ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

[Smy]

her my oc for now.I will try for 3.6ghz letter
cooler is a scythe ninja PLUS rev. B with 2*120mm titan fans.
vcore is 1.55v i bios 1.5v mch and 1.60v fsb.

Edit got stabil on 3.5ghz now

[cuke2u]

Yeah Chris the 10th Anniversary works fine. I just purchased these from the Newegg sale and they work great:

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=159097

Thank you diction10....
ChrisC

[rodemannetje]

Hello fellow p5wdh owners,

I have red this whole thread (!), and learned a lot from it. However, there is one problem i was not able to solve. I have a raid0 connected at the ich7r intel, and a third standalone sata hd at the intel sata4. Works great.

I did connect a fourth external sata hd at the jmicron controller (needs to operate as a standalone hd) (i plan to connect a 5th sata hd at the ezbackup connector, after removing the cap). This hd does not show up at the bios or in windows (when using partition magic). The external sata hd is formatted and contains data. When i choose in the bios the option "raid" at the jmicron controller (just testing), the hd shows when booting. Still nothing in windows.
I have installed jmicron raid controller software (because i thought i needed to install a jmicron sata driver, to make the hd visible at windows), but no result. Anyone has a clue? Thanks!

[topboy]

Sorry I meant to include all that
bios = latest form the asus site 1707 , but I have also tried 1101 1402 1801(beta) 801. Even though I have this bug when I get into windows i have no problem flashing. Settings in bios are fail safe defaults, as i said I have to reset them just to get the pc to post.

The motherboard is 6 months old

full system
Asus P5W DH Deluxe WiFi (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB)
NZXT Lexa Classic Series Ultra light Aluminum Midtower
Samsung SH-S182D 18x18 DVD±RW ReWriter (Black)
Connect3D ATI Radeon X1800 XT 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express)
Enermax Noisetaker 485W EG495AX-VE(G) SFMA ATX2.0 PSU
Scythe Ninja Plus Heatpipe CPU Cooler (Socket 478, 754, 939, 940, LGA755)
G.Skill 2GB DDR2 HZ PC2-6400 (2x1GB) CAS4 Dual Channel Kit
Western Digital Raptor 74GB WD740ADFD 10,000RPM SATA 16MB Cache

It does sound like you have a corrupt bios on the motherboard so i would RMA it back if you have allready changed the CMOS battery and tryed different bios versions.

Topboy

[Krusty]

I've been having this board for a few months; however, I noticed today that when I push 'power off' button on the PC case the computer goes to 'EZ-Wifi' mode and doesn't switch off. The 'power off' button used to switched off the PC, but not any more. I wonder, does anyone has a similar problem? Thanks for any advice or ideas.

[diction10]

I've been having this board for a few months; however, I noticed today that when I push 'power off' button on the PC case the computer goes to 'EZ-Wifi' mode and doesn't switch off. The 'power off' button used to switched off the PC, but not any more. I wonder, does anyone has a similar problem? Thanks for any advice or ideas.

This is a total guess but try and looking in your BIOS. I remember seeing something about the power on/off button in there, maybe somehow it got changed.

Then again I could be wrong, unfortunately I'm doing work right now so I can't reboot and check for you right now....

[Krusty]

Thanks, I checked it before and I couldn't find anything like that. I'll try to check it again though.

[factory81]

I remounted my CPU, and switched to using Arctic Silver 5
I now have a 3.5ghz overclock @ 1.45v in the BIOS, about 1.41 vdroop.
I enabled SPD, let Asus have its fun. Got a 1:1 ratio for the memory out of 2.1v, run everything disabled except firewire and one onboard gigabit ethernet.
1602 BIOS
2.1v memory
1.4V fsb term
1.65v mch
Auto on the southbridgeD
Disabled PEG link.
101mhz PCI-Express Freq
Turbo mode
PCI to 33.33mhz


389 x 9, Low 50's idle, even 48-50 for a while on cold boots.
I lapped the southbridge, my Scythe Ninja, my CPU, my Swfitech northbridge, applied Arctic Silver 5 to them all, and I had the world of a difference temp wise. You might remember me complaining of an absolute wall at 369 FSB for me, and insane temps. Well I do believe 1 of the corners on the Ninja's mounting corners made of plastic were not on the way they should be. Never the less......I took the board out, cleaned the wiring job up more, and spent some time doing it better. Everything runs cooler, plus everything I had to complain about with the P5W DH is pretty much erased. I enjoy this board, and hope Asus does work out some better memory options in the BIOS next time.

