ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

**Zeus** · 02-10-2007, 01:48 AM

Originally Posted by SteveMoffat

Hi

I've just killed my board I think. Flashed to the 1901 bios from floppy, but it would not verify and would not revert to the old bios (1801).

The pc will not boot now. Is there any way to restore the bios or is it RMA time??

I have tried clearing the settings with the jumper.

Help!!!!!

Steve

Steve,

According to the manual you can just boot with the Asus CD that came with the motherboard in case your bios might corrupt.

It should revert to the stock bios.

Did anyone try to run 4:5 with FSB running at 400MHz with this new bios?

**cuke2u** · 02-10-2007, 05:09 AM

Hi, all running just the same with 1901 as it was with 1707 1801 1804, zzzzz
ChrisC

**nickfd** · 02-10-2007, 05:13 AM

Originally Posted by scaramonga

1. No one 'forced' you to upgrade?

2. This BIOS is not 'official' and is only seen on ASUS FTP.

3. Use at 'own risk' policy I would think.

4. Always let the 'silly' people test before jumping in with big feet.

Yeah, I take full responsibility for my actions. I'm not as stable as I was anymore, and can't even do 385x9 with 1.60 stablely, but I went down to 380x9 and ran my 3dmark and while I got a slightly marginally lower CPU score, my shader model 2 and 3 scores went up..

Gonna try 4:5 mem to see if I can get it stable, then make a determination if I will stay or go back down. I don't mind being slightly clocked lower since my performance is up.

**nickfd** · 02-10-2007, 05:38 AM

Originally Posted by nickfd

Yeah, I take full responsibility for my actions. I'm not as stable as I was anymore, and can't even do 385x9 with 1.60 stablely, but I went down to 380x9 and ran my 3dmark and while I got a slightly marginally lower CPU score, my shader model 2 and 3 scores went up..

Gonna try 4:5 mem to see if I can get it stable, then make a determination if I will stay or go back down. I don't mind being slightly clocked lower since my performance is up.

Okay, I'm at 4:5 with 380fsb and 950mem, and I got better performance all the way around.. Granted, I'm only looking at 3dmark06 breakdowns, since I never took number readings from superpi, so my apologies for that.

When I was at 1:1 385x9 4-4-4-12 28-6 (bios 1707), i got: 11360 3dmarks (4970 sm2, 5036 sm3, 2991 cpu).

I wasn't stable at 385x9 with same timings on mb 1901, so went down to 380x9 and did same 1:1 tests. GPU drivers have not changed, and got 11638 3dmarks (5156 sm2, 5182 sm3, 2979 cpu).

Now I did 4:5, 380x9 mem at 950 4-4-4-12 28-6 (1901 bios), i got: 11693 3dmarks (5150 sm2, 5179 sm3, 3047 cpu).

Marginal? Sure, but I think I'm going to stick with this bios and 4:5.. At least until people show us some superpi numbers showing which is the computational right way to go.

Let the comparison matrix's come!

**DJSUB** · 02-10-2007, 07:42 AM

1901 are now official, already posted on their website.
i can do better overclocking with bios 1804 than any other bios.
i've done 465x7 with my e6300 without mod.

1901 is a crap.

**SteveMoffat** · 02-10-2007, 07:48 AM

Just ordered a new chip from BiosMan. My board does not boot at all. Completely dead. So much for the bios protection.

**WeldZilla** · 02-10-2007, 08:29 AM

Hey bichi, speaking of limp wristed hayseeds. 2 questions 1st. If you just got the bios and gave it a quick try, why did you change your sig so fast to reflect the new bios. 2nd if you are not hayseed why did you not change your sig back if you really did revert back to 1707. Huh? Huh?

WZ

**miochza** · 02-10-2007, 09:12 AM

I went to 1901, then reverted back to 1707 because you guys gave me a scare. But it didn't really seem that bad.

