ASUS Intel Beta BIOS Releases and Official Support

[mitmot]

Any chance you can update the 0006 bios for P6T Deluxe to support i7-980? TIA!

[R37ribution]

Its awesome to see Asus reaching out to customers like this. It really raises the bar in terms of how I feel about the company.

Subscribe.

p.s. It would be nice to see the Rampage II Gene added to the list. I realize you just released 1307 a month and a half ago and may not yet have a beta yet.

[Vinsent]

THX Bingo13.....

[bingo13]

Any chance you can update the 0006 bios for P6T Deluxe to support i7-980? TIA!

I have asked R&D to look into this board and a couple of others. There is a holiday in Taiwan for the next week so things will be slower than normal. As soon as I have word on this and other boards, I will update the posts.

[gergregg]

A bios that supports lower then 1.8 cpu pll for the P6X58D-E would be awesome.

[R37ribution]

I have asked R&D to look into this board and a couple of others. There is a holiday in Taiwan for the next week so things will be slower than normal. As soon as I have word on this and other boards, I will update the posts.

This is mildly off topic but it would be awesome if you could ask R&D if/will there be an update to the Asus OC Station. It has a few bugs that have been posted in the forums but no update since 2009/10/05 and was quite an expensive product. The functions it offers are awesome but having to load the profile at every restart kinda sucks.

[R37ribution]

A bios that supports lower then 1.8 cpu pll for the P6X58D-E would be awesome.

I 2nd this for the Rampage II Gene, users around the forums are getting very high overclocks undervolting the CPU PLL below the default 1.8v. Also, QPI PLL isn't even an available voltage to adjust???

Here is an example of someone turning down the CPU PLL and getting a 4400Mhz OC on a i7 920. Its from a thread I have going about my heat issues

So I have the same board as the OP, which for some reason doesn't allow setting of the CPU PLL below the default 1.8v and the IOH PLL option doesn't even exist. So regarding those recommendations, the OP is probably out of luck concerning setting voltages that way.

Hopefully you can find another solution to your heat issues.

These settings were suggested to me by a couple guys in the forums and have worked very well. I am currently running a very stable 210x21-4400mhz HT enabled with 1.140v IOH core, 1.140v QPI PLL, and 1.40v CPU PLL.

Here is a very short LinX run with ET6 installed to show current settings.



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[donmarkoni]

@bingo13:
I've seen people asking couple of times for option to Disable HPET in Rampage III Extreme BIOS, so is there going to be one, or is there a way I'm not aware of to disable it now?

[Jeff Flowerday]

Yes, please give us the option to disable HPET on the Rampage III Extreme.

[minaelromany]

I've tried 2 Asus X58 boards with my OCZ Blade DDR3 2000 Memory modules and would NEVER POST with 1N or 2N , It only POSTs with 3N

I've had a Gigabyte EX58-Extreme before that ran just fine with 1N

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[Fire4Wire]

any news bingo13?

[Chrysalis]

nice stuff from asus. I agree with the earlier posted about the onboard controller bios's please on my board (if not already the case) make sure the intel/jmicron/marvell are all latest thanks. p7p55d-e

[asusme]

Hello! Any change to get beta BIOS for R2E? Adding new features eg. Loadline calibration for DDR3 (like R3E) or performance improvement for stock settings? Thanks!

[jacek]

asus wake up

[Chrysalis]

I have some more questions as well into if removed features can get readded.

Features lost on p7p55d bios between original release and now on p7p55d-e.

Rank interleave
Channel interleave
Jmicron ide/ahci mode
Jmicron bootrom on/off
Fast MRC on/off

please readd thanks.

[Jeff Flowerday]

I have no idea why you guys want HPET disabled, but it can be done using ACPI code, at least until a BIOS with this option added is released for you.
I've extracted ACPI AML from RampageIII-Extreme-ASUS-0602.ROM, and disabled HPET, in attached archive you will find both .aml format, that must be replaced in original BIOS, and .dsl file to see(use any text editor) the modifications. I also commented the mods for easy understanding...
Do this at your own risk...

Have fun!

It's all about lowering the average DPC latency, which is a goal when doing extremely low latency audio recording. Gigabyte offers the option, and most every DAW system integrator is using gigabyte boards because of it and the TI firewire chipsets they offer.

