Modded ASUS P5Q/Pro/Deluxe/Premium BIOS

[truehighroller]

I just noticed the rpm in the BIOS dropping off and kicking way back up. but, the fan was staying at one speed.

[Vektor67]

I just noticed the rpm in the BIOS dropping off and kicking way back up. but, the fan was staying at one speed.

Oh ok thanks. Mines not doing that. Good luck with the new one!

[whodie]

So any ideas on why I can't find my RAM voltage anywhere?!? lol

AI Suite, pc probe, nor hwmonitor report my RAM voltage

When I had a P5Q Dlx it overvolted the RAM by .08, but I can't verify the voltage now on my Pro.



Great work on the BIOS Ket, it's top notch. Finally got my 16FD3's stable past 1100mhz

[Don_Dan]

So any ideas on why I can't find my RAM voltage anywhere?!? lol

AI Suite, pc probe, nor hwmonitor report my RAM voltage

I would like to know that myself, yesterday I was testing some RAM on my mate's P5Q PRO with Asus 1306 BIOS, but then I noticed that I couldn't find the DRAM voltage anywhere, not in the Asus software and not in Everest Ultimate. Does anyone know a way to get a voltage readout?

[Ket]

I don't think the Pro has anything to monitor DRAM voltage. Its the one thing I think is absolutely silly. £100+ for the P5Q Pro and Asus can't put a damn RAM voltage monitor in or use a dual BIOS thing like on the -E.

[Dee]

There's no vDIMM monitor on the E. It's always bugged me. Had I known this from the start, I would have bought the Deluxe.

[Big Lar]

I just noticed the rpm in the BIOS dropping off and kicking way back up. but, the fan was staying at one speed.

My board has done some odd things since day 1 with the cpu fan header. It reads in bios/everest at times as twice the speed for a second, then back to normal. I thought it was a software glitch?

Larry

[Ket]

There's no vDIMM monitor on the E. It's always bugged me. Had I known this from the start, I would have bought the Deluxe.

I thought the -E had a DRAM voltage monitor? I could swear I saw it listed in the BIOS Its silly things like this that make me wonder about Asus. I mean why leave such minor things like that off? People would happily pay an extra £10 for the board to get a DRAM voltage monitor and a backup BIOS. As somebody said, from the Pro onward backup BIOS chip and vDIMM monitor should be standard. Even "cheap" Asus boards are usually £20 more than a competitors.

[MonsterDK]

Hi,

After seeing this thread and not been overly knowledgeable to make an informed decission over what has been put on this huge thread I wanted some advice if this is possible please.
Hope it is ok to post this....
http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?...Language=en-us
My problem as explained there is really getting on my nerves now, I have tried pretty much all I can think of and wasted money as I go.

Since I appear to be stuck on Bios 610 to keep stable, would these BIOS here, be any use to me to sort the problem?

Any help desperately seeked... thanks in advanced.

[truehighroller]

What CPU do you have?

[Vektor67]

I may have spoken too soon, I just launched probeII for kicks and I'm getting voltage warnings. My +3 v is @ 3.34 and the bottom just dropped out of my Vcore(flashing red) perhaps it's just that Vcore is set to warn if it drops below 1. I think I may roll back to 1402 when I have time.

[Ket]

RMA the board. Preferably to the place you bought it from not Asus.

[Pants-Of-Fire]

Ket, I just wanted to say thanks, not just for you BIOS work, but for discovering the problem with CPU-ME on later BIOSes. I recently bought a P5Q-Deluxe with a Q9300, and of course the first thing I did was flash the BIOS. I then spent a week fighting the board, and even with extra voltage to the DRAM and NB, the system was still very unstable at stock settings, with crashes, bluescreens, applications falling over, and general crappyness all over. The system behaved like a total lemon, and was even worse at stock voltages.

Now having gone back to 803, the system is totally rock solid, with no crashes or bad behaviour. After a week of major frustration, you've solved my problem and a lot of grief.

It's a pity the 803 runs my RAM a little slower than the later BIOSes, but hopefully we can hassle Asus into fixing this issue and get to use newer BIOSes.

[MonsterDK]

What CPU do you have?

Q6600 (G0)

[truehighroller]

Have you tried 0803 Revision BIOS? What are your specs period?What BIOS settings are you using? I think you should post in the P5Q Deluxe thread as well. I would try KET's Modded 0803 though which is here some where in this thread..

[MonsterDK]

Ket, I just wanted to say thanks, not just for you BIOS work, but for discovering the problem with CPU-ME on later BIOSes. I recently bought a P5Q-Deluxe with a Q9300, and of course the first thing I did was flash the BIOS. I then spent a week fighting the board, and even with extra voltage to the DRAM and NB, the system was still very unstable at stock settings, with crashes, bluescreens, applications falling over, and general crappyness all over. The system behaved like a total lemon, and was even worse at stock voltages.

