ASUS P5K Deluxe - Intel P35 Bearlake + E6600 B1 / Q6600 B3

**Leeghoofd** · 03-09-2008, 10:16 AM

leave the battery out for half a day, and then try again , some users also had good results with inverting the battery for a few secs...sure everything is well seated ?

**lucas81** · 03-09-2008, 04:40 PM

Well, i hope you can boot into windows again. Google on asus update v6, download that one. With that version, v6, you can downgrade again.

**vincey2kr1** · 03-09-2008, 07:18 PM

nope still cant get into windows, .. i even got some dummy ram (kingston 533ddr2) and still no post.. i've done countless bios updates, not sure why this one failed.. What can i do from here? Send the board to Asus?

**Leeghoofd** · 03-10-2008, 01:33 AM

RMA time, but don't tell them it's due to a bios update

**vincey2kr1** · 03-10-2008, 10:09 AM

WEnt to asus website looked at our MB, what about using this feature?:

CrashFree BIOS 3

Simply restore corrupted BIOS data from USB flash disk
The ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3 allows users to restore corrupted BIOS data from a USB flash disk containing the BIOS file. This utility saves users the cost and hassle of buying a replacement BIOS chip.

couldnt i just flash the bios back to 0311?

**Leeghoofd** · 03-12-2008, 12:21 AM

That is really ya last resort, try it, I didn't think of that..

I'm curently using the last beta Bios... all seemed fine with my QX9650 at 3.6ghz...I unplugged the power cord as I had to work on another rig... after that I hooked up the P5K pc again... bummer I get an error that the VID or the MULTI vs ratio isn't recognised correctly , pressing F1 makes the pc boot again without any issues...

Gonna try to reflash the bios with the latest beta but don't think it will do much... all was fine with the Q6600 , with the QX I'm running into trouble...

Edit : Did the reflash, reset Cmoss...Pc booted fine... set OC... reboot all fine... unplugged the power cord... same error again... reflashed to 0703... all is fine...

Conclusion : Qx9650 users do NOT flash to 0809 bios plz

**0rion** · 03-12-2008, 04:50 PM

Last night I wanted to flash my bios back from 0603 bios to the 501 bios I had much more success with. I called tech support to have them help me do it. As it turns out, the bios cant flash an old bios. The older bios has to be be flashed using windows, with asus update. There is an option there to select bios downgradable. So I downloaded the bios, and tried to flash it, making sure to boot at stock settings first. Long story short, it didnt work. It cleared the bios, but never flashed it. They then had me reboot, as asus update no longer detected an asus bios. When I tried to boot, it just shut down and started up repeatedly over and over. With tech support on the line, they advised me to do a cmos clear (which I would have done myself anyways), and it as still a no go. He sent me over to the RMA department, and I had to get another RMA for this board. Unfortunately they had none in stock, so I have to send mine back to get it repaired. Not the happiest camper there ever was right now

**Leeghoofd** · 03-13-2008, 12:32 AM

The Asus crash recovery also doesn't work ? did you leave out the battery for half a day ?

**0rion** · 03-13-2008, 08:58 AM

Originally Posted by Leeghoofd

The Asus crash recovery also doesn't work ? did you leave out the battery for half a day ?

The asus crash recovery I believe is for fixing a bios that has been tweaked in the wrong way due to overclocking. It was never meant to handle fixing a completely corrupt bios due to flashing, or recover from erasing a bios and not flashing a new one. And no, I didnt leave the battery out for more than 20 seconds with the jumper switched over.

**Leeghoofd** · 03-13-2008, 02:43 PM

Some Maximus formula users have to use this trick to revert to an older bios, start flashing , abrubtly end it and they let it reboot from the cd with another bios version on it... flash done...

**0rion** · 03-13-2008, 03:57 PM

Mine was beyond that point unfortunately. I got past the erase of the bios, then it never got a chance to load anything at all. So when i pressed the power button, all I got was the rig powering up at 100% for about 2 seconds, nothing on the screens, then it would power off. Then it would start back up, etc etc.

The sad thing is that id never have been in this position if I hadn't tried to change my bios back when I used the 501 bios. Nothing but problems since then. Im gonna have them put the 501 back on this one when they repair it. Ive learned my lesson.

**ACK** · 03-15-2008, 04:20 AM

then, what's the best BIOS available for a QX9650 CPU?

**Leeghoofd** · 03-15-2008, 05:16 AM

I got 0703 running pretty happy with it, does eveything I need... 400FSB with 10 multi and ram at 1000mhz 5-5-5-15...

**vincey2kr1** · 04-01-2008, 03:38 PM

OMG recieved my RMA mb after 2 weeks, install it and I have the same F..ing problem, no post.. Tried some different generic kingston ram and still no post just like the rma'd motherboard ..try mixing the ram like someone suggested still no post.. I'm guessing they gave me another board with a sh*t bios that doesnt work with the 2 different memory i have.

I dont have another pcie video card to see if updating the bios actually f'd up my 8800gtx. Wish i would of just stayed with the 0603 bios..

