ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

[Lurker246]

I was going to attach a 40MM fan to the NB heatsink but no screws I found would do the job.

I picked up an Antec Spot Cool fan at CompUSA for 20% off. It would hover over the heatsink so I guess it'll work, but now I'm wondering which one (NB or SB) it should be used on for the most benefit? I'm running out of room to put stuff so I'm not sure I'd go back for another one even if it does a great job...

Stick it over the Northbridge, The south bridge barley gets warm on this mobo.

Tested on my own system, sticking a 40mm fan on the NB stopped my system from randomly rebooting every 7-8 hours . Although that was with 1.85 volts, I've since put it back to Auto and it's running fine.

[Donseba]

question:

How can i change the FSB: DRAM in the bios ???

[firsttimmer]

Hi all,

Anyone here successfully overclocked a Q6700 on the P5W DH? I have been trying with all sorts of setting, with memtest pass, but Prime failed at test 4.

I have tried Bicih's settings, but he got DDR-8000

What is going on? Is the ram holding me back? or is my MB?

Here are my settings, suggestions are very welcome!

Q6700 @ 300x10, 1.25v
OCZ Plat Rev 2 2GB kit, 5-5-5-15, 2.1v, 450x2=900Mz
BIOS 2406

Thank you!

Tom

[P5WDHdeluxe]

[1] While doing an average o/c i.e E6600 from 2.4 to 3.0 GHZ with this board is a good idea to disable Hyperpath & Dram Throttle?
I don't get why we should disable these 2 options but in several forums it is written that they should be off? Being Enabled these 2, is there any chance of damaging smthg?

[2] I updated my Bios from 2206 to 2406... I am pretty sure that old days when my E6600 was at peak load the max Vcore i had noticed from Bios and SpeedFan was 1.280 BUT now, with the new bios update, it tis 1.288... Is there a problem with that or a known issue about this change?

Thanx alot guys! ~ ~

and a small update:

[3] When i updated my bios... i load the default values from the menu of Bios... When i restarted my pc on start up the value of my cpu was 2.13.... o.o
I have E6600 and in every past bios this value was 2.4...
It seems that from the defaults in this bios is 8*fsb... I had to go into bios again and change manually the multiplier (that it was with dark grey "9") to 9 so in the next startup the 2.4 would be shown... any on that?

[bithkits]

Hi Lawrywild!

Thanks for maintaining this amazing thread!

I have the following problem, maybe someone can help me out!

Spec's are in sig(workstation).

I am running XP x64 and BIOS 2406

When I enable memory remap feature, in order to use 4GB's of RAM, windows crashes right after the loading screen - just goes to a black screen when the desktop should load. I can get into safe mode and memtest86+ and Prime95 report no errors at all after hours and hours.

If I disable the memory remap feature, everything works exactly right, except that the BIOS only reads 3072MB's of RAM. in the MAIN tab, under system information it says:

System memory -
Total - 4096
appropriated - 1024
available - 3072

How on earth do I fix this? I have been looking through the Asus forums but found nothing...

What does appropriated mean? the manual says nothing about it or the remap feature.

EDIT: I went to BIOS 2302 - no change in this problem.

I do not have service pack 2 installed, this is a complete clean reinstall as the previous install kicked the bucket. I am downloading it now - hopefully it might fix something.

Problem - PC crashes and BSOD's and gives srange problems when memory remap is enabled when you have 4+gigs RAM


FIX: update X-Fi drivers. Turns out that they are the sole reason for this mess. Thank you Creative

[Lurker246]

Hi all,

Anyone here successfully overclocked a Q6700 on the P5W DH? I have been trying with all sorts of setting, with memtest pass, but Prime failed at test 4.

I have tried Bicih's settings, but he got DDR-8000

What is going on? Is the ram holding me back? or is my MB?

Here are my settings, suggestions are very welcome!

Q6700 @ 300x10, 1.25v
OCZ Plat Rev 2 2GB kit, 5-5-5-15, 2.1v, 450x2=900Mz
BIOS 2406

Thank you!

Tom

What's your NB voltage? Also what's the highest prime stable clock you've got so far?

[lawrywild]

Bios 2503: http://rapidshare.com/files/82704550...eluxe-2503.rar

[DrSlump]

Hi guys, i've installed a q6600, and added two more memory stiks to obtain 4Gb ram.
I keep the system @333Mhz with 834Mhz for ram @2.05V voltage.
The rams are rated 4-4-4-12 @2.0-2.1V.

The systems seems stable. It passed two memtest cycles without any error and about 3.5 hours of prime65 torture blend test.

The problem is that i receive sometimes errors during file transfers . Now i updated the bios to the latest version posted by lawry, and now i will further test my system.

What do you think about the errors i mentioned? What can be the cause??

[Lurker246]

Hi guys, i've installed a q6600, and added two more memory stiks to obtain 4Gb ram.
I keep the system @333Mhz with 834Mhz for ram @2.05V voltage.
The rams are rated 4-4-4-12 @2.0-2.1V.

The systems seems stable. It passed two memtest cycles without any error and about 3.5 hours of prime65 torture blend test.

