ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

[dmilazzo78]

Need a 600watt plus psu with at least 38 amp or more on the 12v rail.
Top quality thats is known to work well with this mobo

Mine took a dump 120mm fan is stuck at full rpm second one with fan control issues

http://www.mgecompany.com/xg/product..._vortec700.php got this from compusuck

So now I want a very good quality psu that has no known issue's with this psu

[monza1412]

Seams to be the biggest source on the internet for P5W DH Deluxe problems, so I will post mine here,

Specs:
P5W DH Dluxe Bios 1305
Intel 6600
Crosair XMS2 pc2-6400 5-5-5-12
ATi x1900xtx
Segate Baracuda 320gb
Enermax Libertity 520w
Antec P180

My huge problem varies. Somtimes my computer will just lock up on post, right after detecting my ram, other times I can enter, BIOS and it will lock up while going through BIOS menus. Other times it will just continue to boot as normal. When I try to boot from the windows disc, this usually leads to a restart.

This is my secound motherboard, I RMA'd the first one thinking the problem was faulty bios, but it seams i was wrong.

I am running memtest89 right now and so far no errors. (Side question, when do i know memtest has gone through a complete cycle?) The only problem i can see is on post, it usually detects my ram as pc-5300 or somthing, i have tried manualy changng it to ddr2-800, but then i get the occasional overvoltage, when i havent messed with the voltage.

This is my first ever computer build and im not enjoying the experence.... any help is appricated

I´ve the same problem, and I tried 2 different psu, one with 30a in the 12 line
and also happens with the minimum hardware installed, I mean, hdd, 1 cdrom, VGA (PCI 1MB), and also when the sistem is not oc at all

[Sparx]

Stay the hell away from Thermaltake 750 watt Toughpower. Mine after two weeks of ownership burned up, and to make things worse kept on running!

The PC was left on idle last evening and the 12 volt rail(s) cooked up and the monitor had the "insert boot disc" error message on it! I thought for sure my CD, floppy, and Sata HD were cooked but I pulled the PS out of my AMD Epox and the P5w seems OK.

I ordered a PC Power and Cooling 750 watt power supply to replace the burned out unit.

First time I had a PS go south, it's always something. The thing that concerns me the most is that it did not shut itself down.
sparx

[ThickFog]

I don't see a liberty 520 listed at newegg, but whether it's the 500 or the 620 it should be fine, yet that behavior looks like a PSU problem to me.

I see those PSUs have modular cables. Is the extra 4 pin section on the ATX power connector detachable on the PSU end? If so, you might want to check that it is connected properly. My P5W DH will run without the extra 4 power pins connected, but it behaves in a similar way to what you are seeing. My PC2-6400 RAM would test good running at DDR2-667 without those pins connected, but wouldn't work at its rated speed.

You just need to change the divider for the DRAM speed when you get everything working. It's normal for it to be set at PC2-5300 until you do.

Your right, its only a 500w, my bad

I really dont have another power supply to play around with, how can i truly limit the problem to this? monza1412 above said he was still getting the same problem with a new psu.

Memtest found no errors in the ram. A post HardForum is the only other place i can find someone else having the same problem (http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1114332)

Any help would be nice, I really want this computer to start working

[kaiguy]

I can't seem to figure out what's causing my HD activity light to consistently blink (almost exactly every second). I've disabled the CD/DVD autoplay to see if that would fix it, but it didn't. Not sure if this is a mobo issue or something else, so I am curious if other people are experiencing this. I guess its not a big deal, but I've never had this happen on any of my previous builds, so it's a curiosity.

[Sparx]

Your right, its only a 500w, my bad

I really dont have another power supply to play around with, how can i truly limit the problem to this? monza1412 above said he was still getting the same problem with a new psu.

