ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

Is there even a point to updating the BIOS when ASUS ignores the biggest issues?

I'm currently running bios 1503 and stabalizing a 340 fsb OC with my e6700. I've been working on a 8x and 9x multi OC and got the FSB only up to 370 ish. Not sure why but there seems to be a wall.:confused: Double checked all my settings and temps are good. Would a bios update help me at all?

What has changed from 1503 bios?

I have flashed my P5W DH to the 1707 BIOS. Before swapping to the Xeon 3060 in my sig, I was able to overclock my E6600 from 3.3 GHz to 3.4Ghz which was previously unstable. Maybe that was just an increadible coincidence.
Either way, I have just installed a Xeon 3060 that is humming along with a 1600 QDR bus speed (400Mhz) at 3.6Ghz. I would try more, but this CPU needs a lap job just like my E6600 did. SO, i'll pull the CPU later, kiss my warranty goodbye, and lap the CPU.

--more to come--

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by WeldZilla

You have a floppy drive Luis? Just grab the older bios you want. I am back with the 1707 tonight well anyway rename the the 1707 bios to P5WDH.ROM and load it on a floppy.
Put the Floppy in and reboot. When your machine posts immediately hit ALT+F2 your machine will take it from there and put on the old bios. You can do this with whatever older bios you prefer. Just remember to rename it or else it won't be recognized. Yes you can do it with a flash drive also. I am old school and will always have a floppy drive. Just don't touch anything, when it is finished it will seem like foirever before it reboots but, it will so leave it alone

WZ

---

I flashed back to 1503 using afudos... I will never throw away my Floppy drive... even if everyone says its useless ;) I tried Alt +F2 and it didn't work, maynly because I didn't rename the bios... didn't know that bit of info... All is working again and I even played 2hours straight of Prey with no problems. :D

We'll se tomorrow how my latest OC holds. Been strugling with 3.4ghz which should be no problem. Temps at 58c load - volts at 1.5v in bios. Don't know why but Orthos cr@ps on me at 12-15 hrs!?! If this lattest attmept fails I'll update my bios to 1707.

Good job Luis, main thing is just not to panic when things go all to hell.
glad it worked out for you.

WZ

I'll have the site ready tomorrow. and will I publish the related article and Asus's Tech Support evaluation results article.
Gonna publish the article on TheInquirer ( sigh ) aswell :D
Hopefully that'll grab Asus's attention.
Else, I will grab the details of a high ranked Asus employee ( with the help of my friends in the industry :D ) and will have a chat with him.

Hi, that's the best way to go at it benchzowner, no good ranting away, pls publish a link to all articles...

BTW, running the 1801 bios, no issues at all but only running a oc of 2.8, geil ram you see...
ChrisC

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by BenchZowner

I'll have the site ready tomorrow. and will I publish the related article and Asus's Tech Support evaluation results article.
Gonna publish the article on TheInquirer ( sigh ) aswell :D
Hopefully that'll grab Asus's attention.
Else, I will grab the details of a high ranked Asus employee ( with the help of my friends in the industry :D ) and will have a chat with him.

---

Good luck, catch me on msn, I want to talk :)

I still don't see whats wrong with 0701 bios. I haven't notice any real improvement since then.

Apart from taking my harddrives on a rollercoaster, I guess it's ok.. :rolleyes:

Along with the HDD's the older bios' also worked over my Eheim pump. All the on and off and on and off. Now that I think about it. It wore the hell out of me and my nerves too. I am back up to 1707 and I am going to hang here til Asus gives me my miracle bios. Still I am extremely happed with this set up. As you can see in my sig It runs daily at a nice fast pace. Does not ever fall on it's face. Does my work without error. I liked my Presler a lot. I loved my 540J processor on a Epox 865 board It ran daily at 4400 mhz. Cool and smooth. But this Conroe, well there is just nothing like it. And this board, while there is room for improvement I just love it.
Merry Christmas to all here
Happy Honnakuh
Happy Qwansa
I hope 2007 is better for all of us...........

WZ

Merry Christmas WeldZilla and everyone reading :D

I'm also sticking on 1707 for now, I'm going to keep in touch with BenchZowner and see how he gets on

I'll definitely change to Abit AW9D-Max if next BIOS is the same crap as 1801(BSODs@stock). Its not perfect or better, but Performance is the same and OCing works easier and it has less bugs.

