Get Your Modded P5Q Pro BIOS Here!

[KillerDog]

LOL, true, i read my post, and thought was that guy threw his dummy out the pram,lol. Guess im frustrated coz im trying to get as much info as i can and no one was answering me,lol. I have 3.7ghz at 1.42 volts and multi at 12.5 . Im now at 3.0ghz on stock volts and my cpu ratio at 9, fsb 333. Pc runns alot smoother and more stable.Thanks for the reply too

 

[discountbay]

P5Q Pro Bios Update Problem

Hi Everyone

This is my first time ever posting a message on the forum. Quite fustrated with bios update .. I have spent two whole days and nights on this. I am kicking myself, because the computer was working without any errors before bios update.

HARDWARE

1. Gigabyte Aurora Aluminium Case
2. Quad Core Intel CPU
3. 2x 2gb DDR2 800 RAM
4. Thermaltake Blue Orb 2 CPU Fan
5. P5Q Pro Mobo


The Mobo came with Bios version 1104. I went to Asus website and downloaded Bios 1613 which is the latest official bios. I updated the bios using the utility in Windows. That worked without errors. And said to restart computer.

When restarting, it asked to change Bios settings, so I went into bios, which showed that it had updated to 1613. All I did was go into the boot order and changed it so it booted from correct drive. Then pressed F10 to save and exit.

After that the system would not POST. Would not ever let me get into Bios again.

Did heaps of reading, decided to downgrade. Pressed Alt F2 and when to that utility, and using ROM file on a usb stick, downgraded to 1611. Same issue, will not POST.

Removed MOBO battery and clear cmos jumper setting. Then restarted computer and it did let me go into bios.

I have discovered, that it only ever lets me get back into BIOS after I have done a clear CMOS.

I have also disconnected all the other drives on the computer, so the only drive it has is the OS Drive.

I tried to downgrade BIOS below 1611 using the ALT F2 utility, but it does not let me, says that file in ROM file in newer than what I am trying to upgrade to.

Got hold of the MOBO DVD that came with the motherboard. Put that in, and it loads into DOS environment. Now when you are in the dos environment using the Asus MOBO DVD, and you press DIR, you get all these utilities and files, however, no ROM file anywhere there. I looked really properly and its not there. There is AFUDOS utility, but not the rom file. I inserted that DVD into another computer and the ROM file is in the root of the DVD. There are two rom files, p5q.rom and p5qpro.com

I dont know how to get teh AFUDOS utility to work off the CD. Perhaps I should be using a floppy?


Any suggestions and comments? PLEASE HELP.

 

[KillerDog]

Did you clear the c-mos before you updated the bios. Maybe try using a floppy drive to flash the bios. I know i had something similar, what i did was set bios to defaults, flashed it, selected defaults, saved then set up my bios again, it worked. I dont know if this will help... Have you made nay hard ware changes, or done anything else thats upset the balance of your bios ? Im an overclock noob so im very limted as to how i can advise you, i just hope i have typed something that might of helped you...

 

[1heone]

its not the modded bios, its asus bios. u have to use a older build of afudos in order to downgrade to a earlier bios

put afudos on a usb drive and boot off there. if not burn the file and a cd and make it bootable, the files are the asus cd are not in the same directory?

 

[jbruneau]

Hi Ket (and others),

I am in need of some serious help on my P5Q Pro!

OK, here's my story, I setup my system about a week ago:

Antec P160W incl. 1xFront / 1xBack (Antec Tri-Cool Blue @ 79 CFM)
OCZ ModStream Pro 700W
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ASUS P5Q Pro
Intel Q6600 G0 SLACR
TRUE incl. 1xPush / 1xPull (Noctua NF-P12-1300 @ 55 CFM)
Corsair PC2-8500 Domainator 2x2GB w/ CrossFlow Fan
Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 1GB
-----
1xLG DVD-RW
1xSeagate 320GB OS
2xSeagate 500GB RAID0 Storage​

When I setup my board, I set it up stock speeds, and right away flashed up to 1613. I prepared for the arrival by downloading all of my necessary drivers and BIOS flases on my main system -- this is going to be my saweetness gaming machine !

After the flash I made a successful OC to 333x9 for 3.0GHz, not a bad bump, but I've had more on these chips before (I've sold several PCs to friends always with ASUS boards). Tested OK with Memtestx86. With such a light clock, I installed my licensed copy of Vista x64 Ultimate, and got my system running great (games n' all). After in Windows, OCCT tested OK.