Now having gone back to 803, the system is totally rock solid, with no crashes or bad behaviour. After a week of major frustration, you've solved my problem and a lot of grief.

It's a pity the 803 runs my RAM a little slower than the later BIOSes, but hopefully we can hassle Asus into fixing this issue and get to use newer BIOSes.

Ket, I'm not sure it is the board. The issues I've had are as Pants-Of-Fire has also outlined above. Applications crashing, BSOD etc etc..

I don't want to RMA a board to end up with the same situation with a replacement. and i've had this board for a while now also. SO they will prob send it off for repair than replace it.

[Ket]

Ket, I just wanted to say thanks, not just for you BIOS work, but for discovering the problem with CPU-ME on later BIOSes. I recently bought a P5Q-Deluxe with a Q9300, and of course the first thing I did was flash the BIOS. I then spent a week fighting the board, and even with extra voltage to the DRAM and NB, the system was still very unstable at stock settings, with crashes, bluescreens, applications falling over, and general crappyness all over. The system behaved like a total lemon, and was even worse at stock voltages.

Now having gone back to 803, the system is totally rock solid, with no crashes or bad behaviour. After a week of major frustration, you've solved my problem and a lot of grief.

It's a pity the 803 runs my RAM a little slower than the later BIOSes, but hopefully we can hassle Asus into fixing this issue and get to use newer BIOSes.

If you like my work so far, click the link at the bottom of my sig

[truehighroller]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Pants-Of-Fire
Ket, I just wanted to say thanks, not just for you BIOS work, but for discovering the problem with CPU-ME on later BIOSes. I recently bought a P5Q-Deluxe with a Q9300, and of course the first thing I did was flash the BIOS. I then spent a week fighting the board, and even with extra voltage to the DRAM and NB, the system was still very unstable at stock settings, with crashes, bluescreens, applications falling over, and general crappyness all over. The system behaved like a total lemon, and was even worse at stock voltages.

Now having gone back to 803, the system is totally rock solid, with no crashes or bad behaviour. After a week of major frustration, you've solved my problem and a lot of grief.

It's a pity the 803 runs my RAM a little slower than the later BIOSes, but hopefully we can hassle Asus into fixing this issue and get to use newer BIOSes.

Ket, I'm not sure it is the board. The issues I've had are as outlined above. Applications crashing, BSOD etc etc..

I don't want to RMA a board to end up with the same situation with a replacement. and i've had this board for a while now also. SO they will prob send it off for repair than replace it.

Hey hey hey now, I need credit for this one guys.. All my precious trouble shooting..

[Ket]

You just found out Quads hated CPU M-E, I found out Duals also hate CPU M-E

[truehighroller]

Whatever, the funny thing is that no one would listen to me for a minute...

[MonsterDK]

Have you tried 0803 Revision BIOS? What are your specs period?What BIOS settings are you using? I think you should post in the P5Q Deluxe thread as well. I would try KET's Modded 0803 though which is here some where in this thread..

I will get the updated bios settings and post them up.

Do you think KETS modded 0803 will help ? I'm not sure what the benefits are... as I said not a guru OC'er etc.

Thanks

[Pants-Of-Fire]

Hey hey hey now, I need credit for this one guys.. All my precious trouble shooting..

Thanks very much to you too! It hasn't escaped my attention that you are hassling someone at Asus to get it sorted (and apparently making progress), and are also having the "nothing above 803" problem that I'm experiencing.

Seriously, I'm sure a lot of people like me have been knocking our heads against a brick wall until we found this thread and the information on flashing back to before CPU-ME was implemented.

The problem is a lot of people (myself included) think we're getting something better with a newer BIOS, so we tend to want to keep messing with the settings to find what it takes to get stable and keep the latest BIOS. No one wants to admit defeat and flash back to the older BIOS, when really it's an unfixable CPU-ME bug that is never going to give a stable system no matter how many timings and voltages I tweak.

[whodie]

CPU M-E sure does cause havoc on duals, I stupidly switched from "Optimized" to "compatible" and got BSOD's till the cows came home....


Is the 901m BIOS good to go? I saw it was taken down for a bit but now it's back up.


As for RAM voltage, could anyone post a pic of where I need to slap my multimeter to check it?

[truehighroller]

I will get the updated bios settings and post them up.

Do you think KETS modded 0803 will help ? I'm not sure what the benefits are... as I said not a guru OC'er etc.

Thanks

It might be a big difference for you. I don't think my siznit here is stable 100% TBH. I have had a BSOD already once..

[Ket]

Whatever, the funny thing is that no one would listen to me for a minute...

Nobody seems to of taken onboard what I said about duals either. Said it in this thread and the P5Q Deluxe thread. I had all sorts of untold instability with any BIOS with CPU M-E, went back to 703 after modding it and everything worked great. High FSB, max CPU clocking and rediculously high memory clocks.