[Jeff Flowerday]

Thanks for the heads up, I tough was something related to overclock since the board in question, now is clear for what is...
I see no reason why it wouldn't be added as feature, is just 1 tick register, and ASUS/AMI does have this feature on some BIOS'es.
I agree about the quality of the fireware chip, I always prefer to spend few more bucks and get a good stuff(not the case of my P6T7 WS SC that include a VIA cheap crap chip), problem is that OEM's never understand this and try to monetize every single penny...
And as final note, I'm stoned when I see top products still including PS2 crap instead a more useful port like serial(if they still want to get a extra use of Super I/O chip), common how long we have to wait to get rid of that?

Since I really don't know what you are talking about with your files above, I'm going to have to hope Asus decides to add the feature for us.

[Jeff Flowerday]

There is no secondary lan on the Rampage III Extreme.

Thanks for your time, but don't put too much time in it. It really isn't worth your time. If Asus doesn't add it I can live with my latency, I'm just hoping they see the value in giving us the option. They could sell a few more boards to the audio community.

[Jeff Flowerday]

The only thing I disable is the on board audio. Everything else I use including USB 3.0 and SATA 6GB

[bingo13]

I have some more questions as well into if removed features can get readded.

Features lost on p7p55d bios between original release and now on p7p55d-e.

Rank interleave
Channel interleave
Jmicron ide/ahci mode
Jmicron bootrom on/off
Fast MRC on/off

please readd thanks.

Noted.

[bingo13]

To everyone, thank you for the comments and suggestions. R&D is back to work after the national holiday and I will be in Taiwan shortly also. I have listed the current requests and we should have further BIOS' released shortly. I will provide updates this weekend.

[Jeff Flowerday]

Great!
Can't wait for updates.


Perfect!
OK, I did a test for you based on 0704 version, now if built in HDA is disabled, HPET goes disabled too.

http://rapidshare.com/files/40223463...t-off.zip.html

Have fun until you will get an official version with this function supported.
Lemme know how goes.

Thanks, I'll try it tonight when I get home.

I hope Asus gives us the option to disable HPET, I don't want to be begging you to customize every new bios they release.

[rostrow]

I would like to thank bingo13, Jeff Flowerday and KaminoReal for the information provided. For a long time I have been very interested in which 1156 socket motherboard, either Asus P7P55D Deluxe or equivalent Gigabyte, would be best for audio work (DAW). I have not checked the audio forums lately and was unaware that the HPET would effect DPC latency.

Kamino, do you know if disabling HDA (high definition audio) on the Asus P7P55D Deluxe also disables the HPET? Are you aware of any tools that will display whether the HPET is enabled or disabled?

bingo13, I second Jeff Flowerday's recommendation to add support for disabling the HPET in the bios. Can this be done for the P7P55D Deluxe? I also agree with Jeff that many audio guys would like to have this option.

Jeff, can you provide the URL to the audio forum thread that discusses the HPET issue?

thanks to all.

[Jeff Flowerday]

bingo13, I second Jeff Flowerday's recommendation to add support for disabling the HPET in the bios. Can this be done for the P7P55D Deluxe? I also agree with Jeff that many audio guys would like to have this option.

Jeff, can you provide the URL to the audio forum thread that discusses the HPET issue?

thanks to all.

Just google HPET "DPC Latency", there are posts all over the place.

I've personally disabled HPET on a gigabyte board and seen the latency drop dramatically, so you can take my word for it.

[Jeff Flowerday]

No.
On original BIOS will not be like that ever, I just tried to help Jeff to get HPET disabled when he disable built in HDAudio(guess he use a professional audio card so no use for onboard one) until he will get the HPET Enable/Disable option in original BIOS, what I did was to add a check in ACPI code to see if HDA is disabled, and if yes then disable HPET too.

There are many ways to check if HPET is enabled or not, I'll show the most easy one:
Install Lavalys Everest Corporate version.
Run the program and right click the lower bar window, select ACPI Tool, and Find HPET(use find button), then double click on _STA entry(Status) if it returns:
Dec: 15 Hex: 0x0000000F - is enabled
Dec: 11 Hex: 0x0000000B - is enabled but not visible
Dec: 0 Hex: 0x00000000 - is disabled

Or you can go into device manager and choose view "Show Hidden Devices". Expand system devices and you'll see "High precision event timer" listed there.