**TR1GG3R** · 02-10-2007, 10:03 AM

well ive took the plunge and upgraded

and i tried to do the ai booster inbuilt 30% over clock got to the desktop then my screen turned yellow then moniter went off tried again only usin the fsb overclock seting that it has and that worked no bother

(newb to oc'in) why i tried built in 1

and runnin it back at stock now seems okay but i dont really know wot to look out 4

**lawrywild** · 02-10-2007, 10:42 AM

1901 seems atleast as stable as 1707 for me so far. Orthos tests tonight so that's when I'll be able to see any real differences if any..

I upgraded coz I believe it probably also has some improvements for Vista again which I'm moving to soon

**Qba73** · 02-10-2007, 10:50 AM

doesnt 1901 also usher in the support for 1333 fsb intel cpus's like it was noted on that asus site that showed the bios and model of board for 1333 support.

**Eastcoasthandle** · 02-10-2007, 10:58 AM

ICH7R vs EZ backup vs E-Sata
Found this while browsing

**Nmbr1Ballr** · 02-10-2007, 11:02 AM

I am still on 1506. Do I need to upgrade or is it recommended? If so what version?

**Eastcoasthandle** · 02-10-2007, 11:11 AM

I'm still on 701. I haven't seen a need to upgrade till now. I *may* give it a go using 1901

**psy4fun** · 02-10-2007, 11:12 AM

Just read the first post:

"lawrywild's current recommended BIOS version: 1707"

Although I believe there's no perfect BIOS version. Best to read the whole thread to found the better match according to your needs.

**jozzy** · 02-10-2007, 11:28 AM

where can i download the 1901 one? its not beta, right?

**mikepaul** · 02-10-2007, 12:01 PM

Originally Posted by bichi

LOL! - ya'll sound like a bunch of limp wristed hayseeds...

AFUDOS 217 worked for me, reverting from 1901 back to 1707.

<spitting piece of straw from corner of mouth>

Yep, but thanks for info on setting up a safety net for next time, since I'm back to 1707. I'd never bothered with AFUDOS due to USB updates going so well. Now at least I know I can try again with the next released BIOS and worry less about trying it out...

**Stiffler** · 02-10-2007, 05:06 PM

An update to my OC decrease:

I tried a different PSU that I had here and I got the same results. So I went to Fry's and picked up an eVGA 680i board and just got it all hooked up. My overclocking is back! There is definitely something wrong with the board. I guess I will RMA it and sell it. I removed the covers off of both the heatsinks, anyone know if Asus will refuse the RMA because of this?

Well, I guess it's time to put everything back inside the case. Thanks for all the help everyone.

**elyrly** · 02-10-2007, 11:19 PM

just RMA the asus board they are pretty quick on sending it back.

**BulldogPO** · 02-11-2007, 03:29 AM

That 1901 is released to public by Asus:
ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/so.../P5WDH1901.zip

**DutchBBQ** · 02-11-2007, 03:56 AM

February 2007 releases:
* Marvell Yukon LAN WHQL compliant drivers for all XP and VISTA flavours
* DirectX for XP ONLY: Febr.2, 2007
* Realtek WLAN driver for XP/VISTA: Febr.5, 2007
* Realtek Audio driver for XP: Febr.8, 2007
* JMicron for XP/VISTA: Febr. 8, 2007
* BIOS 1901: Febr. 9, 2007
http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?...Language=en-us

**monza1412** · 02-11-2007, 05:42 AM

Any new experiences with the 1901 bios??? I would like to know if its posible to run 4:5 stable (fsb=400/mem=1000)

**sombrio** · 02-11-2007, 08:55 AM

Bios 1901 sucks!!! It gives me orthos error after 36 minutes with the same settings os bios 1707. Now i want to flash back to bios 1707 and says that bios 1707 is older than the motherboard

**miochza** · 02-11-2007, 11:03 AM

Already covered if u want to downgrade... use Afudos 211.

**Rattle** · 02-11-2007, 11:18 AM

Originally Posted by monza1412

Any new experiences with the 1901 bios??? I would like to know if its posible to run 4:5 stable (fsb=400/mem=1000)

I had no luck again

p5b-d rev 1.03g here i come

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