Modded ASUS P5Q/Pro/Deluxe/Premium BIOS

[truehighroller]

Yes. It is another whole seperate chip. You pull out the bad one stick in the backup one and vuala, problem solved. You don't have to leave the bad one in either you can run with just the good one still standing in by itself it won't hurt anything.

[xdan]

By reset and power switch you mean the sistem panel header?, or you have power and reset butons on P5Q-E. It might help a picture because in the area are plenty of little boxes

[Ket]

I wish my P5Q Pro had a backup BIOS chip On the plus side sending the board back to the etailer means I'll get a P5Q Pro with the new rev. NB, which should mean the board won't fail to POST when NB voltage is ste to 1.7v or above. With any luck the dividers when using the 400 strap will work properly on the new rev. board as well

[truehighroller]

Yeah mine won't post or acts funny when above 1.4v.... It might not be seated well "the heatsink on it". I haven't botheed looking yet.

[xdan]

So from what i understand it's hoppless with P5Q-PRO, i don't have backup bios ?

[CryptiK]

I wish my P5Q Pro had a backup BIOS chip On the plus side sending the board back to the etailer means I'll get a P5Q Pro with the new rev. NB, which should mean the board won't fail to POST when NB voltage is ste to 1.7v or above. With any luck the dividers when using the 400 strap will work properly on the new rev. board as well

Do you mean the A3 revision as opposed to the A2 or something else? Here's hoping your new board is better than the old problematic one. Killing it was probably a blessing in disguise.

[Ket]

Yep I'm hoping for an A3, perhaps even an A4 if asus have made further revisions. I know killing my board was a blessing in disguise. I have concluded the following issues on the A2 rev. are probably not BIOS related;

- 400 strap not working with any memory frequency set apart from auto
- absolutely PCI-E OCing. (102MHz = KO)
- LAN dodgyness (so I hear)
- 1.7v+ NB no POST issue

on top of that;

- CPU fan sensor appears to of started going a bit iffy
- with 901 BIOS I was testing it started taking ages to pass the first POST screen, like it was having a bit of trouble detecting my SATA HDD :\

Seriously considering hitting the DFI P45 board up, can grab it for about £95 and it seems like a lot of issues it was having are resolved.

[xdan]

So from what i understand it's hoppless with P5Q-PRO, i don't have backup bios ?

So what about my question, the answer is yes, no ?
Also my opinion that this MB P5Q-PRO it's a crap at it's money, a few 30-35E moore and i've could bought an TPOWER IP45 , but two monts ago i didn't found it in Romania, it appeared only two weeks ago. Unfortunately the shop where i bought the Asus doesn't deal with Biostars, so i can't do directly an upgrade.
And also two month ago i didn't know that TPOWER IP45 is such a good motheboard.

I hope that Asus see this.

[chuSS]

Ket:
I'm flashe "p5q 1307m.rom" from archive "P5Q mBIOSes v2.rar" for my P5Q mobo, but the board has ceased to function.
Clear CMOS and removing battery for some time not return functionality!
Helped only reflasing contents chips on a stationary programmer.

[Dee]

Backup BIOS was one of the main reasons I chose the P5Q-E. Too many problems with past boards, now I will never penny pinch again when it comes to motherboards!

[Ket]

I have never done any penny pinching. I picked the P5Q Pro up as on paper its an awsome board, just doesn't quite carry through in practicality unfortunately. Of course, a majority of the issues the P5Q Pro has could be down to the P45 not particularly being geared for 65nm CPUs, just 45nm. I'll be picking a EEPROM programmer up soon anyway, real handy bit of kit to be able to just whack it in a USB port and program a ROM chip with any BIOS you need.

[Ket]

Ket:
I'm flashe "p5q 1307m.rom" from archive "P5Q mBIOSes v2.rar" for my P5Q mobo, but the board has ceased to function.
Clear CMOS and removing battery for some time not return functionality!
Helped only reflasing contents chips on a stationary programmer.

Come again? Not quite sure I fully understand what your trying to say.

[Dee]

I have never done any penny pinching.

Not saying you did bro. Just speaking for myself. I'm happy to pay a little more for certain features, especially ones that save your ass when the BIOS gets KO'd.

[samsonJS]

Yup. Last night while I was OCing the BIOS got fubared and my p5q-e just booted EZ Flash in recovery mode, flashed the stock 0610 BIOS and I was ready to go. Way better than the dual BIOS stuff Gigabyte has on my old 7NNXP.