**jcniest5** · 04-01-2008, 06:52 PM

Originally Posted by vincey2kr1

OMG recieved my RMA mb after 2 weeks, install it and I have the same F..ing problem, no post.. Tried some different generic kingston ram and still no post just like the rma'd motherboard ..try mixing the ram like someone suggested still no post.. I'm guessing they gave me another board with a sh*t bios that doesnt work with the 2 different memory i have.

I dont have another pcie video card to see if updating the bios actually f'd up my 8800gtx. Wish i would of just stayed with the 0603 bios..

My friend, don't panic. When I got my RMA, my board did exactly the same thing, no POST, I tried Reset, different memory, different video card, different PSU, with no CPU, no video card, no memory. The only thing that I knew it was not dead was that when I tried it without memory, it beeped at me. Everything else failed. I left it overnight (everything plugged in). I believed it was defected. In the morning, thinking it would still be dead, but I turned it on again just for the heck of it. Boom, it powered up and worked flawlessly since then. Did you try it outside of the case yet? Try that and see if makes any difference.

**vincey2kr1** · 04-01-2008, 07:24 PM

yes i've tried it out of the case

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**jcniest5** · 04-01-2008, 09:42 PM

Originally Posted by vincey2kr1

yes i've tried it out of the case

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Sorry that you have bad experience with Asus. I have never had a board actually died on me. The last RMA I filed was just a fan header problem, nothing big. I got the same model back, but different revision (1.00G vs. 1.01G) and OCs much, much better.

**Leeghoofd** · 04-01-2008, 11:57 PM

Originally Posted by vincey2kr1

yes i've tried it out of the case

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Waht does it do in fact ? do all the fans spinup ? tried booting without ram ? popped the battery ?

**vincey2kr1** · 04-02-2008, 08:22 AM

it was the memory...., i have 3 different types of memory(kingston, patriot) i tried and i got some super talent pc5300 and it worked!... So the new update bios obviously has problems with some of the memory it used to work on it wich is terrible by ASUS.

How do i revert back to 0603

**jcniest5** · 04-02-2008, 08:38 AM

Originally Posted by vincey2kr1

it was the memory...., i have 3 different types of memory(kingston, patriot) i tried and i got some super talent pc5300 and it worked!... So the new update bios obviously has problems with some of the memory it used to work on it wich is terrible by ASUS.

How do i revert back to 0603

I have Crucial Ballistix PC2-8500 (2x1GB sticks), OCZ DDR2-800 (a bunch of 1GB sticks) and and single stick 512MB Elite Team DDR2-800. They all work fine.

I heard or read somewhere that you can use an earlier Asus BIOS flashing program to revert back to an earlier BIOS. With the latest flashing program, it wouldn't let you do it. I personally have never tried it.

**h1ms3lf** · 04-02-2008, 08:45 AM

there is actually a trick to revert the bios after you fleshed yours with v6xx onward. so in order to downgrade your p5k deluxe bios you have to:
1. download and install Asus Update v6.10.02
2. download the older BIOS version you want to flesh, unzip and save it to C:\
3. start Asus Update, go to Options and select 'BIOS downgradeable" and save
4. choose "update BIOS from file" and point to the BIOS file that you downloaded
5. after it finishes, reboot and MAKE SURE that you correctly clear the CMOS!! (might have to wait for 10 or more minutes)
(if you dont do this you'll have problems on POST)
I succesfully use it to revert to 311 "best" OC bios so far!
good luck!

**Leeghoofd** · 04-02-2008, 08:55 AM

Yep or use the /f command with flash...

eg : flash.exe /f0703.bin

**brot** · 04-02-2008, 11:50 AM

Thank you very much for your work. This thread will really help with getting the most out of my friends quad!

**Fusionpit** · 04-03-2008, 07:41 AM

I have 13 of these boards, and I've noticed something odd happening some of the time; The board will reset either the FSB overclock to normal, or it will reset the memory timings. If you go back into the BIOS after resetting the power, it will bring up everything correctly as it was set initally.

This will only happen once in a great while, but it can really set me back and I cannot find any information on why it would happen. All but one are running the latest BIOS revision, but it seems that all the previous revisions had the same problems.

**Leeghoofd** · 04-03-2008, 07:50 AM

Originally Posted by Fusionpit

I have 13 of these boards, and I've noticed something odd happening some of the time; The board will reset either the FSB overclock to normal, or it will reset the memory timings. If you go back into the BIOS after resetting the power, it will bring up everything correctly as it was set initally.

This will only happen once in a great while, but it can really set me back and I cannot find any information on why it would happen. All but one are running the latest BIOS revision, but it seems that all the previous revisions had the same problems.

Never encountered this phenomenon on P5K Dlx, though have witnessed it several times on Gigabyte boards, I can feel ya pain

Reason unknown to me, sometimes a bad setting causes it (eg not enough voltage : board boots, can't set the clock and then resets to default ...)

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