ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

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A 500w PSU might be a bit light - what graphic card have you got.? If its an 8800 you probably want more juice ! Check all your connections - 24pin and 4 pin 12v. Post all your BIOS settings - In my experience setup tends to be more stable if you enter values rather than use defaults/auto irrespective of overclocking or not - especially for the memory settings on this board.

Yes i am using defualt settings. Dont want to overclock or anything of that nature. Its been a long time since i was hardcore into computers and so much has changed ofcourse. I also want to know if this is ideal.

Boot Drive: Sata1
DVDR: Sata3
Data Drive: Sata 4
Data2 Drive: Jmicron.

The way it appears to me if im not using raid i really only have 3 sata ports w/o using jmicron. Also I can not find the right driver to enable AHCI and actually get windows to boot w/o retarting my machine at black bootup screen (xp pro 32). i get an error when running the intel matrix storage driver says my system does not meet requirements. I did install the 975x chipset driver.

Also my ps is a tagan 580w i said 500w before, my video card is x1600 ati chipset. i dont play pc games