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

[Milamber]

Just updated mine, and i saw a few more options to do with ram. temps seem better too.

[doakh]

Just updated mine, and i saw a few more options to do with ram. temps seem better too.

Does Bios 0602 expand the 'tRFC' memory setting past 42.

[screwtech02]

WZ, if im reading into the "GTL" volt setting correctly, its supposed to be approx 2/3 of whatever cpu volts your running??? I guess the same would apply to northbridge GTL also???

[VinnyG]

Users that flashed to BIOS 0602, would you be kind enought to tell me if your temps are reading normaly? Ever since BIOS 0502/0601, my CPU temps are reported as 10C lower and NB temps, 20C lower...

[mu||et]

Users that flashed to BIOS 0602, would you be kind enought to tell me if your temps are reading normaly? Ever since BIOS 0502/0601, my CPU temps are reported as 10C lower and NB temps, 20C lower...

Its the same man as 0502/0601.

[VinnyG]

Darn... I was hoping this would be solved, its the only real issue I have with the BIOS right now:P

[mk-ultra]

anyone passed 500fsb with their p5e with e8400 on air?

can you please post your voltage, cuz mine doesn't seem to like it, or i'm not giving it enought juice idk

thanks

btw vinny, it's weird you seem the only having temps problems with the lastest bios

[De1337]

ps .. forgot to post with my post .. my ram also is PC8500 dominator. Corsair ftw on this board.

Tempted to get another 2x1GB ... u getting good clocking speeds with 4 sticks?

haven't really taken them beyond 1066mhz... no point for me.. im just finally happy i got 533 5gb without issues.

bottom line is 4 of these work. I actually recieved a set of 4x1 dominator before the current one, where one stick was bad... i was VERY close to just sending all the back and run my 2x2gb 800mhz xms2 ram... but that add to shopping cart button and the "-23%" pricetag on the 2x1gb dominators from another site just made me do it.

thank god it was only the stick. I got my money back from the one firm and got the ram somewhere else, and now it finally works.

[necron66]

Hmm fair enough. I dunno if the readings would change much from board to board, and from RAM to RAM, but I'll be getting a 2x2Gb G.Skill 1000Mhz kit in the next week or so, so I'll have a bit more of a play around with voltages then...

Eller

Also would be interesting to know which slots are populated when ppl are testing vDIMM.

I had slots 2 and 4 filled (the 2 black ones).

[mk-ultra]

Does Bios 0602 expand the 'tRFC' memory setting past 42.

yes, and it adds a whole lot of settings for tRFC

the only thing, i noticed so far

[karl_eller]

Also would be interesting to know which slots are populated when ppl are testing vDIMM.

I had slots 2 and 4 filled (the 2 black ones).

Yet another thing I'll have to play around with. I wonder if RAM usage/activity would also have an impact on the volt readings...

Looks like when my G.Skill kit gets here, I'll have some experimentin' to do!

Eller

[lowtcell]

Wierd things going on.

I just bumped FSB to 450 and set RAM 1:1 and start stress testing and my CPU temp jumped up to 90c (Everest and AISuite). Both cores were at 52c. OK, so I boot to Bios and check CPU temp, 38c. Boot back to windows and CPU temp reads 27c, both core are 35c. I let it idle while I read about the 602 bios and I hear my CPU fan spin down. Checked Speedfan and sure enough, running 50% (Q-Control disabled) and CPU temp back to 79c (cores still at 34c/35c). After a couple of minutes the fan went back to 100%, but the CPU is still at 79c as I type this. I'm still on Bios 501 that I flashed when I built the system and have not seen this behavior at any FSB (up to 515).

[INTREPID]

Another change with the 602 bios:

601 Bios: Vcore on Auto with E8400 reads a too high 1.360v in bios
602 Bios: Vcore on Auto with E8400 reads about 1.185v (forgot to note exact voltage)

I have my Vcore manually set to 1.24375v with an E8400 @ 3.6Ghz. Bios Reads: 1.208. Windows Reads: 1.216. Windows Under Load (with Loadline Calibration On): 1.192

601 Bios was a "beta" according to the Asus Website. No info on 602 bios. If they follow their pattern,
602 should not be a beta. If anyone finds the release notes to 602, let us know!

