Modded ASUS P5Q/Pro/Deluxe/Premium BIOS

[Ket]

Gah.. so many nooblet questions. Read back even one page and you will see OCing is ENTIRELY SUBJECTIVE. One BIOS may work for one person, and not another. Turning back again only one page also gives a link to an older Asus update utility that rids people of that retarded ROM mismatch stuff.

[Lil'ManComputer]

the update tools installer linked a page before dose not support my x64 Vista, so I cant install that. Where can I find an x64 version of that?

[DuncanOc]

Hmmm,I think those mBioses are way too good

With asus 1406 I can clock my E8400 to 4Ghz with nothing lower than 1.28v,but with Ket's 1611 I can hit 4Ghz with only 1,23v

Ket,as I said before,keep modifying .Your mBioses are great

[Ket]

Are people going to start jumping off bridges if I suddenly stop making them or something then?

[DaMightyWackO]

Are people going to start jumping off bridges if I suddenly stop making them or something then?

There is a chance.......

Your afford is highly appreciated

[Lil'ManComputer]

Someone please answer my question! How could I get that x64 version of Asus Update tool, with I could flash a new BIOS? There should be an x64 version, cause Asus always released such, but I cant find it on that ftp server, there is only a x86 version

[stealthbomber]

You can burn the bios file onto a CDRW disc, use the built in flasher in the bios.

[Ket]

Or install XP on a spare HDD or something.. only ways around that.

[zowle]

Which is the best mBIOS for a P5Q Pro? Can i install it by Asus BIOS update tool without any risks?

Thank you so much!

[Ket]

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Somebody want to field that one? I've answered it so many times in this thread I've actually lost count

[philbrown23]

read the thread guys comeone. as far as the windows flashing tool, dont use it. They are a tad unstable and its real easy to kill your board using it.

[Lil'ManComputer]

I always used such tool. Before I bought my first Ausus mobo, I was an Abit fan, and so the uGuru Flash, as the Asus Update tool was working perfect. I flashed about minimzm 40-50 times with these utilitys, and never had a problem with them. Only this last time, but this is because of the rom. I must say I am more afraid of flashing BIOS with the BIOS integrated one, bacause it is a MOD BIOS flashed in yet, and dont know, if that wouldnt take care of my mobo with a raw deal

Ket: Dude I dont wanna install Xp, neighter Vista32bit, cause I dont have any drive for that, and on the boot drive is x64Vista at present, and its a bit comblicated and not sure to install there a nother OS, I dont wanna screw my MBR.

[stealthbomber]

The built-in asus bios flasher works fine with the modded bios, just burn all the bios images onto a disc, reboot into bios and flash, power down and clear CMOS after successful flash.

[zowle]

Installed sucessfully! It was the 1613m on a p5q pro, Thx. Before start to test the pc i am on 1.3vcore in BIOS at an 8400@4GHz


I have this 2x2GB RAM http://newgskill.web-bi.net/bbs/view...desc=asc&no=98

And i'm a bit confused of it. It's a bit clocked to 445mhz (same to BUS) at 4-4-4-12 clocks, 2.1vram. But i get some BSOD showing: "PFN_LIST_CORRUPT" (i search and it's related to ram) and some games get frozen (i dont know if it's cause the game or the ram). Anyway i tested it with memtest and no errors appeared.

In everest bench i get this, and i think is no normal, but i dunno:



Bye

[newls1]

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Somebody want to field that one? I've answered it so many times in this thread I've actually lost count

*KET* Why must you lose your patience with some of us? I do agree, most of the what you call, "NOOB QUESTIONS" are repetitive, but there is 61 pages to this post, going thru all of those pages is crazy. I myself asked above very nicely and got a "shoved to the side" response. Why? I asked if the 1613m bios is currently your best choice for a Bios for the P5Q-PRO. I understand that BIOS act differently from PC to PC, but in general, is the 1613m bios optimal? I can see you have some great followings here with your BIOS'es, and that is why I would like to try 1 out, and I didnt think it would hurt to ask for opinions before I flash my board with it. I did read a good 20-25 pages, starting from page 61, and im still utterly confused as to which 1 to use. Just looking for you to give some of us some slack. Relax man, I'll buy you a Budweiser Select tall boy

[Ket]

After answering the same question a bazillion times in the thread and in PMs, you'd get fed up as well, heh. As you rightly pointed out no BIOS behaves the same on every system. The best advice anyone can give is see whos been using the BIOS your thinking of using, check the hardware specs for those people, if their similar to your own, then its worth a shot. Otherwise, your kinda flying blind and theres no advice anyone can really give, you simply just have to try it and find out.

