Asus P5K Premium Problems + fixes thread

[dexx]

Way to go back old BIOS, should work with other Asus MBs,

using the uploaded file together with Asus Liveupdate
(1) load the BIOS with Asus Update as usual, remember click "downgrade" option in Asus Update Option

I havent used Asus Liveupdate before. When i load in in Winxp it doesnt give me any opportunity to load a bios. In fact it doesnt appear to let me do anything. What am i missing?

[AliZel]

After installing the new E8400, and installing a AC Cooler, the bios always beeps of error at booting because it reports 400 rpm from the cooler. That is normal, the CPU is at 27 degrees, but i think it is a bios error, because the bm temperature reports in bios -110 degrees. :|

[ericware]

Thanks for showing a way to downgrade the bios mate .. it helps me so much

[situman]

My comp has stopped posting, not even a beep. Dead board?

[pschma]

ram or cpu could be toast as well.

[DerekT]

No problem with RAID 0 on the Seagate 1000's. All went well the first install. Overclock is stable and there is no Vdroop. As a matter of a fact, there is a Vraise of 1.376v --> 1.384v on Prime95 v2.5.

[DerekT]

My comp has stopped posting, not even a beep. Dead board?

Remove your DRAM. Reset your CMOS jumper. Install a single strip of DDR667 Vanilla DRAM.

Restart.

[situman]

Did all that stuff already. Regardless teh board should issue some kind of beep to warn me of something faulty.

[AliZel]

Which is the normal temp for the E8400? At me it shows in bios 27 degrees, in Everest also 27 degrees in idle state, all this with a Arctic Cooling cooler, but core temp shows 47 degrees. Is there a problem with the sensors or this bios release is faulty (0504). Also the rpm in the cooler stays at 400 rpm, raising only to max 1000 rpm in full load. The CPU is OC at 3600 mhz, auto vcore.

[JoeBar]

Did all that stuff already. Regardless teh board should issue some kind of beep to warn me of something faulty.

Change your psu.

[fng77]

Way to go back old BIOS, should work with other Asus MBs,

using the uploaded file together with Asus Liveupdate
(1) load the BIOS with Asus Update as usual, remember click "downgrade" option in Asus Update Option
(2) Load the file I uploaded
(3) click the leftmost button
(4) the update button should be un-greyed, then click update, otherwise, repeat Step (3)
(5) after update successfuly, switch off the computer and clear the CMOS as usual

I already back to 404 from 504, 504 limits my rams overclocking.

There is a more simple way to downgrade your bios, just use: AsusUpdt version 6.10.02 it works like charm both up and down. Dont forget to choose "downgradeable".

I have tried everything else but i think this is the simplest way. the file is to big for me to attach, just google for it.

[mono666]

anyone having problems locking pcie 16x after updating to 0504?
I was able to lock it at 103mhz with 400fsb after updating. But after playing around with fsb in bios I can no longer lock it at 103mhz pcie with fsb set to 400mhz... any suggestions?

[Supertim0r]

anyone having problems locking pcie 16x after updating to 0504?
I was able to lock it at 103mhz with 400fsb after updating. But after playing around with fsb in bios I can no longer lock it at 103mhz pcie with fsb set to 400mhz... any suggestions?

I'm stuck @ pci-e 1x past 399fsb

[mono666]

I'm stuck @ pci-e 1x past 399fsb

OMG that means I was extremely lucky to get a lock at 400 now why did I had to go fool around with the damn fsb I remember I disabled pcie gfx control by accident once and got a 103mhz lock right after CMOS reset. any care to confirm?

EDIT: hmm seems like I am stuck @399fsb too :\

[IanB]

IIRC this was discussed in the main thread for this board, or the P5K Deluxe thread, and the trick was to manually set the PCI frequency higher, from 110 to 120MHz. Upping one of the voltage settings helps too, but I can't recall which one, either Northbridge or PCI - the latter seems likely. Searching those threads should turn up the answer.

[mono666]

IIRC this was discussed in the main thread for this board, or the P5K Deluxe thread, and the trick was to manually set the PCI frequency higher, from 110 to 120MHz. Upping one of the voltage settings helps too, but I can't recall which one, either Northbridge or PCI - the latter seems likely. Searching those threads should turn up the answer.

