Modded ASUS P5Q/Pro/Deluxe/Premium BIOS

[adamsleath]

i cant get q9400 to post on p5q-pro
1 stick ram; 8-pin power in; all stock jumpers; stock cpu V also tried upping V slightly...
stock 8x multi.
board came with 1306, i updated to 1613.; starts for a sec then powers down, both bios's

i taken cpu back to reseller, so i guess they can frig around with it. :/

mobo works fine with e4300 :/ ffs my first quad and i cannot even get it to post & now i flashed this 1613, people saying i cant go back to an earlier bios

the q9400 is R0 stepping.

[jbruneau]

i cant get q9400 to post on p5q-pro
1 stick ram; 8-pin power in; all stock jumpers; stock cpu V also tried upping V slightly...
stock 8x multi.
board came with 1306, i updated to 1613.; starts for a sec then powers down, both bios's

i taken cpu back to reseller, so i guess they can frig around with it. :/

mobo works fine with e4300 :/ ffs my first quad and i cannot even get it to post & now i flashed this 1613, people saying i cant go back to an earlier bios

the q9400 is R0 stepping.

Shouldn't need to play with voltage at stock, the board will detect it (well, read it from the CPU, because Intel codes the req'd voltage to run at stock right into the chip). Also known as its stock VID.

The chip sounds like it's DOA, unfortunately, if another chip works in the board.

Anyways, as for rolling back to a previous BIOS, it is definitely do-able but not with any stock ASUS software. Use a freeware piece of software called the KodaKey tool at its latest ver of 0.72. Google !

Works great, and I speak from experience. I went to 1406 without any problems on a Q6600 !

[Ket]

Sounds like your Quad is DOA. Hope your next Q works as it should Somewhere in this thread is also various means that have been detailed to get away from 1613. My preferred method is to simply make a boot disk, put the BIOS you want and afudos on the disk and flash from DOS.

[shoota]

what's wrong with 1613 again?

[vrdublu]

Anyone know which of the P5Q Deluxe Bioses is best for High FSB??? I am currently on 1702m Bios and I can't seem to go above 465. Two cpu's I have had both have problems crossing 465 with this bios. As soon as I go above 465 even with a 6 multi and same voltage I don't even boot, so i am left with the conclusion that's it's the bios or mb or both. Any help would be appreciated.

Currently running E8500 with these settings:

AI Overclock tuner: Manual
CPU Ratio Setting: 9.5
FSB Strap to North Bridge: 333
FSB Frequency: 458
PCI-E Frequency: 100
DRAM Frequency: 1100
DRAM CLK Skew on Channel A1: AUTO
DRAM CLK Skew on Channel A2: AUTO
DRAM CLK Skew on Channel B1: AUTO
DRAM CLK Skew on Channel B2: AUTO
DRAM Timing Control: Manual

1st Information :

CAS# Latency: 5
DRAM RAS# to CAS# Delay:5
DRAM RAS# Precharge: 5
DRAM RAS# Activate to Precharge:15
RAS# to RAS# Delay : AUTO
Row Refresh Cycle Time: AUTO
Write Recovery Time: AUTO
Read to Precharge Time: AUTO

2nd Information :

READ to WRITE Delay (S/D): AUTO
Write to Read Delay (S): AUTO
WRITE to READ Delay (D): AUTO
READ to READ Delay (S): AUTO
READ to READ Delay (D): AUTO
WRITE to WRITE Delay (S): AUTO
WRITE to WRITE Delay (D): AUTO

3rd Information :

WRITE to PRE Delay: AUTO
READ to PRE Delay: AUTO
PRE to PRE Delay: AUTO
ALL PRE to ACT Delay: AUTO
ALL PRE to REF Delay: AUTO
DRAM Static Read Control: AUTO
DRAM Read Training: AUTO
MEM. OC Charger: AUTO
AI Clock Twister: AUTO
AI Transaction Booster: Manual

Performance Level : 8
Everything Disabled
4th Information :

