Modded ASUS P5Q/Pro/Deluxe/Premium BIOS

[vrdublu]

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

I just tried again, and it tells me theres no support for this OS or it tells me theres no Asus MB present ??????, I don't know what else to try right now.

[DuncanOc]

Thank you Duncan and oooops Leeghoofd !!

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

Yep,the 61002 ver doesn't support vista, only XP The newer versions doesn't support downgrade

axy1985,what version of Asus update have you used to downgrade on Vista??

[axy1985]

Yep,the 61002 ver doesn't support vista, only XP The newer versions doesn't support downgrade

axy1985,what version of Asus update have you used to downgrade on Vista??

Huh? The latest version doesn't support Vista, but older version do? WTH...
anyway, I used an earlier version, cause thats the info I found. Here's the one I used:
http://www.jmax-hardware.com/docman/...ownload-2.html. Doesn't support 64-bit tho.
Hop eyou get it fixed like i did

[hema]

Huh? The latest version doesn't support Vista, but older version do? WTH...
anyway, I used an earlier version, cause thats the info I found. Here's the one I used:
http://www.jmax-hardware.com/docman/...ownload-2.html. Doesn't support 64-bit tho.
Hop eyou get it fixed like i did

thanks man this version work for me very well
but i advise to use afudos from dos better

[oMek]

i got the chance to trade my board for a GA-EP45-UD3R, think i might give it a shot. everyone seems to say 45nm quads clock better on it.

think i should swap my p5q-e?

[vrdublu]

Well I got it flashed back to 1406 but still no luck getting over 458 fsb with any consistency. I am able to boot and get no errors in Vista's mem check but still I get bsod in windows, can't figure out why I can't seem to get over 500fsb, I should be able to do this easily with this combo ??? I could really use some help.

AI Overclock tuner: Manual
CPU Ratio Setting: 7
FSB Strap to North Bridge: 400
FSB Frequency: 500
PCI-E Frequency: 100
DRAM Frequency: 1000
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):
CPU GTL Voltage Reference (1/3):
CPU PLL Voltage: 1.52
FSB Termination Voltage: 1.26 - Now I need 1.32 or so
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

[gergregg]

This is prime blend stable for 24+ hours

Not done tweaking yet. Still need to look at the skews for cpu, NB, and dram

AI Overclock tuner: Manual
CPU Ratio Setting: 7.5
FSB Strap to North Bridge: 333
FSB Frequency: 560
PCI-E Frequency: 100
DRAM Frequency: 1122
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: DISABLED
DRAM Read Training: DISABLED
MEM. OC Charger: DISABLED
AI Clock Twister: AUTO
AI Transaction Booster: Manual

Performance Level : 10
Everything Disabled
4th Information :

CPU Voltage: 1.36
CPU GTL Voltage Reference (0/2): .620
CPU GTL Voltage Reference (1/3): .660
CPU PLL Voltage: 1.60
FSB Termination Voltage: 1.22
DRAM Voltage: 1.92
NB Voltage: 1.32
NB GTL Reference: .580
SBridge Voltage: 1.20
PCIE SATA Voltage: 1.60
Load Line Calibration: Enabled
CPU Spread Spectrum: disabled
PCIE Spread Spectrum: disabled
CPU Clock Skew : Auto
NB Clock Skew : Auto
CPU Margin Enhancement: Optimized

[vrdublu]

Thank you kind Sir, I will give it a ty and report back.

[jbruneau]

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.

Well, to compound my theory, I tested the last 2 components to make sure:

- Tried a E2140 1.6GHz 800Mhz FSB CPU (known good) but no go
- Tried a 1x1GB DDR-667 1.8v stick of RAM but no go

It's definitely the board, crappy crap crap!

I still haven't heard back from ASUS, 30 hours now, I'm getting antsy!

I just want a BIOS chip. I was tempted to hotflash one using Koda's tool back to 1406 Standard but can't find another board that uses a DIP-8 BIOS! WTF?!

I won't buy a new BIOS chip at 30-40 bucks Canadian when ASUS can send me one for free!

Okay, soo, mayybe pride is getting in the way a little bit !

