Comments on: Review of the Asus P5N-MX (LGA775) mainboard for use as a Linux File Server

By: Jack Sengers

Jack Sengers — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:04:00 +0000

Review is on spot. Asus is rapidly becoming a unreliable supplier. New PN5-MX main board didn’t boot at all after a one day. Send it back and got after a week another one. When my kids play a game, PC crashes after 5 minutes. Replaced the memory and power supply – same problem. Will do the bios update now. I have built many PC’s for my customers in the last years but I will buy no Asus parts anymore.

By: amr from pk

amr from pk — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:06:00 +0000

I did homework for some gigabyte board but unforunately no one in the market was in stock, so i got the choice for intel 945 and asus p5n, lolz, i just came out of the shop and go to a net cafe and review the main page of the mobo and read some reviews and then go back and purchase……
the funniest thing is that after installing first windows i updated my bios after first shutdown….hahah
without any hesitation…too dumb huh!

By: Pesche

Pesche — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:34:00 +0000

Many thanks Jonathan,

I'll pluck up all my courage and give it a try, bearing in mind your advice.
I agree about the end user being lumbered with the problem -- everyone else is shrugging their shoulders.

All the best!

By: Jonathan Ng

Jonathan Ng — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:56:00 +0000

Pesche,

Thanks for your comments. I'm glad to hear that I am not the only one having these problems. Frankly, I find it quite ridiculous that the responsibility is put on the end consumer to solve these problems.

Anyway, to answer your question: it has been a while since I've done the BIOS update on the P5N-MX, but I don't recall it being too hard nor too dangerous. The EZ-BIOS update makes it easier than times past, and so long as the machine does not lose power while the updates are happening, you should be fine.

I seem to recall having to tried two methods - one by burning the ROM file onto a CD (didn't work that well) and the other by putting it on a flash drive (worked really well).

You can enter the update utility through the ASUS bios. Hope that helps.

Good luck!