ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

[NghtShd]

My huge problem varies. Somtimes my computer will just lock up on post, right after detecting my ram, other times I can enter, BIOS and it will lock up while going through BIOS menus. Other times it will just continue to boot as normal. When I try to boot from the windows disc, this usually leads to a restart.

I don't see a liberty 520 listed at newegg, but whether it's the 500 or the 620 it should be fine, yet that behavior looks like a PSU problem to me.

I see those PSUs have modular cables. Is the extra 4 pin section on the ATX power connector detachable on the PSU end? If so, you might want to check that it is connected properly. My P5W DH will run without the extra 4 power pins connected, but it behaves in a similar way to what you are seeing. My PC2-6400 RAM would test good running at DDR2-667 without those pins connected, but wouldn't work at its rated speed.

You just need to change the divider for the DRAM speed when you get everything working. It's normal for it to be set at PC2-5300 until you do.

[ThickFog]

I don't see a liberty 520 listed at newegg, but whether it's the 500 or the 620 it should be fine, yet that behavior looks like a PSU problem to me.

I see those PSUs have modular cables. Is the extra 4 pin section on the ATX power connector detachable on the PSU end? If so, you might want to check that it is connected properly. My P5W DH will run without the extra 4 power pins connected, but it behaves in a similar way to what you are seeing. My PC2-6400 RAM would test good running at DDR2-667 without those pins connected, but wouldn't work at its rated speed.

You just need to change the divider for the DRAM speed when you get everything working. It's normal for it to be set at PC2-5300 until you do.

Your right, its only a 500w, my bad

I really dont have another power supply to play around with, how can i truly limit the problem to this? monza1412 above said he was still getting the same problem with a new psu.

Memtest found no errors in the ram. A post HardForum is the only other place i can find someone else having the same problem (http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1114332)

Any help would be nice, I really want this computer to start working

[Sparx]

Your right, its only a 500w, my bad

I really dont have another power supply to play around with, how can i truly limit the problem to this? monza1412 above said he was still getting the same problem with a new psu.

Memtest found no errors in the ram. A post HardForum is the only other place i can find someone else having the same problem (http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1114332)

Any help would be nice, I really want this computer to start working

Can you list your voltage settings and the settings in Advanced> Jumperfree?
sparx

[dmilazzo78]

Hey sparx is this the one you ordered http://www.pcpower.com/products/view...EPS&view=about I was looking at the Thermaltake 750 watt I have a back up ocz 520 and when I run 3dmark06 it freezes never had that issue even with my 700w xg

I need a bad ass power supply that will take anything I hook to it keep the suggestions coming just please actually own it and assure it works with this mobo

[Sparx]

man I was looking at the Thermaltake 750 watt I have a back up ocz 520 and when I run 3dmark06 it freezes never had that issue even with my 700w xg

I need a bad ass power supply that will take anything I hook to it keep the suggestions coming just please actually own it and assure it works with this mobo

I ordered a PC Power & Cooling 750 watt from Newegg today. I am not taking any chances with Thermaltakes.

It does not have 4 separate 18 amp rails like many, nor the modular power cables. But, it is a quiet model and has 60 amps on the 12 rail. I read about 3-4 reviews and it holds voltage at heavy loads like a rock.

If I have issues I will report them here. I should have it Friday at the latest.
I just got my rig running and connected and did some great gaming online (COD2) yesterday before it burned up.

It doesn't matter though, since I am changing my HS to a thermalright 120 and the MCH heast sink to a Thermalright as well... forgot the model # sorry.

There sure is a lot of crap on the market these days.
sparx

[Pol1977]

It doesn't matter though, since I am changing my HS to a thermalright 120 and the MCH heast sink to a Thermalright as well... forgot the model # sorry.

Probably the thermalright HR-05 or HR-05 SLI

Let me know if it fits because I have the thermalright 120 ultra on my CPU as well (with a standard 120mm fan - best cooler I've owned) and am thinking about getting a thermalright northbridge heatsink but I'm not sure it will fit...

A piece of advice... leave the crappy metal clips in the box and secure the fan with some tie-wraps going through the top and bottom fins... It's much better and more secure.

[Sparx]

Yes POL
That is the one I ordered- HR-05. ( reads like a bill in Congress -no?) thanks for the tip on the fasteners.

I am concerned about the fit actually, but I ordered it anyway.

I put a temp probe in between the fins on the stock MCH HS with factory TiM still in place and I got 35C loaded. I have a little 40 mm ( I think it is 40) fan setting on top the HS with hot glue, ghetto install!

Anyway I pushed the temp probe down against the base plate and that is temp reading I got.

sparx

[Pol1977]

man I was looking at the Thermaltake 750 watt I have a back up ocz 520 and when I run 3dmark06 it freezes never had that issue even with my 700w xg

I need a bad ass power supply that will take anything I hook to it keep the suggestions coming just please actually own it and assure it works with this mobo

I have the Thermaltake Toughpower 700w for more about two months now.

I am running stable with a P5W DH Deluxe (1.65v MHC), E6400 @ 3.2GHz (auto voltage). I have 3 hard drives, 2 DVD RWs an ATI X1950XTX (overclocked as far as it goes with CCC) and a TV tuner on it with absolutely no problems.

I can't get my 667MHz ram sticks to work at 800MHz but it's probably a ram issue so I just oredered me a pair of G-Skills...

But the PSU is working great for me.

[ThickFog]

Can you list your voltage settings and the settings in Advanced> Jumperfree?
sparx

All the voltage settings are on auto.

