ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

[Timmaah]

On a side-note, there is no easy way of fixing the vdroop is there? I know there is a pencil mod or something of the likes? But seems bit too complicated... Also, i take nobody knows the max safe voltage for the e6600 then?

[m0da]

i was running my previous, A revision, E6600 @1.65v 24/7 with watercooling. ~33*C idle. It ran fine.

[S1mon-]

My CPU is really weird... with 1,54-1,55 vCORE my CPU doesn't is at 28 degrees Idle under a Thermalright Ultra 120... my cores are around 42-43 degrees... This is at 3,6 GHz. When I push a lil further 3,7 GHz for benching I put vCORE at 1,60 V and my cores temperature never go about 50 degrees I dle and my CPU is about 33 degrees...

My CPU is A26.

[anzial]

My CPU is really weird... with 1,54-1,55 vCORE my CPU doesn't is at 28 degrees Idle under a Thermalright Ultra 120... my cores are around 42-43 degrees... This is at 3,6 GHz. When I push a lil further 3,7 GHz for benching I put vCORE at 1,60 V and my cores temperature never go about 50 degrees I dle and my CPU is about 33 degrees...

My CPU is A26.

You confused the heck out of me. Don't quote cpu temp, it's useless, only core temps (from coretemp 0.95). For example: 3.6@1.4vcore idle 32C, 52C load, 3.8@1.55vcore 39C idle, 65C load, room temp around 70-74F. These are my temperatures, but my chip is B-series, which runs hotter than A-series

[roger_h99.nor]

On a side-note, there is no easy way of fixing the vdroop is there? I know there is a pencil mod or something of the likes? But seems bit too complicated... Also, i take nobody knows the max safe voltage for the e6600 then?

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=137301

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[Nmbr1Ballr]

thanks, what are your temps like?

Right now, my case says that the temperatures inside the case are around 22ºC and my CPU is running at 43ºC/45ºC.

[Nmbr1Ballr]

I have a problem and was wondering if anyone could provide some help. Very frequently for no reason whatsoever, my internet stops working for all programs. I mean right now I could type this message and next thing I know its done. My internet cord is connected to a linksys router for my mom's laptop and into my cable modem. All lights on the modem and router are fine and how they normally should be. When it does stop working, it affects my mom's laptop as well. What usually fixes it is disabling the connection, taking out the wires and plugging them back in and enabling the connection. Either that or restarting my computer and while it is restarting redoing the wires again. I am pretty sure its not my internet connection that is the problem. Any help?

e6600 @ 3.6ghz (400fsb)
p5wdh deluxe
4-4-3-8 supertalent ram @ 800mhz
x1950xt

[dragonhunter]

I have a problem and was wondering if anyone could provide some help. Very frequently for no reason whatsoever, my internet stops working for all programs. I mean right now I could type this message and next thing I know its done. My internet cord is connected to a linksys router for my mom's laptop and into my cable modem. All lights on the modem and router are fine and how they normally should be. When it does stop working, it affects my mom's laptop as well. What usually fixes it is disabling the connection, taking out the wires and plugging them back in and enabling the connection. Either that or restarting my computer and while it is restarting redoing the wires again. I am pretty sure its not my internet connection that is the problem. Any help?

e6600 @ 3.6ghz (400fsb)
p5wdh deluxe
4-4-3-8 supertalent ram @ 800mhz
x1950xt

I have the same problem as you but instead of using the ethernet port, I use the USB port

[sesdave]

I have a problem and was wondering if anyone could provide some help. Very frequently for no reason whatsoever, my internet stops working for all programs. I mean right now I could type this message and next thing I know its done. My internet cord is connected to a linksys router for my mom's laptop and into my cable modem. All lights on the modem and router are fine and how they normally should be. When it does stop working, it affects my mom's laptop as well. What usually fixes it is disabling the connection, taking out the wires and plugging them back in and enabling the connection. Either that or restarting my computer and while it is restarting redoing the wires again. I am pretty sure its not my internet connection that is the problem. Any help?

e6600 @ 3.6ghz (400fsb)
p5wdh deluxe
4-4-3-8 supertalent ram @ 800mhz
x1950xt

Sounds like a process of elimination!. Reconnecting cables is overkill unless you have a duff cable or connection. Suggest it is the router hanging as the common point of failure - both machines fail to connect to the internet. Did you have any problems with the router before your machine was connected? - have you tried just rebooting the router without the cable disconnecting etc. Make sure you have latest MArvell LAn drivers loaded on your machine and latest lfirmware on the linksys router - use LAN 1 on he P5W . if you still get problems try and get your hands on another modem/router to see if that elimates problem.

[crazyea]

My internet gets laggy above 400fsb as well.

[Neo07]

How do I remove the optional fan on my P5B-Deluxe Wifi mobo as ive clipped it onto the heatsink which is next to the cpu, and it is slowing down my cpu fan which doesnt go above 1000rpm

[WeldZilla]

Hey Numbr1Ballr, you know I went through the lan connection problem too. for me it was a long time ago. I went to the Asus Site and downloaded the latest Marvell drivers and no more problems. Give it a try. I thought it might be a stability problem cuz it only happened at 430+ fsb but, either way it was fixed with the updated driver. And maybe it just happened.
http://support.asus.com/download/dow...Language=en-us
Make sure you get the one for your operating system.

WZ

[Liquid3D]

Hey Numbr1Ballr, you know I went through the lan connection problem too. for me it was a long time ago. I went to the Asus Site and downloaded the latest Marvell drivers and no more problems. Give it a try. I thought it might be a stability problem cuz it only happened at 430+ fsb but, either way it was fixed with the updated driver. And maybe it just happened.
http://support.asus.com/download/dow...Language=en-us
Make sure you get the one for your operating system.

WZ

GOOD CALL we often forget while were constantly updating our BIOS we should be updating our drivers. That's the reason their posted on manufacturer and the chipmaker's themselves websites. I've had a LAN chip fry on me and until it finally did it reaked havoc as I chased electronic gremlins. Until I witnessed the chip blue smoke before my eyes I only knew I was having all sorts of issues that weren't even Internet related although those were just as frequent.

Remember were still overclocking and when you raise that FSB do you really know for sure where divisors may be working and where they may not?

[Timmaah]

I can't go past 400fsb...

I got 400fsb! Only required me to max my mobo volts.. and cpu voltage of 1.5675 in bios... so 1.54 in windows

And it was good enough to do super-pi

[Timmaah]

The more i have this board the more i hate it...

So:

At 400fsb.. can only beat with cpu vcore at 1.57 and spd enabled

At anything below 396 (so 395, 394 etc.) or above 400.. i can run it with spd.

Also, at 400fsb.. the pc was reaaally laggy.. at 401fsb there was no lag and i could boot up with 1.56v... so with less vcore. How the feck does that work!? And i could run the ram at 1ghz without spd.. (i couldnt even run it at 1ghz with spd on when it was 400fsb)

So to put it short.. ive finally passed 400fsb.. and the once that good motherboard comes out i may actually use this motherboard for making schnitzel

[Fr3ak]

The more i have this board the more i hate it...

So:

At 400fsb.. can only beat with cpu vcore at 1.57 and spd enabled

At anything below 396 (so 395, 394 etc.) or above 400.. i can run it with spd.

Also, at 400fsb.. the pc was reaaally laggy.. at 401fsb there was no lag and i could boot up with 1.56v... so with less vcore. How the feck does that work!? And i could run the ram at 1ghz without spd.. (i couldnt even run it at 1ghz with spd on when it was 400fsb)

So to put it short.. ive finally passed 400fsb.. and the once that good motherboard comes out i may actually use this motherboard for making schnitzel

What Ram are you using? I had a similar problem when I was using cheap MDT ram. With the Gskill and same bios I could run 400mhz+ and manually set the mem timings.

[lawrywild]

Anyone managed to get AAM working on their harddrives on this mobo? Asus blames it on an incompatibility with A.I.Quiet...

When I enable with Hitachi Feature Tool it works until I reboot then goes back to default 254 setting...

[Deusfaux]

Looking at results form AT and places, my burst speed looks low on the seagate. they're all on the ICH7R

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...aux/segate.gif

And then I have no idea what the hell's going on with the raptors?! 8mb sectors then 32mb sectors test

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...x/raptors8.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6.../raptors32.gif

[anzial]

My MCH broke or something. I was experimenting with 9x425fsb, set mch to 1.75 in bios (vcore 1.55) and after like 5 hours of orthos computer rebooted... Now I can't get into windows even with mch=1.85v and fsb 425... Also, before this happened, I was 100% stable at 3.6ghz, 400 fsb, 1.65mch and 1.4vcore (several runs of orthos a few hours each). Now I need to raise mch to 1.75 to be stable.. What's going on here?

