ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

Hello.

Last week I started to have problems with graphics in games.
I started to see bugs on screen so I quit game.
I thought it could be high temperature so I clean my pc and tried again but problem still appeared.
Finally after two hours, I run game again, pc crashed and my graphics card not working anymore.

I had E6300 oc to 2.6
3g ddr2 @ 750mhz
gf 9800gtx+ oc by bfg

It was working fine for over year in that configuration.

I thought it was graphics card problem, but I put new one from friend and I had bugs on screen. I format hard drive and installed new system (vista)
but it didn't help. same n xp sp3

I tried components and I think it is motherboard issue, is it need to be replaced or anyone met with it so far?

I just add that I have newest drivers for chipser, graphics and bios.
Screen bugs a lot in wow, but not in counter-strike 1.6.

I put all details in drivers control panel to minimum, ram speed at 667, 1.8ghz c2d. Same in game, it helped a bit, but pc going to crash in the mid of game, even if no bugs or screen are shown.

Please help.

Ok I can confirm bios 2004 is fine on my cpu in windows 7 x64, well fine in that I can cinstall it and run without that BSOD 2901 fixes.

However now I am running windows 7 my cpu feels like a 386, everything that uses cpu is significantly slower.

2d graphics - scrolling heavy webpages, mirc, html email in outlook all show jerkyness but did not in XP.
nod32 - files that took 2 or 3 secs to scan in XP now take over 30 seconds (10 times increase in process time) sometimes when I download files I get a connect reset error as nod32 is taking too long to scan.

also I have an issue with the intel ahci drivers.

I installed with ahci enabled and can confirm the microsoft ahci drivers are operational.
I then install the stable version of intels driver which is currently 8.9 and my pc takes 5 minutes to boot (just sits there on loading screen for 5 minutes then will come to life) and in device manager the boot drive is not properly detected as shows as 'disk drive'. The 8.7 version boots normally but still doesnt detect the drive properly. The beta 9.x versions have the slow boot and still dont detect the drive. Drive is a WD black cavalier 640gig WD6401AALS.

Is my bios 2004 possibly causing some issue with windows 7? the changelogs for the bios indicate no operating system related fixes other than the 45nm fix in 2901. All the newer bios stop EIST from working properly so I prefer to stick with 2004.

Also what are the stock chipset voltages? ICH MCH FSB etc. thanks

Finally still no one knows why my 8800gt gfx card is extremely slow bios/post display? 7600gt was fast as normal.

Pretty sure stock is 1.05 ich, 1.55 chipset, 1.20 fsb...
What cpu is that anyway?

my cpu is a core2duo 6420 and thanks.

Hmm Win7 slower than XP, specially on ~2GHz CPUs, but not so slower. Test your system by simple benchmarks like SuperPI and 3DMark2001 or others.

Offtop. Moved to Giga P55-UD3R, Core i5-750 3.9GHz, but P5W DH is great :) and works at my ded's internet PC.
It's interesting 3DMark 2001 performance is the same in comparison of Core i5 3.9GHz with DDR3-1560 8-8-8-21-1T and Core2 Duo E8500 3.8GHz DDR2-800 5-6-6-18, but I thinked performance must be a bit faster, like SuperPI 1M faster about 20%.

I have been using this motherbord for three years for my gaming rig. (Great motherbord :) )

Currently Im using an E6600 overclocked to 3.2Ghz stable, but I've been thinking of upgrading it. Because of monitairy issues, I'd like to spend less then 200$.

So I was wondering if someone knows a processor that can run on the P5WDH without issues, with a greater overclock potential then the E6600.

Thanks!

What revision of the MB do you have? 1.02G has limited use with 45nm CPUs...

Hmm, thanks for reminding me. I just checked and I got the 1.02G revision, so upgrading my cpu is pretty much out of the question.

Now I'll need to upgrade my CPU, motherboard AND ram. :/

Yolanda I did some digging, slow deskop performance is explained by a statement passmark made. Obviously people have been asking them why 2D performance on their benchmark is less than half of XP. Their answer was that in windows 7 (and also vista but not so much) microsoft made internal changes to the gdi in that things were optimised for multi threading and other new stuff but at the same time older type gdi graphics are now slower, their benchmark mainly tests older type gdi functions hence the poor result. Unfortenatly it seems most windows apps use the older functions as in my case the desktop usage is noticeably slower, games themselves seem fine so no problem with 3D. They even said overall XP accelerates more 2D onboard the graphics card than Windows 7 does. Since using the desktop is pretty much all 2D then it would explain why the processor is generally working harder in 2D mode.

In regards to nod32, it seems that app has a specific windows 7 issue in its http scanning so the slow http scans I am disregarding now, which leaves behind slow downs in real time nod32 scanning as well as other apps such as my creative console launcher. I have simply concluded I probably need a hardware upgrade if I want a completely smooth windows 7 experience, sure its possible as time goes by drivers get optimised but I considered that this board is showing its age and the fact the ahci drivers wont even work properly, starting to wish I just went with raid mode as I expect that would have been less problematic and I would have still got NCQ but I wanted the power saving enhancements of ahci. If I upgrade it will be a ICH10 board and the cpu needs to have high clocks, I have learned that the multi core thing is ok but hardly anything uses multi threading, most apps I use when maxed out simply either put 50% on each core or 100% on one core, hardly ever see 100% on both cores utilised. So with a quad core it would just be 25% on each core or 100% on 1 core with 3 cores idle.

Ironically my spare test pc is noticebly faster than this pc in Windows 7, this pc gets higher benchmarks and is rated higher on review sites but the other pc has higher real world performance. So that can only be down to the chipset or the way the cpu integrates with memory. The other machine is a amd64 X2 5600+ on a fairly new board less than 6 months old.

