ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

[lawrywild]

I been using my comp with raid0 on ez-raid.. best way atm to import raid0 on ich7r? any failsafe way??

Greetings

You CANNOT migrate from Ez-raid to Matrix. Only way is to buy yourself another harddrive to store everything and then copy it back. If it contains the OS, then you could make a Acronis True Image HOWEVER, I seriously recommend reinstalling the OS from scratch.

[mikepaul]

Well, any day now I'll get the Q9450 I ordered from MicroCenter today. $306 including shipping was just too good to pass up.

Wish me luck...

[Random Murderer]

Use afudos 2.17 to flash down. I recommend 2406 or 2504.

seconded. 2504 is awesome.

[sbinh]

Use afudos 2.17 to flash down. I recommend 2406 or 2504.

Nevermind...I found the Afudos 2.17 .. and flashed down to 2504.

However, the lowest vcore shows on the list is 1.45v .... .. This would kill my freaking Q9450.

[d.chatten]

Do you have Afudos 2.17? I downloaded Afudos 2.23 from Asus site and it would NOT let me flash down from 2704 to 2504

Here you go > AFUDOS_v217.zip

[sbinh]

Darn .... Only BIOS 2704 would recognize Q9450 rev C1 ....

Core 2 Quad Q9450 (2.66GHz,1333FSB,L2:12MB,rev.C0,4 cores) ALL 2504

Core 2 Quad Q9450 (2.66GHz,1333FSB,L2:12MB,rev.C1,4 cores) ALL 2704

[Chrysalis]

drop vmch to 1.65 and manually set the speed of your ram(not the timings, the speed). i'm using 4gb nq g.skill (a lower version of your ram) and it hits 950, no sweat. since hz has d9's on it, you should be able to hit that easily as well. my recommendations: set the fsb to 333, ram to 800, vcore to 1.375, vmch to 1.65, vmem to 2.1, and put mem timings to "by spd."
if you can't even hit 3GHz with that chip, i'll cross ship you mine(guaranteed 3.3 stable) and i'll show you what a g0 can do in my hands.

How do you set ram to 800 and cpu fsb to 333?

with fsb at 333 my ram is at 836mhz and requires a fsb of 317 for 800mgz ram speed.

[Random Murderer]

How do you set ram to 800 and cpu fsb to 333?

with fsb at 333 my ram is at 836mhz and requires a fsb of 317 for 800mgz ram speed.

maybe it was 836. whatever.

[nicko]

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@nicko

What are Master Audio features ?

Dolby Digital Live, Dolby Virtual Speaker and Dolby Pro Logic IIx. Cause all of this is software emulation, I don't use it....just spoiling the sound...

[don_vercetti]

Hi all, wondering if anyone here could try and help me out with a little problem I've been having.

The only way I can turn my computer on is if i preceed it by resetting the CMOS. Otherwise, I just get a blank screen. This has been happening for a while. My P5W-DH is from the very first generation, back when C2D just came out.

I have tried flashing the BIOS to something else (currently using 2403).

Anyone with any ideas, or suggestions, it will be much appreciated. Specs are in sig.

Cheers!

[Lee13168]

So recently i got some new ram. The 4gig ddr1000 kit from gskill. So after it comes i get a nice surprise of max 43 tRFC the mobo will give me under any setting. That puts me at drr950 with 5-5-5-15 timings max on the ram. Stress tested with orthos and its 15 hour stable. So i could deffinitly run it like this but if the ram worked right i could run the ram at ddr1005ish with same timings and not mess around with my cpu oc. Just change the divider. So my main question is should i bother doing the RMA for different ram to gain extra 25mhz? Will it even make any impact on my 3dmark06 score or games fps?

[ntvh]

Will this MB works with Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Processor EU80570PJ0806M - 3.0GHz, 6MB Cache, 1333MHz FSB, Wolfdale, Dual-Core, OEM, Socket 775, Processor.
Please knock on my head if I'm an i.. Thanks

[ChronoDog]

Will this MB works with Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Processor EU80570PJ0806M - 3.0GHz, 6MB Cache, 1333MHz FSB, Wolfdale, Dual-Core, OEM, Socket 775, Processor.
Please knock on my head if I'm an i.. Thanks

Yes it will, but only from BIOS version 2504 and above.

[theos]

@nicko
Thanks, I thought that was it but better to ask ....
Would it be to much to ask you to upload the drivers without it somewher ? :0

Thank you in any case...

[ntvh]

Yes it will, but only from BIOS version 2504 and above.
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Thank you sir. Hope that CPU is more advan than the one I has now.

BTW, BIOS 2504 is stayable or I have to wrestling with it????

[ntvh]

How about this one ...."Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 Processor EU80580PJ0606M - 2.50GHz, 6MB Cache, 1333MHz FSB, Yorkfield, Quad Core, OEM, Socket 775, Processor...." still can work with P5w DH Deluxe ????

