Official ASUS X48 Boards: P5E3 Premium, Rampage Formula/Extreme - BIOS/Info thread

[BLHealthy4life]

Thanks.

ASUS P5E3-Premium 0505 Beta Bios
[ 0505]
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1.add"CPU Clock Skew" & "NB Clock Skew"
2.add uCode(E0)

DO NOT USE THIS BIOS.

This BIOS has caused my machine tremendous instability and want to know the best f*cking part about it???

It will not let me flash to an older BIOS!!!
BL

EDIT: I posted in the other thread and will post the same here. I'm not sure if it was a coincidence ebtwen the BIOS and my RAM or not, but it turns out that my RAM was causing the instability. I had to slightly loosen my timing and inscrease voltage to eliminate any errors with memtest86...

[RealTelstar]

You got to use afudos to flash back to older bioses.

[BLHealthy4life]

You got to use afudos to flash back to older bioses.

AFUDOS is not working for me....

I have a USB drive that I've made into a bootable drive....

I have AFUDOS 2.36 on it and the 151.ROM

Every single time I try to flash, I get a message that AFUDOS cannot open the ROM file.

I am following the exact directions on the Asus support page too....

THE FOLLOWING IS THE COMMAND TO FLASH USING THE UTILITY:

AFUDOS /iP5E3-ASUS-PREMIUM-0151.ROM

If I do not use the "/i" switch, I get the message saying that i need to use the /i switchbefore the BIOS file name.....

I'm at a loss as what to do from here.....

BL

[BLHealthy4life]

I'm back to 151...used a method posted in the P5E3 Premium Thread

[cool_case]

How do you guys like the p5e3 premium? Trying to decide whether to get that or hold out for the Rampage Extreme.

[Mykou]

How do you guys like the p5e3 premium? Trying to decide whether to get that or hold out for the Rampage Extreme.

I gave up with this POS .. it is just my opinion , bios not mature even if some can boot at very nice fsb

getting stability with mine was not piece of cake , so far .

strap issues , random reboots , freezes and bsod daily made me crazy and I'm an asus fan boy usually .

It was impossible to get prime stability ( just occt stable )as with my P5KC, P5K blackpearl whatever voltages I choosed

Now running P5E3 deluxe and prime stable without any issues so happy to have sold it .

I just wanted to get 2 x 16 pci express available

You can try it but I still say it's luck of the draw .

beware it has lot of ram issues.

good luck as I'm considering it is the worst board I had since 10 years !

[Infa]

Im sorry you feel this way... know what it feels like though

but this board is dancing pretty good tango with me

its just very tricky as ALL X48 boards, they need serious tweaking to get stable at high OC, and it isnt allways logical settings that is required... Ex, its stable at 1.55 vMCH but if you put 1.57-59 it doesnt pass OCCT. tricky board, and beleive me i have been screaming some nice words over this hehe... but now its totally tweaked and stable and getting superb performance not lot of people have and regarding FSB i can get 560, but some time ago i did that on the P35 to with the same cpu so i guess its the cpu and not the board, but hey, 560 is quite good anyway?

pick the board if you have some knowledge in tweaking and a lot of patience hehe.

cheers!

[sauria]

Works for me -- it is tricky. I'm on 0503

[Mykou]

Im sorry you feel this way... know what it feels like though

but this board is dancing pretty good tango with me

its just very tricky as ALL X48 boards, they need serious tweaking to get stable at high OC, and it isnt allways logical settings that is required... Ex, its stable at 1.55 vMCH but if you put 1.57-59 it doesnt pass OCCT. tricky board, and beleive me i have been screaming some nice words over this hehe... but now its totally tweaked and stable and getting superb performance not lot of people have and regarding FSB i can get 560, but some time ago i did that on the P35 to with the same cpu so i guess its the cpu and not the board, but hey, 560 is quite good anyway?

pick the board if you have some knowledge in tweaking and a lot of patience hehe.

cheers!

560 is pretty good but although I could max boot at 568 fsb with that board it 's not enough for me to keep something unstable all the way and with such ramdom issues .. occt vas stable though so WTF.. and prime never lol

Anyway I saw lot of benches related to high fsb but few ones concerning real stability with that X48 .. but it is no more my pb for future

good luck to you

regards

[Nitty]

What do you think, is Rampage Extreme better then Striker II Extreme???

