Modded ASUS P5Q/Pro/Deluxe/Premium BIOS

[ReverendMaynard]

It does here, I have an E8400 that does 4ghz at 1.21Vcore on the DLx ( no GTL tweaks) I cannot get it stable with LLC enabled on the E, popped the CPU back into the Dlx, set 1.21, enabled LLC , stable linpack puppy...

With LLC on, I get erratic behaviour, even non OC'ed... on the E board... which is a bummer

Here as well. It's a shame because it was rock solid on my P5K-Premium.

[Ket]

Dang I'm glad I picked the Pro. I will say though, during the experimenting stages I did notice parts of the Premium BIOS "took" much better to the Pro than the Dlx BIOS. IE; when using the Dlx memory table I would have to clear CMOS, but with the Premium memory table everything worked great on restart. (I know I was lazy when testing doing things from Windoze )

[BeastNotro]

Dang I'm glad I picked the Pro. I will say though, during the experimenting stages I did notice parts of the Premium BIOS "took" much better to the Pro than the Dlx BIOS. IE; when using the Dlx memory table I would have to clear CMOS, but with the Premium memory table everything worked great on restart. (I know I was lazy when testing doing things from Windoze )

I never had to clear CMOS when i flashed from m1201 to m1306 as a matter of fact i never have had to do so yet on any FLASH on this mobo .. P5Q Deluxe. .. thats like from the original 605 (me thinks) to now all Bios that were/are out and BETA's too.

All settings were there and all ran fine.

[YMAA]

The modded 1306 on the Deluxe seems to have issues with voltages. I'll do more testing, but the board will refuse to POST when CPU PLL voltage is adjusted. Other than that it seems ok.

[BeastNotro]

I am at PLL 1.56 Np's... 1306 mod bios.

[Dee]

Using the P5Q-E m1306. They kick ass! Thanks Ket.

I just got 4GHz out of this E8600 on stock Intel cooling and stock voltage of 1.25V. This is supposedly from the "bad batch" week 20 E8600's, too. Previously the same OC took 1.325V set in BIOS. I can't wait to replace this cooler. And I wish it would rain just a little bit of money from the sky for no apparent reason.

[Ket]

I never had to clear CMOS when i flashed from m1201 to m1306 as a matter of fact i never have had to do so yet on any FLASH on this mobo .. P5Q Deluxe. .. thats like from the original 605 (me thinks) to now all Bios that were/are out and BETA's too.

All settings were there and all ran fine.

They will work fine as they use the Premium memory table. I was commenting about closed alpha builds I did using the Deluxe memory table not POSTing after an update. The Premium memory table works fine, so my guess would be Asus borked something (deliberately?) for all the boards below their Premium.

[OC_Newbee]

It does here, I have an E8400 that does 4ghz at 1.21Vcore on the DLx ( no GTL tweaks) I cannot get it stable with LLC enabled on the E, popped the CPU back into the Dlx, set 1.21, enabled LLC , stable linpack puppy...

With LLC on, I get erratic behaviour, even non OC'ed... on the E board... which is a bummer

Sorry to hijack ya thread Ket

Here as well. It's a shame because it was rock solid on my P5K-Premium.

Same here on my P5Q-E with LLC on it causes more instability issue then it being disable. Been running LLC disable since official bios 1201, 1306 and now ket's modded 1201 & 1306. Hope this LLC issue get resolved sooner.

[-n7-]

Thanx for the work.

Using 1306 for my P5Q-D, though it hasn't affected clocking in any way.

Still stuck with PL8 @ 400 FSB

[waynetu]

fine here with PL7 at 1066 or 1200hz @ 400 strap, cpu on 400fsb

[Ket]

:\ Looks like I should get my new CPU in ASAP. This board just wont run 400 strap properly with an E4400.

[BeastNotro]

Strap 400 works for me on this Q6600 and it better work if i use it on my E8600, but normally i never use a STRAP as i just manually set the ram speed with STRAP on auto.

[ThugsRook]

the 400 strap didnt work on bios 1004 with a e8200, and setting it to auto doesnt fix that.

keep in mind, 400 strap is S L O W anyways

[thehinge1]

ATTENTION ASUS: HIRE KET AND FIRE YOUR CURRENT BIOS anti-ENGINEERS!!!

From someone who actually likes his P5Q-E again - anything after v1103 borked my board.

m1306 has her back on the ball!

[ReverendMaynard]

ATTENTION ASUS: HIRE KET AND FIRE YOUR CURRENT BIOS anti-ENGINEERS!!!