I decided to start playing more to try to get it up to 3.4GHz - 3.6GHz. For the life of me, I couldn't even get the board up to 366, the board would not POST (blank screen fans running and no BIOS beeps). A CMOS clear always fixed it. I know enough to keep the dividers matching up, and my memory at 1066 as it is rated. I also know enough to set the voltages: starting at 1.350 and working up to 1.425 for VCore, 2.00 and 2.10 for VDimm, and 1.3 to 1.4 for NB. Oh, and my memory timings of 5-5-5-15 for 1066.

I reset to defaults and flashed back to 1406 without any problems at all (using the KodaKey tool at its latest ver of 0.72), and played around very briefly but stuck at 333x9 for 3.0GHz. Reason being is that I was reading up online and found Ket's 1406 Modded BIOS and wanted to try it!

I reset to defaults and flashed to the 1406 Modded BIOS, and now have a blank screen with no POST again! This is on the reboot right after the flash.

I read, acknowledged, and followed the instructions from Ket:

Sometimes happens. The risk in using any of these mBIOSes is the same as flashing to a new official version. So heres some basic steps to take;

1. Set your system back to stock prior to flashing

If your system does not POST on restart;

2. Clear CMOS by removing battery and power cord, remember to set CMOS jumper to "clear" as well.

Tried those, my system still will not POST

Chances are the flash went wrong. Grab a floppy disk (doesn't need to be bootable) and put a known "good" BIOS on the floppy. Rename the BIOS file to AMIBOOT.ROM, hit the reset button and the system will read the floppy disk and automatically restore the BIOS with the one on the floppy disk. The system will restart a few times and before you know it you will be looking at the POST screen again.​

So to confirm, last night, the PC sat without a battery and power cord (I held the power button until the lights went out on it) for 8 hours. Still no POST afterwards. I dropped my 1406.ROM renamed to AMIBOOT.ROM onto a floppy disk. The system does not read the floppy disk at any point during POST, not even if I hit the reset button, or hold the reset button until PWR goes out. I tried dropping the AMIBOOT.ROM onto an empty flash stick, same thing. A last ditch effort, I made a bootable floppy, dropped MiniDOS / AFUDOS / AMIBOOT.ROM and a custom AUTOEXEC.BAT onto the floppy to try. No go! Desperate, I even tried a different floppy drive, floppy cable, and a different PSU connector!

Oh, during system startup, I also tried to force a flash using CTRL-HOME without luck. I think that I am fubar'd! I have been working and building PCs for 10 years, I've never screwed up a BIOS flash on anything, let alone my own equipment (heck I ran a custom BIOS on my MSI Neo2 Platinum and DFI NF4 SLI-DR Expert)!

My PC won't boot, what do I do? HELP, PLEASE!




YES, I know I am asking for a Miracle :! I don't want to return for RMA and wait for 4 weeks......argh!

 

[mfpreach]

Can someone help me flash this,
EZ flash and AFUDOS both tell me the bios is too old for my board, there is no way for me to get around it so far.
I have tried AFUDOS 2.11 2.21 and 2.07

 

[jbruneau]

Can someone help me flash this,
EZ flash and AFUDOS both tell me the bios is too old for my board, there is no way for me to get around it so far.
I have tried AFUDOS 2.11 2.21 and 2.07

Use the KodaKey tool at its latest ver of 0.72.

Worked great rolling back from 1613 to 1406 !

 

[mfpreach]

Thanks a lot i'll try it.

EDIT: WORKED LIKE A CHARM THANKS A LOT!!!

 

[jbruneau]

Thanks a lot i'll try it.

EDIT: WORKED LIKE A CHARM THANKS A LOT!!!

No problem, glad to help out !

 

[mfpreach]

What is the advantage of this modded bios?
I am running it now but don't really see the difference.
This is of course due to my ignorace.

 

[jbruneau]

What is the advantage of this modded bios?
I am running it now but don't really see the difference.
This is of course due to my ignorace.

The modded BIOS adds adds more Processor Microcode updates, as well as a new RAM Table from the Premium board (which ASUS obviously spent more time working on as it has much finer detailing and timings for even more varying types of memory).

In a nutshell, it provides much more enhanced stability, and higher overclocks.

 

[Ketxxx]

Up. First post edited with new improved mBIOSes. For anyone too lazy to do that.. here they are.

DL Linky

 

[Fleck]

If I want a custom bios, who could I talk to? I wanna take these cheap MSI P6NGM2 series boards and make them be able to change CPU voltages. Who/where are the geniuses that can mod BIOS?

