1008 out on Asus website for P4P800

[John Smith]

Hi there,

Any of you brave BIOS updaters out there know that the 1008 BIOS for the
P4P800 is now out on the Asus site?

I am still on 1005 but might well update to this as I can see some sensible
fixes mentioned. In an earlier post about upgrading to 1007 someone
mentioned you had to have 1006 on first. Anyone know what the story is with
1008 - do you have to have installed 1006 and 1007 first in that order?

Thanks,


J.

 

[jdc1]

Yes you should. The boot block was changed in 1006. You must set bios
to default settings first, don't use the AFDUOS.exe bios utility or the
CD flash
utiltiy. Make a bootable CD ad the 1006.exe bios file. Boot to DOS.
Execute the bios.
Then go back and set bios to default settings again. Then if you want,
it's ok to go to 1008. Go to abxzone.com forums/Intel chipset forum
and read back among the older posts about it. Lots of good info there
about it.

jdc

 

[John Smith]

Why a CD and not a floppy?

J.

Yes you should. The boot block was changed in 1006. You must set bios
to default settings first, don't use the AFDUOS.exe bios utility or the
CD flash
utiltiy. Make a bootable CD ad the 1006.exe bios file. Boot to DOS.
Execute the bios.
Then go back and set bios to default settings again. Then if you want,
it's ok to go to 1008. Go to abxzone.com forums/Intel chipset forum
and read back among the older posts about it. Lots of good info there
about it.

jdc

 

[MikeM]

Never heard of sequencially updgrading a BIOS, after all when you flash it
you erase the old and re-write the whole BIOS. If sequenial upgrading is
required you'd think it would be in the readme.txt. Typically your NVRAM is
corrupt after a burn, I usually start with a load defaults and then
re-configure as I had it before. If you read the readme for 1008, it tells
you that you to copy the files to a bootable floppy and run P4P800.exe...
piece of cake.

Mike

 

[Wolfram Riedel]

Am Son, 29 Jun 2003 um 20:13 GMT jdc1 schrob:

Yes you should. The boot block was changed in 1006. You must set bios
to default settings first, don't use the AFDUOS.exe bios utility or the
CD flash
utiltiy. Make a bootable CD ad the 1006.exe bios file. Boot to DOS.
Execute the bios.
Then go back and set bios to default settings again. Then if you want,
it's ok to go to 1008. Go to abxzone.com forums/Intel chipset forum
and read back among the older posts about it. Lots of good info there
about it.

AFAIK it is so that you have to do a special procedure to get 1006
upgraded to a newer version. but 1005 and 1007 can be upgraded with
afudos (actually I upgraded from 1005 to 1007 myself, leaving out 1006).
flashing one after one another doesn't bring anything more than just
flashing the newest version.

just my 2 cent

 

[Steve Colburn]

Hi there,

Any of you brave BIOS updaters out there know that the 1008 BIOS for the
P4P800 is now out on the Asus site?

I am still on 1005 but might well update to this as I can see some sensible
fixes mentioned. In an earlier post about upgrading to 1007 someone
mentioned you had to have 1006 on first. Anyone know what the story is with
1008 - do you have to have installed 1006 and 1007 first in that order?

Thanks,


J.

I just applied them this evening. Went without a problem. I went from 1005 two weeks ago to the 1007 using afudos, and now on to
the 1008 using the method in the readme file.

My memory scores (not o'ced) went from 4550 to 4880.

Steve

 

[Friedrich Bloeser]

: I am still on 1005 but might well update to this as I can see some sensible
: fixes mentioned. In an earlier post about upgrading to 1007 someone
: mentioned you had to have 1006 on first. Anyone know what the story is with
: 1008 - do you have to have installed 1006 and 1007 first in that order?

Upgraded from 1004 to 1008 last night, no problem.
Executed the .exe file of the 1008 bios from a
bootable floppy and loaded bios defaults after that.

-fritz

 

[Victor F.]

Hi there,

Any of you brave BIOS updaters out there know that the 1008 BIOS for the
P4P800 is now out on the Asus site?

I am still on 1005 but might well update to this as I can see some sensible
fixes mentioned. In an earlier post about upgrading to 1007 someone
mentioned you had to have 1006 on first. Anyone know what the story is with
1008 - do you have to have installed 1006 and 1007 first in that order?

Updated this morning from 1005 to 1008 with te live update utility. First I
manually downloaded the p4p81008.zip in which the p4p81008.ami file is. Then
started Asusupdate which can be installed from the mainboard-cd. Used the
'update bios from a file' option, which worked fine, so you no longer need a
floppy, just update from winxp.

 

[John Smith]

Hi,

Just found this answer posted in response to a problem someone has with the
P4P800 and Win2K...

<Did you update directly from 1005 to 1008 without using 1006 ? ... in that
case the boot block isn't updated, you should flash 1008 again with AFUDOS
/pbnc switch... that would update the boot block.>

Is this right? Is this wrong? Surely when you zap a BIOS you destroy it and
then the newer one overwrites it completely? The Readme for 1008 says NOT to
use EZflash and Afudos to update to 1008.

I've just gone from the BIOS that came with the mobo - was it 1005 or 1004 -
to 1008 and it seems, touch wood, fine so far. Anyone know what this person
is talking about?

J.

 

[-JA]

Just downloaded it and installed it - only took a few minutes. The system
seems to boot much faster now but my monitor 'flashes' as I go from BIOS
logo to POST to Windows XP loading. It didn't do this before.

Also, my 3COM Connected still takes an age to come online once I have logged
onto Windows XP. I wonder if there is a newer version of this driver
available? I can use my Outlook before it comes online - I believe this is
because Norton AV takes over sending/receiving - but Outlook Express and
chat clients such as MSN, Yahoo will not log on until the 3COM Connected
logo appears and then, and only then, do I get a Network icon in my Sys
Tray.

J.

I don't know about anyone else but it appears to me that 1008.001 was
more overclockable than 1008 Final. If I tweak the board up witht he
same settings in 1008 as I had in 1008.001 I can't get the system to
boot. Anyone else seen this?

- JA

 

[John Smith]

Interesting - thanks. I built a 2.4Ghz 800FSB with 1GB 3200 Memory, compared
to my 2.4Ghz 400FSB and 512 2100 Memory, box for a friend and loaded all the
3COM software but his comes online immediately.

I've tried to see if I could move it up the priority for loading but can't
find how to do this - network drivers are supposed to load during boot - but
I noticed that there is a .1 newer version of the driver out there now so I
think I will give that a go.

J.

 

[John Smith]

Also, I can't seem to find any info on the 3COM site re this 3c2000 NIC - no
drivers, no support info.

I have BOOT ROM disabled in the BIOS - could that be it?

J.

 

[jaeger]

Also, I can't seem to find any info on the 3COM site re this 3c2000 NIC - no
drivers, no support info.

This one:

http://tinyurl.com/frpl

I have BOOT ROM disabled in the BIOS - could that be it?

No, not unless you need to boot from the network.