ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

[Mr Footlong]

Cheers for that. Due to a complete lack of time on my part I hadn't got around to trying it. Also the new build is pretty 'compact' to put it mildly and involves major surgery to get to the jumpers lol. I simply assumed that JBOD mode would give much the same results as RAID1 and 0 mode. Was that test with a hard drive or a DVD writer though? Hopefully it will make no difference and I will try it when I return from home.

Cheers,

Nick.

Edit/ Ah, not sure who you are answering but it could well apply to both.

[mefromfl]

Hi,

I'm new to building system, and I'm having the long boot time. It seems to take it's time at the looking for USB mass storage device part. I have updated to the lastest bios. Can someone just put it amature writing on how i should setup my bios so that it will boot up faster? I saw that someone says to changer sata header, what does that mean? Is this a hardware issue or just a bios setting?

[Super Nade]

Try disabling all the fan control options in the BIOS. You should find it under the Power menu.

[Super Nade]

Another minor issue:

"Overclocking failed" message appears intermittantly-No need to change anything, hit F1 save and exit CMOS.

[lawrywild]

Another minor issue:

"Overclocking failed" message appears intermittantly-No need to change anything, hit F1 save and exit CMOS.

I don't get that message on stable settings...

[catscit]

no matter waht setting of the ezraid you use, 1 port is always fully functional and can be found in the ich7r bios screen if you want to add it to a raid set.
The second ezraid port can only be used for ezraid, no matter waht you do.

I have 4 sata drives in raid 0, using 1 red, 2 black and 1 orange ezraid port.
The 5th drive is on the jmicron port near the backplane. the jmicron stuff is SLOW

[rob725]

I configured single sata to run on jmicron. To make it run at the correct speed, I had to configure as ahci and install jmicron raid driver.

[syne_24]

no matter waht setting of the ezraid you use, 1 port is always fully functional and can be found in the ich7r bios screen if you want to add it to a raid set.
The second ezraid port can only be used for ezraid, no matter waht you do.

I have 4 sata drives in raid 0, using 1 red, 2 black and 1 orange ezraid port.
The 5th drive is on the jmicron port near the backplane. the jmicron stuff is SLOW

interesting..so that's what you have to do if you want 4x drives on one array. Any bad performance from using split ports for one array like that?

[mefromfl]

Try disabling all the fan control options in the BIOS. You should find it under the Power menu.

I have disabled all fan control settings, i getting long posting at the detection for USB mass storage device durning post. Can someone please help me? It hangs for about 5 mins then loads.

[Yanomami]

What kind of memory are you using? 333MHz seems awful low...

Stick to 4-4-4-12-4 or 5-5-5-15-5 timings with sufficiënt voltage to your ram.
And try to run it at 1:1

Up to 435MHz I don 't need more than 1.55V vmch...
HP3 disabled, fancy PCI-e- to disabled or "normal"...

Maybe post an everest-sensor-screen to see if all the temps are ok.

I have 800 mhz OCZ memory, i did try volt bumping up to 2.2v and still cant reach over 3000 mhz (333 fsb x 9) not even on 1:1, 4:5 or 3:5 with autotimmings or 5-5-5-15 and 4-5-4-12 and nothing happens... i also moved the cpu volt 1.5 even 1.6 and still wont boot and give me the bios error after 2 resets...

[mefromfl]

Ok, I have unplugged one of my usb for the printer, and the booting is faster now. What do i need to do so that i can plug int he printer and let it boot up fast at the same time.

[Timmaah]

Well with bios 1305 and 1403 etc. wasnt able to get such good overclocks:

CPU Vcore @ 1.475
Mem@2.05
FSB @ 1.2
MCH @ 1.65
ICH @ 1.2

Fsb is 388x9, and running on air.

[jagt]

I can't by the love of God get the damn Jmicron controller to recognize my last 320GB drive. As of now I use port 1+3 for RAID 0 on two 200GB drives. Port 4 for one 320GB drive, and port 1 jmicron for the last 320GB drive. Any suggestions?

[rob725]

I can't by the love of God get the damn Jmicron controller to recognize my last 320GB drive. As of now I use port 1+3 for RAID 0 on two 200GB drives. Port 4 for one 320GB drive, and port 1 jmicron for the last 320GB drive. Any suggestions?

Not sure if this will help and its been a little while, but if memory serves me correctly...

When I first plugged into jmicron sata, I saw nothing in bios, but it showed up in windows like an external/removable drive and ran dreadfully slow. As stated a few posts ago, to make it work right I set jmicron to operate in ahci mode and installed jmicron raid driver. The drive still does not show in regular bios, but only in the jmicron post screen.

[jagt]

Not sure if this will help and its been a little while, but if memory serves me correctly...

When I first plugged into jmicron sata, I saw nothing in bios, but it showed up in windows like an external/removable drive and ran dreadfully slow. As stated a few posts ago, to make it work right I set jmicron to operate in ahci mode and installed jmicron raid driver. The drive still does not show in regular bios, but only in the jmicron post screen.

Nothing shows up in windows. And it doesn't show up in that jmicron boot screen either. If I set it to "AHCI", my PATA drive, which also runs of the jmicron controller disappears. Thanks for the suggestions though.
What are you running that jmicron jumper on?

This board truly has the most cluttered SATA arrangement I've ever seen. My previous DFI Ultra-D was pretty much plug & play.

[jagt]

Well, I got it working. The only way I can make it recognize the last 320GB drive is to connect it to the SATA port under the CPU. That's a pretty stupid place to place a SATA connector, no?
So, in effect, this motherboard can only run 4x SATA drives unless you want to run EZ raid? That's sort of weak.

