BIOS upgrade on new build

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HI guys, very inexperienced here so please bear with me.

I'm about to order a new system, but want to run an E8500 on an Asus P5E. Looking at the motherboard i'm going to need to update the BIOS to do this.... and now the best bit, this is going to be my first full build... so i'm not entirely sure how to do that... and obviously i don't have other CPU's lying around to allow me to load everything then update the BIOS.

So how do i go about updating the BIOS using the E8500?

Or as a total newbie is this going to be a disaster and i should look for an alternative?

thanks for your help
 
hufggfg said:
HI guys, very inexperienced here so please bear with me.

I'm about to order a new system, but want to run an E8500 on an Asus P5E. Looking at the motherboard i'm going to need to update the BIOS to do this.... and now the best bit, this is going to be my first full build... so i'm not entirely sure how to do that... and obviously i don't have other CPU's lying around to allow me to load everything then update the BIOS.

So how do i go about updating the BIOS using the E8500?

Or as a total newbie is this going to be a disaster and i should look for an alternative?

thanks for your help
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See my post here on ways to do it.

This is problem...we have no idea what BIOS that board is going to ship with, and I doubt OCUK will be able to tell you.
Unless you can find someone here who has recently bought one, there seems a slight risk.
Some people fitting these CPUs (or the E8400 at least) to ASUS boards find it boots and they are told to update the BIOS etc. If they ignore that and close it down it wont boot again.
I would consider myself an experienced user, and I wouldn't fancy that esp as ASUS has soldered the BIOS chip on the board which means the boards dead if you don't flash it.

Unless we see users on these forums buying that board from OCUK and having no problems, there is a risk.

Other ideas would be borrow a chip...people do lend them....or buy one of these flash and sell it.
 
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hufggfg said:
awesome, thanks for your help, buying the celeron chip for £25 is not a bad idea at all
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Well unless someone comes along who recently bought one, and can tell you what BIOS it has etc, I suppose its cheap insurance.

Think it comes with a bigger stock cooler as well.
 
Hi I just bought the P5E and can tell you it came with Bios

Manufacturer : American Megatrends Inc.
Version : 0107
Date : 09/11/2007 (mm/dd/yyyy)
Address : 0x0 on 2048 KB
Copyright : (C)2007 American Megatrends, Inc
Motherboard ID
DMI Version : 2.4
 
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