Ok I am considering a as a temporary help I can push the overclock but it seems what I want isnt even easy.

Currently I am on 333fsb 2.66ghz clock on the 6420. EIST off but use C1E. The ram is ddr2-800

So I was thinking of going to 400fsb which gives a 3.2ghz cpu speed, and at this point I now realise why the 6420 was way less popular then the 6600. Hyperpath 3 is already off, I would need to set ram to spd, am I likely to hit any problems if I just set those 2 things and go for 400fsb?

I am also considering a E7400, my primary issue is I need more clock speed for single threaded apps (rarely run multi threaded apps) this 7400 seems like I could get a decent boost without upgrading the board and the ram. At the same fsb I run now the 7400 will give me 3.3ghz a decent 30% increase. But a smaller cache. Will check this thread to try and find info on how well the cpu works with the board but if anyone has the answer handy please reply as will save me some time.

I think simply overclock your 6420 to 3.2GHz, it will be as fast as E7400 at 3.3GHz. It's more nice to upgrade later to 32nm Core i3.

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Hmm, thanks for reminding me. I just checked and I got the 1.02G revision, so upgrading my cpu is pretty much out of the question.

Now I'll need to upgrade my CPU, motherboard AND ram. :/

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I have a 1.02 board and upgraded from 6600 to 8500 a while back. It runs much cooler and a bit faster (bigger caches) but doesn't really overclock any better. I run the CPU at auto voltage because the 1.02 apparently doesn't have credible CPU voltage adjustment (see earlier posts in this thread).

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I think simply overclock your 6420 to 3.2GHz, it will be as fast as E7400 at 3.3GHz. It's more nice to upgrade later to 32nm Core i3.

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so I just set 400fsb and expect no problems with my current settings?

if the board does 400fsb then the 7400 would give me 4ghz :D

Sure try FSB400, I think 3.2GHz will be too enough.

My board works well about 1,5 years with 3.8GHz E8500, but it's 1.04G revision, so I able to change CPU voltage, but some owners of older 1.02G revision says it can't be done.
Also not all 45 nm crystalls able to work at 4 GHz, specially from cheeper Pentium Dual Core and E7XXX lines or requires very high voltage (1.475V+) which can be cooled only using "supercoolers". Be ready that new chip will work only at ~3.8GHz+.

So overclocked 45 nm chip will be only about 15-25% faster, than 3.2GHz 65 nm "classic" Core2 Duo. In this case after two years of 45nms, it's a time to wait for a something newer like 32 nm LGA1156 in 2010.

********EDIT - I had a look on the first page and will check the tips&tricks there to see if they solve my problems - sorry! ********
Hi - 337 pages is to much info to browse so I will post my question and hopefully someone who know their way around this thread can help me out....

So I have had this mobo since 2006 with XP and now with Win7, my problem began when I had XP installed and it is that boot time is very long:
In XP it took 60-120 s after bios was read and initiated until I got to the logon screen for XP - always waiting with a black screen.

In Win7 everything runs smothly until I get to the Windows is starting text and here I have a long waiting time until the Windows Logo swirls into view.

Any thoughts? UPNP OS is enabled, Disabled 3,5" unit - as far as I can tell anyway.

Regards,
N

I've never had PNP OS enabled. What's the point of having that enabled?

Hi folks,

Long time no post. I've had this mobo for over three years now with no issues. I run Windows Vista Business Edition (32bit). However over the holidays I want to go to Windows 7 Ultimate x64 edition.

Have any of you had any issues with doing this? Should I use the latest bios version or is 2801 fine? Just wanted to check before I format and get a BSOD.

Thanks.

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when I had XP installed and it is that boot time is very long:
In XP it took 60-120 s after bios was read and initiated until I got to the logon screen

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This is probably IDE device detection. Go to the IDE configuration screen and set all your empty slots to Not Installed, then set the detect time to the lowest value you're sure will allow spin-up and head load (I use 5 seconds). This should dramatically reduce your boot time.

Hi !

Recently I've put a nwe X3220 into my old good P5W DH Deluxe 1.03g. The new CPU worked fine on AUTO Vcore but I decided to see how far I can go with lowering that parameter (since this is Xeon). The VID is I quess 1.3125 (form CoreTemp) and revisoin G0 so I thought I might lower Vcore a little bit. At first I set 1.25 and encountered crashes while watching videos on youtube, back to AUTO problem has gone. Than tried 1.2625 and once again crash. Finally I set 1.275 and I hope this is enough (no hard stressing with Linx, Orthos etc but YT ok) for now. But... My question sounds: is this CPU somehow crap and needs so much "juice" or I need to change other setting in BIOS to lower Vcore more.

At present I have:
2.1V for RAM - 4x1GB PDP Patriot
1.275 for CPU - EIST enabled but in Windows set to not to change the multiplier so 2.40Ghz fixed
1.55 for MCH
HyperPath disabled
Other thing set AUTO

PSU is Seasonic S12 600W from I guess 2006

Best regards
kudlatypawelek

If that cpu is a G0, and still in the "Conroe", but not "Wolfdale" family, then you should know:
1) default vcore for those E6x00/X6x00/Q6x00 chips was 1.35v.
2) The board has vdroop at load, so 1.275v bios is going to be like 1.21v at full load.

If the Xeon G0 had a vcore default of 1.25v, then that's news to me :)

Ok I know that def values are higher and def value should be smthing around 1.3...but I was hoping that Xeon can work fine with lower voltage. On one board I saw man having Q6600 at 3.0Ghz with 1.25V. I quess my CPU is more power consuming one.

I'm using BIOS 2801. Have been for a while.

On reboots, sometimes a network adapter disappears in Windows. I'd have to restart or cold boot to try to get it to show up again.

