ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

[kernelOfTruth]

G40RoCkEt, try lowering your frequency significantly and whether you can install it with that "hack"

after that put it up again - perhaps your cpu is too fast for windows

windows 7 rc1 x64 is running without any problems here @FSB 270, E6600 with 8 GB of G.Skill ram

[G40RoCkEt]

G40RoCkEt, try lowering your frequency significantly and whether you can install it with that "hack"

after that put it up again - perhaps your cpu is too fast for windows

windows 7 rc1 x64 is running without any problems here @FSB 270, E6600 with 8 GB of G.Skill ram

I read that the problem is the 45nm, but i see that Yolanda can install the W7 x64 with E8500.

I will try to put my E8600 in default speed to see what happens.

[mikepaul]

Question about SATA add-on cards: do 4x PCI-E cards work OK on a 1x motherboard like the P5W DH?

I've been using a cheap 2-port RAID card in JOBD mode attached to one drive and it works OK, but now that I need more reliable connectivity I'm looking at an Adaptec 1405 with 4 SATA cables attached to its one SAS port. Trick is, it's a 4x PCI-E card so I'm not sure it's the BEST card to get. I also have an open PCI slot in case the throughput on that bus ends up better...

[Yolanda]

Mm you ask about PCI-E 4x card? It can be installed in any of two PCI-E 16x slots, usually upper slot is occupied by video card, so another is free, but video card will operate only at 8x speed.

[mikepaul]

The two-week-old GTX 285 wouldn't like that...

Although, after trying to use my Canopus MVR-1000 video capture card for the first time since the GTX 285 was installed and finding that the captures come out jerky, perhaps having the 285 be less of a bandwidth hog might not be a bad idea...

The new nvidia 185 video driver sucks. I had to drop back to 182 to get the captures (and MPEG-2 playback) looking good again...

[firestarter.pt]

Anyone knows if there are any known issues using a SSD disk (probabily an Intel X25-M) with this board (on ICH7R ports)?

[Yolanda]

I can't remember any problems with Intel SATA's, so I think SSD will work.

[pc1x1]

Well my P5WD2-E Premium, has unfortunately RIP, and Asus couldn't fix it. They are sending me a P5WDH Deluxe. So I am joining the club, now in 2009, heh! I figured It would be a decent stopgap until I upgrade to an i7 to drop a Core 2 Duo, or a Quad. I am somewhat leaning towards the Q6600, I do CAD, and Photoshop, etc though its painful since its marginally cheaper than the i7 920. What do you guys recommend I drop in as a CPU? I currently have a Pentium D 805D, but figured a CPU drop would make a big difference.

I wanted to drop a Q9550, but thinking about it, and its FSB limitations seems kinda risky, the choices are between the Q9550, Q6600, or any of the E7400, Wolfdales, etc or any compatible cpu you may suggest. Heres what I have atm minus the Q6600, I am on full water, with the cpu being cooled by 360 Rad by itself, so no temperature problems, even my 805D was relatively cool. Thanks! And sorry for coming late to the party heh!

Sestren - Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.4Ghz || Swiftech GTZ || Tri H2O Loop || P5WDH Deluxe || Bios: 2801 || 4GB XMS2 Pro DDR2 PC2-6400 || 2x VR 300 Gig Raid 0 + 8x HDD || Asus 3870x2 2 Gig, Quad DVI || Enermax Revolution85+ 1050w || Lian-Li PC-343B || Win XP Pro || Windows 7 64 bit || 5440x1600 @ 3 Monitors
RIP P5WD2-E Premium

Budget: $100-300 (hint: Cheaper the better )

[pc1x1]

Ps. Bios 2901 has been released.

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

Fixes the Windows Vista X64 Multi Proc error BSOD. When my mobo arrives, I will test with Windows 7, Q9550, and P5WDH Deluxe to see if I can make it through the installation. (Some users reported previously to be impossible, with certain cpus.)

Special thanks to Tech Net Users, and MS Employee John E.

Source:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/...7-212abaa4f66e

[mikepaul]

<sigh>

Now that the GTX 285 is a pain to remove since I have to hunt for the release lever under its double-wide case, they release a new BIOS meaning I'd have to remove the battery to do the post-flash CMOS clear.

Somebody wake me up if it does some good for a 1.02G board, or if there's a smart guy out there who made a "battery" that has wires and an off-switch leading to the real battery, so a reset is easier to do...

[MarcusTaz]

Is that all this new bios address' ?

Could only hope for better OCing on the FSB side...

[pc1x1]

Is that all this new bios address' ?

Could only hope for better OCing on the FSB side...

I'd imagine thats more a hardware issue then a bios issue. Theres limitations to the i975X and thats one of them. Remember the stock fsb was designed at 266mhz, personally I am just aiming for 350, if I hit that then I am more than satisfied . That would clock me at least in stock Q9550 territory.

[mg Ice]

OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
Version 6.1.7100 Build 7100
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name
System Manufacturer ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC
System Model P5W DH Deluxe
System Type x64-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz, 3603 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 2801, 7/10/2008
SMBIOS Version 2.4
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume3
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7100.0"
User Name
Time Zone
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 4.00 GB
Available Physical Memory 2.82 GB
Total Virtual Memory 8.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 6.50 GB
Page File Space 4.00 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

[pc1x1]

mg Ice, the problems are apparently with quads, which gave the multi cpu error, your set up denotes a dual, so I believe that e6600 works great, I don't recall reports on problems with the e6600

[bub]

So recently the power supply on my system died, and I just installed a new one. It appears to be working fine, except now I need to reset the cmos on every restart or I get a black screen. This presents many problems, as I have to continually change the date and time in windows, and I cannot save bios settings. I put in a new motherboard battery, and flashed the bios to the latest version (2902) using the bios flash utility. Broken board or something else?

specs:585w psu, p5w dh, qx6850, 2gb ram, 7950gt, etc.

