Modded ASUS P5Q/Pro/Deluxe/Premium BIOS

[hwarda]

Just a tip: check the bios file using EZ Flash in cmos setup.
It will show the date as CPUz screenshot above.

Don't worry of me making any changes.
I'm not as advance as Ket and I don't even know what to do to bios file except flashing them.

[Oki]

I'll be posting up a modded M2F BIOS soon I know its not a P5Q board so I'm straying a little.. but technically I'm not "cheating". It still uses the P45 chipset

ED - Here it is. M2F 2104m

Hey mister, could you engage your fingers and willness for some M2G board : ))))

I would be more than thankfull.

[lexus232]

Just a tip: check the bios file using EZ Flash in cmos setup.
It will show the date as CPUz screenshot above.

EZ also shown 13/04/2009, don't know why. I flashed 1406m, now testing it.

[Gaul]

I'll be posting up a modded M2F BIOS soon I know its not a P5Q board so I'm straying a little.. but technically I'm not "cheating". It still uses the P45 chipset

ED - Here it is. M2F 2104m

which for ? pro/deluxe/____ ???

[Leeghoofd]

Maximus 2 Formula Gaul, not a P5Q series board

[Gaul]

Maximus 2 Formula Gaul, not a P5Q series board

ohhh ic...ic thanx alot m8
almost i'll flash to asus p5q

[davidkozat]

Hiya guy am gonna try a mBios just for fun to see if is more stable???!! whats the latest bios you have for the P5Q Deluxe...? thanks guys ill report back...

[Ket]

See 1st post on page 1....

[Ket]

Once I find a few minutes this post will be updated with download links for every P5Q Series BIOS Asus have released as well as a few easy to use modding tools. I personally feel this series cannot be taken any further even with modded BIOSes, but I do know there are a few of you out there trying to backwardly engineer Single Link Arch BIOS (SLAB) modules to work with P5Qs and P5Q Pros, so maybe these BIOSes and tools will be of use to those of you trying the SLAB route.

AFUDOS 2.11: This particular afudos is rare, it has no checks in place so you can flash any AMI BIOS, to any board. I recommend using these switches when using the flasher; /PBNC /N

AMI BCP v3.13 Use this to snoop around a AMI BIOS and change various values / options. Does not work with modified AMI BIOS files.

MMTOOL v3.22 This handy utility can extract and replace most AMI BIOS modules, useful for splicing in modules from different BIOSes.

IDA Free 4.9 Very good program for complex BIOS modding, I could never get it working with modern BIOSes.

All P5Q Series BIOSes Asus have released (excluding BETAs) There it is, all offical BIOSes Asus have released as well as a few pre-extracted modules and some QVL lists.

[Dionysos]

Thanks a lot, Mr. BIOS!

[davidkozat]

Chears Mr Bios LOL

[Ket]

Some links are up, rest will follow soon.

[rolla]

Is it possible change the boot logo with something else? If yes how can i do it?

[humeyboy]

I'll be posting up a modded M2F BIOS soon I know its not a P5Q board so I'm straying a little.. but technically I'm not "cheating". It still uses the P45 chipset

ED - Here it is. M2F 2104m

I'm now on the newer Bios but it adds nothing for me.

Can you please give a little info to what's different in your MF II Modded Bios (I will try it anyhow)

[Ket]

Link will be added in a few mins for P5Q Series BIOSes. This is me done at this point in time with BIOS modding for these boards. I will have one final parting gift though, a modded Maximus 2 Formula and Rampage Formula BIOS.

[humeyboy]

Hmm, You gave us a 2104 Modded MF II above no ?

Are you meaning the newer build ?

Why you stopping modding, time or lack of appreciation ?

Again can we get a little info to what's change so (I) can look forward to testing that aspect over Asus POS bios.

[chenxuwen]

Dear Ket,

Your ideas are awesome!!! This idea actually help me to stable 8GB ram to work in DDR1000 with no overvoltaging on my P5Q-PRO.
However, I have a few questions to discuss.

1.I tried reaplcing only the memory table in the P5Q-PRO 2102 bios by the one in the P5Q PRO TURBO, but it doesn't work, the memory has all kinds of errors in MemTest 86+. However, with the CPU table from P5Q-Premium, everything works. Lower voltage (1.35->1.30) for my E7200 to go up to 3.8GHz, every voltages else stays in lowest possible.
So it seems to me the only thing matters is the P6 micro code. But I didn't bother to test. What do you think?

2. I also integrated the Intel 8.9.0.1023 raid rom and Marvell L72E to the BIOS. (Of course, SLIC...too). Do you think you would put in this two features in your next modified version?