From someone who actually likes his P5Q-E again - anything after v1103 borked my board.

m1306 has her back on the ball!

lol, I had the boards box all prepped to pack this pos up until Ket dropped these killer mbios'. I'm still not completely happy with it, but it sure is nice to have 4ghz stable when before.....no post.

[Dee]

ATTENTION ASUS: HIRE KET AND FIRE YOUR CURRENT BIOS anti-ENGINEERS!!!

From someone who actually likes his P5Q-E again - anything after v1103 borked my board.

m1306 has her back on the ball!

Agreed. m1306 is damn good. Ket, you are the man, it's official.

[BigJoe]

Someone P5Q Dlx on djordje . bigjoe [at] gmail . com please...
I cant download from MegapUpload

[Dee]

Someone P5Q Dlx on djordje . bigjoe [at] gmail . com please...
I cant download from MegapUpload

How about zSHARE? http://www.zshare.net/download/1807611379e19365/

[Seanie's Show]

Firstly thank you Ketz for the modded bios for the P5Q-e mobo, so far running exactly the same bios settings as I was on the offical bios, the only difference I am seeing is on memory latency, I am getting 2ns faster using your 1306m bios, (55.1ns) whereas with the offical I was getting 57.1ns.

Just need to check stability now and find out if I can finally overclock my RAM, which is something I have been deprived of for a very long time on this board.

My question to you guys is: I was already running the offical 1306 bios, so when I flashed to the 1306m modded bios, my boot block was not updated, Does this matter ? if so then please let me know so I can force the flash.

[BigJoe]

How about zSHARE? http://www.zshare.net/download/1807611379e19365/

Thanks man

[Ket]

Thanks for the votes guys To my mind I haven't done anything special with these mBIOS revisions. I just replace certain parts of the BIOS from other BIOSes with perhaps a little tweak here and there, but it does bring one thing to light - the Asus BIOS dev clearly has no farking clue what their doing.

@ Seanie; It shouldn't matter the BB isn't updated, buy you may find it useful to do so. I have not bothered forcing a BB update simply because it will be a royal pain in the arse should something go wrong with the BB update and trying to get a new BIOS chip for the board. However, as part of the memory table I replace is actually involved with the boot process, there may be some advantages to updating the BB.

[ThugsRook]

the Asus BIOS dev clearly has no farking clue what their doing.

QFT

[Seanie's Show]

Thanks for the votes guys To my mind I haven't done anything special with these mBIOS revisions. I just replace certain parts of the BIOS from other BIOSes with perhaps a little tweak here and there, but it does bring one thing to light - the Asus BIOS dev clearly has no farking clue what their doing.

@ Seanie; It shouldn't matter the BB isn't updated, buy you may find it useful to do so. I have not bothered forcing a BB update simply because it will be a royal pain in the arse should something go wrong with the BB update and trying to get a new BIOS chip for the board. However, as part of the memory table I replace is actually involved with the boot process, there may be some advantages to updating the BB.

Thanks Ketz, not sure if I need to update the BB, right now im on PL8 at 1150mhz 5-5-5-18-2T tRFC 55 with the board at 460fsb, vFSB 1.22, vPLL 1.52, vNB 1.32, CPU @ 4.14ghz @ 1.42v, and best of all nearly 2000% through memtest pro, never before have I seen this stability on this board out of this RAM, and on top of all of that LLC is enabled, if I run into problems later down the line then I might flash the BB, but like you say, its a right pain in the arse, so if all is fine, I will stick to what I have for now.

THANK GOD FOR KET's

[Ket]

Thats damn sweet I have done 1143MHz so far but I couldn't be arsed with getting it stable at that time. Not a bad result considering it was with some cheapy PC8500 @ 4-4-4-12.

[noxon]

First, im not sure its ur bios messing it up or something else, but it started after i flashed to 1306m.

I was running just fine with the 1306 beta, all stable at these settings:

p5q-d
E8600@460x10
2x1gb crucial pc5300 + 2x1gb cellshock pc6400 @ 1150mhz 5-5-5-15
PL at 9

1,4x vcore
1,62 pll
1,26 vtt
1,26 nb
2,10 vram


Then i flashed to 1306m, and it wasnt stable at the same settings, but it would run, then it just went down down down and at last i wasnt even stable at stock on all.
Tried to flash back to 1306beta but still all f*cked up, and i have reseted bios, battery out and so on.

Testing my cellshock atm 500fsb 1200mhz ram cl5 2.1v, no problems so far.


Posting later what i found out