ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

[GFORCE100]

Do you guys reckon we'll ever get a BIOS update for this board from Asus that allows adjusting the CPU multiplier on unlocked Core 2 Extremes and Pentium Extreme Editions which supports Vista? It seems to be just about the hardest thing for Asus to digest, as to exactly why is well beyond me

Is it because the Chinese think differently, or just can't be bothered?

[audiofx81]

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

[WeldZilla]

I tried bios 1901 and actually got a little unevered it was so horrible with my set up. So before I freaked out and moved back to 1707 I decided to move up to the new 2004 beta bios. For me this is the BEST bios yet!
I booted easily at 438fsb to run some pi. This is the highest I have ever booted, let alone run anything




Give this bios a try......

WZ

[nicepun]

I tried bios 1901 and actually got a little unevered it was so horrible with my set up. So before I freaked out and moved back to 1707 I decided to move up to the new 2004 beta bios. For me this is the BEST bios yet!
I booted easily at 438fsb to run some pi. This is the highest I have ever booted, let alone run anything

PICS REMOVED TO KEEP IT SHORT

Give this bios a try......

WZ

Nice, what mobo rev you have? Have you tried to run any 3DMark Benchmarks yet?

[semiskilled]

I booted easily at 438fsb to run some pi. This is the highest I have ever booted, let alone run anything

What was the highes FSB you booted before then? And do you mean with multipler 9 or the lowest possible?

[WeldZilla]

I don't go for highest bus, I go for highest speed. I was able to hit 434 fsb with old bios (1707) Don't get me wrong 1707 was a good bios for me but, this one is better.

WZ

[martinii]

I am still trying to figure out how to display vcore but all other work. heres previous thread on setting it up http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...20037&t=125201 and
this has some good information. http://www.diy-street.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6798
I updated to version .5.3.7.2 then 3. You wont find the P5W in the list of MB but I tried setting motherboard as P4C800 deluxe and manually configured. Seemed to work okay. You need the plugins for coretemp and Nvida card if you have one. If you have a problam send me your email and I will send you my zipped directory to overwrite the one you have installed. I see a lot of posts from people wioth P5W's showing MBM5 displaying vcore - can anyone advise how to configure that under MBM5 v3 or post their zipped directory?

Hi,

This is MBM + update 3 and settings for P4800 dlx:





and this is MBM wih my custom settings:



As you can see something is wrong with +5v and v-core

[WeldZilla]

Hey nicepun I have the original and this picked up refurbished rev1.04g board.
It was one of those someone thought was a crappy disappointment. I have found a few of them for dirt cheap. They have all rocked for me.....

WZ

[scaramonga]

OK.......so I get a new printer this week (HP C3180) and installed drivers etc.

When the printer is switched on and the PC rebooted I get this on boot:

DETECTING USB MASS STORAGE DEVICES

It just sits there doing nothing?? When I switch printer off and reboot, all is OK??

Any ideas peeps

[mikepaul]

OK.......so I get a new printer this week (HP C3180) and installed drivers etc.

When the printer is switched on and the PC rebooted I get this on boot:

DETECTING USB MASS STORAGE DEVICES

It just sits there doing nothing?? When I switch printer off and reboot, all is OK??

Any ideas peeps

ONly good idea: set aside 2 hours where you don't need the computer, turn the printer on and reboot the computer, and if after 2 hours it hasn't done whatever it needed to do to finish the install, contact HP about fixing it or replacing it...

[nicepun]

OK.......so I get a new printer this week (HP C3180) and installed drivers etc.

When the printer is switched on and the PC rebooted I get this on boot:

DETECTING USB MASS STORAGE DEVICES

It just sits there doing nothing?? When I switch printer off and reboot, all is OK??

Any ideas peeps

Hmmm, you tried plugging it in a different USB port? Also, what are your settings for the USB section in BIOS? And lastly, what BIOS?

[WeldZilla]

Did you load drivers first, then plug in printer? Which Windows are you running? When you installed was the wind blowing from the south? Was it partly cloudy? OK so disregard the 2nd 2 but not the first 2

WZ

[crazyea]

Bios doesn't care about drivers and thats where his issue lies.

Anyway, is it absolutely necessary to be able to boot with the printer on? If not just wait until you are in windows to turn it on.....

Also, does your printer by any chance have a card reader in it? Could be trying to boot from it.

[scaramonga]

When you installed was the wind blowing from the south? Was it partly cloudy?

The east actually.....maybe that's the problem?

The situation is resolved by setting USB Legacy Devices to DISABLE in BIOS instead of AUTO......but this removes DOS support for keyboard & mouse.

I have heard BIOS 1901 fixes this so I am going to try flashing to that BIOS tonight (I'm on 1506 ATM)

[scaramonga]

Well flashed to 1901 and no difference........

Hangs at same point.....

Auto detecting USB mass storage devices…

Device # 01

[nicepun]

Well I'm now really confused. I wonder if the problem lyes with memory compatibility. I had the Firestix PC2-8000 in and I couldn't boot into windows @ 440FSB no matter what I tried. Then I took them out and inserted my spare 5400ULs and the bastard is booting right into windows @ 450FSB, however, I can't do it @ 1:1 mem divider....so I don't know if this means anything to anyone. Oh yeah, I also tried the Crucial Ballistix PC2-8000 as well no luck like the Firestix.




Additional Comments: Also, with the Firestixs and Ballistixs I can boot into windows @ 400FSB and using 1000Mhz, but I can with the the Corsair 5400ULs.

