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

[CapFTP]

edit: CapFTP, what voltages do you use to achieve these speeds? just curious

about 1.7 on NB, 2.54 on DDR,...

i didn't look it it's affordable with less voltage, was only a brief test and applied more or less the settings i was using on p5k-e

[TKC]

New Bios 0502 is out...

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/so...5E/P5E0502.zip

[Brahmzy]

New Bios 0502 is out...

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/so...5E/P5E0502.zip

We need a guinea pig ...

My 0402 is working great, so I can't be it. Any volunteers?

[De1337]

im on it :P

edit: Didn't erase boot blocks. Rebooted properly... i made the same mistake as before, setting 400x9 @stock voltage (doh)... but i noticed that when i restarted it booted, and when i entered bios nothing was reset, it just said overclock failed after that single restart. never seen that before, always resets BIOS.

And my sleep works again, i hope... Before (501) it wouldn't turn off the fans and start blinking the power button when going into sleep, it would just shut down windows (like to sleep mode), and then spin fans and crash from there. Now i can wake it again ^^

I will see if it solves my 1066 problem, but not now, i dont have time to play games right now

oh and how come this bios is not on www.support.asus.com? Only on their FTP? Did i install some beta bios or what? :p

edit: and oh btw CapFTP... I don't really wanna run permanent 1.7 nb, but I'll try and go to maybe 1.4-5 and see if it will run 1066 (assuming it still crashes with this new bios)

[Brahmzy]

im on it :P

edit: Didn't erase boot blocks. Rebooted properly... i made the same mistake as before, setting 400x9 @stock voltage (doh)... but i noticed that when i restarted it booted, and when i entered bios nothing was reset, it just said overclock failed after that single restart. never seen that before, always resets BIOS.

And my sleep works again, i hope... Before (501) it wouldn't turn off the fans and start blinking the power button when going into sleep, it would just shut down windows (like to sleep mode), and then spin fans and crash from there. Now i can wake it again ^^

I will see if it solves my 1066 problem, but not now, i dont have time to play games right now

oh and how come this bios is not on www.support.asus.com? Only on their FTP? Did i install some beta bios or what? :p

edit: and oh btw CapFTP... I don't really wanna run permanent 1.7 nb, but I'll try and go to maybe 1.4-5 and see if it will run 1066 (assuming it still crashes with this new bios)

I think any BIOS NOT on ASUS's site is considered BETA. 1.7 is very high for NB on this board. Eager to hear your further experience with the new BIOS.

[askimo]

What is your OC? What's your FSB?

My OC settings at 3.7Ghz are:

CPU: E6600
Bus: 462MHZ
Multi: 8.0
FSB: 1048Mhz
Mem: 554Mhz 5,5,5,15

[WeldZilla]

I'll give 502 a try. I have gone through them all. I think they all suck so far except 107.... Here goes nothing....

OK it is on here is a shot of my G.Skill 6400HZ running at holy crap!!!!! It is a good thing it will boot there cuz so far I can set the memory anywhere else!!
I am going to fool with this bios awhile and see what I can figure out about it!
ok this is just completely sick!!! I am goping to be messing with this bios awhile.....


WZ

ONE MORE!!!!! @1280 DDR!!!!

[Brahmzy]

Nice WeldZilla!!!

[Grendel66]

I think any BIOS NOT on ASUS's site is considered BETA.

Nope, just takes a while to update their server farm. New BIOSes always show up 1st on the taiwan ftp site. Beta BIOSes usually come in archives named different from the "official" name scheme (here P5Ennnn.zip), at least in the past.

[CapFTP]

edit: and oh btw CapFTP... I don't really wanna run permanent 1.7 nb, but I'll try and go to maybe 1.4-5 and see if it will run 1066 (assuming it still crashes with this new bios)

yeah, 1.7 daily is too high...i had not time to search for the best compromise so i just shoot it high and test...

[TKC]

0502 do not like my RAM as 0501, 4:5 and 5:6 divider won't boot still exist no matter how low FSB is.

While regarding the issue of CPU Q-Fan do not work, finally I realize that P5E Q-Fan only support PWM Fan

I installed Intel OEM 4-pin PWM CPU Fan and it works very well. But if Asus supposed to do this why don't they mention a single word in the user guide to let their customer know about the limitation? And it's also quite odd if Q-Fan can control 3-pin Chassis fans but leave CPU fan alone.

[De1337]

Okay, ram at 1066, FSB at 400 and Def multi from 9 to 6

dram 2.2v
nb 1.41v

instability of doom couldn't get windows up and running, but im assuming this is the low nb voltage, and the CPU divider that s it up... just would have thought it would run at 1.4 : /

[vmsein]

Bios 0804 is now posted on the official ASUS website here: http://support.asus.com/download/dow...Language=en-us
This is for the P5E3 Deluxe WiFi.