Thanks, I've tried from 101 to 120mhz and nothing worked. But I havn't tried to up the NB (no idea what PCI voltage is called in the 504 bios) later tonight.

[ACK]

My p5k deluxe is dead, it doesn't do the POST just fans are working and the secreen has the message no signal.

The salesman in the computer shop says me that they haven`t got any p5k deluxe anymore and they only sell p5k premium now. It's p5k premium wifi/ap a good P35 mobo for my raid (see signature), if not some piece of advice for an ICH9R board in order to reactivate my RAID, GB DS4 rev2.1 perhaps?

[situman]

heeeey the exact same thing happened to me. I bought a IP35 pro to just hold me over until something new and better comes along.

[bot@xs]

i have the p5kp too and update to the 504 bios
one raptor at ahci, no mayor problems
q6600 runs at 3.6ghz, 400x9
4x1gb ballistix running at cas3 3-3-3-8 at 800mhz
which where my problem comes in. i tried to set it to cas5 and 1200mhz in bios but cpu-s still shows it at 533, not 600.
ram was defenitlly easier to play with, with the 404 bios

[brenanh]

OMG that means I was extremely lucky to get a lock at 400 now why did I had to go fool around with the damn fsb I remember I disabled pcie gfx control by accident once and got a 103mhz lock right after CMOS reset. any care to confirm?

EDIT: hmm seems like I am stuck @399fsb too :\

So when you force PCI-E to 100mhz in the BIOS it just ignores it??

I haven't had any problems with it and I'm currently running 525 FSB...

[dexx]

How can you tell what speed your pci-e is actually running at? Would a util like cpuz tell the truth?

[jonny_ftm]

anyone having problems locking pcie 16x after updating to 0504?
I was able to lock it at 103mhz with 400fsb after updating. But after playing around with fsb in bios I can no longer lock it at 103mhz pcie with fsb set to 400mhz... any suggestions?

I'm stuck @ pci-e 1x past 399fsb

How can you tell what speed your pci-e is actually running at? Would a util like cpuz tell the truth?

I run 3.8GHz at 8x475 without ever noticing that PCI-E x1 issue. On some P5B deluxe, it was a northbridge issue, once you give it too much volts the problem appears.

On the P5K premium, doing the opposite (giving the NB and or the SB some more volts) can solve the issue like said above. But, on most boards, it was a PSU unit. Once you OC too much, the PSU can't handle the power needs of the VGA card and it lowers to x1

And yes, CPU-Z will show it easily under the motherboard tab

[Biker]

My p5k deluxe is dead, it doesn't do the POST just fans are working and the secreen has the message no signal.

The salesman in the computer shop says me that they haven`t got any p5k deluxe anymore and they only sell p5k premium now. It's p5k premium wifi/ap a good P35 mobo for my raid (see signature), if not some piece of advice for an ICH9R board in order to reactivate my RAID, GB DS4 rev2.1 perhaps?

If you get a P5K premium then you run the risk of it not working with your Western Digital drives.... this is not 100% certain, some boards work and some do not but it seems to be sheer luck if yours is ok.

Just to confirm the most important issue thus far of this thread:

The P5K Premium has serious incompatibility issues with Western Digital and Samsung SATA II drives.

Seagate and Maxtor are fine; there are no known issues with SATA 1 drives (all raptors + others) and this board.

[situman]

My p5k deluxe is dead, it doesn't do the POST just fans are working and the secreen has the message no signal.

The salesman in the computer shop says me that they haven`t got any p5k deluxe anymore and they only sell p5k premium now. It's p5k premium wifi/ap a good P35 mobo for my raid (see signature), if not some piece of advice for an ICH9R board in order to reactivate my RAID, GB DS4 rev2.1 perhaps?

Try a new stick of ram. Had the same problem, and it was my ram thats dead.

[ReverendMaynard]

If you get a P5K premium then you run the risk of it not working with your Western Digital drives.... this is not 100% certain, some boards work and some do not but it seems to be sheer luck if yours is ok.

Just to confirm the most important issue thus far of this thread:

The P5K Premium has serious incompatibility issues with Western Digital and Samsung SATA II drives.

Seagate and Maxtor are fine; there are no known issues with SATA 1 drives (all raptors + others) and this board.

I've been using Sata II WD drives from day 1 and not one issue. Must be lucky.