[BLHealthy4life]

I gave up with this POS .. it is just my opinion , bios not mature even if some can boot at very nice fsb

getting stability with mine was not piece of cake , so far .

strap issues , random reboots , freezes and bsod daily made me crazy and I'm an asus fan boy usually .

It was impossible to get prime stability ( just occt stable )as with my P5KC, P5K blackpearl whatever voltages I choosed

Now running P5E3 deluxe and prime stable without any issues so happy to have sold it .

I just wanted to get 2 x 16 pci express available

You can try it but I still say it's luck of the draw .

beware it has lot of ram issues.

good luck as I'm considering it is the worst board I had since 10 years !

I'm feeling the same way as you.

I'm either going to RMA this board or just get rid of it all together.

I am having a very tough time getting it stable and not only that - now that I'm back to 151, which was the only BIOS that allowed me to go over 500FSB, It will now not allow me to do that!

This board is so inconsistent as far as stability....Orthos stable at one speed one day and not another day. Memetst96+ fine one day and then not another...or I can have the machine completely stable with Orthos blend, then I go launch a browser to surf the internet and i get a BSOD.

Oh, and i love it after I game for hours at a time and decide that I've had enough, that my computer decides to crash after that....not while gaming...go figure.

[hooper]

ASUS P5E3-Premium 0505 Beta Bios
[ 0505]
----------------------
1.add"CPU Clock Skew" & "NB Clock Skew"
2.add uCode(E0)

Thanks for that..however I would like to know how to revert back to the original BIOS if wanted..Do you are anyone know how to do it ?

[BLHealthy4life]

Thanks for that..however I would like to know how to revert back to the original BIOS if wanted..Do you are anyone know how to do it ?

I'm back to 204 now.....

It is doing better than 151 did.....

I plan on trying 505 again straight flash from 204 after I get my new memory modules....I've determined that my memory was the problem causing all of the instability....

soo, I have RMA request in for my current sticks and new sticks on the way and will arrive Monday.

You can use the flash program provided several posts up I believe....I used it to force flash back to 151.....if it isn't this thread, then it is the other thread for the P5E3 Premium.

BL

[BLHealthy4life]

So has anyone been able to tell if the Official 505 is better/Equal to the BETA 505?

New memory arrives today.....looking forward to some new overclocking....

[Brama]

So has anyone been able to tell if the Official 505 is better/Equal to the BETA 505?

Normally, if the number of BIOS is the same, the code inside is the same.

The flag "beta" is put on new BIOS until the wild is confirming that it is stable and reliable.

[BLHealthy4life]

BIOS 505 is working great for me.....

Not sure why I had so many problems the first time around...it may have been my memory.

This board is rock stable for me and i'm looking forward to dropping in a few ATI cards whenever I can....

BL

[sauria]

Great got a link for 0505 that is the final version?

[Jazz]

Does anyone know why the P5E Deluxe has only *1* very lonely looking BIOS update....is it the perfect board..a total orphan...or can it use the Rampage Bios updates?

[Pisklink]

I could use some help here on overclocking my new E8400 on the P5E3-Premium mobo.

As far as I understand VID is the standard voltage the chip will run on when at standard speed. I guess my chip's VID was 1.18V @ 3Ghz (Q817A240; pack date 4-6-2008).

I already searched the internet for some basic settings to start from. The following settings got me into Vista64 but when I start orthos it already gives errors after app. 10 seconds. Would pls take a look at my current settings and give some advise:

CPU ratio: 9.0
FSB: 450
FSB strap: 400
PCI-E: 100
DRAM freq.: 1800
Timings: 8-7-7-25-2T @ 1.98V (factory specs are 7-6-6-24-1T @ 1.9V)
CPU volt: 1.425V
FSB temination: 1.3V
NB volt: 1.45V
Temps. idle: 42 and 36 (measured with speedfan v4.34)

Everything else is on auto including, load line calibration, CPU spread spectrum and CPU PLL voltage.

In my opinion these settings are way to high as compared to other E8400 users here on the board. However lowering one of these settings results in BSOD or no POST. Thanks in advance for the advise which is much appreciated!!!!