Memtest found no errors in the ram. A post HardForum is the only other place i can find someone else having the same problem (http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1114332)

Any help would be nice, I really want this computer to start working

Can you list your voltage settings and the settings in Advanced> Jumperfree?
sparx

[dmilazzo78]

Hey sparx is this the one you ordered http://www.pcpower.com/products/view...EPS&view=about I was looking at the Thermaltake 750 watt I have a back up ocz 520 and when I run 3dmark06 it freezes never had that issue even with my 700w xg

I need a bad ass power supply that will take anything I hook to it keep the suggestions coming just please actually own it and assure it works with this mobo

[Liquid3D]

Check your Windows Task Manager for Running Processes and the CPU activity level, there may be something going on in the back-ground which for some unknown reason is consistanly accessing the HDD. Place your ear next to the drive, is it spinning up, accessing it's cache? how many MB cache does it have 8MB, 15MB? These may seem like silly suggestions but I'd think they would eliminate the obvious.

I'd enter the BIOS and switch it to Default settings, see if that disbales something that may be causing constant HDD activity...

I can't seem to figure out what's causing my HD activity light to consistently blink (almost exactly every second). I've disabled the CD/DVD autoplay to see if that would fix it, but it didn't. Not sure if this is a mobo issue or something else, so I am curious if other people are experiencing this. I guess its not a big deal, but I've never had this happen on any of my previous builds, so it's a curiosity.

[Sparx]

man I was looking at the Thermaltake 750 watt I have a back up ocz 520 and when I run 3dmark06 it freezes never had that issue even with my 700w xg

I need a bad ass power supply that will take anything I hook to it keep the suggestions coming just please actually own it and assure it works with this mobo

I ordered a PC Power & Cooling 750 watt from Newegg today. I am not taking any chances with Thermaltakes.

It does not have 4 separate 18 amp rails like many, nor the modular power cables. But, it is a quiet model and has 60 amps on the 12 rail. I read about 3-4 reviews and it holds voltage at heavy loads like a rock.

If I have issues I will report them here. I should have it Friday at the latest.
I just got my rig running and connected and did some great gaming online (COD2) yesterday before it burned up.

It doesn't matter though, since I am changing my HS to a thermalright 120 and the MCH heast sink to a Thermalright as well... forgot the model # sorry.

There sure is a lot of crap on the market these days.
sparx

[Pol1977]

man I was looking at the Thermaltake 750 watt I have a back up ocz 520 and when I run 3dmark06 it freezes never had that issue even with my 700w xg

I need a bad ass power supply that will take anything I hook to it keep the suggestions coming just please actually own it and assure it works with this mobo

I have the Thermaltake Toughpower 700w for more about two months now.

I am running stable with a P5W DH Deluxe (1.65v MHC), E6400 @ 3.2GHz (auto voltage). I have 3 hard drives, 2 DVD RWs an ATI X1950XTX (overclocked as far as it goes with CCC) and a TV tuner on it with absolutely no problems.

I can't get my 667MHz ram sticks to work at 800MHz but it's probably a ram issue so I just oredered me a pair of G-Skills...

But the PSU is working great for me.

[Pol1977]

It doesn't matter though, since I am changing my HS to a thermalright 120 and the MCH heast sink to a Thermalright as well... forgot the model # sorry.

Probably the thermalright HR-05 or HR-05 SLI

Let me know if it fits because I have the thermalright 120 ultra on my CPU as well (with a standard 120mm fan - best cooler I've owned) and am thinking about getting a thermalright northbridge heatsink but I'm not sure it will fit...

A piece of advice... leave the crappy metal clips in the box and secure the fan with some tie-wraps going through the top and bottom fins... It's much better and more secure.

[Sparx]

Yes POL
That is the one I ordered- HR-05. ( reads like a bill in Congress -no?) thanks for the tip on the fasteners.

I am concerned about the fit actually, but I ordered it anyway.

I put a temp probe in between the fins on the stock MCH HS with factory TiM still in place and I got 35C loaded. I have a little 40 mm ( I think it is 40) fan setting on top the HS with hot glue, ghetto install!

Anyway I pushed the temp probe down against the base plate and that is temp reading I got.

sparx

[davexl]

I can't seem to figure out what's causing my HD activity light to consistently blink (almost exactly every second). I've disabled the CD/DVD autoplay to see if that would fix it, but it didn't. Not sure if this is a mobo issue or something else, so I am curious if other people are experiencing this. I guess its not a big deal, but I've never had this happen on any of my previous builds, so it's a curiosity.