[VinnyG]

anyone passed 500fsb with their p5e with e8400 on air?

can you please post your voltage, cuz mine doesn't seem to like it, or i'm not giving it enought juice idk

thanks

btw vinny, it's weird you seem the only having temps problems with the lastest bios

When the BIOS hardware monitor says 12C for the CPU when its really 21-22C, there is a problem. Its also a noted issue as far as Im concerned over at the Asus forums. I use air cooling and ambient temps are 21ish degrees... As far as I know, its impossible for standard air or water cooling to be below ambient.

Its moot point, really, since everything else works:P

[INTREPID]

I have an E8400 @ 3.6Ghz. with an Ultra 120 Extreme. I wonder why my core temps are reading normally with bios 0602 while others are having problems. Or are these temps too low?

CoreTemp & Everest -

Idle: 25C
Stress with OCCT: 38C
Stress with Orthos: 40C

[Darknezz]

Well I just got the new 0602 bios in an it runs much better than the 0601. I am running my Q6600 at 3730mhz on air 8x465 with my Transcends aXeRAM DDR 1200 at 1200mhz before i had too run them at 1103mhz.

[VinnyG]

I have an E8400 @ 3.6Ghz. with an Ultra 120 Extreme. I wonder why my core temps are reading normally with bios 0602 while others are having problems. Or are these temps too low?

CoreTemp & Everest -

Idle: 25C
Stress with OCCT: 38C
Stress with Orthos: 40C

Thoses actually seem good. (Im having problem with the 0502/0601 BIOS not the new one as I havent tried it yet...)

[doakh]

602 bios is out dunno what the changes are , anyone brave enough to test it
ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/so...-ASUS-0602.zip

I updated to Bios 0602. No problems. The only change I can find was to expand the 'tRFC' memory latency manual settings.

I installed the update from my harddrive. I created a 9MB FAT partition and EZ Flash instantly recognized it. This is easier than using a flash drive.

[Darknezz]

I am Having problems with random shutdowns i can prime it but after primeing it sometime it just reboots???

[screwtech02]

Something different with 602, i cannot acheive the same overclock with the same settings, without upping the volts more.... And the memory timing "expansion" looks to be pretty basic.....

[EagleRock]

602 seems to be better with overclocking the memory.
mine will not go over 960mhz stable on 601 and now seems to be working ok at 1066mhz
i like the new bios

[lowtcell]

Alright, I flashed 602. There is no improvement in the G-Skill, still capped @ 1066 (not the board's fault) but now my CPU temp reads 9-17c and setting vCore to 1.365 in Bios shows up as 1.334 in CPUz, Bios monitor and AISuite, although I'm 100% stable @ 3600 now at that voltage.

PS.
SPD Tab in CPUz now only shows only module size, WTF?

[Milamber]

Alright, I flashed 602. There is no improvement in the G-Skill, still capped @ 1066 (not the board's fault) but now my CPU temp reads 9-17c and setting vCore to 1.365 in Bios shows up as 1.334 in CPUz, Bios monitor and AISuite, although I'm 100% stable @ 3600 now at that voltage.

PS.
SPD Tab in CPUz now only shows only module size, WTF?

Download the latest CPUZ... Version 144.1.

Its important to keep with the times, new hardware and old software versions don't mix to well.

[aiya_au]

THANK YOU ASUS for this bios. fixes all my 1066mhz ram problems.

my crucial ballistix tracer 8500 2x1gb use to fail at stock settings with the 0502 and 0601 bios's. With the 0602 bios, i just completed 20passes of memtest finally.

i've noticed that with the 0502 and 0601 bioses, memtest reported a bandwidth of 5593mb/s at stock speed. The latest bios reports 4895mb/s. so i guess to increase stability, they reduced the speed a little.

finally i have a stable system with no random BSOD's from ram errors

[dreamluc]

Now, which bios is the best? Just the newest?