***OFFICIAL Asus P5K-E/WiFi Thread

[JTeg86]

Ive got the board up and running with my E8400 but i still have an unknown device flagged in device manager. Im not sure what else it could be, Ive pretty much installed everything from ASUS site except ACPI driver??

[Gen]

sounds like you need to install the INF update from the cd.

[jpcastro]

Ive got the board up and running with my E8400 but i still have an unknown device flagged in device manager. Im not sure what else it could be, Ive pretty much installed everything from ASUS site except ACPI driver??

do you have VISTA or XP?

i have bouth and in XP also shows that device unknown and in VISTA dosen´t

i´ve just "disable" it and no problems so far

[CrazyNutz]

Ive got the board up and running with my E8400 but i still have an unknown device flagged in device manager. Im not sure what else it could be, Ive pretty much installed everything from ASUS site except ACPI driver??

In device manager go to properties of the unknown device, and click on details, post the "Device instance ID" string in this thread, and I can tell
you what it is.

[JTeg86]

I got it taken care of, It was the Chipset INF update utility driver. Thanks for the help anyway

And I must say...so far I am really happy with this board. We will see how well I like it soon when I start OC the E8400.

[CrazyNutz]

I got it taken care of, It was the Chipset INF update utility driver. Thanks for the help anyway

And I must say...so far I am really happy with this board. We will see how well I like it soon when I start OC the E8400.

I love my p5k-e with e8400, it's a sweet combo, oh and Im like'n the new
1012 bios, used to have that 16x pcie sticking at 1x problem but I have not
seen it once with 1012, so you may want to try that out.

[Gen]

I was having some problems with my P5K-E and 4 dimms recently. I had the board completely stable on all stock voltages/timings except 400mhz fsb and 800mhz on ram with 1.9v for a month, then suddenly instability this morning. I finally narrowed it down to the ram and tested each set in both dimms in Memtest x86, which all passed. With 4 dimms installed again, checking all gtl references and voltages the board would still instantly get Memtest errors.

Finally, i got fed up and flashed from 0602 to 1012 and now everything works smoothly so far. I wish i had performance numbers to post between the bios' but 0602 was just not stable.

Anyway some nice new things i noted in 1012 compared to the older bios is 400mhz strap on NB (333 was max before) and shown actual memory timings. The new layout of the bios options under Ai clock (was named Jumper Config before) are reworked and imo annoying, the older bios had all similar voltages togethor, ie. NB voltage and NB gtl reference were togethor, now they're apart.

This bios seems to boot a little bit faster but that could just be me.

I mainly posted this for people who may be having trouble and are on older bios', similar to my previous situation, with their P5K's and have tried everything and cannot get stability back from where they had it before. Of course i would only really recommend flashing as a last resort.

[Crazykooter]

I was having some problems with my P5K-E and 4 dimms recently. I had the board completely stable on all stock voltages/timings except 400mhz fsb and 800mhz on ram with 1.9v for a month, then suddenly instability this morning. I finally narrowed it down to the ram and tested each set in both dimms in Memtest x86, which all passed. With 4 dimms installed again, checking all gtl references and voltages the board would still instantly get Memtest errors.

Finally, i got fed up and flashed from 0602 to 1012 and now everything works smoothly so far. I wish i had performance numbers to post between the bios' but 0602 was just not stable.

Anyway some nice new things i noted in 1012 compared to the older bios is 400mhz strap on NB (333 was max before) and shown actual memory timings. The new layout of the bios options under Ai clock (was named Jumper Config before) are reworked and imo annoying, the older bios had all similar voltages togethor, ie. NB voltage and NB gtl reference were togethor, now they're apart.

This bios seems to boot a little bit faster but that could just be me.

I mainly posted this for people who may be having trouble and are on older bios', similar to my previous situation, with their P5K's and have tried everything and cannot get stability back from where they had it before. Of course i would only really recommend flashing as a last resort.

Thats odd since I flashed to the 1012 bios I lost 800 mhz of oc 24/7. I can even get into windows past 3600 when I use to run 3880 all the time. I wish I could flash this bios back to 0602 but the only way to do it seems to crash the bios and I really dont have the money for a new board if something goes wrong.