[jbruneau]

thanks man this version work for me very well
but i advise to use afudos from dos better

Why doesn't anyone use the KodaKey tool?

Easy as pie to setup!

A USB key, 1GB, there goes 2 bucks. Upgradable, just keep dropping new BIOS Installers onto it (I even made a few of my own custom BIOS Installers using Ket's modded BIOS -- for my own personal use of course).

Just grab the Telechargement and both Fast Updates.

Format USB key in FAT (not FAT32). Extract all 3 of the packages to the key. Run the script in the INSTALL dir to drop the Linux Bootloader onto the key.

I could explain how to open up one of the IMZ (it's just a compressed image) files, save it as the your name, inject the new BIOS, and then add the script to the installer? If anyone's curious...

[vrdublu]

This is prime blend stable for 24+ hours

Not done tweaking yet. Still need to look at the skews for cpu, NB, and dram

AI Overclock tuner: Manual
CPU Ratio Setting: 7.5
FSB Strap to North Bridge: 333
FSB Frequency: 560
PCI-E Frequency: 100
DRAM Frequency: 1122
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: DISABLED
DRAM Read Training: DISABLED
MEM. OC Charger: DISABLED
AI Clock Twister: AUTO
AI Transaction Booster: Manual

Performance Level : 10
Everything Disabled
4th Information :

CPU Voltage: 1.36
CPU GTL Voltage Reference (0/2): .620
CPU GTL Voltage Reference (1/3): .660
CPU PLL Voltage: 1.60
FSB Termination Voltage: 1.22
DRAM Voltage: 1.92
NB Voltage: 1.32
NB GTL Reference: .580
SBridge Voltage: 1.20
PCIE SATA Voltage: 1.60
Load Line Calibration: Enabled
CPU Spread Spectrum: disabled
PCIE Spread Spectrum: disabled
CPU Clock Skew : Auto
NB Clock Skew : Auto
CPU Margin Enhancement: Optimized

AI Overclock tuner: Manual
CPU Ratio Setting: 8
FSB Strap to North Bridge: 400
FSB Frequency: 500
PCI-E Frequency: 100
DRAM Frequency: 100
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: DISABLED
DRAM Read Training: DISABLED
MEM. OC Charger: Enabled
AI Clock Twister: AUTO
AI Transaction Booster: Manual

Performance Level : 10
Everything Disabled
4th Information :

CPU Voltage: 1.35
CPU GTL Voltage Reference (0/2): Auto
CPU GTL Voltage Reference (1/3): Auto
CPU PLL Voltage: 1.52
FSB Termination Voltage: 1.26
DRAM Voltage: 2.10
NB Voltage: 1.40
NB GTL Reference: Auto
SBridge Voltage: Auto
PCIE SATA Voltage: Auto
Load Line Calibration: Enabled
CPU Spread Spectrum: disabled
PCIE Spread Spectrum: disabled
CPU Clock Skew : Auto
NB Clock Skew : Auto
CPU Margin Enhancement: Optimized

Ok I played a little more with it and it seems it's the NB Voltage holdinh me back, it's seems to need alot of juice once I pass 500fsb. At 458 I boot and run great with 1.26 but you see how how I need to go just to get into Windows at 500. 1.38 got me as close as the scrolling bar before windows, anything below that gets me into the splash screen as the computer starts up I think that's the xpress gate splash screen. Now I'm running Orthos small to see if it's the Cpu, highly unlikely, but anything is possible. I have booted at 1.26 and 500fsb before which makes this all the more confusing, I can't figure this out, now I need 1.4. Do I just keep pumping in the juice till she craps out?? I have been here before and I start getting mem errors once I go to high on the NB voltage. The other interesting thing is that I can't boot at a lower dram frequency then 1100 even at 458 fsb, if I set it to 931 with a fsb of 333 or 400 then it won't boot. Alot of strange things happening that don't make any sense to me. Any other ideas what I can do next to get this to 550??

[Ket]

Huh? The latest version doesn't support Vista, but older version do? WTH...
anyway, I used an earlier version, cause thats the info I found. Here's the one I used:
http://www.jmax-hardware.com/docman/...ownload-2.html. Doesn't support 64-bit tho.
Hop eyou get it fixed like i did

I wouldn't. 470 on a quad is already pretty high.

