THE Asus P5E X38 Thread

[zlojack]

Dude! That blows.

To get that stuff off of my Maximus Formula I left it in the freezer overnight and the next morning it popped off like nothing....

[Bitemarks and bloodstains]

that is what i would have done if i knew it was epoxied, i thought it would have just been standard thermal paste but you live and learn

[zlojack]

Originally Posted by Bitemarks and bloodstains

that is what i would have done if i knew it was epoxied, i thought it would have just been standard thermal paste but you live and learn

That, sir, is the truth!

[Ignis]

hi guys,
I have been having some issues with my board and was wondering if you could help out. I recently put together my build and was running everything great! I installed Vista 64 bit and I had a modest overclock of 3.0Ghz on stock volts. I booted up yesterday and went try Crysis for the first time. I then proceeded to plug in a set of headphones to game. All of a sudden, my audio cut out and when I looked in the system tray, I had a red "x" on my sound. It said that I had "No audio output device installed." Sure enough, in device manager there was no card in my sound device controller section. BTW I was using the SupremeFX II card that comes with the board.

[tjharlow]

thats happened a few times with me also on this motherboard with vista64, except I didn't use the SuperFX card, I'm using X-Fi Xtremegamer. Reboot fixed my situation, but I thought it was odd also. Have you upgraded to Vista64 SP1 yet? Hasn't happened since I got the service pack.

[Ignis]

Yeah, I rebooted several times, not fix. I really thinks its a hardware issue, as well as the Asus tech who i talked to. I got an RMA and sent it back. I will try to do a clean Vista 64 install, and hopefully, everything will work. Either way, I'll be waiting with bated breath when I get the replacement.

[ericeod]

Well I felt like taking a huge chance tonight by flashing my P5E to the Rampage bios. It was actually a painless procedure that took about 5 min! The bios works so far without issues. I can tell you all that the chipset temps are not present, which means the sensors dont exist. But I have all the OCing features of the X48 Rampage. I found it strange that CPU-Z and Everest both detect the board as the P5E, but the bios is detected correctly with the 0219 Rampage bios string:



I did have to disable some of the temp sensor features to keep warning messages from posting about the non-existent sensors making false readings. But the other temps like CPU and MB temps are still working correctly.

[Dostoyevsky77]

Thanks! REP+ for sharing.

I'll probably do this soon since it looks like we won't get much more BIOS support on the Maximus now that the boards are discontinued (1004 might be all we ever get).

[aleiro]

Originally Posted by ericeod

Well I felt like taking a huge chance tonight by flashing my P5E to the Rampage bios. It was actually a painless procedure that took about 5 min! The bios works so far without issues. I can tell you all that the chipset temps are not present, which means the sensors dont exist. But I have all the OCing features of the X48 Rampage. I found it strange that CPU-Z and Everest both detect the board as the P5E, but the bios is detected correctly with the 0219 Rampage bios string:



I did have to disable some of the temp sensor features to keep warning messages from posting about the non-existent sensors making false readings. But the other temps like CPU and MB temps are still working correctly.

what is the benefit of the bios upgrade? I havent really been following the x48 area...

[aleiro]

Originally Posted by Dostoyevsky77

Thanks! REP+ for sharing.

I'll probably do this soon since it looks like we won't get much more BIOS support on the Maximus now that the boards are discontinued (1004 might be all we ever get).

did they discontinue the P5e as well?