***OFFICIAL Asus P5K-E/WiFi Thread

[barzi]

BIG vdrop!
Is it possible to downgrade from 0906 to 0603, if i don't like 0906? And if yes, can it done with ASUSUpdate? And with afudos?

I used afudos with my p5b-deluxe everytime, and i think it's a very good program. But when i tried it with my p5k-e, it says something about error: block code incorrect. This was when i went from 0803 to 0603. What does this mean? When i did it with ASUSUpdate (in windows, not so safe i think in windows), it worked..

[g1raffe]

There have been problems downgrading from 0903 and 0906, for it to done I believe you have to try to re-flash 0906 with a USB through EZ-Flash, restart the PC during the flash, let it do a BIOS recovery and then re-flash the version you want. Or something like that.

[LagunaX]

Hey g1raffe,

Does 603 work with the e8400?

Thanks.

[g1raffe]

I didn't try 0603 or any other BIOS before 0906 with the E8400, although the older ones do run them 'unofficially' afaik. You will get an error message at every startup though, and they may be some other downsides to using the older BIOS with them? Hopefully someone else can conform.

[LagunaX]

Thanks. I have the p5k vanilla and they don't have a bios upgrade for the 45nm chips yet, running bios 603. My e8400 comes in today =).

[Mordorr]

A "litle" help......

In my OFFTOPIC issue, of watercoolink leak, i did make a donwgrade, from 0603, to 0602Beta bios, using the Donwgrade option in AsusUpdate, with no problems.

Also, i notice that in Bios, it did refuse do do it

Mordorr

[vocch]

A "litle" help......

In my OFFTOPIC issue, of watercoolink leak, i did make a donwgrade, from 0603, to 0602Beta bios, using the Donwgrade option in AsusUpdate, with no problems.

Also, i notice that in Bios, it did refuse do do it

Mordorr

And was it worth going from 0603 to 0602beta...any difference?

[Mordorr]

Hi.

Hum.....nothing that i notice, since i use Pencil Vdroop...

Anyway, im a litle more worry, with my 1950PRO, that went to RMA

So.i only did it, because i thought that 0603, was corrupted......

I did have 0 problems with 0603, but i do not think there is much diference, between 0603 and 0602beta....

Mordorr

[C0ncrete]

Anyone had any luck with wolfdale on 0602/0603?

[MorLipf]

Where can I download BIOS 0603 for the P5K-E/Wifi-AP?

[g1raffe]

Where can I download BIOS 0603 for the P5K-E/Wifi-AP?

From the Asus site
http://support.asus.com/download/dow...=P5K-E/WIFI-AP

EDIT: Actually 0603 isn't there?

[MorLipf]

Some people talk about 0603 but Asus did never publish it. Is it identical to 0602 Beta?

[it_is_me]

Some people talk about 0603 but Asus did never publish it. Is it identical to 0602 Beta?

Bios 603 was published fo P5K Deluxe, which is almost identical to P5K-E, so people are just using the P5K Dlx bios on P5K-E without any issues.

Regarding vdrop (and as some reported vdroop - voltage dampener not working) in recent bioses: my guess is that asus does it on purpose, the privilege of having no vdrop and no vdroop leaving only for the high-end mobos.

[Zeus]

Bios 603 was published fo P5K Deluxe, which is almost identical to P5K-E, so people are just using the P5K Dlx bios on P5K-E without any issues.

Regarding vdrop (and as some reported vdroop - voltage dampener not working) in recent bioses: my guess is that asus does it on purpose, the privilege of having no vdrop and no vdroop leaving only for the high-end mobos.

If that turns out to be true...

Let's first see how a wolfdale does with bios 0503 first before i'm gonna flash.

[MorLipf]

Is the vdroop on BIOS 0603 as high as the vdroop on BIOS 0906, when I disable the voltage damper on 0603?

[cnumartyr]

Random question...

Could the high vDrop on the 0906 (and some other) have anything to do with compliance with the Wolfdales?

They are supposed to be lower voltage.. perhaps there is some new standard or something, I don't know. Maybe Asus doesn't want us pushing more than 1.59 vCore through it on their boards.

[C0ncrete]

Random question...

Could the high vDrop on the 0906 (and some other) have anything to do with compliance with the Wolfdales?

They are supposed to be lower voltage.. perhaps there is some new standard or something, I don't know. Maybe Asus doesn't want us pushing more than 1.59 vCore through it on their boards.

Vdrop is terrible on everything with 0906.

[Aerou]

From the Asus site
http://support.asus.com/download/dow...=P5K-E/WIFI-AP

EDIT: Actually 0603 isn't there?

you could look some pages back ... you will find I have posted links to BIOSes (including 0603)

[Baloo_MF]

When i used BIOS 602 on my Board, on standard speed it would boot ok, but any OC would end up in a crash, just past the bios post i would get this message:

"BAD CMOS RAM"

i searched for settings in my bios, and ive Succsesfully clocked it to 380MHz.. on the 806bios

Setup
P5KE-Wifi
C2DE6600
DDR2 800 (kingston)
...
RAID0:.....

[barzi]

Bios 603 was published fo P5K Deluxe, which is almost identical to P5K-E, so people are just using the P5K Dlx bios on P5K-E without any issues.

Regarding vdrop (and as some reported vdroop - voltage dampener not working) in recent bioses: my guess is that asus does it on purpose, the privilege of having no vdrop and no vdroop leaving only for the high-end mobos.

And how about the new bioses (that officialy support wolfdale) for the P5K-deluxe? Can't we(P5K-E owners) use them?
And if you are saying is right, so there would be the same vdrop as 0603, so that's good(because P5K-deluxe is a high-end motherboard)!

[skid9uk]

Hi im thinking of selling my p5b deluxe and getting one of these boards as im limited to 360fsb on my p5b as you get crap memory performance http://www.thetechrepository.com/showthread.php?t=30
is there any issues like that with this board?

Thanks

[Baloo_MF]

i've now succesfully loaded bios 0603 into my bios.

and clocked my E6600 to 3,4GHz with 8x multiplier

so my FSB is 425..

Bios Vcore = 1,4875
CPUZ IDLE = 1,472
CPUZ LOAD= 1.464

.VDrop of 0.0155V
VDroop of 0.008V

(Bios 0603 > Damper on)

I have a Antec P182 case with all 5 fans, and i have a Zalman CPUNS9700LED Cpu cooler..

and i cant get my E6600 stable on 3.6Ghz with 1.55Vcore

is this normal?

[g1raffe]

is this normal?

Yes it is.

[Baloo_MF]

would i get the E6600 stable on 3.6GHz with 1.55Vcore with the pencil mod

is it possible?, I really want to hit 3.6 with my CPU

[g1raffe]

I'd give it a very good chance, but we wont know for sure until you have tried it. :P