***OFFICIAL Asus P5K-E/WiFi Thread

[Baloo_MF]

i want to run 1.55 continuesly,

i dont care if my 6600 burns next year, but i like to use this bord for 3 years

and in sept i will buy a new cpu..

[spider_d]

@ Baloo_MF


I cool the upper mosfets the the U model and the side mosfets with the S model.

[Baloo_MF]

hey guys, i just saw the booster and gear functions in my AIsuite

does anyone use these, and are they any good?

I suppose not

[g1raffe]

hey guys, i just saw the booster and gear functions in my AIsuite

does anyone use these, and are they any good?

I suppose not

I used to use them, they work well, however I, and almost everyone else much prefers to use setfsb.

if you get setfsb you need to set the clock generator in it to ICS9LPRS916BGLF.

[Keiki]

okay can anybody help me here?

i flashed my bios to 0906 and only to find out that it's , after flash i set my previous oc settings(e6850@3.5ghz) and it won't boot to windows, then i look my settings closely to check nothings is wrong and i notice from hw monitor that even thought i set my vcore to 1.36 i only get 1.25 O_O and then i come here and see ppl telling about this bug...so what is the way to get my old 0602 back?

[khurios2000]

okay can anybody help me here?

i flashed my bios to 0906 and only to find out that it's , after flash i set my previous oc settings(e6850@3.5ghz) and it won't boot to windows, then i look my settings closely to check nothings is wrong and i notice from hw monitor that even thought i set my vcore to 1.36 i only get 1.25 O_O and then i come here and see ppl telling about this bug...so what is the way to get my old 0602 back?

what default vid on your 6850? 1.25?

i have the same problem with my P5K-E, i cant change the voltage at all...
bios 0806

anybody can help?

[Keiki]

what default vid on your 6850? 1.25?

i have the same problem with my P5K-E, i cant change the voltage at all...
bios 0806

anybody can help?

i can't remember what the default is but i don't think it's 1.25v

[vocch]

There you go.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...0&postcount=65

Edit: Just make sure when you flash in windows to stop anything running that could interupt the flashing process.

[g1raffe]

okay can anybody help me here?

i flashed my bios to 0906 and only to find out that it's , after flash i set my previous oc settings(e6850@3.5ghz) and it won't boot to windows, then i look my settings closely to check nothings is wrong and i notice from hw monitor that even thought i set my vcore to 1.36 i only get 1.25 O_O and then i come here and see ppl telling about this bug...so what is the way to get my old 0602 back?

Just set the voltage in the BIOS ~0.08V or so higher and you will get the same effect as what you had with the previous BIOS.

[Keiki]

There you go.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...0&postcount=65

Edit: Just make sure when you flash in windows to stop anything running that could interupt the flashing process.

Thanks, that worked fine.

[sparkison]

Anyone still have the 603 BIOS by chance? Planning on ordering this board tomorrow and reading through this thread it seams that the 603 BIOS is the way to go but, the download links provided are down?

EDIT: w00t!! First post
didn't realize I haven't made a post yet :P

EDIT 2: nvm, found the second set of links from Aerosupra here http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...&postcount=270
those ones are still good, thanks!

[Aerou]

WORKING BIOS LINKS for people getting lost in 17 pages
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...&postcount=270

[patman]

I have been keeping up with this thread, and have flashed my p5ke from 806 (which allowed me to overclock my e6400 to 3.5 ghz easily, as long as left cpu voltage on auto), to 906, which worked as well. I have since flashed back to 603 (thanks for the good advice about the older asus update utility) and achieved 3.7 ghz with voltage damper (load line calibration, whatever you want to call it) DISABLED. I had to set my vcore in bios kind of high (~1.5875 I think) but my temps were well under control and I did expierience some of the vdrop b/c in windows it was detected as 1.5v. But the reason I tried this WITHOUT vdrop was that I was reading the article on anandtech pgs 5 & 6(http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...px?i=3184&p=6). It actually allowed me to achieve a higher oc and better benching without this feature enabled. Actually, at anand, they mention this feature specifically. So please keep this in mind if theres a possibilty that it might be thrashing your cpu.

Hardware: e6400, 2gb gskill hz, zalman cnps 9700

[ooeric]

how do i flash to 603?

i bought a board and its using 5xx something.

i just DL'd the 603 rom and tried it with ezflash and it doesnt let me.

am i gonna have to use a floppy?


or should i just update to the latest one via ezflash. then use the asusupdate to downgrade to 603?

[troisanh]

download 603 to usb flash memory stick then use ezflash in bios to flash.