CPU Voltage: 1.34375
CPU GTL Voltage Reference (0/2): .630
CPU GTL Voltage Reference (1/3): .670
CPU PLL Voltage: 1.52
FSB Termination Voltage: 1.26
DRAM Voltage: 2.10
NB Voltage: 1.26
NB GTL Reference: AUTO
SBridge Voltage: auto
PCIE SATA Voltage: auto

Load Line Calibration: Enabled : Seemed to really help lower voltages and stabilize things in windows. Had to run over 1.375 in bios with this off because of V droop.
CPU Spread Spectrum: disabled
PCIE Spread Spectrum: disabled
CPU Clock Skew : Auto
NB Clock Skew : Auto
CPU Margin Enhancement: Performance Level

[Leeghoofd]

0803 and 1406 were the more stable biosses for me mate



7 x 600 for the CPU and PL 11-12 though ( if I recall correctly )

[axy1985]

any success?

temp bug happens on 1406 as well, dont know if as often as on 1703. still, 1406 is way better than 1703 for me, bug or no bug.

[Ket]

what's wrong with 1613 again?

Asus messed something up or deliberately did something, which makes reverting to a earlier version BIOS awkward (but by no means impossible)

[Snowman89]

Asus messed something up or deliberately did something, which makes reverting to a earlier version BIOS awkward (but by no means impossible)

Tried ur bios but it lowerd my oc with 200mhz

Either i have had a very bad luck or this is a real piece of a . It could do 400fsb with a little luck and cold air and fans everywhere, now sitting in my chassi it locks up above 360fsb GJ asus

I have a p5q regular..

[Ket]

A regular P5Q is hardly a good choice for OCing...

[SimpleTECH]

Ah crap, I just borked my board last night.

Being totally irresponsible (I was meaning on continuing my homework but wanted to see how far my P5Q Pro + E8400 would overclock) I tried flashing my 1613m BIOS to an earlier unmodified BIOS using KodaKey tool. It worked, so I tried flashing to Ket's newest "enhanced" mBIOS.

Guess what, after it said "Your system will restart in 5 seconds" the system restarted and I had a blank screen.

So I tried powering it down and pressing the power button. Same thing.

Then I tried clearing the CMOS (remove power cable, battery, move jumper, wait 1hr, move jumper back, put battery back in, connect everything back) and that did nothing.

So I thought maybe it was my RAM. I then put in a cheap, 1.8V rated stick... still nothing! Crap!

Just now, I tried using the AMIBOOT.ROM suggestion and I cannot get it working. My keyboard (PS/2) doesn't boot up with any lights, so nothing is working.

Looks like I'll have to RMA this thing. Damn.

[Snowman89]

A regular P5Q is hardly a good choice for OCing...

Oh great.. read reviews on it and then it seemed good.. First and last time asus then...

[Ket]

Ah crap, I just borked my board last night.

Being totally irresponsible (I was meaning on continuing my homework but wanted to see how far my P5Q Pro + E8400 would overclock) I tried flashing my 1613m BIOS to an earlier unmodified BIOS using KodaKey tool. It worked, so I tried flashing to Ket's newest "enhanced" mBIOS.

Guess what, after it said "Your system will restart in 5 seconds" the system restarted and I had a blank screen.

So I tried powering it down and pressing the power button. Same thing.

Then I tried clearing the CMOS (remove power cable, battery, move jumper, wait 1hr, move jumper back, put battery back in, connect everything back) and that did nothing.

So I thought maybe it was my RAM. I then put in a cheap, 1.8V rated stick... still nothing! Crap!

Just now, I tried using the AMIBOOT.ROM suggestion and I cannot get it working. My keyboard (PS/2) doesn't boot up with any lights, so nothing is working.

Looks like I'll have to RMA this thing. Damn.

I said to use that BIOS with extreme caution as I hadn't tested that one, silly boy I'll remove it just in case theres something bunk with it.

[SimpleTECH]

It's cool Ket.

I'm going to go order a new P5Q Pro anyways as I need this computer up and running this week.

I've had good luck with your mBIOS's though. It was probably just a small bug in that last one that might have caused my motherboard to brick.

Out of hundreds of motherboard flashes, I just happened to screw one up.

[jbruneau]

It's cool Ket.

I'm going to go order a new P5Q Pro anyways as I need this computer up and running this week.