Thanks

[Yolanda]

How about this one ...."Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 Processor EU80580PJ0606M - 2.50GHz, 6MB Cache, 1333MHz FSB, Yorkfield, Quad Core, OEM, Socket 775, Processor...." still can work with P5w DH Deluxe ????

Thanks

All 775 soket CPUs are supported except Core2 Extreme QX9650 and QX9770, but they also can work, some people try QX9650. Your 45nm quad requires latest 2704 bios.

[ntvh]

Which one is the best choice between Intel core 2 Quad Q 9300 2.50 Mhz or Intel core 2 Duo E8400 w/ 3.0 Mhz??

Does it better if I pick Q 9300 w/ 2.50 MHZ but less speed or Core 2 Duo with more speed 3.0Mhz?

Hmm...

Thanks

[mikepaul]

Darn .... Only BIOS 2704 would recognize Q9450 rev C1 ....

Core 2 Quad Q9450 (2.66GHz,1333FSB,L2:12MB,rev.C0,4 cores) ALL 2504

Core 2 Quad Q9450 (2.66GHz,1333FSB,L2:12MB,rev.C1,4 cores) ALL 2704

Nice to know . Mine's due via FedEx tomorrow...

[ChronoDog]

Which one is the best choice between Intel core 2 Quad Q 9300 2.50 Mhz or Intel core 2 Duo E8400 w/ 3.0 Mhz??

Does it better if I pick Q 9300 w/ 2.50 MHZ but less speed or Core 2 Duo with more speed 3.0Mhz?

Hmm...

Thanks

Customers ask me this question all day :P
In synthetic benchmarks, the Q9300 will shine, performing up to 90% faster in some. In actual gaming performance, there's still no reason
in going quad, since none of today's games have learned to utilize more than 2 cores. So far all the benchmarks show more-or-less the
same performance clock-to-clock, so a stock E8400 will perform quite a bit faster, and given that it can OC way higher than the Q9300..
you get the idea.

As soon as software starts utilizing 4 cores properly, it's quad all the way. And they'll be way cheaper and mainstream by then :P

Hope that helped.

On another note...
Thanks for the tip about reverting back to 2504, guys. The SpeedStep option reappeared in the BIOS again (C1E is still missing though).
The only problem is that when I enable SpeedStep it reverts back to "Disabled" after a restart, not to mention that it doesn't actually
do anything in the OS (the CPU speed is still at full even on idle). Anybody else encountered this with a 8400?

Thanks in advance again.

[Yolanda]

Which one is the best choice between Intel core 2 Quad Q 9300 2.50 Mhz or Intel core 2 Duo E8400 w/ 3.0 Mhz??

Does it better if I pick Q 9300 w/ 2.50 MHZ but less speed or Core 2 Duo with more speed 3.0Mhz?

Hmm...

Thanks

On new mainboards Q9300 overclocks only to 3.3-3.5GHz, E8400 can reach 4.2-4.4GHz. Take a mind that P5W can't work on very high FSB, so it's always nicer to get a CPU with higher multiplier, but also P5W very often overclocks even lower with Quads than with Duos.

I have to choose between Q9450/Q9550 and E8500, at last I choose cheeper E8500 and now wait for it
So first of all see that tacks you have, if they are not designed for 3-4 cores, then get Duo, it will be always faster, if your tacks have a little optimization for 3-4 cores, then extra MHz from Duo will help you not to work slower than Quad or even a bit faster.

Also Q9300 have only 3MB of L2 cache per crystal, all other E8XXX and Q9XXX have full 6MB L2 cache, which add a little more performance if your tack works only with 1 or 2 threads than compare between E8XXX and Q9300 at the same clock.

[Yolanda]

I also have a question, while I wait for my E8500. I heard that P5W mainboard have some problems with CPU voltage than it works with 45nm CPUs at overclocking? Can I set about 1.4-1.43V? I think I need such voltage to get 4-4.2GHz with my future CPU, but somebody say that I can't even set higher than nominal 1.25V?

[ntvh]

Thank you very very much for educated me. Will keep that in mind til more software adapt with it.

For now will buy E8400

[ChronoDog]

I also have a question, while I wait for my E8500. I heard that P5W mainboard have some problems with CPU voltage than it works with 45nm CPUs at overclocking? Can I set about 1.4-1.43V? I think I need such voltage to get 4-4.2GHz with my future CPU, but somebody say that I can't even set higher than nominal 1.25V?

You basically have 2 options for 45nm CPUs with the P5W:
1) Auto - a.k.a stock voltage, something like 1.1v to 1.225v depending on the CPU
2) 1.45v to 1.7v (ain't so healthy for a 45nm CPU)

[nicko]

@nicko
Thanks, I thought that was it but better to ask ....
Would it be to much to ask you to upload the drivers without it somewher ? :0

Thank you in any case...

No problem at all, here's the modified driver:

http://www.speedyshare.com/151429399.html