ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe BIOS AMI versus Award/Phoenix

[Vincent Poy]

Greetings all:

I have a question on the BIOS used on the ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe motherboard.
As I understand, it uses the AMI BIOS while other brands and ASUS has
traditionally used Award and or Phoenix BIOS. Award and Phoenix are now
the same but AMI has always been like a inferior BIOS especially when they
introduced the WinBIOS, are things any better now and are they now at the
same levels as Award or Phoenix?

Cheers,
Vince

 

[Mistoffolees]

Greetings all:

I have a question on the BIOS used on the ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe motherboard.
As I understand, it uses the AMI BIOS while other brands and ASUS has
traditionally used Award and or Phoenix BIOS. Award and Phoenix are now
the same but AMI has always been like a inferior BIOS especially when they
introduced the WinBIOS, are things any better now and are they now at the
same levels as Award or Phoenix?

Cheers,
Vince

Any bios is good provided that it works properly and supports the motherboard
in which it is installed. And it is purely a matter of personal opinion whether one
make of bios is better than another. I have always liked AMI and Phoenix better
but never Award. Perhaps this is due to coming across one too many errors in
bootup that follows the line "Verifying DMI data pool...." from motherboards so
equipped with Award bioses several years ago.

 

[Lasse Lundberg]

i hate the part if your have a scsi or raid controller onboard.....then u
have to wait for it to complete its busscan before u can enter your mb bios
on the p4c800....that makes tweaking super slow..but the bios it self is
pretty good...it easyli arranged so u can find what your looking for....

the boot menu is a bit strangely arranged with 3 sub menus for configuring
which drive to boot from and in what order....but that is about it

a nice feature is when u overclock, and the system fails...and resets your
bios to minium in the cpu settings , then u can still see what setting u
had, so u dont have to write stuff down (unless u flash)

Lasse

 

[Ioannis Chatziandreou]

i hate the part if your have a scsi or raid controller onboard.....then u
have to wait for it to complete its busscan before u can enter your mb bios
on the p4c800....that makes tweaking super slow..but the bios it self is

Yes, i hate it too....:-(

 

[Vincent Poy]

Any bios is good provided that it works properly and supports the
motherboard in which it is installed. And it is purely a matter of
personal opinion whether one make of bios is better than another. I
have always liked AMI and Phoenix better but never Award. Perhaps this
is due to coming across one too many errors in bootup that follows the
line "Verifying DMI data pool...." from motherboards so equipped with
Award bioses several years ago.

That's true. Phoenix is good and rock solid. But Phoenix/Award both cost
more to the mobo manufacturer than AMI does. I always thought the
motherboards using AMI or Phoenix BIOSes usually has less things that you
can configure in the BIOS than Award.

Cheers,
Vince

 

[Vincent Poy]

i hate the part if your have a scsi or raid controller
onboard.....then u have to wait for it to complete its busscan before
u can enter your mb bios on the p4c800....that makes tweaking super
slow..but the bios it self is pretty good...it easyli arranged so u
can find what your looking for....

the boot menu is a bit strangely arranged with 3 sub menus for
configuring which drive to boot from and in what order....but that is
about it

a nice feature is when u overclock, and the system fails...and resets
your bios to minium in the cpu settings , then u can still see what
setting u had, so u dont have to write stuff down (unless u flash)

Lasse

Wow, I've never seen the part that it will complete the busscan on the RAID
before you can get into the BIOS. On my ABIT 440BX motherboard with the
built-in HighPoint 370 RAID, it seems to conflict with everything if you
put anything in PCI slot 3 or 5 of the motherboard.

I guess ASUS is usually good since that's what I had during the Pentium
days and then went ABIT because of the softMenu thingy.

Cheers,
Vince

 

[Vincent Poy]

Maybe it's the only one that they can get all the features in while they
can't on the other ones. Everyone else seems to use Award and Gigabyte
uses Phoenix.

Cheers,
Vince