[Goonit]

G'day Ket!
I just wanted to thank you for your bios (p5q-d 1406m.rom) the one that uses the latest M2F memory table.

I was about to sell my P5Q Deluxe, because it wouldn't work with the new patriot 1200mhz 5-5-5-12 ram I bought a while ago, wouldn't even post/boot/turn on with these new sticks in it. I really like this board, but it seems ASUS aren't exactly supportive of there products.

I updated to the latest ASUS BIOS (1702) first. I've been hearing a lot of bad reports about it, but I thought maybe it'd work out good for me. Err wrong! Was a total mess, wouldn't even boot with relaxed overclocked settings.

I did know about your BIOS's, but like most sane people BIOS's are pretty scary things you _DONT_ want to completely break! Though I knew I could swap the BIOS chips on the board, if I completely screwed it up.

So late last night I went ahead and flashed it with said BIOS, reset bios and removed battery for a minute, and bingo the damn thing thing booted up, So I went to the BIOS set memory to 1200mhz (4-4-4-12 (didn't actually look at the timings, at first I was just stocked the thing didn't crash and burn.)) and it booted up stable as a rock. All I can say it OMFG! I am in love with this board once again, and have taken my Ebay listing down now! Which was going so well too :P

I'd like to donate some money to thank you for your work, if you have a paypal.. This post was just going to be a small thank you haha!

By the way I just used an older version of the Asus windows BIOS updater (6.07.01) to reverse the 1702 mess, went straight from 1702 to your BIOS all within windows 7. What can I say.. :P

Also stumbled upon this where ASUS keeps all versions of there Utilities & Tools was helpful for m,e so probably would be helpful for someone else as well!

[motox]

First off, i've searched up and down this forum regarding info on the P5Q SE/R... there's nothing.

I would like to know if anyone has successfully flashed any of these BIOSes to that model of mobo. From what i've seen, the only differences between the vanilla p5q and the se/r are reduced power usage and different slots. BIOS settings seem the same.

The reason I ask is because this e7200 can boot into windows stable at 3.8 with 475FSB. I would like to make it an even 4ghz at 500fsb and these BIOSes might be what i need to achieve that...

[Ket]

G'day Ket!
I just wanted to thank you for your bios (p5q-d 1406m.rom) the one that uses the latest M2F memory table.

I was about to sell my P5Q Deluxe, because it wouldn't work with the new patriot 1200mhz 5-5-5-12 ram I bought a while ago, wouldn't even post/boot/turn on with these new sticks in it. I really like this board, but it seems ASUS aren't exactly supportive of there products.

I updated to the latest ASUS BIOS (1702) first. I've been hearing a lot of bad reports about it, but I thought maybe it'd work out good for me. Err wrong! Was a total mess, wouldn't even boot with relaxed overclocked settings.

I did know about your BIOS's, but like most sane people BIOS's are pretty scary things you _DONT_ want to completely break! Though I knew I could swap the BIOS chips on the board, if I completely screwed it up.

So late last night I went ahead and flashed it with said BIOS, reset bios and removed battery for a minute, and bingo the damn thing thing booted up, So I went to the BIOS set memory to 1200mhz (4-4-4-12 (didn't actually look at the timings, at first I was just stocked the thing didn't crash and burn.)) and it booted up stable as a rock. All I can say it OMFG! I am in love with this board once again, and have taken my Ebay listing down now! Which was going so well too :P

I'd like to donate some money to thank you for your work, if you have a paypal.. This post was just going to be a small thank you haha!

By the way I just used an older version of the Asus windows BIOS updater (6.07.01) to reverse the 1702 mess, went straight from 1702 to your BIOS all within windows 7. What can I say.. :P

Also stumbled upon this where ASUS keeps all versions of there Utilities & Tools was helpful for m,e so probably would be helpful for someone else as well!

Glad the BIOS is working for you I don't have a paypal account, so "thankyou" donations aren't possible. The reason I don't have a payapl account in itself is a rather long story if told in full In a nutshell paypal tried screwing me some time ago, since then I will not use them.