[Deusfaux]

seagate 7200.10 on SATA 1

2x Raptors in RAID 0 on SATA 3 and 4, (BOOT DRIVE)


HAD LG optical on PRI-IDE




removed IDE LG optical, installed

LG optical SATA


for now its on EZ RAID SATA 1. I can't get it detected. Ditto if I put the single Seagate in there instead.

As soon as the optical is NOT plugged in (either into SATA 1 on ICH7R or NOTHING) it works fine, and I can open it's drive bay. Seagate works on SATA 1 as well.

Neither work whatsoever in EZ RAID 1.


I have read posts on ASUS forums suggesting one CAN get single drives and devices to work on the "missing" SATA 2 port from the ICH7R controller which is what the EZ RAID ports are... via the Silicon Image controller they are the missing SATA 2 split into 2 more ports.

Apparently by removing both EZ RAID jumpers, and plugging the device into EZ RAID 1, you can use it as normally. EZ RAID 2 get disabled by default. This arrangement I guess bypasses or disables the SI controller and throws control back to the ICH7R

HOWEVER, for some stupid reason I just cannot get it to work.


Unless people have other suggestions for me, I might just have to assume its a DOA port and have to RMA the whole damn thing (over one little damn bit!)


I think it is very bizarre for the port to kill the optical drive ONLY when it gets plugged into it... not even being able ot open the drive bay hmmm

[lukx]

I got ASUS p5w DH Deluxe with 4GB of Corsair 6400C4 (twinx modules-pairs).
Intel E6700 CPU, EVGA 8800 GTX ACS3. Seasonic m12 700W PSU. All settings in BIOS 1901 were AUTO.
I run pc for few months without problem. Few days ago I changed cooling to Scythe Infinity. When for the first time started pc it hanged after bios post. Then I managed to get to screen where I can choose to start windows in safe mode or last known good settings. But after choosing any option pc again hanged.After many tries I removed one ram and started pc (3GB)... it booted without problem, windows loaded etc. I puted ram inside again and booted also without problem (all 4GB). So I decided to run memtest3.2 (setings BIOS AUTO no OC etc.). After few minutes it gave me error. I rebooted and turned off usb legacy and start memtest3.2 again. After around 6 hours (5 PASS or more) I got 1 error. I tested each memory with memtest86+ 1.7 by itself for 1 Pass (30 minutes) and no errors. I testes one memory in all slots for 1 Pass also no errors. I set in BIOS settings like on memory: 800Mhz, 4-4-4-12 (4 write recovery like was in corsair test). voltage 2.1 and after few seconds got 2 errors in memtest86+ 1.7. I set write rec to 5 and send it again, and now it's running for 30 mins and no errors but will live it for the night. I don't knwo what to do. I don't knwo which pair to give back to replace which one is faulty ( is still got warranty form the shop where I got it). Or maybe it's my mainboard? I don't have to much time to test it. Is there any particular test I can run to make sure which ram is faulty or if I shoud RMA my mainboard?

[yobi]

am think problem is memory voltage ! put manual 2,3V and check

[cujo]

i searched this thread and found nothing about anyone having problems with using ezraid for raid 0.

i have my two raptors in raid 0 in the orange ezraid ports and it takes about 4 or 5 reboots before the raid 0 shows up in post and lets me boot to windows. there seems to be no pattern of cold boot or warm boot to make it work. it just randomly works. i'm afraid to shut down my computer as i never know how long it will take for it to see the raid 0 again.

anyone else having this problem?

btw, using bios 1901. haven't tried the latest beta as i'm afraid to ruin my raid 0 altogether by trying a beta bios.

edit - burner is in sata 3 and storage drive in sata 4 if that helps.

[Eastcoasthandle]

So what has been the advantage of having the newer bioses since 701?

[WeldZilla]

Avatar....nicepun. Well I gave running at a lower mutliplier a shot.
Here is how that went. It ran 1M pi in at about 14.069.
Hey eastcoasthandle, with this 2004 bios I am running at
429 fsb well I will post the pic. I have been running at this since yesterday afternoon. I have been folding steady and gaming and even did some benching. When I got up this morning it is still running smooth. Now the big difference here is that my CPU voltage is turned down to 1.625 and my mem is set at 2.2. I have never clocked this high on this low of Voltage settings.
Again, for me this bios is the best yet. There has been many a horrible bios to come around the bend. I have a board that started out at bios 501. I have tried them ALL. Just to see for myself what if any differences there were in them. This 2004 bios is for me by far the best!!

WZ

[lawrywild]

I flashed 2004, seems stable, haven't done any extensive testing but so far it's like 1901 for me, but that's all good

I've clocked down to stock w/ EIST for the summer

[sesdave]

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

Did you install the drivers for AHCI when installing windows - if not you can try this to save a reinstall. I havent tried it but the thread posts say it works!
http://www.motherboardpoint.com/t110...tallation.html
Are you running stable yet - did you follow the guide I posted and try entering all the settings in the bios even if you are running at stock. There is a lot of information around on setting this board up - try this
thread for more info http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=112776 and this one to get lower board temps from NB/SB chips. http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.p...&highlight=p5w
The E6600 is a great overclocker - Doesnt matter if you play games - it fun to have a faster propcessor for nothing!. You dont need to push it like the rest of us - once you are stable on stock try increasing FSB and see how high it will run stable with no vcore increase.

[lukx]

am think problem is memory voltage ! put manual 2,3V and check

Isn't it too much? I want to run with 667Mhz and standard timings 5-5-5-15. Right now I'm testing other 4gb of ram (kingston 800) on this ASUS p5w dh to make sure that it's not the mobo problem. I also testing on 4 other computers those corsair sticks, each by itself. Tomorrow will check is any got error. If not I will be totaly lost!!!