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

[WeldZilla]

Well I am having great success with my configuration using bios 502.

I have used bios 107 and agree that it is a good bios. I was very hesitant to leave it behind.

For my system 502 has given my G.Skill 6400 HZ many more options I can run on virtually any divider and run well with 502. I could not on 107.
I will stick with 502.

That being said if for your particular detup 107 seems to be the perfect bios then by all means run it!! I only feel you should change your bios if YOU are having a particular problem that a new bios addresses. Or you just got to know about the new bios cuz it is there!! And we are all looking for the
Holy-Grail of the Bios Kingdom.

Hey Godsfist, don't get pissed and smack me but, you seem to have had great luck with your P5K-E. It is hard to argue with success. I really like this board but none the less the choice is yours.

WZ

WZ

[lowtcell]

I'm having mem issues with 502 as well. So if I crash an update, what do I need to reflash, or will it just auto roll back to 107?

[godsfist]

Hey Godsfist, don't get pissed and smack me but, you seem to have had great luck with your P5K-E. It is hard to argue with success. I really like this board but none the less the choice is yours.

Haven't had as much success with the silicon, the board will do 500+ FSB no probs but one of the cores on the Wolf runs 10+ degrees hotter than the other one

[mystikmedia]

Looks like I have made a big mess of things. After reading a post on a different site, I tried a bios change. Now it won't boot at all. It does not go far enough to press Delete to get into the bios. That is, the monitor does not come on at all. Is there any way to reset to defaults or getinto the bios other than the CMOS battery/jumper method? Thanks in advance.

[Xelation]

Looks like I have made a big mess of things. After reading a post on a different site, I tried a bios change. Now it won't boot at all. It does not go far enough to press Delete to get into the bios. That is, the monitor does not come on at all. Is there any way to reset to defaults or getinto the bios other than the CMOS battery/jumper method? Thanks in advance.

Hmz, what works for me is just keep rebooting. Sometimes resetting or a
total unplug of the power and a restart again. Somehow my bios always
will reset to standard settings.

[askimo]

Question: I just want to confirm that the only way to flash an older bios is using AsusUpdate 61002

I'm asking because this version of the software does not work under Windows Vista and I will be forced to install XP to Downgrade the bios

[Psycho_eddie]

Just did Pencil Mod.. first ever mod i might add and it works!!

Set Idle Load

Before: 1.35 1.32V 1.280/1.272V


After: 1.35V 1.336V 1.344V



Thats Load volt of only 0.006V Vdoop from bios set well chuffed... but downside now my temps are higher!

So will reduce volts acordingly! say to 1.275V bios set?