THE Asus P5E X38 Thread

[ericeod]

Originally Posted by aleiro

did they discontinue the P5e as well?

No not at all, the P5E is still alive and kicking. The real benefit is in the bios. You have the ability to tweak at least 2xs the amount of options as before. So instead of going out and buying the $300 Rampage, just upgrade your bios. it is also worth noteing that it is reversible!

[aleiro]

You are a pimp +rep

Originally Posted by ericeod

No not at all, the P5E is still alive and kicking. The real benefit is in the bios. You have the ability to tweak at least 2xs the amount of options as before. So instead of going out and buying the $300 Rampage, just upgrade your bios. it is also worth noteing that it is reversible!

[ericeod]

Disclaimer: Attempt this at your own risk!

Here is how I flashed my P5E with the Rampage bios:

I found out how to get the board to be recogniced as the P5E or the Rampage (your choice) while still running the Rampage bios. You just needed to addrun one of the 2 commands when flashing using afudos.

to keep the P5E board identitly:
afudos /iRF0219.rom /n

To change the board's identity to Rampage:
afudos /iRF0219.rom /pbnc /n

Here is the link I followed:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...postcount=1283

Originally Posted by gurusan

There's a thread here:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=179580

Basically, you just need to:

• make a bootable USB stick
• download this and unzip to usb stick http://rapidshare.com/files/10175302...229ES.zip.html
• download this (Rampage 219 BIOS) and put on USB stick http://rapidshare.de/files/38917643/RF0219.rom.html
• boot off usb stick using boot selector (f8)
• type afudos /iRF0219.rom /n or afudos /iRF0219.rom /pbnc /n (added by ericeod)
• reboot

First make a bootable USB device. Just follow the link at XtremeSystems. Also make sure to check out the link within that link on how to make the USB device.

I noticed when I made the boot device, the actual bootable files you load it with are not visible after making it bootable. What I mean is that after you make the device bootable, you will copy the 0219 Rampage bios and the afudos exe to the device, but will only see those files on it!

Then set your bios to default settings (with the exception of the ram voltage), restart with the USB drive in, and press F8 immediately to enter the boot menu. Then just select the USB drive to boot from and type the command I listed above. It then will tell you to restart your computer.

After that, CLR CMOS and go into the bios. Just make sure to disable the second Gigabit lan (since you only have one) and in Hardware monitor, disable the temp warnings for everything except the MB and CPU. So disable in BIOS the sensors OPT 1/2/3 and any hardware that is not present in P5E....

But everything else is functional in the bios!

[Vitaminx]

Woot just bought one should be here in a couple of days

[ericeod]

Originally Posted by Vitaminx

Woot just bought one should be here in a couple of days

Make sure to let us know as soon as you get it!

[Vitaminx]

will do

[Dolo001]

You won't regret it

[aleiro]

See this is great, people would dont whine about the P5e you go over to the asus forum and BAM everyone is like "this board should OC itself" or why cant i do this that and the other...

[aleiro]

Anyone find using AHCI any better on the P5e than configuring an SATA drive as IDE. I didnt reinstall but i found the registry key you need to edit to force vista to install the drivers... anyway i am not sure how much faster it really is. Anyone use it?

[Dolo001]

I haven't tried on mine but im willing to