[WeldZilla]

Well I have been putting 502 to the test and I must say I am liking it better all the time. You can run your memory just about any where you can think of! Right now I am running on the 3:4 divider and it is working very well
Here is a bios shot for you.....


It is running out real nice DDR1133

This bios loves my G.Skill 6400HZ more than it does my G.Skill PC2-8000
2gig x 2 sticks. It doesn't run worth a damn.. But, in all fairness I have not given it enough time yet to say for sure.

I will know more soon about this bios. So far so good.

WZ

[eyes.only]

GRRRRRRRRRRR.
Tested 0501 and 0502 yesterday and again, both my twin-x sets doesn't seem to work with it. Great work Asus, keep on screwing around :-(

Only 0107 and 0201 working.

[mu||et]

I'll give 502 a try. I have gone through them all. I think they all suck so far except 107.... Here goes nothing....

OK it is on here is a shot of my G.Skill 6400HZ running at holy crap!!!!! It is a good thing it will boot there cuz so far I can set the memory anywhere else!!
I am going to fool with this bios awhile and see what I can figure out about it!
ok this is just completely sick!!! I am goping to be messing with this bios awhile.....


WZ

ONE MORE!!!!! @1280 DDR!!!!

You are the best Guinea pig I have ever seen!11!!one
keepum comin man.

[De1337]

Doesn't seem to matter what I do, 1066 will not work.
Random freeze, crashes games etc. no bluescreen, not that bad.

Well, i'm starting to think maybe it has something to do with the huge difference of FSB and DDR in this system:

Q6600, def multi 9 = 266
PC2-8500 = 533

I run 400FSB, multi 6, 1:1 ram... 800mhz
SO
I'm thinkin, that because i run with 9/6=1.5xFSB=600Mhz on my Northbridge, that is under heavy load, and cannot manage 1066 properly.. maybe it has something to do with strap? I still really don't know what strap is, as no one seems to be able to explain it to me

So when running default, the difference between FSB and DDR is so big, that it crashes? because 266x2=533 (def ram clock)...

When I get water on it, i'll try and go 400x8, 533DDR, and see if it will run properly.

Btw, it still does the weird crashing thing with sleep, but im beginning to think it's vista and not my hardware that's messed up... I think it's been doing it all the time, i honestly haven't used sleep enough to determine when it worked 100%. Now it seems to work 8/10, and the pattern is kind of random.

btw mullet, is that you having a bluescreen in the bottom left corner of your desktop?

[mu||et]

btw mullet, is that you having a bluescreen in the bottom left corner of your desktop?

ummm no man. I can't remember the last time I had a BSOD.

[De1337]

ummm no man. I can't remember the last time I had a BSOD.

I was referring to the guy that at first sight seems to be laying face down in the water on the picture... later noticed the top of a head. hehe

edit: oh damn, you were quoting WeldZilla haha... well now the jokes ruined for sure

[WeldZilla]

1st the guy in the pic is my 11year-old son playing in the water las August.

Now this new Bios works perfectly with all the dividers that my HZ can reach.
Here are some shots for you to see that they are all very close in performance...




I did not post up 1:1 as it was way behind the rest of the pack. It returned a cpu score of 6047which was nearly 100 less than some of the others.
1:1 is not the way to go here...

OK then I turned it up and did some more testing but, I ran out of gas and have to get to bed as I am working this weekend..
But, here is a last shot for the night....

This bios really opens this motherboard up. If Asus keeps this up this board will be just fine..

From what I have seen so far 4:5 is a real winner. It only just barely wins each test by the closest of margins but,it does win on the cpu scores so far

WZ

[Brahmzy]

Man I'm sick of waiting for my Wolfdale E8500...

Jan can't come soon enough. I know what me E6600 is capable of and I'm bored with it.

Can't wait to pass 4Ghz.

[purecain]

so 502 is worth a shot..... well after seeing those memory clocks i'm really temted..... no ones stating the amount of volts they are using though.... could the people using this bios please add this info for me.... thanks...

[WeldZilla]

I need 2.26 volts to achieve those settings. I will run up to 2.3 with no qualms but any higher than that I start to get nervous. I run a 90mm fan over my memory.

WZ

[M@ster]

WeldZilla can you tell us what voltages are you using with the 502?

[death]

I need 2.26 volts to achieve those settings. I will run up to 2.3 with no qualms but any higher than that I start to get nervous. I run a 90mm fan over my memory.

WZ

u no that could mean u are putting more than 2.3 cus of the overvoltage it give u mem some one said at 2.16 it was giveing them 2.26 so u could be given them 2.36 woooow