BTW: Merry Christmas!

iLL

I tried 1707. I had to up the vmch to 1.65V for my board to work @ 400fsb, or I experience random lockups.

I'm back to 1602 now and everything is on Auto @ 400fsb and orthos has been running for more than 7 hours.

I think I'll skip 1801 since all you guys have had so much trouble with it.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Clump

Can't speak to x64, sorry.

From what I've found you will have to do a reinstall with F6 drivers. I'm running RAID0 on the EZ ports and have been completely unsuccessful in moving the array to ICH7. I have another drive that I ghosted the array to and Windows will boot from it as long as I leave my array connected to the EZ ports. Once the array is removed Windows hangs on start and will not even enter safe mode. This is with booting the 3rd drive from any of the ICH7 ports, or the JMicron, or either EZ port.

I've scoured the net looking for a way to do this without a reinstall, but no luck so far. If anyone has accomplished this it would be great if you would share!

---

You can change from one hard drive controller to another without re-installing. It's irrelevant whether the controller is RAID or not, and it's irrelevant whether it SATA or IDE. But you need Norton Ghost, and enough spare hard drives.

Enable the NEW controller in the bios (or plug in the controller card if the NEW controller is PCI or PCI-E).

Boot windows and install the drivers for the NEW controller.

Power down the PC.

Attach "NEW" hard drive(s) to NEW controller.

Boot PC using MSDOS startup disk. Then run Norton Ghost from a floppy drive and do a DISK-TO-DISK (if you have RAID-0 then Ghost will see the RAID-0 array as one big disk - that's perfect).

Power down the PC.

Remove the OLD drive(s) from the OLD controller, and now boot the PC from the NEW drive(s) that are attached to the NEW controller.

Done!!!! Sounds hard but it's EASY.

If you want to move your RAID-0 drives from one controller to another (using the same drives), all you need is one large spare drive. You Ghost from the RAID-0 drives to the spare drive. Then move the RAID-0 drives to the new controller and then ghost from the spare drive back to the RAID-0 drives.

Merry Christmas everybody :)
Wish you all the best, and have some nice days, enjoy your holidays.

I'll work my way to Asus next week.
Let's see what will the results be :D

Hi, just got through re-installing Vista with the new motherboard bios 1801, right after I installed the latest DH Remore software I had a BSOD. I then booted into safe mode and removing the DH software stopped the BSOD. I then uninstalled the wireless driver and re-installed the DH software, guess what - no BSOD.
Found a beta setup for the wireless and Vista, now no BSOD, just played HF2 Episode One for two hours solid and it's fine...

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!!!!


ChrisC

Hi all.
Is there a QVL for this board I can download?
I've seen the Corsair configurator. That's Corsair's opinion.
If there is an official list, or anyone has any hints, like certain chip size/density better than others, please speak up.

Looking for a pair of 1GB strips, lower end, as I don't intend to overclock.

Dan

How far do you guys think I can push my e6400? right now im doing 425x8 with 1.55Vmch. Temps are solid and dont break 50c in core temp. I want to hit 450, dont know if thats a reasonable goal though.

hard to say kevsta.....
up your vmch to 1.65....

cpu to 1.45 see if it goes higher, that will tell ya what it has left if it goes upo with more voltage...those voltages shouldnt effect your load temps to much, but keep an eye on them as you go higher voltages... good luck

I'm running now 1506 bios...at stock...
Can you tell me which is the most stable bios?
And which is the best for oc??
thx!

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by nicko

I'm running now 1506 bios...at stock...
Can you tell me which is the most stable bios?
And which is the best for oc??
thx!

---

Hey Nicko,

I cant speak for everyone since I'm a bit new on the board as well, but look at a few of the big posters (lawry and weldzilla) for your best info. I know WZ just went back from 1801 to 1707 (thats where I'm at as well).

Good luck and Merry Xmas!
Nick

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by nickfd

Hey Nicko,

I cant speak for everyone since I'm a bit new on the board as well, but look at a few of the big posters (lawry and weldzilla) for your best info. I know WZ just went back from 1801 to 1707 (thats where I'm at as well).

Good luck and Merry Xmas!
Nick

---

Ok, thank you for information. I think I'll go for 1707. And I'll see what can I do :)

I have L627A105 mark on my cpu, so I see you have the same week as I have.
How far did you go with your cpu, and with which voltages??
Merry Xmas to you too!

3000 posts, 300000 views on Christmas day.. the timing :D :toast: