ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

[crazyea]

Well, I'm glad you had some success!

[Timmaah]

Hey, i got an e6600 and i want to know whats the max amount of voltage i can put into this baby before damaging it. Highest ive gone has been 1.52v.

Basically i just want the pc on for 10 minutes to do a super-pi run. Thanks in advance!

[John600rr]

I've been running 1.6V for like 9 months or so now. Only gets me 3.41GHz on my Week 24 though. It all depends on your temps.

[Timmaah]

Well ive hit 3.54ghz on 1.53, with my week24... not stable though. It's not only your temps though.. Too much voltage = severely decreased lifespan

[Gig4moller]

Damn 1.6v for 3.4 :o I run that at 1.3v... Really bad chip you got there

[anzial]

quit showing off, instead, try to explain how to reach those speeds

[Timmaah]

or what the max safe voltage is... :/

Week 24 batch is just poor for overclocking

Typical that i get the cpu from teh crap batch!

[lawrywild]

Yeh, typical here too

[anzial]

That's why you need to try several cpus to find most overclockable. First one took me to 3.2, wouldn't go further. Second one was happy at 3.3 and above, but run too hot and rebooted computer every time it didn't like some settings. Third one still runs a little hot but behaves better than a second one With it, I was able to hit 3.6ghz on water w/o a hitch - 8 hours of orthos stable.. will do 24 later on

[WeldZilla]

Don't make setting up a raid on the ICH7 harder than it is. It is absolutely easy to do this. For those about to try this there is nothing to it!!!
First if you have no other computer around to put the driver onto a floppy it's ok.
just put in your CD that came with your board and it will give you the option to use "Make disc" This will load the raid drivers onto the floppy

Now enter bios. On the "Main" page scroll down to "IDE Configuration"
High light it and hit enter. This will open up a sub box. You are only concerned
about the first item click on it and switch from IDE to RAID. Your done
Hit F10 and enter. As your sytem starts to boot get ready and when prompted hit CTRL + I both together. This will open up your raid builder
First name your raid setup. Mine is "Welder" then decide on the block size and so on. When finished hit the Y and enter. When it restarts this time have your windows disc in and your floppy at the ready.
Windows will look over your configuration then you will be prompted to hit F-6
if you have any 3rd party devices . you now hit F6 i always give it a few taps.
Probably not necessary but I do. Soon you will be prompted to decide whether you want to install any 3rd party devices. YOU DO!, so hit "S" the insert your floppy disc and hit enter. A list will come up for you to go through. you want the ICH7 but there are 3 to choose from!!
The first is ICH7 for Notebooks
The Second is ICH7 (RAID) for Desktops
The Third will say ICH7 AHCI for Desktops..
MAKE SURE you Choose "ICH7 RAID for Desktops" and hit enter As the windows loading process continues I do the slow format. You can do the quick.

you will while installing windows get a couple alerts that your software does not meet Microsoft's BS just hit ignore and keep installing. Then another will come up saying that your raid drivers has not passed window's BS just ignore and keep loading Windows and soon you wioll be validating and putting on over 100 updates including SP2 and IE7 and WMP11 and you will need WME to run PCmarks and don't forget your Virus scanner. And it will all be good.
I have this fresh in my mind cuz i just set up a raid and finished the last update about 30minutes ago.
Remember, Don't over think this stuff. It is all very easy. I have installed all the necessities off the P5W DH disc now I need to put on some utilities and do a little straigfhtening of this little baby's files

Good luck to you and Remember to chose correctly between 32bit and 64bit drivers

Keep it Simple!!

WZ

[FabricioGS]

or what the max safe voltage is... :/

Week 24 batch is just poor for overclocking

Typical that i get the cpu from teh crap batch!

I wonder that too. My poor week 23 needs 1,48v to run stable at 3.2GHz (356x9). Damn it

Is it safe to run at this voltages 24x7?

[intense321]

This is a noob question, but every experienced computer technician I asked hasn't had a reasonable answer.

What is the purpose of having two gigabit ethernet controllers on this board? What am I supposed to do with the 2nd one? Hook that one up to my router to grab a 2nd IP? Hook it up to a 2nd ISP?

[sniggle]

This is a noob question, but every experienced computer technician I asked hasn't had a reasonable answer.

What is the purpose of having two gigabit ethernet controllers on this board? What am I supposed to do with the 2nd one? Hook that one up to my router to grab a 2nd IP? Hook it up to a 2nd ISP?

Some newer boards (not the P5W) do NIC teaming, which doubles the transfer rates when used with other teaming devices. However, just two ordinary ethernet ports can allow you to turn your box into a router. This would allow for very advanced firewall and network services that most consumer routers can't supply. I prefer to leave the job up to my DGL-4300 personally.

[Luis_GT]

ok, so stopped upgrading my bios since 1707... and asus still hasn't given us the missing memory timings... I hate you asus...

[crazyea]

This is a noob question, but every experienced computer technician I asked hasn't had a reasonable answer.

What is the purpose of having two gigabit ethernet controllers on this board? What am I supposed to do with the 2nd one? Hook that one up to my router to grab a 2nd IP? Hook it up to a 2nd ISP?

Experience doesn't equal smart. Use it for your XBOX or something similiar to get a net connection. Or even connect two computers for a simple network/workgroup. Myself, since I have a gigabit router, I just disable it. :-)

[Nmbr1Ballr]

I have been running 1.5375v since mid december. Thats what mine takes to hit 3.6 (31A)

[crazyea]

Bios setting or in windows voltage?

[X7007]

Is P5W-DH-ASUS-Deluxe-2004 any good ?

should i upgrade from 1901?

Thanks in advance

[GFORCE100]

There's no reason why you shouldn't upgrade to 2004, it's stable and doesn't limit overclocking etc.

Just use the latest Asus Update application to do so.

Still doesn't fix the CPU multiplier bug on Extreme CPU's though, Asus is just so so poor when it comes to BIOS updates. It's always a case of if they can be bothered to do something rather than we want our product to be the best hence we'll give it the best BIOS like Intel does on their boards.

[sesdave]

There's no reason why you shouldn't upgrade to 2004, it's stable and doesn't limit overclocking etc.

Just use the latest Asus Update application to do so.

Still doesn't fix the CPU multiplier bug on Extreme CPU's though, Asus is just so so poor when it comes to BIOS updates. It's always a case of if they can be bothered to do something rather than we want our product to be the best hence we'll give it the best BIOS like Intel does on their boards.

I gave it a try using my existing settings and started to get some spurious lockups followed by BSOD - mainly when connected to internet so back to 1707 for me!

[anzial]

Damn, I'm having troubles hitting FSB 430 and above... any hints or suggestions? I did make a NB/SB cooling mod, replaced thermal compound, installed a fan on NB heatsink... Even with 1.85 volts in bios, it won't post at 440 and crashes windows when it's loading at 430... 425fsb is the highest stable for me

[S1mon-]

My board sucks aswell... since I got the first revision, with 1,65 vMCH I can only go to 413 FSB MAX which make my E6600 to a maximum speed of 3700 MHz... Really frustrating since I'm willing to reach 4,0 Ghz if possible...

I'll probably buy the new DFI Infinity P965 or borough my mate's P5B Deluxe to achieve this

[Timmaah]

I can't go past 400fsb...

[Nmbr1Ballr]

Bios setting or in windows voltage?

bios setting, 1.50 in windows.

[crazyea]

thanks, what are your temps like?