ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

[alpha0ne]

ASUS will be realise sometimes a BUG FREE BIOS for this MB or I will F*** their ingineers...
Is the 7-th bios in an month and STILL a lot of troubles.
I'm thinking to sell that jerk of MB and buy Biostar TForce 965P

Same here if I could even buy one in AU

Look at my sig, why do you think I have an Anus board

[[G.N.U.]Fragman]

MB temp= SB temp. I'm going to place two 40mm fans on both the NB and the SB to reduce the heat.

i took the small fan that went with the mobo and put it onto the SB...after taking that sticker off....it fits right in top of it...on 5v i cant hear it either...perhaps there is not rrom for it in cf/sli...

[Eastcoasthandle]

interesting

[Shpoon]

Hey, quick question; is there anyway to get a bios chip before I buy the board? The email contact us thing doesn't work because it requires S/N, etc. and I sure as hell arn't calling long distance from Toronto :/

[mion]

Is there vdroop for that board?

[xpsentity]

Hey, quick question; is there anyway to get a bios chip before I buy the board? The email contact us thing doesn't work because it requires S/N, etc. and I sure as hell arn't calling long distance from Toronto :/

Maybe easier to buy the cheapest, crappiest 775 Celeron there is then, for flashing.

[ruler22]

i called them up, and got a BIOS chip sent out to me and I dont have the mobo, I called the mobo department, asked for the BIOS division. told her that I bought the board recently, and heard i needed an updated bios revision for it to work for core 2 duo. Gave her my info and then that was all.

But a guy told me yesterday the dept is only open from like 8am-5pm EST.

[Shpoon]

i called them up, and got a BIOS chip sent out to me and I dont have the mobo, I called the mobo department, asked for the BIOS division. told her that I bought the board recently, and heard i needed an updated bios revision for it to work for core 2 duo. Gave her my info and then that was all.

But a guy told me yesterday the dept is only open from like 8am-5pm EST.

Want to call for me and get them to ship to my address? :p

[theoryzero]

Can you disable the Wi-fi in the BIOS or do I need to remove the card? Can't find a BIOS setting to enable/disable.

Hmm, at least for me if I set the USB Function field from 8 ports to 6 ports I stopped getting bugged to install the Wi-fi drivers when I get in to Windows. Can anyone else confirm?

[Grendel66]

Hmm, at least for me if I set the USB Function field from 8 ports to 6 ports I stopped getting bugged to install the Wi-fi drivers when I get in to Windows. Can anyone else confirm?

Just pull the card. Or, if you don't want to, disable it in the Device Manager. That way you retain 8 USB ports..

[Phatriff]

Got my board today. Just 2 problems. Obviously slow POST but also the Intel PATA controller is behaving strangely.

I can't get the BIOS to recognise my harddisk and my optical drive at the same time.

So far i have tried all combinations of master, slave, cable select, one drive, both drives etc no luck. I have also started to look at the bios trying out the Enhanced PATA+SATA IDE mode. no luck

Things i still havn't tried are removing my other 2 sata drives. enabling ACHI mode and IDE combined mode. Will try these soon.

Any other ideas?

Edit: have now tried ACHI, and ide combined modes. Still no joy

[xpsentity]

Has anyone come up with anything regarding the SPD @ 360~+ FSB?

I worked this thing for HOURS trying to get manual timings @ 380, no luck whatsoever. Just blackscreen, no restart.

[Omarko]

can someone help me with this board and my problem ? see pic:



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whenever I try to remove and of the conflicting items, the PC freezes, this same thing comes up even when I disable it in BIOS.

[xpsentity]

Maybe you have a usb hub connected to the Firewire on the mobo by accident.

[Plaicd]

Has anyone come up with anything regarding the SPD @ 360~+ FSB?

I worked this thing for HOURS trying to get manual timings @ 380, no luck whatsoever. Just blackscreen, no restart.

At 375fsb I can run manual ok except when I set memory to 1000 in bios.
935 works fine and so does 1125 but 1000 causes no boot.

Might be related.

[Captainmilo]

Obviously slow POST

Have you updated to bios version 903 or 1101?
POST is a lot faster on those two than on previous versions

I also found out that depending on the SATA sockets you connect your hard drives , you get different POST times . The problem got worse when i manually configured one of my drives to be for example Disk 1 , so i could boot into my windows , while bios had it configured as Disk 3

Swapping / changing the SATA connectors of my HDs solved the problem

[chefnr1]

I think 801 is still the best ATM, the others have too many bugs, GL

ok thanks will try that bios

[Mykou]

bios 1101 seems ok for me

Actually testing E6700@3.5 ghz

[hot_fifty]

please be back and tell if it is more stable and if you can oc more, my cpu E6600 tray, wont do dual SP2004 Small FFT´s stable at 370FSB, but 370FSB is benchmark stable, all 3dmarks superpi32m and so on...