I tried to RMA it but they didn't do anything with it.

Found this related
http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?...Language=en-us

Edit: I found my issue.

I disabled the quick boot and fullscreen logo so I could see what happens at boot. Doing this let me see all the PCI devices that it finds. I kept looking for PCI Bridge Ethernet and kept rebooting to see what affects it.

Then I started playing with my network switch connections. I've found that when they're plugged into my DGS-2208, on the next reboot, the Ethernet disappears. Plugging them into two other switches that were 10/100 brought the Ethernet back.

Still an annoying problem. My other gigabit ethernet computers don't have this problem. So my only choice right now is to keep the P5W DH on a 10/100 switch.

Realtek has released new WiFi drivers for Win7 for 8187l adapter of this mobo. Has anyone managed to use this mobo as AP using these drivers on Win7 platform? This software has few more options which I really couldn't get to work for me.

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Originally Posted by clavicle

Realtek has released new WiFi drivers for Win7 for 8187l adapter of this mobo. Has anyone managed to use this mobo as AP using these drivers on Win7 platform? This software has few more options which I really couldn't get to work for me.

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I will try that because i want work with wi-fi too.

Let's see if the new drivers can be useful for us.

By the way, i make another upgrade, this time SSD Intel X-25 80GB.

Goodbye RAID0, nice to meet you. :ROTF:

Sorry to resurrect an old debate but I wanted to share some information with long-time users of the P5W DH, in this thread I've taken real good advices and info... :)
Last post about this is dated 2008, but this is still giving me headaches!

I've experimented using EZ_RAID1 port with RAID_SET jumpers taken apart (and EZ-Backup mode change enabled on next reboot). ICH7R is set to [Raid].

While the EZ_RAID1 port might be recognized as the missing ICH7R port, and the connected hard drive correctly identified and working, I came across an issue: reading and writing may take ages, as if the drive was not responding. A simple 10MB file copy may even take 5 minutes! :confused: Even Windows won't shut down.
I've used this "no jumper" setup before to temporarily attach a drive before and did not noticed the problem. I was running XPand maybe no RAID, can't remember.
Today, I'm running Windows 7 with latest Intel drivers, with a RAID1 on ICH7R SATA3 and SATA4 ports, a system drive on SATA1.

Edit: The culprit is JMicron driver! Thanks G40RoCkEt :clap: for having pointed this, I would not have even been thinking that the driver of a separate controller could cause problems with a specific port on another one! :down:

Removing the RAID_SET jumpers is a clear mistake, as the Sil4723 chip seems to keep interacting in a bad way on the connection, at least when ICH7R is configured as Raid.

Edit: Actually, this can be still true, but JMicron driver once uninstalled and back to Microsoft generic AHCI driver, the problem seems gone for good.

I've also taken a look at the manual: it says that you must put the jumpers in RAID1 configuration, plug the drive on EZ_RAID1 and leave the EZ_RAID2 free, in order to setup a RAID10 with 4 drives using ICH7R...
So this might not be an issue in others modes than [Raid].

Now that I have putted the jumpers back to RAID1 mode, the problem is gone. The drive attached alone to the EZ_RAID1 port is performing as expected, not as it would on a regular ICH7R port, but without issues. :shrug:

Edit: I've experienced some random freezes since with iaStor problems showing up in event manager. Reverted back to Matrix Storage driver 8.8.1009 as advised by Intel communities forums -> Problem still here (note better general responsiveness!). JMicron driver uninstalled, problems gone!

Voila, that's all for my report.

Edit, I'm investigating whereas it's a problem with the driver or a version of the driver or even a problem under Windows 7 with the driver. I'll post my results here :)

Hope this can still help, even it's a bit late!

Cheers!
Alex.

donpipo,

Before i put my new ssd 80GB and change my configuration to ACHI, i have RAID0 with bios set at RAID and use the ezbackup port1 and the jmicron too with w7 x64.

RAID set Jumper removed too,

I never lost perfomance in my drivres except if i install the new jmicron drivers.. wich have some kind of problem.. my drives became very slowww.

So, now i have ACHI mode and use the same dvdrw in ezbackup port.. All fine and RAID set jumper removed too.

More recently i noticed if i install the new and recent intel chipset drivers i have problems with the ssd and hard disk, became slow, very very. So i uninstall matrix drivers and voilá.

All is perfect now. By the way, my W7 index pontuation in disk with the SSD now is 7.8

With my old RAID0 (2 x 320GB WD AAKS) was 5.9 :rofl:

Well, I didn't expect the JMicron driver to interfere with EZ_RAID1 port, so I haven't even attempted to uninstall its driver...

I've thought that I need this driver installed for hotplugging and "removing safely" my eSATA drives (old XP time), until I've actually tried Microsoft generic AHCI driver shipped with Windows 7... Although not as responsive with hotplugged drives in recognition time, this driver does its job well! My problem is now fixed... I think.

So, yes, as checked by removing JMicron driver completely, it's a JMicron driver issue.
It causes severe problems when the jumpers are removed. Issues with the jumpers back to original RAID1 mode position aren't bad as they are with them removed. But they are :(

Do you remember which JMicron driver version was working OK with jumpers removed?

Message edited because of findings.

donpipo, use the jmicron drivers from your P5W CD drivers.

I think that works very well.