The problem is that i receive sometimes errors during file transfers . Now i updated the bios to the latest version posted by lawry, and now i will further test my system.

What do you think about the errors i mentioned? What can be the cause??

That sounds like it could be a bogey SATA cable. Where are you transferring files from: HDD to HDD, DVD to HDD, Net to HDD, ethernet or Wi-Fi?

Sorry for answering questions with questions it's just "file transfer error" is a little vague.

[mikepaul]

Is anyone going to get a Q9450 soon after it ships and install it in their DH Deluxe?

I know 45nm CPUs aren't on the ASUS compatibility list anymore, but now that a Nehalem looks out of reach without a new MB I've settled on the Q9450 to be my next big upgrade...

[bichi]

original 2503 post deleted (see post #6821)
- replaced with 2504

2504:
ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/so.../P5WDH2504.zip

Supported CPU:
http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/c...%20DH%20DELUXE

[DrSlump]

That sounds like it could be a bogey SATA cable. Where are you transferring files from: HDD to HDD, DVD to HDD, Net to HDD, ethernet or Wi-Fi?

Sorry for answering questions with questions it's just "file transfer error" is a little vague.

Hi lurker, i isolated the problem: i mounted an iso image located on an external sata hard drive. When i install the software from the mounted image, i get an error about a corrupted cab file. It happens even if i put the image file on an external usb2 portable hd drive.

If i run the cpu @ default, the problem does not show it self. If i don't touch any voltage, the maximum fsb i can reach is 330, without this problem appears.
Strange, becouse it's the only instability issue i got, but it's quite a problem anyway

[Frodin]

Anyone seen a Wolfdale working in this motherboard?
With a 9,5 multi on the E8500, 3800mhz and even beyond should be doable with FSB 1600 speeds. I think i am going to get an E8500 or E8400 the minute they are available here and try it out, and in a worst case scenario I'd simply have to decomission this board.

[w2richwood]

yea those wolfdales look good to me to the 8400 looks good the 8500 is to much more for a .5 more on the mulitplyer

[Sejo5]

Hey guys, For some reason I put the NEw 2503 BIos and its just garbage now the worst thing it wont let me go back to any older version. Through the Asus Ez flash or AFUDOS. Im wondering what the Heck just happened. It would just pop saying that the Version im trying to flash too is 2 old. Please help.

[Grendel66]

BIOS 2504, 2503 is gone.

[Sejo5]

Too bad, I believe it just got corrupted and now by system wont Post. And that system you put up is not on asus website neither is the one i got from larry. Grr this is frustrating. Is their a way to recover from a bad flash or i have to reprogram the Eprom with a programmer or purchase one with a bios already flashed with one and install it???

[w2richwood]

try clearing cmos by pulling the batttery and put jumper on 2/3 for a few min.s see if it will boot again
Rich

[romfi]

According to ASUS, the new 2504 BIOS supports Penryn 45 nm dual core CPUs



Core 2 Duo E8200 (2.66GHz,1333FSB,L2:6MB,65W,rev.C0) ALL 2504
Core 2 Duo E8400 (3.00GHz,1333FSB,L2:6MB,65W,rev.C0) ALL 2504
Core 2 Duo E8500 (3.16GHz,1333FSB,L2:6MB,65W,rev.C0) ALL 2504



No "official" support for Penryn-based quads though ...

[konny_]

hi all this is my cfg

QX9650
P5WDH WiFi
Thermaltake Toughpower 750W
X1900 XT
2 GB CORSAIR XMS2 PC8500 CL5
OS VISTA 32bit

i'm using 2504 new bios if someone can tell me all the parameteres to select on BIOS because i'd like to have a stable system with 4.0 Ghz too like some other users here.
Thx a lot!

[bichi]

Ha! - Crazy ASUS fekkers...
- 2503 musta been the shortest lived BIOS, eh?
- thanks for 2504 tip, Grendel and Romfi...

2504:
ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/so.../P5WDH2504.zip

Supported CPU:
http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/c...%20DH%20DELUXE

[Lurker246]

hi all this is my cfg

QX9650
P5WDH WiFi
Thermaltake Toughpower 750W
X1900 XT
2 GB CORSAIR XMS2 PC8500 CL5
OS VISTA 32bit

i'm using 2504 new bios if someone can tell me all the parameteres to select on BIOS because i'd like to have a stable system with 4.0 Ghz too like some other users here.
Thx a lot!

Have a look at Falkentyne's posts a couple of pages back as he has overclocked a QX9650 on this board.

[konny_]

someone can help me pls

[bichi]

P5WDH - BIOS 2406 compared to new 2504 (Jan 11 2008)
- appears ASUS may have made slight change to voltage calculations.
- 2504 agrees with DVM readings and older BIOS 2302. (Aug 15 2007)

Otherwise, installed without issues
- used BIOS EzFlash/Thumbdrive method.
- quick 10min OCCT test successful.

BIOS Volts Compare PIC:
http://www.esnips.com/doc/8d0273fa-f...406-vs-2504-01

[konny_]