirmille]

.........But judging by their appalling Forum web site and Tech support I shouldn't be that surprised. lol their Forum webmaster hasn't logged in since September 2006 , what a fiasco.

Totally agree about that site, this site is so much better, more knowledgeable people here! AsusTek is full of whiners and not much good if you need help. When I had my P5K Deluxe hooked up (RMA'd it, to many problems) I didn't get much help there. I eventually will put it all back together but my 680i is running so well I haven't seen the need to do it but when I do I'll come here and go over all 1500+ posts


Well maybe the first 5 or 6

[Pretender]

Yep, it has to be a bios related issue since all of us have the same problem.
jeeka thats right, my front usb ports don't work and i'm using the header wich is closer to the place where you connect the speaker, power button etc.

[jeeka]

Hope those chucklehead BIOS writers at Asus are watching this thread! 0707 must be coming sooner than later now that they forgot to test whether all the pieces of the MB work! My unborn daughter could have done a better job QA'ing these BIOS's....

I must say though, that the organization and new bits of this BIOS are really cool. Plus, I think the system is much more responsive, at least to me. Must be some placebo effect coming into play....

[genec57]

I didn't mean to imply that Vdroop is literally gone. With the earlier bios I had to set Vcore at 1.575 to end up at 1.51 under load. Now I have bios Vcore set at 1.55 to end up at 1.51 under prime 95 load - a substantial improvement which I hope will allow me to go a bit higher - perhaps to that elusive 4.0ghz. We will see tomorrow.

[rbsmontemor]

I didn't mean to imply that Vdroop is literally gone. With the earlier bios I had to set Vcore at 1.575 to end up at 1.51 under load. Now I have bios Vcore set at 1.55 to end up at 1.51 under prime 95 load - a substantial improvement which I hope will allow me to go a bit higher - perhaps to that elusive 4.0ghz. We will see tomorrow.

You just need to do the Vdroop pencil mod

Rbs.

[Counter CS]

Same issue, USB 293C
But i like the new settings options in BIOS

[Stelios]

I lost about 1000 marks in 3dmark06 after updating to 703.
It seems that changing transaction booster levels from bios doesn't affect performance.

The worst thing is that i can't downgrade even with afudos 2.19 . It stucks at "advance check" .

[CERO]

I didn't mean to imply that Vdroop is literally gone. With the earlier bios I had to set Vcore at 1.575 to end up at 1.51 under load. Now I have bios Vcore set at 1.55 to end up at 1.51 under prime 95 load - a substantial improvement which I hope will allow me to go a bit higher - perhaps to that elusive 4.0ghz. We will see tomorrow.

ah so u mean the "vdrop" improved oke, still nice

[genec57]

I wondered how long before someone would catch me on that. Actually, the droop also improved to .01 but the greatest improvement was in drop.
droop, drop it all comes out in the wash, no?

[Nostromo]

Ugh!!!!

I decided to try 703 coming from I think 603..
I also decided to follow counter CS's clear cmos, and pull battery, ETC.
what he said is really basic, but I have to admit, I just flash, and then set my values back, SOMETIMES I clear cmos, but almost never pull battery..

Well, I dont know what is with this bios, or if it's because I never followed basic
bios upgrade procedure, but with previous bios,i had to set it to 1.58V in bios for me to hit
3.9 small fft's stable with a Q6600 GO, with temps near 70. But now with 703 I have hit 3.9 small fft's with 1.46 in bios, and CPUZ showing 1.424!! (so I have a .036 droop, hmmm.). and my temps are 50 full load (water)

BTW, I am an hour into this prime, but anything less than 1.58 with old bios, I would almost always get a reboot within 10-15 mins..

I get the yellow flag on usb device too..

Seems like a really good bios othwerwise.

Nostromo

[timber715]

they must be reading something(asus), i checked thier site and there is no trace of the new bios for p5k-deluxe wifi... still 603 latest...

[Counter CS]

I don´t have Vdoop now.

Set 1.35v BIOS

Windows idle 1.336v

Windows load 1.336v

Pencil Vdroop mod with pencil"B4"

[genec57]

timber715,
The 0703 bios is on the ftp site so far, not the web site.

[DEVIL_DK]

can anyone say what bios is the good one fore this board ?

[jeeka]

I am officially giving 4 thumbs down to BIOS 0703, no onboard wireless, USB 293C Errors, which means front panel USB's not working, as well the the ports connected into the headers next to it as well....

I can't flash back either, I have tried AFUDOS 2.07, 2.11, 2.17, 2.27. The only one that gets me anywhere is 2.27, but it tells me that the "Main BIOS Checksum is bad"....

Am I F'd?
Anyone else flash back from 0703? Which version of AFUDOS have you tried?
I used floppy as well as USB Stick methods...

Thanks,
jeeka.

[genec57]

I also have the exclamation mark in device manager for usb but all of my usb connections work - go figure.

otoh, My vdroop is less with 0703 and all temps are lower (unless they are being erroneously reported). I am cautiously happy with the revision - perhaps the final release will be out soon.

Jeeka, how can you attempt bios flashback with a floppy on a 2 meg file?

[Railwhore]

I am officially giving 4 thumbs down to BIOS 0703, no onboard wireless, USB 293C Errors, which means front panel USB's not working, as well the the ports connected into the headers next to it as well....

I can't flash back either, I have tried AFUDOS 2.07, 2.11, 2.17, 2.27. The only one that gets me anywhere is 2.27, but it tells me that the "Main BIOS Checksum is bad"....

Am I F'd?
Anyone else flash back from 0703? Which version of AFUDOS have you tried?
I used floppy as well as USB Stick methods...

Thanks,
jeeka.

I really like this bios (aside from the listed problems). My systems seems sooo much faster for some reason. Solid overclock @ 3.2 on a B3 stepping 6600. Very nice bios imo.

[jeeka]

I also have the exclamation mark in device manager for usb but all of my usb connections work - go figure.

otoh, My vdroop is less with 0703 and all temps are lower (unless they are being erroneously reported). I am cautiously happy with the revision - perhaps the final release will be out soon.

Jeeka, how can you attempt bios flashback with a floppy on a 2 meg file?

genec57,
That is what I said too I 'tried' and didn't bother to see how big the file was beforehand, so that is where I hit a roadblock .

I do like the new options/layout stuff, it DOES seem to work smoother than previous BIOS's, but I need my Front Panel USB's (my onboard wireless I don't care so much for). I hope they fix these issues and release a new BIOS revision soon, seeing as how I can't seem to flash to previous versions.

I guess I am stuck until they decide to release another version...
jeeka.

[FabricioGS]

I really like this bios (aside from the listed problems). My systems seems sooo much faster for some reason. Solid overclock @ 3.2 on a B3 stepping 6600. Very nice bios imo.

Me too. Just a bit confused with the new voltage options, but thanks to Asus we have "auto"

[Stelios]

I made it to roll back bios ...

I followed the old time classic method of corrupting bios by trying to find the max FSB that board will post.
After playing 10 minutes ... At around 580 the screen freezed ... I pushed the reset button and got the message of corrupted bios , asking for a new bios image to restore.
The bios was restored from the original P5K cdrom . Version was 123 . The next step was to update to a newer bios . Using asus update from windows , i updated to my favorite 0601 .
Now everything is working properly ... and i found the way to revert any bios back !

[genec57]

Sounds like a delicate balence between a toasty mobo and a corrupted bios .
Whatever works. Did you do it that way on purpose or was it just serendipity.