Oii finally my account got activated,been reading this thread on and on for a while to make my decision wether I would upgrade my p5w dh deluxe rev 1.02g from an e6600 to q9550 or not. I was able to buy a cheap q9550 and so I did. Let me show you the setup :

P5W DH Deluxe
Q9550 + artic freezer
ATI 5770
4x 1gb kingston pc6400 ecc
2hhd in raid 0
taga 480w psu


Cleared the cmos and start running...first boot I kept everything stock no problems. I read about the half Multiplier which the p5w dh not supported and the vcore (no less then 1.4) so it kinda downclocked itself to 8x354 something. Tried some games and no problems, perfect stable. But my old e6600 ran a good time for 8x400 quite stable (a crash once and a while) so I actually wanted/thought to try the q9550 to get around that speed also. After rasing the speeds (in steps) for 200mhz to approx 3000mhz modern warfare 2 start crashing, very weird though the benchmarks gave no problem. The moment I set back the speeds, modern warfare 2 kept crashing so what I did was cleared cmos and then i While rebooting got back in windows. Then I saw Cpu-Z and core Temp say 8.5 x 333 speeds? The mboard says mp of 8 ? Weird!?
Anyway i can't get a single mhz more out of this q9550 or modern warfare is unstable,which is kinda disapointing thought I had it also with the e6600. Tried all bios settings possible mentioned here,raised the vcore to 1.4 (lowest possible but nada), raised mch etc etc also bought some second hand 2 x 2gb memory to test if the mboard would accept a better fsb with 2 dimms but without result. It runs stable now but just to get a little bit more bang for the buck Any1 perhaps got some tips which I might have missed? Weird that all games I played before MW2 gave no problems for the e6600 at 3200mhz and now I can't OC a single mhz or the game starts lagging like hell :(

Change your PSU and get a cheap P45 board...

Yes, was in same boat on a P5W. Now running P5Q (vanilla) Q9550 @3.62ghz 425FSB at really low volts. 100% stable.
My P5W runs a Q6600 at 3ghz, won't go higher....

I am having a weird issue guys,

every time It gets to boot on Win 7, the computer suddenly restarts, also sometimes the usb ports work and sometimes they don't. Think maybe my mobo is finally dying? I don't think its psu, because it starts, it just gets to Windows 7 screen, and restarts automatically. Alot of times, the keyboard (usb) won't be powered. Then it just hangs in the Windows Start up recovery screen, doesn't go further. Sometimes after hours of trying, I can boot into Windows, but this is completely unuseable. Data is backed up. I am not sure if its a hardware issue or software, but I suspect, hardware is starting to go, and thats corrupting the software.

I am close to getting a cheap P45 board, but cash is low, would prefer to keep this going a bit longer. Would like your opinions. I have a Q9550, thats been stock clocked at 2.66ghz.

Safe Mode does not work, computer shuts down, couple seconds after.
Repair does not work, just hangs.
Normal also does not work :(.

Did you try memtest from floppy or cdrom? Sounds like a memory issue, but could be caused by a setting in bios too (or indeed a dying mobo)

As I am a bit stuck, I am hoping someone can help. I just reinstalled Windows XP and also Windows 7 just to be sure, but now the two Marvell gigabit Ethernet connections no longer have a MAC address. Yes I have done already an enable/disable of the network adapters and re-installed drivers but still no MAC address. It is annyoing as I just cleaned up the PC and made it ready for a friend who needs a new machine. Is there some way to get to the MAC address by reading out something directly from the Marvell chips or whatever?

MAC address for both: 00-00-00-00-00-00
And every single way with "ipconfig" or registry which I found on the internet didn't resolve this, except spoofing the MAC but I don't want that as these should have a MAC and I want to somehow a tool that can read it directly from the hardware or another solution. Thanks.

It's soft bug with Windows, Mac is written in hardware and can't be erased. I advice you to install latest Marvell drivers and then, if MACs will be zeros, type any static MACs in drivers.

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Originally Posted by secretworld

Did you try memtest from floppy or cdrom? Sounds like a memory issue, but could be caused by a setting in bios too (or indeed a dying mobo)

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Yea I did the Windows Memory Diagnostics and it seemed to be fine.

Going to boot with two ram sticks now.

Took them out, and it booted, dunno if its coincidence or not, but at least its on, going to prepare a back up. just in case.

Not sure if its ram sticks or not yet, or just mobo, cause Ill put them back on again. When I did Memtest didnt see any errors, may have to run it again.

Update:

Ok it booted with two ram sticks, still not sure if its mobo or the ram. Guess got to play the swapping game I suppose.

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Originally Posted by Yolanda

It's soft bug with Windows, Mac is written in hardware and can't be erased. I advice you to install latest Marvell drivers and then, if MACs will be zeros, type any static MACs in drivers.

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Thanks but I have tried that installing new, old, beta drivers and nothing works. And it worked before just fine, so how can that be? Cause I re-install my PC every year at least once, and only this time I am having this issue...

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Ok it booted with two ram sticks, still not sure if its mobo or the ram. Guess got to play the swapping game I suppose.

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What Volts are you running? Maybe upping the North bridge voltage a little would fix it. 4 sticks usually need this.

oh man, i've been away from here for way too long - but it was a healthy experience for my wallet, so no complaints on that front :D

anyway. yesterday i got me a x9650, slapped it on the board, no go. i guess the old skills were gone, as i managed to screw up a few pins of the socket (genius, i know). once that was sorted i got it to booting, well sort of. the board had been on bios 1602 since forever it seems, and that wouldn't recognize the q9650 - no surprises there, really. so back in went the e6600es, cmos clear into windows. download and flash bios, rinse and repeat.

so yea i got the q9650 running. wanted to get it's clockspeeds to at least where the e66 had been. hopped into bios - w t f - minimum vcore 1.4v??? that is more than my e66 ever got. and that was 65nm, this is 45nm. so i stayed away from that, set everything to auto (mighty overclock, that, lol). and have been sitting at that. now i skipped over the thread and noticed that real vcore readings are way off compared to what is set in the bios. i think i saw some guy saying his vcore is set to 1.7v and he get's like 1.3ish for real.

so my quick question is, by how much is the selected voltage off compared to the real voltage? as of now i have no other means to measure vcore than usinc cpuz or some such tools. setting the vcore to auto (haven't done that in a decade) it sits at 1.216v for 3.150mhz. that e66 used to want 1.35v for 3.600 or 1.45v or so for 4.000. now this q9650 is said to have used 1.27 for roughly 4.000 so i'm kinda looking at 1.25v for 3600ish mhz - gotta keep an eye on temps though, as i couldn't be bothered to break out the wc or vpc cooling yet again.

any ideas - rough pointers will do. thanks guys

Just set it at 1.4v in bios. Current steppings of Q9650 (is that a Q9650 or a QX9650, which won't go as high in mhz, but will do 4+ ghz with the unliked multi?) should have no trouble handling 1.4v if you keep the cooling down.