My friend and I have L632A's
I have e6600 @ 3500mhz @ 1.45v
He has e6400 @ 3350mhz on P5B @ I forgot....419x8 he runs on the same Team Xtreme DDR2 667 memory.

[factory81]

I did Super PI 1m time of 14.781s on my P5W DH, 389x9 @ 1:1, SPD enabled. Rock solid L632A's we have here.

My friends P5B was a $125 965 board but it overclocked to 419x8 SPD enabled 1:1, same memory, and L632A e6400.
http://student.muskegoncc.edu/~pringnitzr/ryancomp.jpg < this is his L632A E6400 w/ Scythe Mine CPU cooler, 50mm fan over northbridge, 4x80mm case fans, 1x120mm side case fan, plus power supply fan. I am proud of the cable job I managed. 1 IDE cable, 2 usb headers (one front , one back ). 2 SATA cables, power cable for 2 sata drives, cd-rom power, case buttons / led's, video card 6 pin, mobo 24 pin + 4 pin, all the fans.....
I gotta post screenshots + pic's of my stuff.
English work to do then I get to work on my HTML class stuff (which I just go on about my computer as I learn more crap and use it on the page)

[nickfd]

Hello fellow p5wdh owners,

I have red this whole thread (!), and learned a lot from it. However, there is one problem i was not able to solve. I have a raid0 connected at the ich7r intel, and a third standalone sata hd at the intel sata4. Works great.

I did connect a fourth external sata hd at the jmicron controller (needs to operate as a standalone hd) (i plan to connect a 5th sata hd at the ezbackup connector, after removing the cap). This hd does not show up at the bios or in windows (when using partition magic). The external sata hd is formatted and contains data. When i choose in the bios the option "raid" at the jmicron controller (just testing), the hd shows when booting. Still nothing in windows.
I have installed jmicron raid controller software (because i thought i needed to install a jmicron sata driver, to make the hd visible at windows), but no result. Anyone has a clue? Thanks!

Hi,

You can actually run 4 sata hdd's off your intel ICH7 southbridge, and I would highly recommend this over trying to get the JMicron and/or the SiliconImage crap(ez-backup) working.

Plug your drives into SATA 1 (red), SATA 3(actually#2 black), SATA 4 (black), remove the jumpers off the ez-backup area, and plug into the right yellow ez-raid port (actually SATA2). I don't remember the physical marking of the right ez-raid port, so please forgive me.

If you have the jumpers off and boot with the drive attached, you'll see it in the list of the ICH7 area as your box posts, if it's in the wrong one, you won't see anything. Also, you may want to set the DH Features Change option in the bios to Enabled when you take out the jumper and attach the drive to have it tell the SiliconImage crap to turn off.

Bingo. You have 4 hdds on ICH7 and can turn off JMicron in bios.

[iadstudio]

Having problems pushing past 380 fsb. Once I go over 382 with vmch 1.85 and vfsb to 1.5 the system wont boot into windows. It also has a hard time posting and sometimes takes 3-5 minutes to get into bios. Is this the furthests my board will go?

It's not my processor or memory. I tried 380x8 and x9 and I can boot at 382 but anything more and the system wont post.

Any suggestions?

[topboy]

FAO factory81

Whos the chick in the Avtar standing on ya chest...Damn shes got some nice legs. Post some pics of her if ya can

[DutchBBQ]

anyone know what the EEPROM update for the wifi ap solo actually does/fixes?

Driver update RTL8187L EEPROM is required if you can see the WiFi module in Device Manager, but still fail to connect to any Access Point (AP).

[nickfd]

Having problems pushing past 380 fsb. Once I go over 382 with vmch 1.85 and vfsb to 1.5 the system wont boot into windows. It also has a hard time posting and sometimes takes 3-5 minutes to get into bios. Is this the furthests my board will go?