[WeldZilla]

you know I like these boards so much!! When offered a chance to get a refurbed Rev1.04G for next to nothing I just had to jump on it! What I really like abou this board is that I can run at 425 fsb for daily clock still and I toned back my mem from 3-3-3-4 to 4-4-4-4 at 2.2V my otherboard hates CL4 and only performs great at a steady 2.4V to the mem. Today I ran super pi 32M with my timings set @ 4-3-3-4 Which worked out nice since my fsb was at 434. I have been running at this speed 24/7 for the last 3 days no shut downs or reboots and always with folding runing on one core. Today I rebooted for the pi run and no folding.



guys if you look at my sig. I believe the biggest difference is the fact I am running G.Skill 6400HZ They are practically giving it away now at Newegg
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231065
I suggest you get it. Or let me keep buying these pieces of crap for nothing(thankyou very much) This is my 6th now. But this one I wanted for myself the whole time. They have all performed in this range. All of them.

WZ

[anzial]

weldzilla, instead of just braggin, you'd be much more appreciated by describing how you got fsb so high

[sniggle]

Wow that is a great deal on those HZ sticks. Makes me want to swap out for these crappy Corsair promos sticks I have, but it wouldn't really help me since this CPU is pretty much at its max anyway, unless I ran a 4:5 ratio on the ram. Meh..

[WeldZilla]

I have shown my bios settings in this thread. I have said more than once to buy the RIGHT memory. I have made enough suggestions. The only difference on the new board compared to the old is now I run less mem voltage and looser timings as I stated. I have actually gone back into the bios this afternoon and bumped the mem voltage to 2.25. It just feels more solid there.
The bios pics are posted. If you cant find them I will repost with my latest settings. Many of you should have no probs passing me by as many of you claim much cooler temps on air than i get with liquid. Right now it is a very warm afternoon here and my place is quite warm yet not warm enough to turn on central cooling system I am folding and f'ing around and my temp right now is 39/37. reminds me when I had my 2.4C running at 3637 for a daily clock, I told everyone the mem I was using that finally let me past 3200 and all the way to 3710 on my little 2.4C. Everyone whined but no-one changed. Buying that G.Skill memory is a steal right now at $169 for 2X1 gigs of 6400HZ and if you still can your board you still have the best memory going so what have you lost. Read this forum I have sen guys jump From 975 to 965 to 680 to 650 jeez hold still and make what you got work.
I swear some of you get a board and today and tommorrow it is a pos and you want something different. Well fine get something different but let it be your memory first. sniggle how do you know, even a divider is not a guarantee that you have maxed your cpu. That is how I picked so many of these board for nothing. You asked I am telling..... again I will post current bios shots if you like I know this is a long thread!
I do not like or use clockgen, to me that is a device to use for a 1M super pi run. To each their own.

WZ

[sniggle]

I meant that I would not run my CPU any faster than 3.6 since the temps are as high as I'd want them. Therefore, getting the HZ sticks would only be beneficial if I ran the memory divider higher or lowered the multiplier, but memory bandwidth doesn't mean as much as cpu speed for my uses, so it's not worth it at the moment.

[WeldZilla]

Well with the G.Skill you would with your fsb set to 400 you could run 1:1 with timings of 3-3-3-4 or 5 at worst. Which would just kick the crap out of 4-4-4-12!! Then if you were to ever get better cooling you would have the better memory on hand. See this is what I mean, for years complaints but no changes!! Or you couls be running your mem on the4:5 divider at 1000DDR with timings of 4-4-3-4 again speeding the hell out of your system...
But Nooooooooooooooooo you are content with your discontentment.
Here are the bios shots once again guys. The newer board shows 1.6 in the bios as compared to the old board which showed 1.632 in the bios when set to 1.65. Well here you go one more time.

Q-fans disabled.....old news. That Liberty has nice rails does yours?




Now about that memory issue you are having and don't know it.

Or 1:1 at 3-3-3-4 you decide people. Now earlier some said I was showing off my high clocks. No! this is showing off my high clocks!

Now there it's time to run looser
Try the memory you have nothing to lose!! If you still can the board you still got the good stuff for the next one!!

WZ