Your problem isnt the vcore, its the FSB with the quad on that board. Frankly, if you do a simple $100 switch with a UD3P, you may find yourself able to reach close to 4.4 ghz with that vcore, as long as it's the E0 stepping chip.

Greetings, i just had to replace my DVD drive, and picked up one that connected through SATA (my previous connected through IDE). My dilemma is that I currently have 4 SATA hard drives, with no raid setup; I would like to connect my DVD drive to the board somehow, I am currently using all 3 ICH7R sata connectors (at the bottom right of the board), and the JMICRON connector(above the PCI-E slot) .

My question is, is there a way to set up my system so i can plug my DVD drive into one of the EZ_BACKUP sata ports and have it run properly? Thank you for your time :)

-Mike

there is way but I think will be easier using the jmicron sata port.

the ez-raid requires you to move/remove a jumper cant remember which.

there is way but I think will be easier using the jmicron sata port.

the ez-raid requires you to move/remove a jumper cant remember which.

EZ_RAID1 SATA port acts as the "missing" ICH7R port if you connect only one drive to it.
Beware, don't attach a hard drive on the EZ_RAID2 port with EZ_RAID1 empty, or all data on it will be erased.

If you don't use RAID, you may have to remove both the blue RAID_SET jumpers, then enable "EZ_RAID Mode Change" in BIOS.
That will disable the second EZ_RAID2 orange port, making you hard drive recognized as its former name rather than "External Disk".

The orange ports are designed to handle hard drives, so you should preferably move your hard disk from the JMicron port to the EZ_RAID1 port, and plug the DVD drive to the JMicron port.

Just my advice...

just upgrade my board with an extra ram 2x 1gb kingston ddr2-800. boot up half way in windows. Blue screen. put those dimms in another pc and they work fine. could it be that the board does not like them or do i need to adjust some voltages. had mem volt at 1.8 & 1.9v.

1.8v is sort of low. Most 1 GB sticks work great at 2.0v. Some brands from back in the day won't boot at 1.8v but will POST at 1.8v to allow you to change the voltage. Try that. And try 4-4-4-12 timings. I've seen some that will accept 2.1v directly within the specs...

And to avoid OS corruption, you should DEFINITELY boot to a floppy/USB drive with memtest86+, just to make sure you can pass tests 1-5 cleanly. OS corruption (meaning safe mode won't even load anymore) is far more likely to occur from memory problems than from CPU problems.

Hi all, long time no post. I've recently rebuilt my desktop and have bought Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. Now before I install it, where and what drivers am I supposed to use? Asus Support shows no drivers specifically made for Windows 7.

Sorry for not searching if this is easy to find. Trying to search Windows 7 has the "7" not show up, bringing up all the OS posts. I just can't comb through them all!

I installed win7 x64 on mine a few weeks back, and win7 had or found all the necessary drivers by itself. It is working nicely on mine sofar. I am not using the built in wifi nor any of the other special Asus features of the board, but otherwise you should probably be able to use the Vista drivers for those on win7.

Great. Thank you! That makes life much simpler for me.

New Bios released :up:

Version 3002, so now our best beloved motherboard has 2010 year in bios date, like modern 1156 models ;)

ftp://ftp.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/Socke...eluxe-3002.zip

PS. Maybe for 1155 ASUS will make something P8W Deluxe :rolleyes:

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New Bios released :up:

Version 3002, so now our best beloved motherboard has 2010 year in bios date, like modern 1156 models ;)

ftp://ftp.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/Socke...eluxe-3002.zip

PS. Maybe for 1155 ASUS will make something P8W Deluxe :rolleyes:

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Wow cannot beleive they would release a new bios for this old board.... I still have one too :clap:, Any word on what this bios is for? is it just CPU/mem support or does it include any fixes?

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Originally Posted by MarcusTaz

Wow cannot beleive they would release a new bios for this old board.... I still have one too :clap:, Any word on what this bios is for? is it just CPU/mem support or does it include any fixes?

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Ah just looked it up myself;

P5W DH Deluxe 3002 BIOS
Fix VT does not work after resume from S3.



Thanks for heads up!

Greetings, this may be a long shot; but its worth a try. I've recently updated to windows 7 x64 and i'm noticing my usb transfer rates are disgustingly slow; could this possibly be caused by a mobo driver issue? Thank you in advance
-Mike

I would have to guess no. But I guess anything is possible. Did you make sure the jab settings in bios are set to high speed?

That would be "USB" thanks spell check..

Thanks for the reply, yes, they are set to hispeed. i've noticed on any port the fastest transfer rate i'll get is around 20megs per second -_-; any other ideas? thanks again

Other then that no... if you upgraded try doing a fresh install. 20 does not sound that bad especially if the external drive is getting full... hard to tell. Win 7 should install the latest drivers but you could always try intel direct for chipset drivers... doubt that will do anything.