Get Filemon from sysinternals.com - it shows you what process is causing it.

It helped me diagnose that a defrag tool had a service which keeps hard drives form spinning down.

[ThickFog]

Can you list your voltage settings and the settings in Advanced> Jumperfree?
sparx

All the voltage settings are on auto.

I was able to get the windows disc to boot an start reformatting my hd, i chose NTFS (slow, not the quick one) and i got this error
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/9...liam072bn1.jpg
This CD has worked fine for me before

Arg.. this is really fustrating

[Sparx]

All the voltage settings are on auto.

I was able to get the windows disc to boot an start reformatting my hd, i chose NTFS (slow, not the quick one) and i got this error
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/9...liam072bn1.jpg
This CD has worked fine for me before

Arg.. this is really fustrating

Ok why don't you try putting the RAM at 2.0 and the Vcore at 1.325 pci express on 101. You should have pci clock 33.3.
Also set PERFORMANCE Mode to> Standard
This is not excessive voltage see if it helps.
Your error code on the install could be related to instability.
Also you have the 4 pin power plug installed into the motherboard?
I don't know your video card but it has a port and that is connected for 12 volts too?

In addtion: Run the RAM at : SPD
In CPU Configuration:
Microcode Updation > Enabled
The Five (5) remaining items> Disabled



sparx

[ThickFog]

Ok why don't you try putting the RAM at 2.0 and the Vcore at 1.325 pci express on 101. You should have pci clock 33.3.
This is not excessive voltage see if it helps.
Your error code on the install could be related to instability.
Also you have the 4 pin power plug installed into the motherboard?
I don't know your video card but it has a port and that is connected for 12 volts too?


sparx

Ok I will try those voltage settings now.

I have the 4 pin power pluged into my motherboard, i also have a 4 pin one pluged next to the cpu, and one (on a pci-e cord) to my graphics card

Thanks for the help, hopefully it works

[imperiallord]

I don't know if You have this or not, But do You have the powertoys for windows xp?
If You don't It may help as Your drive may just be hidden or It's unformatted and needs to be formatted by the XP setup CD possibly. I hope one of these two ideas help.

I have windows xp professional, I don't know what powertoys is, although I look it up, and it seem like its just add-ons. I can format it in windows xp but that would install windows xp into my secondary drive which I don't want to do, which would make me have two dual boots operating systems.

That's strange that it doesn't show up under Disk Management. When I installed my 3rd SATA (first two were in RAID), that's how I had to format it/show it. But it does show up in the BIOS? How about under Disk Drives in the Device Manager?

It shows up in Bios and it also shows up when I do windows installation, when I pop in my windows xp cd. It doesn't show up in Disk Drives in Device Managers, it doesn't show up at all when I load up windows.

If I recall correctly...I had the same issue...
With my circumstance , I had to set the Jmicron raid to normal mode to get the ide drive recognized in windows despite being recognized in bios .Did ya remember to install the raid drvers for both controllers with F6 method a windows install ?

I install Jmicron but immediately disable it and didn't completely install it all the way. I didn't install the raid drivers for both controllers with the F6 method using windows install. Can you explain more? This might be my problem...

Also the hanging problem while multitasking with several programs open, until I close several programs will it go away, does anyone have this problem??

[Sparx]

Ok I will try those voltage settings now.

I have the 4 pin power pluged into my motherboard, i also have a 4 pin one pluged next to the cpu, and one (on a pci-e cord) to my graphics card

Thanks for the help, hopefully it works

ThickFog
I added some more settings to my post.
Sorry it is such a fragmented post, but my rig is dead right now and I cannot see the BIOS because of my power supply issue.
sparx

[Jungle+=]

I install Jmicron but immediately disable it and didn't completely install it all the way. I didn't install the raid drivers for both controllers with the F6 method using windows install. Can you explain more? This might be my problem...

