ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

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Originally Posted by Haltech

Why are people being a stinge with these damn BIOS's? put them up so i can host them for others...

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Makes them feel "special"

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Originally Posted by lkraven

lawry, there are a dozen reasons why a file wouldn't be complete-- he could have attached a partial FTP download, or something. All I'm saying is that it's kind of ridiculous to say you have something, and then deliver something fake, unless you offered to send him money for it or something.

I can't make a judgement either way on the file, but a PM to Nemesis saying, "Hey, this file doesn't look complete/wrong" is better than calling him out publicly and saying don't ever buy or trust this guy.

It's not like he cheated you-- you didn't send him money did you? Anyway, getting way off topic here. Bottom line: It sounds like you got a partial file. Reasons why it could be a partial file are numerous, only one of which (highly unlikely) is that he deliberately misled you for intentions unknown.

Once is a random occcurance. Twice is a coincidence. Three times, maybe, and there's a pattern forming. This could go a long way with some of these posts on these forums too. "A lightning bolt exploded outside, and my FSB can now be overclocked an extra 1MHZ!!!!! EVERYONE, GO PUT UP LIGHTNING RODS FOR MAXIMUM OC!!" :)

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Yes I agree.
larywild you were DEFINITELY out of line here, and you OWE Nemesis and everyone else an apology. People are NOT supposed to send out prereleases, doing so is a violation of trust from the company, yet EVERYONE and their momma seems to want them and does not care anyway. Yet he tried to do you a favor by doing something he really was not authorized to do, and things went wrong and you blasted him for it, which may have basically RUINED his chances of getting more test BIOSes. Because he was trying to help you and you screwed him.

Think about it.

Next time KEEP YOUR DISPUTES TO PRIVATE MESSAGES AND INSTANT MESSENGERS. You never know what negative effect something like this can have on people.

Imagine if someone had offered to give you an Engineering sample and something went wrong at the post office and you blasted him on a public forum. Who knows what legal problems you can cause by that crap?

Assuming the chipset clocks the same way P965 does (which it should), lower multies won't do much good without higher straps, which will results in lower performance clock-for-clock. And lower multies under same 1066 strap will only get you even lower FSB due to internal clock being higher under lower multies at a given FSB.

Has anybody been in contact with Asus about those sub memory settings?
tRFC, and others would be nice in bios :)

Could somebody up those 1404 and 1405 bioses somewhere?

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Originally Posted by lkraven

I have the same problem with my machine, and it's driving me crazy. Natalia has the same issue with her P5WDG2 as well. I am trying to track down the common factor between these boards (besides that they are from Asus).

So far, one of the possible culprits could be the Raptors in RAID0. She has 2 Raptor 150s in RAID0. I also have 2 Raptor 150s in RAID0. You have 2 Raptor 74s in Raid0.

Which RAID controller are you using? The Intel one, or the JMicron one?

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i sometimes have the same problem...not running any raid on my system (yet) booting without gfx and then putting back gfx normally solves the issue, but it shouldnt be like that. It doesnt happen everytime but just random.

How could you use the JMicron controller for raid anyways? None of the four SATA cables that came with my mobo fit in the rear slot?? :confused:

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Originally Posted by Falkentyne

Yes I agree.
larywild you were DEFINITELY out of line here, and you OWE Nemesis and everyone else an apology. People are NOT supposed to send out prereleases, doing so is a violation of trust from the company, yet EVERYONE and their momma seems to want them and does not care anyway. Yet he tried to do you a favor by doing something he really was not authorized to do, and things went wrong and you blasted him for it, which may have basically RUINED his chances of getting more test BIOSes. Because he was trying to help you and you screwed him.

Think about it.

Next time KEEP YOUR DISPUTES TO PRIVATE MESSAGES AND INSTANT MESSENGERS. You never know what negative effect something like this can have on people.

Imagine if someone had offered to give you an Engineering sample and something went wrong at the post office and you blasted him on a public forum. Who knows what legal problems you can cause by that crap?

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While i agree with your comments and i think this should be left to the 2 people involved to discuss offline, shouting and swearing about this is also a no no.

Fair enough. I suspect they probably already resolved it (hopefully), and with no lasting ill effects for Nemesis....

I'm getting an issue where the BIOS keeps freezing. It's weird, the blue bar along the top keeps shimmering (as if it's not crashed), but I have to use the reset switch to reboot as the keyboard doesn't respond. This is with 1305. After a couple of resets it's then ok. Once it's at desktop it's fine, never skips a beat during SP2004, Super Pi and extended gaming sessions.

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Originally Posted by Roch

I'm getting an issue where the BIOS keeps freezing. It's weird, the blue bar along the top keeps shimmering (as if it's not crashed), but I have to use the reset switch to reboot as the keyboard doesn't respond. This is with 1305. After a couple of resets it's then ok. Once it's at desktop it's fine, never skips a beat during SP2004, Super Pi and extended gaming sessions.

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Mine is doing that too, but it has something to do with detecting whatever it's trying to detect (fans/voltages etc). Just let it use its time (shouldn't take more than 30-40 seconds though).