[xdan]

This feature with dual bios chip is named "DIEHARD BIOS"

DieHard BIOS
BIOS Never Die
The ASUS Diehard BIOS consists of two BIOS chips, a main BIOS and a backup BIOS. The ASUS Diehard BIOS can restore corrupted main BIOS data from the backup BIOS automatically. The technology saves users the hassle of recovering the BIOS file or buying a replacement BIOS chip.

Dee, it isn't all about the money . This feature is only from what i verffied built on P5Q-E, P5Q-DELUXE and P5Q3-DELUXE.
The more expensive models like P5Q-PREMIUM, P5Q-WS, MAXIMUS II FORMULA(i check only for P45) don't even have this, even though that there are worth much moore money. This it's all ASUS's fool ideea. In my opinion this feature "DIE HARD" shouhld have been applied to P45 series from P5Q-PRO to the top MAXIMUS II FORMULA not to a few models "here" and "there".
P5Q-PRO is not a cheap MB at least to it's price.
The conclusion it's that Asus are stupids, fools company.

[Ket]

Not saying you did bro. Just speaking for myself. I'm happy to pay a little more for certain features, especially ones that save your ass when the BIOS gets KO'd.

Never said you were Just saying I don't penny pinch on mainboards. Its the soul of the system after all. Much easier to upgrade the CPU, memory etc when needed than it is a mobo. I'll be ordering a EEPROM\DIL etc programmer in a few mins anyway. Be able to revive my AW9D-Max with the programmer so shes good to go

[xdan]

I'll be ordering a EEPROM\DIL etc programmer

Ket, this is a software, or something hardware?

[Pntgrd]

This feature with dual bios chip is named "DIEHARD BIOS"

Dee, it isn't all about the money . This feature is only from what i verffied built on P5Q-E, P5Q-DELUXE and P5Q3-DELUXE.
The more expensive models like P5Q-PREMIUM, P5Q-WS, MAXIMUS II FORMULA(i check only for P45) don't even have this, even though that there are worth much money. This it's all ASUS's fool ideeas. In my opinion this feature "DIE HARD" shouhld have been applied to P45 series from P5Q-PRO to the top MAXIMUS II FORMULA not to a few models "here" and "there".
P5Q-PRO is not a cheap MB at least to it's price.
The conclusion it's that Asus are stupids, fools company.

Asus even went one better on The Rampage Extreme. Jumpers to manually set which of two bios's to boot from.

[Ket]

Ket, this is a software, or something hardware?

If your talking about the BIOS of a mainboard, thats software. BIOS = Basic Input Output System.

[xdan]

Yes, but what price has Rampage... hmmm. 3X P5Q-PRO and 2.5X P5Q-E

Rampage is even chasee very closely by Biostar TPOWER which is half and a little more cheap than Rampage Extreme.
So, don't praise Asus anymore.

f your talking about the BIOS of a mainboard, thats software. BIOS = Basic Input Output System.

I asqued about this EEPROM\DIL etc programmer you talked about .

[Lukeatluka]

So, can i boot pass 1150Mhz with mBios for P5Q-e or not.I love my board.
And if i read enough i can normaly flash back to asus rev. bios, right?

Ow, i need to tell you Ket...You're awesome

[Ket]

Yes, but what price has Rampage... hmmm. 3X P5Q-PRO and 2.5X P5Q-E

Rampage is even chasee very closely by Biostar TPOWER which is half and a little more cheap than Rampage Extreme.
So, don't praise Asus anymore.

I asqued about this EEPROM\DIL etc programmer you talked about .

The EEPROM\DIL etc programmer is software and hardware. Linky

So, can i boot pass 1150Mhz with mBios for P5Q-e or not.I love my board.
And if i read enough i can normaly flash back to asus rev. bios, right?

Ow, i need to tell you Ket...You're awesome

How far your memory can be pushed is not entirely BIOS dependent. All I can say is from my experiences with mBIOS 703 (704 for you) I had the greatest results for memory clocking, able to POST at 1300MHz. My ICs are Micron D9 GKX though.

[Lukeatluka]

Can you give me a link to download side.Sry to be lazy

Can i flash then back to 1306 original asus bios?

Thanks in advance!

[Ket]

See first page, and yes.

[Kai Robinson]

I figured out my issue - having the Mem OC Charger, DRAM Static Read Control & DRAM Read Training set to Auto = flaky as all hell - set to DISABLED on the P5Q-Deluxe!