P67/Z68 BIOS collection

ThanatosLRSD · January 25, 2011

DB006 said:
Hi guys, 1st post, MSI P67 GD55 and GD 65 1.8b7 bios is out, have it uploaded on my server as a .rar, screenshot to show it's real

http://bit.ly/evLabD

Sweet! What are the listed fixes? I am still hoping to run my G.Sklill 1600 at 1600 without boot issues. If not, then out with the MSI and in with the ASRock on Thursday.

Massman · January 25, 2011

- P67A-GD65 (1.8b7): http://91.121.148.119/downloads/BIOS/E7681IMS.187'>http://91.121.148.119/downloads/BIOS/E7681IMS.187

- P67A-GD55 (1.8b7): http://91.121.148.119/downloads/BIOS/E7681IMS.187

Changelog said:
1. Fill device SSID.
2. Update LAN PXE ROM.

stasio · January 25, 2011

Asus P8H67-M EVO(1253):

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=C2GYONR4

http://www.box.net/shared/d6da2l3lg5

Edited January 26, 2011 by stasio

stasio · January 25, 2011

Maximus 4 Extreme BIOS 0950

http://www.mediafire.com/?ya5jk1wfmqf7u2z

Changelog:

- Fixed Memory ratio sometimes not changing bug

- Fixed XMP + OC Load profile bug

- Adds Memory Bandwidth Turbo for performance improvement

- Fixed Wrong Target CPU Speed shown after Clear CMOS

Edited January 26, 2011 by stasio

BLACKBIRD1 · January 26, 2011

Massman said:
- P67A-GD65 (1.8b7): http://91.121.148.119/downloads/BIOS/E7681IMS.187'>http://91.121.148.119/downloads/BIOS/E7681IMS.187
- P67A-GD55 (1.8b7): http://91.121.148.119/downloads/BIOS/E7681IMS.187

@Massman

Msi P67-A GD65 ALL Bios versions

Max 5100 mhz ,not 5200 + mhz, PXE-E01 error continues

Edited January 26, 2011 by BLACKBIRD1

Massman · January 26, 2011

stasio said:
Maximus 4 Extreme BIOS 0950

http://www.mediafire.com/?ya5jk1wfmqf7u2z

Changelog:

- Fixed Memory ratio sometimes not changing bug

- Fixed XMP + OC Load profile bug

- Adds Memory Bandwidth Turbo for performance improvement

- Fixed Wrong Target CPU Speed shown after Clear CMOS

Can't download?

BLACKBIRD1 said:
@Massman

Msi P67-A GD65 ALL Bios versions

Max 5100 mhz ,not 5200 + mhz, PXE-E01 error continues

PCE-E01 error is due to CPU instability. Other mainboards will just show blank screen. It's right before showing the HDD boot partitions.

Dancop · January 26, 2011

New M4E Bios!

http://www.mediafire.com/?ya5jk1wfmqf7u2z

stasio · January 26, 2011

Dancop said:
New M4E Bios!
http://www.mediafire.com/?ya5jk1wfmqf7u2z

Good morning! (post#179)

Massman said:
Can't download?

New link:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4668167/MaximusIV-Extreme-ASUS-0950.zip

GA-P67A-UD4 - F7h

http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/12/20/2696817/p67aud4.7h.zip

1. Fix DVID

-26.Jan 11

Edited January 26, 2011 by stasio

Dancop · January 26, 2011

Sorry Dude!

hokiealumnus · January 26, 2011

Massman said:
Other mainboards will just show blank screen. It's right before showing the HDD boot partitions.

That's is how this P67 Extreme 6 acts with a multi of 56. It shows a cursor in the upper left. It will do 55 pretty well with reasonable voltages, but it really doesn't want to go past that. Heh, guess that's better than the 50 it topped out at before the internal PLL voltage fix.

Massman · January 26, 2011

hokiealumnus said:
That's is how this P67 Extreme 6 acts with a multi of 56. It shows a cursor in the upper left. It will do 55 pretty well with reasonable voltages, but it really doesn't want to go past that. Heh, guess that's better than the 50 it topped out at before the internal PLL voltage fix.

It's not the multiplier that is causing this, but the actual CPU frequency. It's quite possible you'll be able to boot at 98.2x56 (given your board can do it) and fail to boot at 101.8x55.