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Originally Posted by Eovein

New Bios released :up:

Version 3002, so now our best beloved motherboard has 2010 year in bios date, like modern 1156 models ;)

ftp://ftp.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/Socke...eluxe-3002.zip

PS. Maybe for 1155 ASUS will make something P8W Deluxe :rolleyes:

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lol pretty crazy I created this thread when I was 16 years old and there's still new BIOSes released. RIP my P5WDH..

Thanks, mine's still going strong! It was my home theatre pc, got moved to another case and is now my digital audio workstation.

:( Really need help on this:
I have 2 drives on the Asus EZBackup (SIL4723) in Raid0 configuration, and other 3 drives on Intel ICH7 configured as non-raid. Because I don't want to mess up with the Raid, I unplugged the 2 drives from EZBackup (SIL4723) ports and I was trying to install the OS on a SSD drive conected to first port of ICH7. I succeded only after I modified the ICH7 controller to AHCI mode. After that, I was reconnect the 2 drives of Raid0, and boooooooooooom....the raid was gone. I must mention that I did not touch the SIL4723 jumpers. The only thing with I mess up was the setting for ICH7 in bios. Could that blow away my Raid0?The real problem is that the RAID0 I have a lot of material that is critical to recover it somehow.

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Originally Posted by lawrywild

lol pretty crazy I created this thread when I was 16 years old and there's still new BIOSes released.

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LOL :D

Just wanted to say that bios 3002 fixed my issue where switching on the kitchen light powered up the system in the next room :rofl:

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Originally Posted by lawrywild

lol pretty crazy I created this thread when I was 16 years old and there's still new BIOSes released. RIP my P5WDH..

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Even now P5W is very strong setup, with dual core 45 nm, such as E8500 running at 3.8GHz, and NVIDIA Geforce GTX 570 or Radeon 6970. Keep in mind, then board was released, there was only Geforce 6800 Ultra and Radeon X850XT, new cards are 10 times faster and work fine with this board. :clap:

With Quad cores and next generation cards or upcoming dual GPU cards, board will work even faster :)

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:( Really need help on this:
I have 2 drives on the Asus EZBackup (SIL4723) in Raid0 configuration, and other 3 drives on Intel ICH7 configured as non-raid. Because I don't want to mess up with the Raid, I unplugged the 2 drives from EZBackup (SIL4723) ports and I was trying to install the OS on a SSD drive conected to first port of ICH7. I succeded only after I modified the ICH7 controller to AHCI mode. After that, I was reconnect the 2 drives of Raid0, and boooooooooooom....the raid was gone. I must mention that I did not touch the SIL4723 jumpers. The only thing with I mess up was the setting for ICH7 in bios. Could that blow away my Raid0?The real problem is that the RAID0 I have a lot of material that is critical to recover it somehow.

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I think it's very sad, try different BIOS settings, maybe RAID will work, but the chance is not big, also your setup is rare, so few or even nobody really know much aboit it. For the future: always, not, ALWAYS, backup critical data to other HDD, DVD, USB HDD and so on. Maybe you mistake and connected one HDD, priviosly connected to one port, to another, and RAID can be destroyed.

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Originally Posted by Eovein

PS. Maybe for 1155 ASUS will make something P8W Deluxe :rolleyes:

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W - workstation tag in ASUS board names, for future LGA 2011 socket such board will be released, so P9W Deluxe maybe real ;)

I have false when update new BIOS, it had error when "New BIOS is writing"
How can I save my Mobo ??? :(
Does Asus CrashFree BIOS 3 help me any thing ???

Did you use a boot disk with afudos, or did you flash with the BIOS ezflash or in windows? I Forgot how crashfree 3 works...I think you need the original asus dvd inserted, and maybe a PCI video card?

I forgot, sorry.
If you can get the board to start, please flash with afudos and the bios BIN file, NOT in windows and not in ezflash!

Board can't start? You need a floppy disk with P5WDH.ROM file (rename your BIOS to it), then board, if it has working boot block, will flash this BIOS.
CD/DVD and FAT formatted USB drive (ASUS sad that 4-8GB or smaller drives only will work, but my 16GB drive works too) also can be used, but in some cases floppy is last chance.

Also you can try to press ALT+F2, it's a key to start flashing at boot up. If your board is working you also can use it to flash new BIOS.

Something bad happened to my DH Deluxe. BIOS errors like no fan detected, then several HIT F1 to Continue ones. Finally it refused to boot, and just turns back off after a few seconds with a loud relay click.

My options are few: I *need* to bring this machine back up even if I do get a i7 system going to eplace it. Has anyone got a DH Deluxe on a shelf they want to sell? OR, what else in a 775 board comes close to what it had, since PATA and a bunch of SATA ports are important...

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Originally Posted by mikepaul

Something bad happened to my DH Deluxe. BIOS errors like no fan detected, then several HIT F1 to Continue ones. Finally it refused to boot, and just turns back off after a few seconds with a loud relay click.

My options are few: I *need* to bring this machine back up even if I do get a i7 system going to eplace it. Has anyone got a DH Deluxe on a shelf they want to sell? OR, what else in a 775 board comes close to what it had, since PATA and a bunch of SATA ports are important...

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Did you try to clear the cmos? I assume yes but have to ask the obvious... Are you sure your PSU is not on the blink, in other words have you ruled out all other possible hardware problems...

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Originally Posted by MarcusTaz

Did you try to clear the cmos? I assume yes but have to ask the obvious... Are you sure your PSU is not on the blink, in other words have you ruled out all other possible hardware problems...