3. I am thinking about transplanting this method to P5Q3, the P6 micro code will be from P5Q3 Deluxe which has the same P6 micro code as P5Q Premium. However, I am not sure about the memory table. It looks like to me, P5P43TD PRO has got a large table of DDR3 1600. But I am not sure about using a P43 table in P45. It acutally worked out. P5Q3 now supports G.Skill DDR3 1600 4GB pack. What do you think?

4. I just bought a Q8400. I am very impressed by your result shown here http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...ighlight=Q8400
Could you tell me how to archive that? For example, memory voltage, nb voltage, vtt voltage, cpu reference... Do I need to adjust pull-ins?

Thank very much for bring us such a great idea!!!! You are awesome, Mr. Bios!!

[chenxuwen]

As a gift to everyone, these are the P5Q PRO and P5Q3 bioses talked about before.
http://drop.io/qhzxs3r
With, SLIC 2.1 and newest Intel Raid Rom and add-on rom.
Guys, please hail Mr. Bios. Though it's modded by me, it's all his idea.
He's awesome.

[Ket]

Theres only certain tools I have at my disposal for carrying out BIOS hacks. Why some memory tables worked for you and others didn't I'm not too sure. From testing I done however its a good idea to avoid memory tables in the P5Q Premium BIOSes past 1406. Asus done something to the memory table beyond BIOS 1406 that basically cut out a lot of memory support it seems. Also, your link for the modded BIOSes doesn't seem to contain any link to DL them, upload them to megaupload If enough people are interested I'll consider opening up the can of worms again and perhaps with a combined effort we can make one super BIOS, I'd still like to figure out a way to backwardly engineer a P5Q Premium SLAB module and make it work with the P5Q\Pro\-E and Deluxe boards.

[chenxuwen]

Theres only certain tools I have at my disposal for carrying out BIOS hacks. Why some memory tables worked for you and others didn't I'm not too sure. From testing I done however its a good idea to avoid memory tables in the P5Q Premium BIOSes past 1406. Asus done something to the memory table beyond BIOS 1406 that basically cut out a lot of memory support it seems. Also, your link for the modded BIOSes doesn't seem to contain any link to DL them, upload them to megaupload If enough people are interested I'll consider opening up the can of worms again and perhaps with a combined effort we can make one super BIOS, I'd still like to figure out a way to backwardly engineer a P5Q Premium SLAB module and make it work with the P5Q\Pro\-E and Deluxe boards.

Now it's on megaupload.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WMLU0J2X

I want to do it certainly. I don't know why it's so bad to overclock quad cores.
How is your overclocking with quad cores?

[Ket]

I can OC well with my quad, it'll do 480+ FSB, but its only stable to about 460. I get mysterious memory errors beyond 460 that theres apparently no solution for, quite annoying really.

[chenxuwen]

I can OC well with my quad, it'll do 480+ FSB, but its only stable to about 460. I get mysterious memory errors beyond 460 that theres apparently no solution for, quite annoying really.

How are your VTT and North Bridge settings?

I am using 0.63x, VTT1.44V 1.35V core to stable a Q9550 at 450FSB to get 3.8G. 475FSB yields tons of errors in memory. Counting so many people reach more than 4G stable in quad cores, I feel really disappointed.

Increasing NB voltage can not really get the FSB higher, this is so weird.

P5Q-RPO overclocks E8X00, E7X00 and E5X00 very easily. 50% is usually for sure at 1.35V.

I RMAed my Q8400 because it can't even stable at 425MHz FSB.

As X-Bitlabs tested P5Q3-Deluxe and P5Q-PRO, they can't go beyond 460MHz. And P5Q3-DELUXE is 16 phases!

How about your P5Q PRO TURBO?

[chenxuwen]

I can OC well with my quad, it'll do 480+ FSB, but its only stable to about 460. I get mysterious memory errors beyond 460 that theres apparently no solution for, quite annoying really.

Also, the NB is really hot. The mosfets are really cold. I wonder one thing, whether the 4 phases without heatsinks actually working, because I put my hands there many times right after burning the computer, and they are so surprisely cool that I can't feel anything!

Do you think improving NB heatsink can earn some FSB boosting?

[Ket]

Decent NB cooling may help, but I put a 40mm fan on top of my NB and it gets barely warm but 460 is still about its wall.

[mrosen]

If anyone is interested, i´ve modded the original Asus P5Q Pro Turbo Bios 0602 with the Intel Raid Rom 8.9.0.1023.
Working like a charm since over 2 weeks.
Feel free to modify it!

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=I9KS04TW