First off, i've searched up and down this forum regarding info on the P5Q SE/R... there's nothing.

I would like to know if anyone has successfully flashed any of these BIOSes to that model of mobo. From what i've seen, the only differences between the vanilla p5q and the se/r are reduced power usage and different slots. BIOS settings seem the same.

The reason I ask is because this e7200 can boot into windows stable at 3.8 with 475FSB. I would like to make it an even 4ghz at 500fsb and these BIOSes might be what i need to achieve that...

I have not modded any BIOS code for any P5Q board except whats listed. I wouldn't try using any of these BIOSes on a board they aren't meant for.

[Goonit]

Glad the BIOS is working for you I don't have a paypal account, so "thankyou" donations aren't possible. The reason I don't have a payapl account in itself is a rather long story if told in full In a nutshell paypal tried screwing me some time ago, since then I will not use them.

I know what you mean man, lots of people get stuffed around by paypal. I've got a premium account and am yet to be screwed by them.

A HUGE THANK YOU, TO YOU THEN!!

You have done things that ASUS, as a huge multi-million dollar company hasn't.. What the fu*ks up with that? Seriously.. Every other P45 board I tested this ram on worked fine, but not mine..

I hope you still continue to do the odd bit of work on the P5Q BIOS's, as I'm sure a lot of people are very appreciative of your work.

Will keep you posted when I get a bit more time to play with this BIOS.

[Ket]

I may do a little more work on the P5Q series BIOS, but right now I'm looking at the TPower.. its BIOS is crap. Not sure what I can really do to it but any small improvements are good improvements for the TPower I guess.

[motox]

I have not modded any BIOS code for any P5Q board except whats listed. I wouldn't try using any of these BIOSes on a board they aren't meant for.

ya. Definitely not going to try flashing unless its been confirmed to work by someone who CAN risk bricking their board.

[Goonit]

That's good to hear! Don't leave us behind like ASUS has done somewhat.

I was looking at getting the Tpower I45 when I had my mindset on getting rid of this P5Q.. But there's only like* 2 Biostar retailers in Australia! And they're as expensive as the top of the line boards. Lol

Why doesn't ASUS use the largest memory table possible with all motherboards? What is sacrificed to get all this memory compatibility.. ?

[Ket]

Absolutely nothing. Its just Asus skimping in part of an attempt to MAKE you buy the more expensive boards, after all, they don't make as much money do they if lower end boards are as equal as possible

[YMAA]

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

I've noticed a similar issue on my P5Q-Deluxe past 500FSB (mBIOSes 1702 and whichever was the last version I used, 1406?). I tested this last night at 4.6GHz (9 x 511) and it ran the Folding @ Home SMP and GPU clients stably all night, no problems whatsoever (PCIe bus at 100MHz, vCore at 1.325v, vFSB at 1.3v, vNB at 1.4v, both GTLrefs at .67), then when I started playing WoW within just a few minutes the machine freezes and then the display goes out but it isn't a BSoD. Just seems odd that even loading the video card with FAH doesn't induce a crash, but a relatively old game like WoW does...might be a bandwidth issue.

At 499FSB now and it's stable as a bird, but I would like more FSB and can't figure out why it's doing this. Just thought I'd post that experience since it seems remarkably similar to what your board does (or did...that post of yours is a little old).

[Ket]

My Pro still does that. One thing which didn't occur to me at the time to try was switching which memory slots my D9GKX modules were in. When I put that system back together I'll see if using the black slots make any difference.

[PakaPaka]

well after i flashed from 1416 to 1406 on my P5Q Pro,
i can tell you that 1406 is pretty much stable then 1416.

on 4.05GHZ 450*9 stable something like a week without crashes.

[DuncanOc]

Huh? The latest version doesn't support Vista, but older version do? WTH...
anyway, I used an earlier version, cause thats the info I found. Here's the one I used:
http://www.jmax-hardware.com/docman/...ownload-2.html. Doesn't support 64-bit tho.
Hop eyou get it fixed like i did

Thanx man, works like a charm

[YMAA]

Update: the issue still seems to happen below 500FSB. No idea what the issue is.