ASUS P8P67 PRO owners - what BIOS version did yours come with

Just noticed that this vengeance RAM is not on the QVL list - surely the latest Corsair stuff designed for i7 shouldn't give problems? Also, surely even if it did it couldn't cause the turbo/speedstep issues could it? Must be BIOS IMHO...
 
Just a little update from me.

My issue with randome Freezing seems to be resolved and it looks like setting the BCLK was the key to this.

Still having the cold boot problems with the memory though :-(

Thanks to all who have contibuted to this thread and the other one. It has been very helpful.

Cheers

John
 
OK, another update here. RAM first - my issue with turbo/speedstep @ 1600 seems to have disappeared, not sure what's going on there. However, the cold boot issue is 100% predictable. Every time it will not cold boot, but it is 100% stable when into windows from warm boot at these speeds. Increasing volts to above specs doesn't help. These problems never exist at auto speeds.

Next - overclocking nicely... Currently running p95 at 4.5 on 1.275v in bios and appears to be stable with a max temp of 61C (although not 100% tested yet).
 
Fat Dog said:
OK, another update here. RAM first - my issue with turbo/speedstep @ 1600 seems to have disappeared, not sure what's going on there. However, the cold boot issue is 100% predictable. Every time it will not cold boot, but it is 100% stable when into windows from warm boot at these speeds. Increasing volts to above specs doesn't help. These problems never exist at auto speeds.

Next - overclocking nicely... Currently running p95 at 4.5 on 1.275v in bios and appears to be stable with a max temp of 61C (although not 100% tested yet).
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I am on 1.25v for 4.2Ghz just now, need to get some software on first before I have time to go higher. You changed any other voltages or on CPU, did you force the PLL to 1.9v or left on Auto? Bios 1003 seems really stable, memory isn't switching back and forth after reboot like 0604.
 
Dr_Watson said:
I am on 1.25v for 4.2Ghz just now, need to get some software on first before I have time to go higher. You changed any other voltages or on CPU, did you force the PLL to 1.9v or left on Auto? Bios 1003 seems really stable, memory isn't switching back and forth after reboot like 0604.
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The only volts I changed is CPU. Absolutely everything else on auto. Agree this BIOS is actually pretty stable apart from this infuriating cold boot RAM speed issue.
 
My P8P67 board is coming on Thursday. One question, how easy is it to flash to latest bios, and how do I go about flashing this? (I'm sure I'm capable if anyone gave me instructions, its just I felt I never needed to flash on previous boards).
Since most/everyone here is updating bios I'm guessing I have to too, for stability.

Cheers all.
 
NVid'did'it said:
My P8P67 board is coming on Thursday. One question, how easy is it to flash to latest bios, and how do I go about flashing this? (I'm sure I'm capable if anyone gave me instructions, its just I felt I never needed to flash on previous boards).
Since most/everyone here is updating bios I'm guessing I have to too, for stability.

Cheers all.
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Absurdly easy. Download BIOS file, put on USB drive, go to tools in bios and bios update is there.
 
I can't give too much insight as I didn't get too far with a Pro version of the board.

First time booting was fine. Let it run to past POST and attempt to boot an O/S. Machine reported missing O/S as it should, then I reset and went into BIOS.

Things looked fine.

Then I tried to use the built-in flash utility to go from 0402 to 1003. It loaded a bar of progress at the bottom, finished, then auto reboot. When it came back on, I had no visuals, but everything else was working.

Further inspection reveals that a red LED is lit (VGA).

I have moved my RAM sticks to all combinations and still get the red VGA light.

Oddly, earlier posters have had this problem, but they still see something on screen.
 
Vertigo1 said:
I'll be building tomorrow evening and have the exact same kit as you, memory included, so I'll report back if I get the same thing when running it at 1600Mhz :)
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Hope your stuff has turned up safe and sound. Remember to update this thread with how you get on setting the memory as I still can't set at 1600 without cold boot problems.

I see on the Asus forums that a few people are having the same problem with this board. Edited to say that it's actually a lot of people having this problem
 
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coneypark said:
...... as I still can't set at 1600 without cold boot problems.

I see on the Asus forums that a few people are having the same problem with this board.
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I had a BSOD from the windows loading screen yesterday when trying cold boot at 1600 (same RAM an mobo) but that was also the first boot after an unexpected power interruption. now back at 1333.

when left to its own devices, my board set the command rate to 1t (as opposed to the 2t they are rated at), this may have been the cause, at least in my case
 
coneypark said:
Hope your stuff has turned up safe and sound. Remember to update this thread with how you get on setting the memory as I still can't set at 1600 without cold boot problems.

I see on the Asus forums that a few people are having the same problem with this board. Edited to say that it's actually a lot of people having this problem
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Indeed.

http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&id=20110109013000847&page=1&count=14

http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20110111145552441

Actually good to know as I guess this confirms it is definitely a BIOS issue rather than RAM. Sort it out please ASUS!
 
Starting to question whether the board is damaged now after that BIOS flash attempt.

I've tried :

Reducing RAM to one stick(used both sticks alternatively), in different DIMM slots.
Removing connections and power to the optical drive and the SSD.
Removing any usb or ps/2 peripherals.
Removing CMOS battery for ten minutes, and moving over the motherboard jumper.
Swapping out different video cards in different PCIE lanes.
Removing video cards entirely.
Swapped out for another PSU.

So with one stick of RAM, no, no peripherals and no drives, the computer starts, then quits immediately. Two seconds later it fires back up. Fans are going, CPU test passes, MEM test passes, VGA light goes red and stays red.
I get no beeps.

PSU seems good though because if I remove the RAM stick, I get the usual beep sequence.


In my mind's eye, I'd like to think that the solution is to reset the CMOS, but as mentioned above, I thought I would have already done that.

If the CMOS has been reset, then all I can think is that the BIOS flash hurt the board.

Someone a few pages back talked about it happening to them, I didn't see if they got it solved.


EDIT: Forgot to mention that sometimes when I start the computer, it powers off and back on like mentioned above; and then after I manually power down, it seems to the auto on/off sequence at random. At first I thought it was the BIOS flash stuck in it's own loop or trying to complete itself, but if that was the case, surely I'd have visuals at least.
 
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TrojanWhore said:
I noticed it saying "no hard drive detected", was it on a page of the bios that said Marvell at the top? If so I believe it is just because there's nothing connected to the Marvell SATA3 controller, mine's still saying that at boot yet here I am in windows (with my drives on the intel controller)
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You can disable the Marvell controller in BIOS. Once disabled you will no longer get that error.
 
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