I was able to get the windows disc to boot an start reformatting my hd, i chose NTFS (slow, not the quick one) and i got this error
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/9...liam072bn1.jpg
This CD has worked fine for me before

Arg.. this is really fustrating

[Sparx]

All the voltage settings are on auto.

I was able to get the windows disc to boot an start reformatting my hd, i chose NTFS (slow, not the quick one) and i got this error
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/9...liam072bn1.jpg
This CD has worked fine for me before

Arg.. this is really fustrating

Ok why don't you try putting the RAM at 2.0 and the Vcore at 1.325 pci express on 101. You should have pci clock 33.3.
Also set PERFORMANCE Mode to> Standard
This is not excessive voltage see if it helps.
Your error code on the install could be related to instability.
Also you have the 4 pin power plug installed into the motherboard?
I don't know your video card but it has a port and that is connected for 12 volts too?

In addtion: Run the RAM at : SPD
In CPU Configuration:
Microcode Updation > Enabled
The Five (5) remaining items> Disabled



sparx

[ThickFog]

Ok why don't you try putting the RAM at 2.0 and the Vcore at 1.325 pci express on 101. You should have pci clock 33.3.
This is not excessive voltage see if it helps.
Your error code on the install could be related to instability.
Also you have the 4 pin power plug installed into the motherboard?
I don't know your video card but it has a port and that is connected for 12 volts too?


sparx

Ok I will try those voltage settings now.

I have the 4 pin power pluged into my motherboard, i also have a 4 pin one pluged next to the cpu, and one (on a pci-e cord) to my graphics card

Thanks for the help, hopefully it works

[Sparx]

Ok I will try those voltage settings now.

I have the 4 pin power pluged into my motherboard, i also have a 4 pin one pluged next to the cpu, and one (on a pci-e cord) to my graphics card

Thanks for the help, hopefully it works

ThickFog
I added some more settings to my post.
Sorry it is such a fragmented post, but my rig is dead right now and I cannot see the BIOS because of my power supply issue.
sparx

[imperiallord]

I don't know if You have this or not, But do You have the powertoys for windows xp?
If You don't It may help as Your drive may just be hidden or It's unformatted and needs to be formatted by the XP setup CD possibly. I hope one of these two ideas help.

I have windows xp professional, I don't know what powertoys is, although I look it up, and it seem like its just add-ons. I can format it in windows xp but that would install windows xp into my secondary drive which I don't want to do, which would make me have two dual boots operating systems.

That's strange that it doesn't show up under Disk Management. When I installed my 3rd SATA (first two were in RAID), that's how I had to format it/show it. But it does show up in the BIOS? How about under Disk Drives in the Device Manager?

It shows up in Bios and it also shows up when I do windows installation, when I pop in my windows xp cd. It doesn't show up in Disk Drives in Device Managers, it doesn't show up at all when I load up windows.

If I recall correctly...I had the same issue...
With my circumstance , I had to set the Jmicron raid to normal mode to get the ide drive recognized in windows despite being recognized in bios .Did ya remember to install the raid drvers for both controllers with F6 method a windows install ?

I install Jmicron but immediately disable it and didn't completely install it all the way. I didn't install the raid drivers for both controllers with the F6 method using windows install. Can you explain more? This might be my problem...

Also the hanging problem while multitasking with several programs open, until I close several programs will it go away, does anyone have this problem??

[ThickFog]

Ok why don't you try putting the RAM at 2.0 and the Vcore at 1.325 pci express on 101. You should have pci clock 33.3.
Also set PERFORMANCE Mode to> Standard
This is not excessive voltage see if it helps.
Your error code on the install could be related to instability.
Also you have the 4 pin power plug installed into the motherboard?
I don't know your video card but it has a port and that is connected for 12 volts too?

In addtion: Run the RAM at : SPD
In CPU Configuration:
Microcode Updation > Enabled
The Five (5) remaining items> Disabled
Ok.. Your settings have greatly increased my stability but Im still having a few problems.
sparx

I was able to install windows xp home sucessfully, and install all the motherboard drivers (off the cd). When i installed my Ati catalyst, the bios again locked up on post, i turned it the pc off, and swiched the power supply on and off. Then I was then able to go in and find that your settings, that i had put in my bios were now all set to auto. Changing them back, the PC again ran perfectly and i was able to install mouse software etc

Then i go to begin the windows update process. The first step it informs me is I have to install a new windows update version, this requires a reboot. During the reboot, just as the windows screen loads it restarts by it'self, and the bios locks up. Using the power supply reboot method, it gave me a ovevoltage error and i was able to enter bios. All your settings were the same as before except Intel Temperature control was inabled (in cpu configuration) After turning this off and rebooting, windows asks me if i want to start windows normal, safe mode.. etc

I chose normal and now i get this error
System32/drivers/ntfs.sys is missing or corropted.

Im going to try and repair windows with my cd, but i dont want this error happening again

Help

Edit: i get those overvoltage errors when the post has read my ram as pc2-5300, with your settings in the bios

[Sparx]

Thickfog

Could you please give a sig of you rig, you know the parts? Maybe go to Usercp up top left on the page and enter in there then it will follow your posts and you won't have to re-enter it.

Do you by chance have a VOM meter?

I wonder if your power supply is providing strange voltages?
This is your second motherboard so we have to look elsewhere.

This PW5 is a good board and worth the effort, don't give up yet.
Edit: Also is there a way for you to check the CMOS battery and see if it is NOT dead? (VOM again sorry)
sparx