[mikepaul]

New battery is bad?...

[MarcusTaz]

I'd imagine thats more a hardware issue then a bios issue. Theres limitations to the i975X and thats one of them. Remember the stock fsb was designed at 266mhz, personally I am just aiming for 350, if I hit that then I am more than satisfied . That would clock me at least in stock Q9550 territory.

I got 380 with a Q6000 so I am satisfied...

[tomcug]

Hi Yolanda, can you tell me how does your GTX 295 work with our good old P5W DH? I've got two HD 4770 cards in CF and they perform great. I'd like to know if the same applies to SLI .

[Yolanda]

Geforce GTX 295 works great, in my signature I post results from different 3DMarks from WinXP SP3. However only 3DMark 03 really shows SLI power, all other old 3DMarks are CPU depended. I don't use Vista/Win7, but once I installed Win7 RC, I got 10K points in Extreme 3DMark Vantage on my overclocked card to 648/1404 by GPUs.

But graphics cards are not for 3DMarks, so really SLI shows it's power in Crysis and FarCry2 with highest settings in 1920*1200 16AF 4AA, but also in WinXP DX9 mode, FPS doubles from 20-30 to 40-60 then SLI enabled. In games performance is three times more than my old overclocked 8800GTX in modes with antialiasing and HD resolution.

Also after all I overclocked PCI-E bus in BIOS from 100 to 115MHz (maximum worked at 119MHz, but not tested for hours, at 120MHz system couldn't load to Windows after disappearing SATA HDDs, that's is why I selected 115MHz). PCI-E overlock don't show any advantage in 3DMarks, but I get 5-7% performance boost in World of Warcraft.

It's funny with GTX 295, because programs, such as GPU-Z or Everest, shows that PCI-E in our P5W DH works in 2.0 mode, as on new X38/X48 boards. It was interesting for me and I know that it's because NVidia make two local PCI-E 16X 2.0 buses between each GT200 GPU and Nforce 200 chipset on card, and i975X mainboard chipset connected by PCI-E 16X 1.0 bus to this Nforce 200 chipset, this link I overclocked as I wrote by 15%, so GTX 295 not so depended from PCI-E slot performance as real two card SLI setup. In Windows device manager GTX 295 card shows as 5 devices - 2 GPUs and 3 PCI to PCI bridges.

[Yolanda]

tomcug can you tell me how much faster your memory works? I have simple cheap DDR2-800 5-5-5-18 modules, they can be used at 400FSB only with Auto timings setting, which selects worse 5-6-6-18 timings for them. It's interesting to compare 3 modes: standart 5-6-6-18@800 mode, fast 4-4-4-12@800 and your highest performance 4-4-4-12@1000. I think results from SuperPI 1M, Everest memory, WinRAR 3.X, 3D Mark 2001 (3D Mark 2001 nicer from WinXP) or something other will be nice to see, if you have some time also. Thanks.

[MarcusTaz]

How are you getting SLI to work on an older chipset such as this?

[marwin99]

Guys!

When I have used up all the ICH7R ATA-connectors for my 3 SATA-HDD drives (No RAID setup). On which controller should I connect my DVD-Room?

The JMicron or one of the EZ-Backup slots?

Or should I switch one of the HDD's to any of these slots.

What do you suggest? Help and experiences is much appreciated

[Yolanda]

Old 975 can't support SLI, but newer X38/X48 can't too. Geforce GTX 295, like older 9800GX2 and 7950GX2 cards, have two GPUs in one card, so it's one card and requires only one PCI-E slot in mainboard, inside card GPUs working using SLI technology, but such mode doesn't require any SLI ready chipset. SLI mainboard needed only if you install a pair of two cards, if two GTX 295 cards, it will make 4 GPUs to work together in Quad SLI.

[Yolanda]

Guys!

When I have used up all the ICH7R ATA-connectors for my 3 SATA-HDD drives (No RAID setup). On which controller should I connect my DVD-Room?

The JMicron or one of the EZ-Backup slots?

Or should I switch one of the HDD's to any of these slots.

What do you suggest? Help and experiences is much appreciated

I recommend you to switch one HDD to JMicron and then connect SATA DVD to ICH7R. Or our old board have one native IDE channel for two devices from ICH7R, so you can use even IDE DVD if you have it, or buy IDE model. However, if you plan later to insert your DVD for a new system, buy SATA model, if not, there is no any difference to buy IDE or SATA.

[marwin99]

I recommend you to switch one HDD to JMicron and then connect SATA DVD to ICH7R. Or our old board have one native IDE channel for two devices from ICH7R, so you can use even IDE DVD if you have it, or buy IDE model. However, if you plan later to insert your DVD for a new system, buy SATA model, if not, there is no any difference to buy IDE or SATA.

Thanks for the fast reply!

Interesting. Yes, it's a SATA CD-rom model.
Do you recommend the switch because of possible capasity/stability issues on ICH7R with 3 drives, or is it a problem with SATA DVD on JMicron?

Either ways you reckon I should stay away from the EZ-backup then?