[rpr]

I've had this board for a couple months now. My e6600 can do 3.24 Ghz (360 x 9) with all stock voltages (just disabled HP3) on air and stay quite cool (maxes out around 56C).

However, with any voltages increases, my CPU temps get too high too quick to justify the minimal performance gains. Setting CPU voltage to 1.4625 for example will increase my load CPU temps from 56C to 66C.

Does this type of temp increase sound normal?

[TWY]

Had a look at a new P5W DH at my local store yesterday, and it seems that there is no year/week code printed anywhere on the board. The label on the box cover is 69MOAG.

I used to have a 1.65V VMCH board and that board had the printing. The new one I saw yesterday had PCB MADE IN CHINA, couldn't remember what my board was though.

[cmthomson]

I've had this board for a couple months now. My e6600 can do 3.24 Ghz (360 x 9) with all stock voltages (just disabled HP3) on air and stay quite cool (maxes out around 56C).

However, with any voltages increases, my CPU temps get too high too quick to justify the minimal performance gains. Setting CPU voltage to 1.4625 for example will increase my load CPU temps from 56C to 66C.

Does this type of temp increase sound normal?

CPU power consumption increases as the square of the voltage times the frequency (V*V*F), so yes, this is to be expected.

[rob725]

Yes, the one under the cpu is the jmicron sata. I think you can also use one of the orange without using ezraid.

[rob725]

I've had this board for a couple months now. My e6600 can do 3.24 Ghz (360 x 9) with all stock voltages (just disabled HP3) on air and stay quite cool (maxes out around 56C).

However, with any voltages increases, my CPU temps get too high too quick to justify the minimal performance gains. Setting CPU voltage to 1.4625 for example will increase my load CPU temps from 56C to 66C.

Does this type of temp increase sound normal?

Yes, that's normal. what kind of cooler do you have?

[catscit]

wow people are not paying attention here.

The jmicron ports are the one behind the cpu near the back plane and on the BACK PLANE!

The EZraid ports are orange and near the top/bottom of the board, controlled by a SIL controller.

The orange ports (well one of them) can be used together woth the 3 ich7r ports for raid.

The jmicron ports can have by themselves but NOT with the other ports on the board!

I did some testing with 2 drives and got better raid 0 scores when useing 1 orange port together with the red boot port then with the red and a black.
So i don't think i have reduced performance by using f of the orange ports in my raid 0 setup of 4 drives.

With 4 drives in raid 0 i do not get twice the 2 drive score, quite a bit less. Which means there is a bottleneck somewhere which doesn't give me the full performance. But i get better scores then 4x 10k scsi disks on a lsi megaraid pci-x controller with 512mb cache on my previous tyan board.

So the ich7r is pretty good and worth the board's money in itself! (the lsi card costs 600 euro/dollar with bbu and mem!).

Problem is the jmicorn port near the cpu, you DO NOT want to use that one.
It's slow, needs special drivers which are hard to find and even then when under high load, the whole system get unresponsive.

To make thing clear:
for the ich7r you have a maximum of 4 ports available, these can be used in a raid (or several raids)
in total 6 ports are independantly available, but then 1 port is connected through the backplane!

the 7th port is ONLY available through ezraid, but when using this, only 3 ports are left available for the ich7r

[d4rkkn16ht]

I have some problem though with my older USB devices...
After installing Windows XP SP2 and all the drivers I shutdown the computer and turn the power off.
When I turned it on again it stop responding...
After the windows logo was gone it just stay blank...

after I tried to unplugged all the USB Devices and restart,
everything just fine,the windows start normally...

All the driver is already updated (or some of them is just windows driver)

here are my USB devices list:

1. Canon D660 USB Scanner
2. BAFO B120 Infra Red Dongle
3. HP 3900 Series USB Printer
4. US Robotic 56k Fax Modem USB
5. Logitech USB Mouse
6. USB Hub
7. Gravis Gamepad Pro USB
8. Intel PC Camera (WebCam)

And of course the USB Device that came with the Motherboard,The InfraRed Dongle for the Remote, which is i think is useless

What do you think is wrong ?

I still have the problem
I don't use the InfraRed Dongle for the remote anymore
After some time I found out that the modem is the cause, but only if I turn off the power (after I successfully enter window)

If I just shut down and the UPS is still on, it just fine...
I think it may be a power issue with my modem or windows or may be the motherboard (I hope not the motherboard)

Can anyone help me with this?

[jagt]

*sip*

So, you're saying I can use one of the EZ ports for storage? I've tried that but it doesn't want to find my drive. I've tried both port1 and port2 on the EZ controller. Any suggestions?

[catscit]

So, you're saying I can use one of the EZ ports for storage? I've tried that but it doesn't want to find my drive. I've tried both port1 and port2 on the EZ controller. Any suggestions?

yes you can.
I use one of the orange ports for my 4 drive raid 0

attach a drive to one of the orange ports.
Go into the ich7r raid setup during post
create a raid set (jbod?) with the 1 drive attached to the orange port
it should now show up in windows disk management
create a partition and format and you can use it.

I think you MUST create a 1 drive array to be able to use the single drive under windows but i'm not 100% sure.

At least you should see the drive under the ich7r post tool.

As soon as you use one of the orange ports through the ich7r, you can no longer use ez raid and the second orange port must remain empty.

i'm using the orange port closest to the edge of the board, but i think either will work