Modded ASUS P5Q/Pro/Deluxe/Premium BIOS

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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?

[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.

[Dee]

Never said you were

OK, a little misunderstanding. I still love you Ket.