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No to both ideas. I haven't pulled it apart yet since the symptoms seemed far too serious. Having the main fan speed stop reporting in then having other bad Hit F1 to Continue errors and finally no boot at all made me think I was dead. I'll get more diagnostics soon but the offer to pick up a 1.04 board willstill apply since that'd be an upgrade anyway...

asus p5ne has 2 ide sockets on it which makes it fairly unusual. Mine was clocked at 3.2ghz


I'd strip it down before declaring it dead including removing the battery for a day. I tried everything bar removing the drive cable once, turns out it was the simplest thing

Another machine we have freezes on boot if a certain usb port is used. Take it out and it carries on, use the port in windows and no problem

Just installed windows 7 on my old p5w.
Any drivers i need to install to get things working?

W7 should have all necessary drivers already, as long as you aren't using the wireless or dh remote features. I never needed the CD in windows 7 at all. There are some Vista/W7 drivers on Asus page, though.

hello
i got this board and i am trying to set it up
the rest of the hardware is 2x4770 ati for crossfire, E5800 dual core pentium, 2x2gb ddr2 800 ballistix, 2x1gb ddr2 800 gskill
so far the problems i ran in were. hanging in bios while entering ez flash or that overclocking program, i reflashed a couple of times 2901 bios and now had to go back to 3001 for vcore to be selectable for wolfdale
what kind of FSB speeds should i expect?
sometimes when i RESTART from windows, the board just shuts off after displaying processor speed, right before showing the available memory
is that normal, i.e. one of the bugs or?
i just know that there are some real experts on this :)

thanks for the help

PS does anyone have a backplate that he doesnt need anymore?

Hello All,

I’ve been having issues with both startup and restarting my computer lately. When I restart this computer, it rarely posts. I have to do a cold boot (push the power button for 3 seconds and boot again). Sometimes on cold boot it also will not post. I have also had the issue where it hangs during boot, and there is a bar blinking on the top left of the monitor (TV in this case, it’s a HTPC). I also had a bootmgr img corrupt error once. Sometimes it will also boot up fine. Note that I have not overclocked this board, nor changed any hardware/drivers on this board for several months. I did replace the CMOS battery several months ago when I had a similar issue, and that seemed to fix it then.

This time around I’ve tried running the Windows 7 startup repair tool from the Win 7 disc, and it did not detect any errors. I’ve also run a chkdsk from within windows, again no errors.

I’m running Windows 7, the latest Bios, a Core 2 Duo E8400, ATI 5400 GPU, the HDD is on SATA.

I wonder if either the power supply, hard drive, or just motherboard has gone bad due to old age? I’ve had this system for 5 years. I've borrowed a PSU and will try it either tonight or Friday when I have time. I have replaced the PSU once before as one failed on me (it was known to be a bad model).

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I've had this board since summer 2006, and it still works with a trusty Q9550 @ 3.4GHz
and 8GB of RAM doing some 1080p encoding for a studio :)
My board started exhibiting the kind of issues you're mentioning last year, but it turned out
to have been caused by a few swollen capacitors around the board - solved by replacing all
of the old electrolyte caps on the board with solid-state ones off of a new board that died irreparably.

Even the best electrolyte caps aren't meant to last for over 3-5 years under average usage
conditions AFAIK, so it's really surprising to see it working so stably for nearly 6 years straight...

Did you replace every cap on the board? I have experience with soldering, but I wonder whether it's worth the work. How much time did this job take you??

Still alive and kicking.

In case any of you are left I thought I let you know that there is at least 1 P5W DH Deluxe kicking along strong out there.

P5W DH Deluxe (acquired 2007)
Q9650 Core 2 Quad 3.0GHZ (Q9400 and many other CPUs available)
G.Skill PC2-8500 4x2GB (8GB) (5-5-5-13) (and lots of other memory available)
1 x nVidia ENG 450 GTS
1 x Samsung EVO 240 GB SSD
1 x WD Cavier Black 1TB
1 x PCI Xreative X-Fi Platinum
1 x Thermaltake 430W PSU

Windows 8.1 PRO 64.

All settings are auto and SPD. Even a 5% overclock makes the system unstable but it is 7 years old. But I'm not an over clocker. Tried the memory at 4-4-4-12 (much faster) but the system would black screen of death (reboot) once or twice a day. This was on all standard auto frequencies and with hyper 3 disabled.

I found this thread while investigating my Windows 8.1 instabilities. I have read up to page 205.

Windows 8 64 is much faster then XP on this system. In the last days of XP it would take 10-15 seconds to open an explorer window. I can snap open 4 or 5 explorer windows quicker than i can blink now!

If the hardware survives I will be using this system for a few more years to come.

I've been using my P5W DH since I was in 7th or 8th grade. I forget when I exactly built it. I am now a rising junior in college and out the the PC scene. I mainly use my desktop for racing simulations. It is slow at this point, and I have 50/50 on upgrading a little (to a Q6600) or a lot (mobo/CPU/RAM). Any advice?

P5W DH Deluxe
E6300 (Conroe?)
Corsair 4gb (2x2GB)
ATI 5870
Seagate 160GB 7200RPM
Corsair TX750

Win7 Home Premium 64-bit

You can add more memory (to 8GB), put in an SSD, a Q9300 QUAD core or better, a fast graphics card and update to Win 8.1 and you will get a reasonable machine.

But for two things:

1) The cost will not be worth it.
2) You will have to work through some setup and driver issues (good if your are technically minded).

I think it's time you retire this board and buy some new hardware. A lot of good cheap and much faster hardware out there at the moment.

However if you can get all that stuff free and you like messing around with boards and software than go for it!

WallyZ

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I've been using my P5W DH since I was in 7th or 8th grade. I forget when I exactly built it. I am now a rising junior in college and out the the PC scene. I mainly use my desktop for racing simulations. It is slow at this point, and I have 50/50 on upgrading a little (to a Q6600) or a lot (mobo/CPU/RAM). Any advice?

P5W DH Deluxe
E6300 (Conroe?)
Corsair 4gb (2x2GB)
ATI 5870
Seagate 160GB 7200RPM
Corsair TX750

Win7 Home Premium 64-bit

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Read all 340 pages.