I've had good luck with your mBIOS's though. It was probably just a small bug in that last one that might have caused my motherboard to brick.

Out of hundreds of motherboard flashes, I just happened to screw one up.

Same thing happened to me, bud ..

Except, I was using the 1406 modded BIOS, and it went bonkerz.

Tried a different floppy drive, cables, power connectors but no go there.

Today I tried swapping out the video card and power supply, but still no go (I had another system do the SAME thing and it was the 12v rail on the PSU blown).

It's either the RAM, CPU, or MOBO. Don't think it's the ram, tried each stick in all 4 slots.

All 3 of the above components are brand new.

I can't get my hands on RAM or a CPU until Tuesday. Argh!

I think it's the board though, I'm arranging an RMA with the purchaser.

[SimpleTECH]

jbruneau, glad to know that there is someone else with the same issue.

I'm about to order another one from Newegg, and then RMA this one soon after.

Just sucks that I messed up something so stupidly, I mean if I was doing my college homework.. this would have never happened.

[comsci]

Any nice memory sticks to go with my P5Q vanilla? I'm currently using 1611 mbios, ocing 333 x 9 @ 1.425v Any suggestions for me to go higher? (assume enough cooling)

[Snowman89]

Any nice memory sticks to go with my P5Q vanilla? I'm currently using 1611 mbios, ocing 333 x 9 @ 1.425v Any suggestions for me to go higher? (assume enough cooling)

How high fsb can u achive? and with what cpu?

[comsci]

How high fsb can u achive? and with what cpu?

I have a E6600(65nm) and the highest fsb I've got was around 350. Should I go for the later E8400/E8500(45nm, lower voltage) for better results? 400 x 9 seems to me a dream. Please see the cpu-z pix.

[vrdublu]

0803 and 1406 were the more stable biosses for me mate



7 x 600 for the CPU and PL 11-12 though ( if I recall correctly )

Any idea how I can go back to 1406 from 1702? I tried in bios and told me I couldn't do it because of an older version. Then I tried with asus update and told me its got a different checksum or something like that and wouldn't let me do it.

[DuncanOc]

Any idea how I can go back to 1406 from 1702? I tried in bios and told me I couldn't do it because of an older version. Then I tried with asus update and told me its got a different checksum or something like that and wouldn't let me do it.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...postcount=1460

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...postcount=1542

[Leeghoofd]

Any idea how I can go back to 1406 from 1702? I tried in bios and told me I couldn't do it because of an older version. Then I tried with asus update and told me its got a different checksum or something like that and wouldn't let me do it.

I prefer Koda's flashing tool as it does a through wipe of the bios bootblock... most users flash biosses when they got issues with ram , not happy of the current stability... I absolutely avoid flashing in windows, but to each his own...

Koda's ASUS Flashing Tool

[Retro]

jbruneau, glad to know that there is someone else with the same issue.

I'm about to order another one from Newegg, and then RMA this one soon after.

Just sucks that I messed up something so stupidly, I mean if I was doing my college homework.. this would have never happened.

Same thing happened to me, bud ..

Except, I was using the 1406 modded BIOS, and it went bonkerz.

Tried a different floppy drive, cables, power connectors but no go there.

Today I tried swapping out the video card and power supply, but still no go (I had another system do the SAME thing and it was the 12v rail on the PSU blown).

It's either the RAM, CPU, or MOBO. Don't think it's the ram, tried each stick in all 4 slots.

All 3 of the above components are brand new.

I can't get my hands on RAM or a CPU until Tuesday. Argh!

I think it's the board though, I'm arranging an RMA with the purchaser.

What I did was to order a replacement bios chip for my Pro. It's a lot cheaper and easier than removing the board for replacement or rma. You can also get your existing borked chip re-flashed by this company if you don't want to do a hot flash with another working chip:

www.biosman.com

[vrdublu]

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...postcount=1460

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...postcount=1542

Thank you Duncan and oooops Leeghoofd !!

p.s. the Asus update doesn't support Vista

[axy1985]

it does, that's exactly how i downgraded. download the vista version. however, i believe 64 bit Vista is not supported.