In your case I don't beleive that you would need to install the raid drivers then .....since you are just using the Intel sata controllers with no raid for those drives. J micron raid drivers definately not needed in this case . I also noticed that in your original post mentioned that one drive is a master and the other a slave . I thought that both drives must be either master or cable select for use on sata since each drives uses it's own individual cable

What settings have you used for the IDE configuration in Bios ? ( ide config controls the Intel sata ports )

[kaiguy]

Check your Windows Task Manager for Running Processes and the CPU activity level, there may be something going on in the back-ground which for some unknown reason is consistanly accessing the HDD. Place your ear next to the drive, is it spinning up, accessing it's cache? how many MB cache does it have 8MB, 15MB? These may seem like silly suggestions but I'd think they would eliminate the obvious.

I'd enter the BIOS and switch it to Default settings, see if that disbales something that may be causing constant HDD activity...

I don't think the drive is actually being accessed. I experienced this problem with all BIOS settings at default before. It also occurred with a completely different P5W. Task manager shows no unusual CPU activity on any single process. The RAID drives are 8mb cache, my other drive is 16--all WDs. I wish there was something I could remove to try it, but I know its not the CD/DVD or the floppy. Everything else is required (video, ram, etc.).

Get Filemon from sysinternals.com - it shows you what process is causing it.

It helped me diagnose that a defrag tool had a service which keeps hard drives form spinning down.

I'll try to get that particular program. I know I tried one before (not sure which, but it was freeware) that shows every access on the harddrive. It wouldn't show anything unless I did something (like press the Start button, open a file, etc.), yet the activity light still blinks away. (ADDED: Actually, upon looking at that program, that was the one I tried.)

Thanks, both of you, for your suggestions.

[rivlez]

does anyone got this board and a e6300? if so what do u get overclocking? i've had this board for like 3 weeks or so, pretty dissatisfied with it. I got an e6300 that oc's on a P5B Deluxe WiFi/AP 3.6ghz@1.45v but when i put it in there i can't even get it stable at 3.2ghz at the same voltage! I've tried pretty much every bios out there for it and it really doesn't make too much a difference. if u have similar let me know what u get!

[infrared]

The P5W DH Deluxe can't reach fsb's much over 450mhz without modifications. That's why you can only reach 3.2ghz on this board.

[rivlez]

ya i realized that pretty quickly, pretty dissappointed in this board. Wish i would've just bought another P5B Deluxe. Maybe it'll be good when i get a e6600 or higher, give me a higher clock to start with.

[mikepaul]

I'll try to get that particular program. I know I tried one before (not sure which, but it was freeware) that shows every access on the harddrive. It wouldn't show anything unless I did something (like press the Start button, open a file, etc.), yet the activity light still blinks away. (ADDED: Actually, upon looking at that program, that was the one I tried.)

I installed CompUSA cold-boot-swappable hard disk cartridges in my machines a few years back when even my gigabit LAN took 20+ minutes to move 4GB files around, and I now use the constantly-blinking drive light to tell if the machine has crashed. I have never found a good reason for the light to do that, and I believe that the primary HD light is also blinking slighty but it isn't as obvious. The swappable drive is on the secondary IDE chain along with my DVD writer.

The blinking did move from a PIII ASUS board to a P5W DH so it's not a new thing, but again they were both ASUS boards...

[mikepaul]

does anyone got this board and a e6300? if so what do u get overclocking? i've had this board for like 3 weeks or so, pretty dissatisfied with it. I got an e6300 that oc's on a P5B Deluxe WiFi/AP 3.6ghz@1.45v but when i put it in there i can't even get it stable at 3.2ghz at the same voltage! I've tried pretty much every bios out there for it and it really doesn't make too much a difference. if u have similar let me know what u get!

I'm annoyed that I didn't reach the 3Ghz I'd seen in the online reviews, but 2.87Ghz is now fairly stable.

You needed to manage to get a board that allows a vMCH of more than 1.65V, and memory that can overclock well past 800Mhz. Since my Corsair RAM refuses to reliably go faster than 820Mhz and still use the 1:1 ratio, I had to stop at a 410Mhz FSB setting. 420 would have worked if I lowered the ratio, but the benchmarks look better the way things sit now. Either way I was still under 3Ghz...