It's not my processor or memory. I tried 380x8 and x9 and I can boot at 382 but anything more and the system wont post.

Any suggestions?

This actually has to do with how the motherboard works. It looks at the default multiplier of the cpu, looks at the fsb you set, and must POST at that, after the POST, your board adjusts the cpu multiplier to what you set it to in the bios.

Our suggestions are to boot at the multiplier that you want to test a higher fsb with, but boot at a bootable fsb. If 380 can get into windows, that's fine. Once in windows, adjust tRD and tRFC to 8-42 (not sure the order, it may be tRFC-tRD) using memset 3.0 or 3.1. Search the thread for memset to find download.

Then after you tweak those settings, download systool, clockgen, or setfsb to manually start adjusting your fsb upwards. I can't remember the full name of the chip you need to set, but look for the last numbers being 123.

Sorry for my unknowns; I'm at work, but it should be enough information for you to do what you can to achieve higher fsb.

Best of luck.

[semiskilled]

This actually has to do with how the motherboard works. It looks at the default multiplier of the cpu, looks at the fsb you set, and must POST at that, after the POST, your board adjusts the cpu multiplier to what you set it to in the bios.

Our suggestions are to boot at the multiplier that you want to test a higher fsb with, but boot at a bootable fsb. If 380 can get into windows, that's fine. Once in windows, adjust tRD and tRFC to 8-42 (not sure the order, it may be tRFC-tRD) using memset 3.0 or 3.1. Search the thread for memset to find download.

Then after you tweak those settings, download systool, clockgen, or setfsb to manually start adjusting your fsb upwards. I can't remember the full name of the chip you need to set, but look for the last numbers being 123.

Sorry for my unknowns; I'm at work, but it should be enough information for you to do what you can to achieve higher fsb.

Best of luck.

Interesting.. I wonder.. My setup can do 400x8 at vCore set to 1.43 in bios (shows 1.38 in bios own monitor). But when i try to do 400x9 i have to go alot higher on the vCore, around 1.5-1.55 or so.

400x8 = 3200mhz, vCore set to 1.43
356x9 = 3200mhz, vCore set to 1.35

The cpu at same speed but needs different voltages? I'm guessing it has to feed on more volts when its fsb is faster? is it worth the higher fsb? or should i go with 9x multiplier up to around ~370 using vCore 1.43?

[nickfd]

Interesting.. I wonder.. My setup can do 400x8 at vCore set to 1.43 in bios (shows 1.38 in bios own monitor). But when i try to do 400x9 i have to go alot higher on the vCore, around 1.5-1.55 or so.

400x8 = 3200mhz, vCore set to 1.43
356x9 = 3200mhz, vCore set to 1.35

The cpu at same speed but needs different voltages? I'm guessing it has to feed on more volts when its fsb is faster? is it worth the higher fsb? or should i go with 9x multiplier up to around ~370 using vCore 1.43?

Wow, I'm impressed you can actually post at 400x8 at such a low vcore. My melon of a CPU may be able to post higher than 385, but only slightly, no matter if I put 1.65vcore to the chip or not. If I want to do a high 8x multiplier, I have to boot less than 385x8, then clock up inside windows after adjusting my tRFC and tRD. I can go to my sig, basically ~3500mhz either 8x or 9x.

Intel CPUs seem not to be as FSB dependent as AMDs, so run what benchmarks you like in how you plan to use your computer, and see what you find. I've found that a higher multiplier and lower FSB outscores a higher FSB and lower multiplier in gaming (keeping all other things the same, ie: memory timings), ultimately the higher cpu clock being the goal. This may also only be fact on our i975 chipset as well, since our mb at normal 1:1 with original multiplier will outscore an rd600 and i965 at ultimately higher fsb with original multiplier. <-- I don't understand this, but whatever. It's a choice that we made, either intentionally or unintentionally when buying our board vs another chipset one.

Lastly, how much voltage *should not* (stressing the should not, so do not hold me accountable in a year if your cores die ) affect the CPU as long as temperatures are at reasonable levels at the cores. Unfortunately since these CPUs are so new, we cannot know the long term impact of pushing heavy voltages to them over long durations of time, even if temperatures remain acceptable. Those of us with earlier week CPUs are kind of forced to push heavy voltage to hit high numbers, and in turn are forced to use liquid or other radical cooling types to offset the higher voltage required.

