P4P800D Bios 1009 Issues

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Merl Byrd

I upgraded my P4P800D bios to v1009 yesterday among other
upgrade/maintenance tasks. Subsequently my system became unstable with
Windows XP with application errors occurring in whatever applications I had
running and with several spontaneous reboots (straight from Windows XP
interface to BIOS POST screen). I started diagnosing by
uninstalling/reverting application software and driver upgrades, but nothing
helped. I began to suspect a RAM problem so booted to a MEMTEST86 CD and ran
the standard test. I didn't get any memory errors, but repeatedly MEMTEST86
would freeze sometime after 3 minutes of running. I reset the bios to
progressively more conservative performance settings with the same MEMTEST
results. Finally I reflashed to bios 1008 from a floppy and the problems
have nowdisappeared: MEMTEST runs fine and no errors with Windows XP. It
seems that bios 1009 for the P4P800 is at best flaky. Anyone else having
similar problems?

One other point on 1009: it doesn't allow resume from standby/hibernation
from the keyboard, though pressing the computers on/off switch works (I have
the bios configured to use the on/off switch for soft-off.
 
Asus just doesn't give enuff info about what was changed in bios
updates. They list 4 or 5 fixes, but ppl start posting about other things
they noticed. Strange and annoying.
 
I did have VDIMM set explicitly at 2.65, which I've needed from initial
installation for stability at 2-2-2-6-8 memory timings with Mushkin PC3200
Black DIMMS. I hadn't adjusted VCORE., but will try when I'm ready to
upgrade the bios again.

I had my keyboard connected via PS/2 connector with bios standby set to S3
which works in 1008 but didn't work in 1009--are you suggesting I need to
change some other bios setting in 1009 to get keyboard wakeup to work?
 
I had my keyboard connected via PS/2 connector with bios standby set to S3
which works in 1008 but didn't work in 1009--are you suggesting I need to
change some other bios setting in 1009 to get keyboard wakeup to work?
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No, I'm just saying that for a USB KB it works. There is a setting in
the BIOS for PS/2 devices to wake so check that. Also make sure the
PS/2 wake jumper is enabled, although I assume it must be since it
worked before.
 
Merl Byrd said:
One other point on 1009: it doesn't allow resume from standby/hibernation
from the keyboard, though pressing the computers on/off switch works (I have
the bios configured to use the on/off switch for soft-off.
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I have the same problem with the BIOS upgrade from 1008 to 1010 on the
P4B800 Deluxe.
 
Yes, the PS/2 keyboard power-up jumper is enabled. I tried both PS/2 bios
settings under 1009 and had unexpected results: when enabled I could start
the system from a fully shutdown state with the keyboard, but could not wake
it from standby or hibernate. Under 1008, I can wake the system from the
keyboard regardless of the jumper and bios settings. I conclude that those
settings only control the ability to cold start from the keyboard and have
nothing to do with wake-up from power management states.
 
I noted the problem with keyboard resume from standby several days ago. It
appears they just renamed the .006 beta and called it released without
adequately testing it.
 
It's an issue with the bios.

jaeger said:
No, I'm just saying that for a USB KB it works. There is a setting in
the BIOS for PS/2 devices to wake so check that. Also make sure the
PS/2 wake jumper is enabled, although I assume it must be since it
worked before.
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The other problem is that you can't use MyLogo2 anymore. You can't
flash 1008 or 1009 with the Asus Update utility, which bugs me.
 
I noted the problem with keyboard resume from standby several days ago. It
appears they just renamed the .006 beta and called it released without
adequately testing it.
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That's how every BIOS for every board they make is, once a beta is
considered ready for final they just strip the "beta" from the title.
If any other companies had external betas it would be the same.
 
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