[Shrekogre]

please be back and tell if it is more stable and if you can oc more, my cpu E6600 tray, wont do dual SP2004 Small FFT´s stable at 370FSB, but 370FSB is benchmark stable, all 3dmarks superpi32m and so on...

could be cpu. my 6600 can do 389x9 benchable but when i put a 6300 in, i could do 420x7 and 460x7 with pencil mod on vmch

[selder]

When I shut down my XP, it restarts my computer, is this that "coldbug" i'm reading about? How can this be by design?!

[Phatriff]

Have you updated to bios version 903 or 1101?
POST is a lot faster on those two than on previous versions

I also found out that depending on the SATA sockets you connect your hard drives , you get different POST times . The problem got worse when i manually configured one of my drives to be for example Disk 1 , so i could boot into my windows , while bios had it configured as Disk 3

Swapping / changing the SATA connectors of my HDs solved the problem

I tried various combinations of sata drives plugged in now and no difference. Tested with 0801 0901 0903. not tried 1101 yet.

Maybe i will have to fire up the jmicron :/

The slow boot doesn't bother me too much since i rarely turn my pc off or restart it. I have noticed the blue line on the windows startup screen cycles a dozen times before lauching tho

[selder]

Intel Core 2 chips don't have a cold bug. That is a motherboard or windows problem.

EDIT - Plus your system has to be EXTREMELY cold (like -50C or less) to even qualify for a cold bug. According to your sig specs you have no extreme cooling, just a HSF.

Ah, the problem I'm havind isn't called a "coldbug" ?

Strange. I'm going to reinstall XP (because it's rather old .. it's the same install since my P5WD2, P5WD2-E and now P5W DH :p )

[Durzel]

I'm currently dual Prime stable at 3.6Ghz (360x10) at 1.4250v (probably 1.38v actual according to PC Probe), specs in sig and stablity pic here

The only thing I've changed is disabling HyperPath 3, RAM throttling and EIST. All other frequencies or voltages besides the vCore. RAM timings are set as 4-4-4-12 which are the rated specs, the timings are NOT currently on SPD.

I tried moving up to 3.8Ghz by increasing the FSB to 380 and raising vCore, but even cranking it up to 1.520v ORTHOS crashes out after a few seconds.

Changing the RAM to SPD, vMCH to 1.6v, vDimm to 2.1v (max RAM is rated for I think) and vFSB to 1.4v made no difference at all. I haven't noticed any increase or decrease in stability from changing ANY other settings other than vCore. Memory is rated for at least 400 FSB so I don't think it's that which is causing the problem.

How can I know when I've hit an FSB wall on the motherboard, if none of the other settings (vMCH, vFSB, etc) seem to make any difference? Am I gonna have to stick this under my Vapo to know how much further it will go?

PC Probe warned me about the load temp when I started ORTHOS - which touched 62 degrees, so I'm reluctant to push the vCore much further on air cooling (Arctic Freezer 7 Pro, with the standard thermal pad attached).

Would appreciate any help anyone could give me....

[lawrywild]

I'm currently dual Prime stable at 3.6Ghz (360x10) at 1.4250v (probably 1.38v actual according to PC Probe), specs in sig and stablity pic here

The only thing I've changed is disabling HyperPath 3, RAM throttling and EIST. All other frequencies or voltages besides the vCore. RAM timings are set as 4-4-4-12 which are the rated specs, the timings are NOT currently on SPD.

I tried moving up to 3.8Ghz by increasing the FSB to 380 and raising vCore, but even cranking it up to 1.520v ORTHOS crashes out after a few seconds.

Changing the RAM to SPD, vMCH to 1.6v, vDimm to 2.1v (max RAM is rated for I think) and vFSB to 1.4v made no difference at all. I haven't noticed any increase or decrease in stability from changing ANY other settings other than vCore.

How can I know when I've hit an FSB wall on the motherboard, if none of the other settings (vMCH, vFSB, etc) seem to make any difference?

PC Probe warned me about the load temp when I started ORTHOS - which touched 62 degrees, so I'm reluctant to push the vCore much further on air cooling (Arctic Freezer 7 Pro, with the standard thermal pad attached).

Would appreciate any help anyone could give me....

run coretemp not asus probe, that'll scare you even more by showing you the REAL temperature