The debug leds on ASUS boards show 'AE', which is the part where the board checks what it should boot from. Interestingly, when you disable all boot options except for the HDD and unplug the HDD, the system will go straight to the BIOS. The PXE-E01 points towards a LAN BOOT problem (at least according to google), but I guess it's more wise to assume it's just a PCI ROM read error failing when trying to boot from something.

Before the launch of Sandy Bridge everyone was pointing to the DMI/SATA giving problems due to overclocking, but given these particular issues I'm not so sure it's either of those two as it's clearly not the BCLK OC causing this. Perhaps the CPU itself, although the behavior is a-typical to anything we've seen before: a given CPU could run full stable (Wprime and SuperPI) at 5000MHz and fail to boot at, eg, 5010MHz. There's no instability scaling whatsoever.

Perhaps it's a part of the System Agent integrated on the CPU die? Or the Intel Management Engine integrated on the P67 chipset? Or a combination? No idea really.

hokiealumnus · January 26, 2011

Massman said:
Perhaps the CPU itself, although the behavior is a-typical to anything we've seen before: a given CPU could run full stable (Wprime and SuperPI) at 5000MHz and fail to boot at, eg, 5010MHz. There's no instability scaling whatsoever.

This is what has struck me about SB overclocking. It's either relatively stable or just nothing. There is no middle ground (though I have managed to crash loading the OS a couple times). I have yet to need to reset CMOS with this board, because it will always boot so you can get back into UEFI, it just won't get past the evil, impassable blinking cursor.

Of course, I'm still feeling out the platform, as we all are. Maybe we'll find a way around it.

Pt1t · January 26, 2011

Maybe little update of 0950

http://www.ftp.asus.fr/Lancement%20P67/Bios/MaximusIV-Extreme-ASUS-0951.rar

1. Enhance support for high performance DRAM

2. Improve XMP module compatibility

3. Adds new option Memory Bandwidth Booster for better DRAM performance

4. Fix BIOS may shwo incorrect Target CPU Speed shown after Clear CMOS"

Massman · January 26, 2011

- P67A-UD4 (F7h): http://91.121.148.119/downloads/BIOS/p67aud4.f7h

Quote
1. Fix DVID

- Maximus IV Extreme (0951): http://91.121.148.119/downloads/BIOS/MaximusIV-Extreme-ASUS-0951.ROM

- Maximus IV Extreme (0950): http://91.121.148.119/downloads/BIOS/MaximusIV-Extreme-ASUS-0950.ROM

Quote
1. Enhance support for high performance DRAM
2. Improve XMP module compatibility

3. Adds new option Memory Bandwidth Booster for better DRAM performance

4. Fix BIOS may shwo incorrect Target CPU Speed shown after Clear CMOS"

SebaS · January 26, 2011

Can´t boot @ 5200Mhz with P67A-GD65

i7 2600k Batch L040B705

Massman · January 26, 2011

- DP67BG (1815P): http://91.121.148.119/downloads/BIOS/BG1815P.BIO

Sanko · January 26, 2011

SebaS said:
Can´t boot @ 5200Mhz with P67A-GD65
i7 2600k Batch L040B705

Remember to enable the PLL Overide, not leaving it Auto. I believe from .174 onwards, all of the BIOS allows more that x50 multi with the PLL Overide ENABLED.

sined999 · January 26, 2011

I'm at 5460mhz with MSI P67AGD65

2600K inside...

TaPaKaH · January 26, 2011

may be I have missed something really important, but my Gigashyte P67A-UD4 won't flash any of the BIOSes given in the first post - error message is "Invalid BIOS image"

kirbster · January 26, 2011

you must use windows based flash program @BIOS from Gigabyte.

SebaS · January 26, 2011

Sanko said:
Remember to enable the PLL Overide, not leaving it Auto. I believe from .174 onwards, all of the BIOS allows more that x50 multi with the PLL Overide ENABLED.

PLL is enable @ 1.95v

Cpu Core Voltage @ 1.535v (5.1ghz w/ 1.49v)

CPU I/O @ 1.45v

System Agent Voltage @ 1.445v

PCH @ 1.3v

@ 100x51 system start and it´s stable, but @ 100x52 all i got is a black screen after post...