[Psitech]

I'm getting a E8400 in a few weeks and this board is first on my list so far to run with it. I've got a few quesitons for you guys that will hopefully confirm things for me.

1) Will a wolfdale work with a brand new P5K-E/Wifi out of the box with no bios update?

2) What max fsb can I look forward to getting with this board?

3) Is this board picky with ram? I've got 4gb of A-Data Extreme Vitesta 800 (4-4-4-12) that I belive is D9GMH.

4) Last Question: Do you guys think this is a good board to run with a wolfdale and if not, what would be best? ($150 budget for board)

[g1raffe]

I'm getting a E8400 in a few weeks and this board is first on my list so far to run with it. I've got a few quesitons for you guys that will hopefully confirm things for me.

1) Will a wolfdale work with a brand new P5K-E/Wifi out of the box with no bios update?

2) What max fsb can I look forward to getting with this board?

3) Is this board picky with ram? I've got 4gb of A-Data Extreme Vitesta 800 (4-4-4-12) that I belive is D9GMH.

4) Last Question: Do you guys think this is a good board to run with a wolfdale and if not, what would be best? ($150 budget for board)

1) I don't think so, someone on a forum in Aus tried it and it wouldn't post, but I'm not certain.

2) 600 or so???

3) not that I know of, again not certain though.

4) Yes I do, but there are plenty of decent alternatives for about the same price, eg. DFI Blood Iron P35, Gigabyte P35-DS4, Abit IP-35 Pro, etc. Any of these are good choices afaik.

[ooeric]

download 603 to usb flash memory stick then use ezflash in bios to flash.

thats the thing.
when i use ezflash
it tells me like bootsector something something.

and it wont allow me. i DL the p5kdlx 603rom.
and ezflash just doesnt allow it.

is something wrong with my board??

[AriciU]

Same here. I can never update using that ezflash crap in the bios. Bought a memstick for nothing...

I always do it using Asus Update in windows and it worked perfectly for me. You might want to try that.

[Criswell]

Downloaded the 0602.rom, dropped it on a Flash Drive, rebooted, Hit Alt + F2, selected 0602.rom then let it do it's thing.

Very simple, and the Vdroop/vdrop is amazing, set to 1.45 in BIOS and reads 1.43 in CPU-Z and Everest.

I'm also having trouble with my RAM, when I first tried to install the Mobo I put my RAM in and the system would power up but nothing would happen, I took it back to Fry's and they got it to post so my buddy brought some RAM over and it booted fine, with both of ours in there, he then took his out and it booted up fine with my Ballistix.

I tried running 1T and got the same thing, turned on but nothing happened, no BIOS no POST. So we had to do the same thing all over. I'm afraid to even touch anything in the BIOS now cause I don't want this to happen again. What kind of RAM should I be running in this thing..?

[C0ncrete]

Criswell did you P5K-E come in a blakc box or a blue box?

[leven]

Downloaded the 0602.rom, dropped it on a Flash Drive, rebooted, Hit Alt + F2, selected 0602.rom then let it do it's thing.

Very simple, and the Vdroop/vdrop is amazing, set to 1.45 in BIOS and reads 1.43 in CPU-Z and Everest.

I'm also having trouble with my RAM, when I first tried to install the Mobo I put my RAM in and the system would power up but nothing would happen, I took it back to Fry's and they got it to post so my buddy brought some RAM over and it booted fine, with both of ours in there, he then took his out and it booted up fine with my Ballistix.

I tried running 1T and got the same thing, turned on but nothing happened, no BIOS no POST. So we had to do the same thing all over. I'm afraid to even touch anything in the BIOS now cause I don't want this to happen again. What kind of RAM should I be running in this thing..?

I had this problem too I thought it was a Voltage thing with my Ram(Patriot Extreme)2.2v but took one stick out and left one in the first black slot nearest the cpu and it booted fine changed the ram voltage in the bios to 2.2v ,then put the other stick in and it worked fine.

[ChuckM]

I had this problem too I thought it was a Voltage thing with my Ram(Patriot Extreme)2.2v but took one stick out and left one in the first black slot nearest the cpu and it booted fine changed the ram voltage in the bios to 2.2v ,then put the other stick in and it worked fine.

That's exactly how it should be done!

[Rocket]

Im having a problem with installing Asus Updater. Doesn`t matter which version either.
Setup starts, then it closes saying "no Asus motherboard found"
Anyone else having this problem?

[s0bieski]

Seems very nice to me. I will get one from that sorf ot boards