[stealthbomber]

Do you reckon adding the missing MOSFET heatsink (like the enzotech copper one) on the P5Q Pro board is worthwhile?

The other P5Q boards including the vanilla P5Q, Deluxe and Premium all have that extra heatsink on the very top of the board...

[retrogamer1990]

sorry if this is a muppet-like question, but what is the difference between mBIOS and BIOS? I have P5Q-E BTW.

@stealthbomber...I am watercooling my P5Q-E soon but only for aesthetics. you dont need any additional heatsinks for The P5Q range

[alitayyab]

sorry if this is a muppet-like question, but what is the difference between mBIOS and BIOS? I have P5Q-E BTW.

@stealthbomber...I am watercooling my P5Q-E soon but only for aesthetics. you dont need any additional heatsinks for The P5Q range

mbios - modded bios. they are modified by ket. they allow better over-clocking as they combine memory tables (and more goodies) from other bioses that arent necessarily p5s

bios -plain "vanilla" bios. the one that asus releases. sometimes asus might neuter the bios on a lower rated board just so that it *seems* to not oc as good as a higher rated board (e.g. p5q pro vs p5q deluxe)

[newls1]

Is there a "FIX" in any of these mBIOS'es that make the 400 strap usable? and possibly the PCIe MHz fix? I like to run my PCIe @ 110MHz, but this board takes a sh*t after 101..... Damn it ASUS!

[Lil'ManComputer]

Hi Ket!

I tried the methids you have suggested, but I still cant flash 1501 BIOS for P5Q. Thanks god I could reflash the vanilla 1611 with the EZ flash in BIOS, but that dose not suppport BIOS downgrade, so I cant flash BIOS-es before 1611. I formley uninstalled The win based flash tool, because I thought I would be able to install the earlier version of that, wherewith I meant to flash the 1501, but the installer faild to initialize the setup, so I thoght that it dosent support x64 or x64Vista...now its turned out, that not the OS is responsible for this, beacause I cant reinstall the lastest( previousley installed and working ) version of Asus Update tool, for the same reason, the installer fails, and I read the waning message, it says that this is not an Asus motherboard, it has some problem with the BIOSinfo.dll...any suggestions?

...i successfully installed the update tool, I cleard cmos data, and so the installer worked. But there is a nother problem, with this I still cant flash other BIOS versions, then 1611, not even the vanilla 1511, the error message is thishttp://kepfeltoltes.hu/view/090110/B...toltes.hu_.jpg. So I uninstalled the Asus Update tool again, and tried to install the earlier version, which is said to work, but at this time the installer failed again. I restated Vista, cleared CMOS, but is dosent worked, it refers to an NT service miss( It 100% incompatible with Vistax64 I think now ... ). Not even the installer latest version of Asus Update tool was willing to work( again that message that this is not an Asus board ), so I restarted, and cleared cmos data again, and this time I managed to install the latest version, but I dont mess around with these from now, I had enogh of it now, and I feel lucky, to install this at all. Any ideas of flashing the 1511m or 1511m v1 are welcome, but it is dead cert, that I dont uninstall the Flash tool again...

[Retro]

Do you reckon adding the missing MOSFET heatsink (like the enzotech copper one) on the P5Q Pro board is worthwhile?

The other P5Q boards including the vanilla P5Q, Deluxe and Premium all have that extra heatsink on the very top of the board...

It can't hurt. Check my sig., I have installed all the heatsinks listed on my Pro and it really keeps the temps. in check. Note that I use the Thermalright sinks on both sets of mosfets, but that Enzotech sink looks good too, being all copper with tall fins. Any of these aftermarket sinks are much better quality than the supplied sinks as well. I say go for it

[Bergerr]

ok so after reading a few various pages it seems obvious that most of if not all the people using your mbios's can achieve better overclocks.....my only question is how unsafe is it to be doing this? can I cause any damage using a bios not "made" for my mobo?

I know companies detune or make bios's that make a board not as overclock-able so you are unleashing some potential I am just wary of switching to a modded bios just to get a better clock

[Ket]

The danger involved with using a mBIOS is exactly the same as using a vanilla BIOS, ie; the risk the flash process might go wrong. The chances of this are very small however and recovery is quick and painless. In the worst case scenario simply put a known "good" BIOS for your board on a floppy disk (doesnt even have to be bootable) and name the BIOS AMIBIOS. (or was it AMIBOOT? its one of those anyway ) after a few minutes and a coupe restarts you'll be looking at the POST screen.

[stasio]

Nice thread for BIOS Recovery procedures