Modded ASUS P5Q/Pro/Deluxe/Premium BIOS

[LiViD]

Ket, I have to give you thanks for making a great BIOS for the P5Q-E. I was running a Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6 and couldn't get my Q9450 above 3.4 with every imaginable setting. With the P5Q-E and 1703m BIOS, I'm running a stable 3.6 GHz with less voltage.

[Ket]

NP. I like making things go faster

[zalbard]

Maybe a silly question, but how come BIOSes for different boards have different size? Difference between 1mb and 2mb is huge imo...

[Shocky]

I might give these a try, can't get the FSB stable at 450, unsure if it's the motherboard or a compatibility issue with my memory, P5Q-E I hoped would at least do 450fsb stable with my Q9950.

[LiViD]

Just make sure that your memory is on the QVL and there shouldn't be any issues. Some of the later built Q's also have nasty FSB wall.

[cachirro]

i confirm that the wrong temp (100C plus) is also in this bios

ket: do you know anything about this?

[Ket]

Its a calibration problem, right now I don't have time to go ripping things apart to find where asus have stuffed this, so probably best to bug them about it.

[Asmodeus]

Ket. How optimized are the bios you've been modding? Just curious to know.

[axy1985]

It may be hard to meassure "optimization level" on BIOSes.... check the first page, you'll see what has been modified and how that should improve things.

[Vazovskiiii]

On 61002 version of ASUSupdate click ''options'' and tick-select ''bios downgradable''

thanks

[cachirro]

Its a calibration problem, right now I don't have time to go ripping things apart to find where asus have stuffed this, so probably best to bug them about it.

That's what i've been doing without success

[Fatal]

"How Optimized?"

That sounds like a hilarious question to me lol. I'm going to try that new BIOS with the MF2 mem table and see how it goes. Who else has had success / failure with it?

[samsonJS]

If you have 2 bios chips you might try what I did to recover from the horror that is 1703 (i have the p5q-e). If you don't want to upgrade the bios on your backup chip then remove the backup chip from the left socket and start on step 5.

there are a lot of steps but they are very simple. i found this easier than tracking down old versions of afudos and such and i don't want to install any of asus' windows software unless i really have to.

1. remove the right bios chip (active, 1703)
2. move the left chip (backup, probably 06xx) to the right socket
3. install a safe, known good bios (704m for me)
4. remove the backup chip and replace it with the active chip originally found in the right socket
5. boot your computer and be certain it's the 1703 bios. we're going to nuke it so be absolutely sure of this!
6. start ez flash and begin flashing the same bios installed, 1703 in my case.
7. turn the PSU switch off after the bios is erased, just prior to it writing the bios.
8. install the backup bios back into the left socket.
9. start your computer and watch the backup kick in and flash itself to the corrupt, active bios chip
10. delete all occurrences of 17xx from your hard disks and flash drives while you curse asus under your breath

[axy1985]

Curious. I've had absolutely no problem with the 1703.

[Asmodeus]

"How Optimized?"

That sounds like a hilarious question to me lol. I'm going to try that new BIOS with the MF2 mem table and see how it goes. Who else has had success / failure with it?

Okay, I'll take the bait. Why is that hilarious to you. I merely want to know how well the code is put together. Is it sloppy and slapdash or is it elegant and in order?

[jobol]

None of these modded bioses did anything for me. Not even a single MHz increase.

Maybe because I am already border line? I am running a E8400 @ 4.5Ghz on air, stable 24/7.

500Mhz FSB. But when I try, even 501FSB, the system becomes unstable. It is really weired...

Oh well...I will be waiting for new bioses and see if they help break the 500FSB barrier.

[Ket]

Sadly, the mBIOSes are not magic pixies, they are just tweaked. For some they are great, and for the minority not so great. I think your only the 2nd person in 63 pages to say a mBIOS didn't help

[carepolice]

Sadly, the mBIOSes are not magic pixies, they are just tweaked. For some they are great, and for the minority not so great. I think your only the 2nd person in 63 pages to say a mBIOS didn't help

Too much people just aiming for cpu clocking, and i would say that 95% of mbios's advantage is for memory clocking; even my crappy A-Data 800Mhz CL5 does 1050Mhz 5-5-5-15 55 PL8 Stronger 5:6 1.82v BIOS set (0.02-0.06 overvolting)

@ 1306 Mbios

[stabias]

My P5Q DLX don't want to boot with E2160 on FSB that are higher that 400MHz, but CPU has wall at 455MHz and stability work on 450gsb after SetFSB. Is this problem any solves? (with other CPUs all is OK)
Sorry for my bad English

[jobol]

Sadly, the mBIOSes are not magic pixies, they are just tweaked. For some they are great, and for the minority not so great. I think your only the 2nd person in 63 pages to say a mBIOS didn't help

lol...don't worry Ket, I am still thankful for all your efforts

But I am dissapointed that I cannot bust the 500Mhz FSB on this darn E8400

Even 501 will make it fail Prime95

[jobol]

Too much people just aiming for cpu clocking, and i would say that 95% of mbios's advantage is for memory clocking; even my crappy A-Data 800Mhz CL5 does 1050Mhz 5-5-5-15 55 PL8 Stronger 5:6 1.82v BIOS set (0.02-0.06 overvolting)

@ 1306 Mbios

I am running my Mushkins XP @ 1:1 500Mhz FSB...

What sux with the P5Q pro, is that the next frequency I can use is 1200FSB, so that is 600 for the memory...a HUGE step up from 500

It failed to do 600...my PC doesn't boot at all with 500FSB and 1200DDR

[Ket]

I can pass 500FSB quite easy on my P5Q Pro and its all apparently stable (tested memory with HCI Memtest and OCCT for CPU) yet in clear sky it craps out pretty fast.. I'm guessing its somehow software \ game patch related, which is why a format is nigh

[echtorg]

hello

i search the original bios from the p5q-pro >1104

please send my the original bios file

sorry for my bad englisch

please pm me

greets

[DuncanOc]

hello

i search the original bios from the p5q-pro >1104

please send my the original bios file

sorry for my bad englisch

please pm me

greets

I cant find the original one...maybe you can try the modded:http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IS3FCVWS

[lupo17]

well, I've tried all the mBioses for my P5Q, and, what I can say is that up to this moment I couldn't test any plus of performance, because I cannot boot...it's so called 'post without boot'... I did everything right...flash, clean Cmos...according to instructions found here, but nothing ever happened, I've returned to the official BIOS, and now, I have at least a chance to boot (but randomly, sometims it boot, but only with 1 stick, sometimes it doesn't...all I can do is once I boot it, to put it on sleep, and never shutdown)...I have a 512mb kingston, with witch it always boot...
anybody knows what I can do?
my harware > P5Q / e8600 / 2X1Gb Crucial Ballistix [BL12864AA1064.16FD3]

thank you