 

[Ketxxx]

For starters, not me : try asking on rebels haven.

 

[Lillebror]

Ketxxx, whats the key difference between the 1500 and the 1600? can't seem to find it anywhere :s

 

[Ketxxx]

Differences are the same as I've always done. Better CPU and memory compatibility, better stability and OCing potential.

 

[Lillebror]

Hehe, i could guess that But i ment, what are the key differences that Asus made?
Oh, and btw! im a big fan of your mBios and your old x1950pro bios modding!

 

[Ketxxx]

Asus don't really give details on what they change, just the basics.

 

[Lillebror]

Ahh, thanks anyway

 

[Ketxxx]

Hi Everyone

This is my first time ever posting a message on the forum. Quite fustrated with bios update .. I have spent two whole days and nights on this. I am kicking myself, because the computer was working without any errors before bios update.

HARDWARE

1. Gigabyte Aurora Aluminium Case
2. Quad Core Intel CPU
3. 2x 2gb DDR2 800 RAM
4. Thermaltake Blue Orb 2 CPU Fan
5. P5Q Pro Mobo


The Mobo came with Bios version 1104. I went to Asus website and downloaded Bios 1613 which is the latest official bios. I updated the bios using the utility in Windows. That worked without errors. And said to restart computer.

When restarting, it asked to change Bios settings, so I went into bios, which showed that it had updated to 1613. All I did was go into the boot order and changed it so it booted from correct drive. Then pressed F10 to save and exit.

After that the system would not POST. Would not ever let me get into Bios again.

Did heaps of reading, decided to downgrade. Pressed Alt F2 and when to that utility, and using ROM file on a usb stick, downgraded to 1611. Same issue, will not POST.

Removed MOBO battery and clear cmos jumper setting. Then restarted computer and it did let me go into bios.

I have discovered, that it only ever lets me get back into BIOS after I have done a clear CMOS.

I have also disconnected all the other drives on the computer, so the only drive it has is the OS Drive.

I tried to downgrade BIOS below 1611 using the ALT F2 utility, but it does not let me, says that file in ROM file in newer than what I am trying to upgrade to.

Got hold of the MOBO DVD that came with the motherboard. Put that in, and it loads into DOS environment. Now when you are in the dos environment using the Asus MOBO DVD, and you press DIR, you get all these utilities and files, however, no ROM file anywhere there. I looked really properly and its not there. There is AFUDOS utility, but not the rom file. I inserted that DVD into another computer and the ROM file is in the root of the DVD. There are two rom files, p5q.rom and p5qpro.com

I dont know how to get teh AFUDOS utility to work off the CD. Perhaps I should be using a floppy?


Any suggestions and comments? PLEASE HELP.

DL the attached version of AFUDOS, prep a bootable floppy with the BIOS you want to flash to and the attached version of AFUDOS. After the floppy loads type the following;

AFUDOS.EXE /iBIOSfilename.rom /PBNC /N

 

[Delta6326]

holy crapzz i changed my bios on my P5Q Pro to the 1613 mod and my Mushkin 800mhz 5-4-4-12 overclocked to a stable 1066mhz 5-4-4-12 that's awesome saved me some money well i think that was a good OC keep em comen

 

[bram]

Downgrade from BIOS 1611

Hey Ketxxx i´m new here, and i wanna asking if know how to downgrade P5Q PRO from 1611 to one of your mBios. I´ve a Q6600 GO @ 3.2GHZ but i think my system is more stable with the old (1501) version or with one mBios. Here my spec,
P5Q PRO bios V1611
Q6600 GO @ 3.2GHZ
Gemin II, Six heat pipes W/ 2X 120 FAN
ASUS GTX260
2x2GB 1066 MHZ KINGSTON HYPERx
NOX APEX 700W

 

[Ketxxx]

Use AFUDOS 2.11 (post 320)

 

[Ketxxx]

New mBIOSes will be up soon, just trying to decide between memory tables. It'll either be the venerable P5Q Premium table or the M2F table.

 

[ricardovix]

Ketxxx, what change in the version 1613 from your package? It's better than ASUS release? Cause i'm having some problems here, i think the sensor of my P5Q PRO has a problem, because the CPU temperature is ALWAYS like the core 4 temperature, if it's show 60°C in the core 4, the cpu temperature shows 60°C has well, and if's show 41°C the same is showed in the CPU, I'm using the 1613 bios, from asus, but it doesn't fix the problem.

My system:

p5q pro
q6600
asus gtx 260
2x2gb ocz reaper 800mhz


Could you help me ?