Thanks for that, I'll try to be a bit more patient. ;)

Give me feedback if simply waiting works or not. It's always possible you have a different problem than me. :)

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Originally Posted by Mxtra

i found a link on tom's hardware site. seems someone else had the same problem. stupid asus didn't include the correct intel drivers on my disc. my driver disc had intel raid ich8r instead of ICH7-R. i got ten blue screens trying to install windows over and over again thinking I was doing something wrong. I gave up and installed everything on two drives non-raid. now i'll have to start over and install from scratch. thanks asus! for over $200 you could at least include the right drivers. jerks.

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if you make the floppy from dos, it makes it with the correct ich7r drivers.



very truly yours,
politenessman

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Originally Posted by Falkentyne

Fair enough. I suspect they probably already resolved it (hopefully), and with no lasting ill effects for Nemesis....

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I apologize to all that this situation found its way to the forums & this thread. That said, I've moved on and learned a valuable lesson:)
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What are your core temps like at 1.65 vCore?

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Originally Posted by ThorinMan

What are your core temps like at 1.65 vCore?

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57' to 62'C during the 3DMark06 test. Freaking 76'C during orthos. I don't run over 1.5vcore on this cpu other than benching. It has proven to be not orthos stable over 3.7ghz @ any vcore, but it had the highest overclock @ auto vcore of any 6600 I've owned.

Hello every one. I bought this board as well, with a E6600 and 2 corsair sticks, 1 gig each (800) , and I cant get this thing to post. I tried with one stick, and even bought a cheap stick at bestbuy and that didnt even work.
What it does is, everything turns on, fans, lights and such, it sounds like the raptor tries to run a little, but thats it. The monitor always shows nothing at all, as if its not connected. It did work fine for a few days, I rana few games at max to see what it could do, and just last sat it went died and the enermax psu fan went full speed.
Im not sure if it has to do with the fact that I forgot to set anything up in bios, like the rams volts, to 2.1. I think the default setting for that is like 1.8. Could that be it? And if so, how would i get it to post so i can get to bios and set everything up?

have you tried clearing the cmos lostsoul?

Hey Nemesis no need to make apologies for someone else mistake.

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Originally Posted by AeroSquid

have you tried clearing the cmos lostsoul?

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Yes, Ill tell you how I did it, just to make sure I did it right. Im semi new at building systems. I unplugged it, took out the batt, placed the jumper on clear, waited 30 sec, placed the jumper back, placed the batt back, and plugged it back in and turned it back on, and the same thing happens, it all goes on, all lights, all fans work, but no posting. Oh, one thing I forgot, I am using the 7950 as the video card.

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Originally Posted by lostsoul

Yes, Ill tell you how I did it, just to make sure I did it right. Im semi new at building systems. I unplugged it, took out the batt, placed the jumper on clear, waited 30 sec, placed the jumper back, placed the batt back, and plugged it back in and turned it back on, and the same thing happens, it all goes on, all lights, all fans work, but no posting. Oh, one thing I forgot, I am using the 7950 as the video card.

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Sorry if you already covered these items, but which BIOS do you have, and did you make sure to connect both the 20+4-pin and 4-pin PSU connectors?

-phil

I was wondering.. I am getting my heatsink and fan tomorrow and a bunch of other stuff. I have the p5w-dh deluxe and the x6800. I was wondering if someone can post a screenie of bios settings and various other settings for a max air overclock or at least so I can ballpark or compare what I am getting to others. This thread got so big after taking several hours to read it... well.. its big. Any specific help for me or shall i start a new thread for people with the x6800?

Thanks.

oh i forgot to mention i have the ocz gamestream 700w and the ocz ddr28000 voltage extreme 2 gb all in the thermaltake mozart tower. i bought the scythe infinity for cooling along with 10 120 mm fans.

These settings yeilded me a bit over 3.3 ghz default voltages on my L628 E6600. There's a link to a screenie of it in my sig. It should be no troube for X6800 just keep in mind my multiplier is 9.

ASUS P5WDH Dlx Stock Overclock Settings

CPU : E6600
DDR2 : G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) F2-6400PHU2-2GBHZ
Bios : 1305
VGA : 2 eVGA 7900GT's SLI modified drivers
HDD : Two WD 320GB Serial ata raid
PSU : OCZ GameXStream 700w
OS : WinXp Pro SP2
OVERCLOCK (MHz) = 3306Mhz

BIOS SETTINGS

JumperFree Configuration

AI Overclocking set to: MANUAL

CPU Frequency : 367MhZ
DRAMM Frequency :735Mhz

Performance Mode :Auto
PCI Express Frequency : 100Mhz
PCI Clock Sync Mode : 33.33Mhz

Memory Voltage : 2.1v
CPU Vcore Voltage : Auto
FSB Termination V : Auto
MCH Chipset V : Auto
ICH Chipset V : Auto
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CPU Configuration

Microcode Update : Enabled
Max CPUID Value Limit : Disabled
Execute Disable Function : Disabled
CPU Internal Thermal Control : Disabled
Virtualization Technology : Enabled
Intel SpeedStep Technology : Disabled
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Advanced Chipset Settings (DDR2)

Configure DRAM Timing By SPD : MANUAL
DRAM CAS Latency : 4
DRAM RAS Precharge : 4
DRAM RAS To CAS Delay : 4
DRAM RAS Activate to Precharge Delay : 12
DRAM Write Recovery Time : 4

Hyper Path 3 : Disabled
DRAM Throttling : Disabled
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Guys, what the hell is Microcode update? I could not find any info about this setting?