P8Z68 V-pro/gen3

[ecliptiion]

I recently RMA'd my mobo to Asus and they sent it back fixed. but now it reads /identifies itself as a V-Pro not a V-Pro/gen3 . I checked my CPUID and the AI Suite also says its a V-Pro and not a gen3. My question is how can the Mobo say that its a gen3 but show up on cpuid as a vpro ??

 

[ecliptiion]

bump

 

[LxMxFxD4]

cpuid is 3rd party software. While its great, its not always accurate. As long as your bios screen and your motherboard show as gen3 its gen3. What exactly was wrong with your gen3 and what did they fix? Its possible they loaded a new bios and cpu-id isn't reading that bios info correctly.

 

[ecliptiion]

Well at first when I got the mobo all was well until I started to oc it . Im a noob at OC'in . So funny thing happened where I wasnt able to add or subtractmultiplier. in other words something was wrong with bios. So yes, you maybe correct, it could be that its not reading the bios correctly. Let me go and check to see what the BIOS says it is.. BRB.

 

[ecliptiion]

Well at first when I got the mobo all was well until I started to oc it . Im a noob at OC'in . So funny thing happened where I wasnt able to add or subtractmultiplier. in other words something was wrong with bios. So yes, you maybe correct, it could be that its not reading the bios correctly. Let me go and check to see what the BIOS says it is.. BRB.

Just checked my bios and its 3304 . Now, it says Asus P8Z68-V Pro. NOT Gen3.. I know for a fact its a Gen3 cuz i bought a gen3 and the box itself says its a gen3 and the mobo says its a gen3 but when I called Asus yesterday they had no clue as to what I was talking about. I need to call them again. But is there anything else that I can do besides get frustrated with Asus over the phone?

 

[SpeedTester]

What cpu are you using?

 

[ecliptiion]

The I7 Core 2600k

 

[LxMxFxD4]

Just checked my bios and its 3304 . Now, it says Asus P8Z68-V Pro. NOT Gen3.. I know for a fact its a Gen3 cuz i bought a gen3 and the box itself says its a gen3 and the mobo says its a gen3 but when I called Asus yesterday they had no clue as to what I was talking about. I need to call them again. But is there anything else that I can do besides get frustrated with Asus over the phone?

What is written on your board? Does it say gen 3 anywhere on it? You got the same board back you sent in for RMA?

Its possible that 3304 bios doesn't say gen3 in it anywhere, I don't know. I haven't upgraded to this bios yet because asus lately has been breaking a lot of things in their bioses. 3202 left me with no video from my video cards AT ALL. I had to flash the video bioses to get them working again.

 

[ecliptiion]

@LxMxFxD4, Yes , Gen3 is written on the board. Yes, I know for a fact that I got the same board back from Asus I marked it before I sent it to them. There are two Bioses that are 3304 one for the Gen3 and the other for V-Pro. I called Asus today after I posted earlier and was told that they dont have anything to follow so that I can be helped so I was given a number to call on Tuesday. I have ugraded my Bios before this the first time Ive ever heard of anything like this. My next question is will this give me problems once I purchase an IB chip?

 

[LxMxFxD4]

@LxMxFxD4, Yes , Gen3 is written on the board. Yes, I know for a fact that I got the same board back from Asus I marked it before I sent it to them. There are two Bioses that are 3304 one for the Gen3 and the other for V-Pro. I called Asus today after I posted earlier and was told that they dont have anything to follow so that I can be helped so I was given a number to call on Tuesday. I have ugraded my Bios before this the first time Ive ever heard of anything like this. My next question is will this give me problems once I purchase an IB chip?

Try upgrading the bios using the 3304 bios from the asus website. Do it from the UEFI bios screen though, of course and make sure you reset everything to default prior to upgrading. If it doesn't let you upgrade then asus 3304 is likely the just calling gen3 non gen3. If it does let you then likely asus loaded the wrong bios onto your motherboard chip. Did you have 3304 bios on there when you shipped the board to them?

 

[ecliptiion]

ok I will be right back ..

 

[SpeedTester]

ok I will be right back ..

It's been over 12 hours. Your flash go bad?

 

[ecliptiion]

It's been over 12 hours. Your flash go bad?

Hello everyone sorry it took me so long to get back. I was away for a family reunion. (in another state)


My flash went well. But it still reads that its a VPRO and NOT a GeN 3 .

 

[bankster55]

Well, this is an ASUS screwup (of course)
About three or four months ago people with VPro G3's went to the ASUS mobo registration site which has various flyout windows to validate their purchase.
SOME (only) with this mobo put in their info and G3's came up as non G3's in the result.
This freaked everyone out since if they had to RMA a mobo it might be rejected as being altered.
So they went to complain at the "ASUS" VIP site (which has no ASUS reps actually)
This went on for a while with ASUS ignoring it, then finally admitting the site was coded wrong in an email to someone who repeatedly bugged them and HE posted their admission. And the site was indeed fixed.
No more wrong readouts as of now.
But who knows how long your mobo has been on shelf?

http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20120224155817731&board_id=1&model=P8Z68-V+PRO%2fGEN3&page=1&SLanguage=en-us

http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx...model=P8Z68-V+PRO/GEN3&page=1&SLanguage=en-us

But it goes on from there.
There is only 6KB of difference between the two bios, and I am not sure if the NON G3 will flash the G3, and dont plan on trying.

All this is about the bios programming - there are 3 unique mobo ID's and the Intel GBe MAC address originally programmed into the shipping bios chip. When upgrading, these are left alone. ASUS may have replaced bios chip to fix mobo issues.

The next thing that has occurred is the AI Suite update module has scarfed up the wrong bios after looking around on internet, possibly also due to ASUS misdetected mobo Ser #

So you do the big Ivy Bridge bios jump with 3202 and multiple mad reboots taking a full 3 minutes and now have a bios with a false mobo ID, or a wrong bios flash, or mobo ID's coruupted or gone.

What can happen then is you cant flash next bios 3304 with a G3 bios image (error), but now a non G3 will flash!!

Obviously a gigantic mess

If you CAN flash the next G3 bios (now 3402) you are in relatively good shape and I wouldnt worry about it. If you CANT upgrade with a G3 bios then you do have a prob.
Thats the key to the issue:
Can you or cant you flash new bios without error message.

 

[Rvenger]

How I see it if you get PCI Express 3 support when you plug in a PCIe 3.0 card then you should be good.