If anyone would like a good home (P5W DH home that is) for an unused QX9650, keep me in mind ;)

WallyZ

Still using this board. Q6600 at 333 mhz FSB (3 ghz) 8gb of ram, and just very recently, a new SSD which btw makes a WORLD of difference.

This board with a SSD makes it seem like I just upgraded my entire PC. It's honestly that drastic.

I'll be retiring this PC to the bedroom soon to simply be a gaming PC using a ps3 bluetooth controller, and also as a HTPC for playing blurays. My experiences with this thing so far have been extremely mixed, but it's hanging in there lol:clap:

Guys, I am quitting with this MOBO ... (P5W-DH Deluxe)...

I've been using it as my main system at home for 11 years !!! 24x7, always on.

It has ..
- 3 IDE disks attached to it
- 2 optical drives (1x CD IDE, 1x DVD SATA)
- 4 SATA disks attached to an Addonics port-multiplier attached to sata2 port (JMicron) that accepts port-multipliers.

The 4 SATA disks are 2TB each in a software RAID5 array.

I have been using Linux (Debian) in this machine since the beginning.

This board gave me headaches since I bought it! It was a nightmare to configure and build a linux kernel for it 11 years ago. The mix of 3 disk controllers, the mix of raid options between them..., the unknown/random disk detection order, ....

Also, I remember that I bought ballistix RAM to use with it. I remember I quit trying because I wasn't able to make the overclocked ballistix ram to work stable with this machine even when configured with a lower frequency. So, I bought other 8G stock kingston that works still stable at 667mhz.

Not to forget to mention that the CPU is core2quad Q6600 with its original cooler until now. I just cleaned it.

This machine used something like more than 5-7 PSU during its life until now. They simply stopped working. Melted?

But telling you the truth about this MOBO that I bought 11 years ago.... I remember I was looking for an Intel MOBO at that time, but Intel MOBOs didn't have USB and Audio ports in the front. They were designed for servers, not workstations. Also, at that time I had a mix of IDE drives and I was planning to have SATA drives just in the future. Intel MOBOs didn't support both at that time as far as I remember.

This board is a LAME thing! Designed for gamers ... It has all that mixed port sh*t raids that will make you lose your data at some point! That is why I always kept with software raids with this MOBO. It has that sh*t wireless router thing that I never used too!

Asus boards are still the same beautiful sh*t designed for gamers. And it sells!

I also found now some references in ahci.c source in Linux that shows lots of exceptions due to the exotic hardware implementation of this specific board. Another big crap.

I never did any overclock with it. I was looking for just an stable system... and it is difficult with this MOBO. It used to be stable in the beginning, with few drives. Once you do a reboot, you will have to boot lots of times until drives get recognized, etc ...

I am using a nvidia graphics card, fanless entrylevel.

And I bought in the last months a Seasonic fanless 550W PSU to use with this system. Clean, no noise.. and also 2 Intel SSDs to use in software RAID1 with the root filesystem.

Seasonic is already installed replacing a broken Master Cooler PSU. SSDs are already installed replacing an old IDE drive ....

And now the machine became unstable. Everytime I boot it detects randomly the drives.
Sometimes it doesn't get any drive.
Sometimes it complains with "CMOS Date/Time not set". But the Date/Time is there, ok, set.

BIOS is v3001. Latest non-beta.

I cleared the CMOS something like 7 times...... and reconfigured everything again.... and sometimes the message "CMOS Date/Time not set" appears and the boot hangs.

I am thinking that this message is coming from JMicron BIOS (not the main BIOS) because it appears when JMicron drives are not detected.

I am thinking that something in BIOS is not stable.

PSU is new, one of the best brands, not showing drive resets or any problem regarding power.

Also, with all drives disconnected I can still see this "CMOS Date/Time not set" problem appearing from time to time.

I looked for a replacement CPU/MOBO/RAM for this system but it would be too expensive, something like a Core i7 with 64GB RAM and Intel MOBO would cost 1200 usd.

So, doing a better research, I am planning to buy an old Intel S3210SHLC MOBO that a guy is selling and that is like new, never used. It seems compatible with my CPU, RAM, video card and the rest ... It isn't compatible with the port-multiplier, but it has 6 SATA ports, enough. It doesn't support IDE drives, I will have to migrate my data from it.

At least, I think in the end I will have an stable system.

And this crap-lame-gamer MOBO will be able to RIP in hell ... :)

You are overreacting a lot, and it also seems that you clearly have a lot of misunderstandings on the things you are mentioning ( for example RAID... like all Intel chipset motherboards, this one came with a 4 port Intel ICH7R "Soft" RAID controller, which is the same on every single Socket 775 motherboard of its time ).

This was a pretty good motherboard, unless you have no clue how to set things up in BIOS.
I had 2 of them and everything was running butter smooth for years, even with extreme overclocking.

Anyway, this is a very aged system for anything but light office and web usage for today ( and maybe some LOL & Dota 2 )...

As far as condemning Asus ROG motherboards in general, you are once again overreacting and spreading BS, because there are plenty of f&*@#$*ing awesome motherboards in that lineup.

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Read all 340 pages.

If anyone would like a good home (P5W DH home that is) for an unused QX9650, keep me in mind ;)

WallyZ

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My MOBO is still running after 15 years non stop.

Still good for browsing, email, youtube and lite gaming (COD 3).

It's a lot better than my 2012 HP i5 gen 2 but not as fast single threaded performance as a Surface pro 2 i5 gen 3. But it is still better on multi threaded.

I thought I died the other day but it turned out to be the power supply. Changed that and it's still going.

It gets used every day.

Can't believe it!!!