[KayWhy]

Hi,

I have an E6400 cpu that is running at 2.74ghz @vcore 1.400 ..

When i tried to bump my fsb to 353, i received an error "overclocking failed or overvoltage failed" and when I up my voltage to 1.4375+ i received the same error again ..

Anyone knows how to fix this?

I have an Arctic Pro 7 HSF and my psu is Seasonic S12 550 watt

[iadstudio]

This actually has to do with how the motherboard works. It looks at the default multiplier of the cpu, looks at the fsb you set, and must POST at that, after the POST, your board adjusts the cpu multiplier to what you set it to in the bios.

Our suggestions are to boot at the multiplier that you want to test a higher fsb with, but boot at a bootable fsb. If 380 can get into windows, that's fine. Once in windows, adjust tRD and tRFC to 8-42 (not sure the order, it may be tRFC-tRD) using memset 3.0 or 3.1. Search the thread for memset to find download.

Then after you tweak those settings, download systool, clockgen, or setfsb to manually start adjusting your fsb upwards. I can't remember the full name of the chip you need to set, but look for the last numbers being 123.

Sorry for my unknowns; I'm at work, but it should be enough information for you to do what you can to achieve higher fsb.

Best of luck.

Thanks. I'll try that but your explanation about Intel being less FSB dependent holds true for my system. 340x10 and 380x9 had little if no difference in performance. Mostly because I kinda have the memory at a sweet spot at 340fsb but I'm going to try 425x8 and see what I get in terms of performance. I know my CPU and memory can handle it, we'll see if the board can. 425 with a 4:5 memory ratio will get me back to the sweet spot in my memory.

[Hutch]

Can anyone update me on the fixes, as this thread is really long and I haven't uses my P5W DH since September...

Did one of the new bios allow for vMCH higher than 1.65v? If so then what's the highest? My Board was scaling very well with increased vmch (+.08v added 15mhz FSB stock NB cooler, 1.73v.) Have instant access to negative ambient temps now so I can go ahead and run more than 2v+ if possible

Also, what are the ram ratios below 1:1? My ram has really sh1t the bed (thanks Gigabyte S3) and won't clock much higher than 820mhz...

I believe the last bios I used was 1101...

[Hutch]

Oof... someone help me out... how am I gonna put the heatpipe back on when I bent the pipe in 4 different places and lost the damn clip... I bent the pipe so that the NB is just about in place but of course it's about 1cm off the chip...

I think I'm gonna superglue it... What part of the NB cooler should i glue and what should I glue it to? I can glue it to the green part of the NB right (not the ACTUAL tiny chip in the middle...)

[shuiming]

vMCH voltage is base on your MB revision, not bios.

[ngr2000]

For XFI Music Owners:

yes you can disable the realtek HD onboard audio, its in the bios very easy to spot, once you do so windows will no longer detect the onboard audio.

The XFI Music was such an improvement for me. Onboard really sucks, HL2 sounds real now and music was never louder or better sounding. This sound card will be in my next 5 pc's over the next 5 years.


week 24 c2d 333 x 9 3ghz @ 1.35 vcore prime 95 24 hours stable.

[lawrywild]

http://rapidshare.com/files/13242864...eluxe-1804.rar

BIOS 1804, thanks to DutchBBQ for directing me to this one again

Untested by me, use at own risk

[Thewli]

I'm sorry for not reading all 140 pages in this thread, but anyways. If this have been solved earlier please link it for me or give me the solution :P

I run my E6600 with this motherboard at 3.4GHZ 1.425 VCore. Slightly OC'd in other words, and it's stable as a house ( atleast 7 hours Orthos :P). Sometimes when I boot after being turned off over the night i get this message from BIOS, "Overclocking or overvoltage failed". Either I press f1 to enter setup and just "Exit and discard changes" ( keeps up booting with no problem ) or press f2 to continue with default settings in BIOS-> means no OCing . Is there anyway to get rid of this meanless message so my girlfriend don't go panic and set my OC to zero everytime she boots the computer?

[BenchZowner]

Another "pick up a random number" named BIOS release I assume... or not ?