ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

[yoman]

What mem divider and fsb?

400Mhz FSB MEM dividier 1:1
those 400Mhz of FSB is stabile and tested couple of hours with Prime so thats not the prob i think

if u meant about mem div and FSB for 1150Mhz i dont really reember it wasnt this board

[cujo]

No I haven't... I didn't think it'd be a CD problem. The drivers are on the floppy disk, and it's supposed to read those at the "Copying files" portion of the setup, but it only tries to read them from the CD. It's weird, cuz it reads the files fine off of the floppy when I'm at the "Press S" stage.

the only time i've ever had a problem copying files from the cd on install was either a bad cdrom or ram.

[crazyea]

No I haven't... I didn't think it'd be a CD problem. The drivers are on the floppy disk, and it's supposed to read those at the "Copying files" portion of the setup, but it only tries to read them from the CD. It's weird, cuz it reads the files fine off of the floppy when I'm at the "Press S" stage.

Are these drivers made via the m/b cd or downloaded from the net (ie intel's website)?

[BulldogPO]

I'm wondering if my memory has died. They are D9GMH and 120mm fan cooled.
I have been feeding them 2.25V and they are working at DDR945 rock solid(378MHz FSB and 4:5), timings are 4-4-3-1.
Now after I flashed bios 2004 final my comp became unstable at any settings, no matter what FSB and even with 1:1 divider and timings by SPD memtest86 gives errors if Vdimm is under 2.3V.
I will try other memorys today.

[cbell]

Are these drivers made via the m/b cd or downloaded from the net (ie intel's website)?

Problem solved. Turned out that it was the CD. I downloaded a new XP CD, and that one worked fine. It's odd though, the one I was trying to install with in the first place was a legal retail version, and the setup wasn't running properly. It's not like the CD was scratched or something, cuz there was no read error, it was just skipping a step in the installation. Ah well, it's working now. Thanks for the help

[jnolla]

Need Help:

If I do this:
FSB Wall at around 360-370 fsb - Enable SPD timings option in Chipset section of bios.

I can get the system running stable at 3.6Ghz; but I'm not able to set timings on the Memory. I want to run at 5-5-5-15-42-3-11-7-13. Can anyone tell me how I can set these up havnig SPD timings Enabled?

Thanks

[Gig4moller]

Get MemSet 3.2 and have it apply those timings each time you boot.

[sesdave]

I'm wondering if my memory has died. They are D9GMH and 120mm fan cooled.
I have been feeding them 2.25V and they are working at DDR945 rock solid(378MHz FSB and 4:5), timings are 4-4-3-1.
Now after I flashed bios 2004 final my comp became unstable at any settings, no matter what FSB and even with 1:1 divider and timings by SPD memtest86 gives errors if Vdimm is under 2.3V.
I will try other memorys today.

I take it you have flashed back to original BIOS u were using to check the memory before deciding it may have died!. Id be suprised if your memory has died - 2.25v isnt excessive for D9s at all. More like the 2004 BIOS doesnt like the settings/memory u are using .

[jagt]

How's you experience using dividers on this board? I normally run 400x9, and I just can't get the damn thing to post using the 1000MHz divider, no matter what timings and voltage I give the dimms. They're all D9GMH and should be perfectly capable of doing so. Highest I'm able to boot using this divider is around 390MHz FSB. Any tips?

[cbell]

Got my RAID up and running... I ran a test with HD Tach, but I can't find a benchmark to compare my setup to. Are these numbers decent? (I'm not sure how to upload a pic)

Burst Speed: 367.9 MB/s
Random Access: 13.2 ms
CPU Utilization: 1%
Average Read: 90.7 MB/s

2 x Seagate 7200 16MB buffer 320GB in RAID-0

[sesdave]

How's you experience using dividers on this board? I normally run 400x9, and I just can't get the damn thing to post using the 1000MHz divider, no matter what timings and voltage I give the dimms. They're all D9GMH and should be perfectly capable of doing so. Highest I'm able to boot using this divider is around 390MHz FSB. Any tips?

Umfortunately for me I got rev 2.1 sticks which are promos so no chance of much higher than stock speed. You have 4x1GB sticks which will stress the memory controller and the board a lot more than 2 sticks so you should be pretty happy running 390 on a 4:5 divider. 10 mhz on FSB is going to make not a lot of difference at the end of the day.

[sbinh]

How's you experience using dividers on this board? I normally run 400x9, and I just can't get the damn thing to post using the 1000MHz divider, no matter what timings and voltage I give the dimms. They're all D9GMH and should be perfectly capable of doing so. Highest I'm able to boot using this divider is around 390MHz FSB. Any tips?

Have you tried set RAM timing SPD to ENABLED and also increased FSB voltage ???

[jagt]

Umfortunately for me I got rev 2.1 sticks which are promos so no chance of much higher than stock speed. You have 4x1GB sticks which will stress the memory controller and the board a lot more than 2 sticks so you should be pretty happy running 390 on a 4:5 divider. 10 mhz on FSB is going to make not a lot of difference at the end of the day.

That's true, but the same thing happens if I use 2x1GB. Also, it posts at 390, but that doesn't make it stable. It hard-locks memtest. I need to work more on it, but I'd like to keep my 400FSB for 3.6GHz (nice round number). How much performance gain are we talking about going from 800 to 1000MHz with a divider?

[jagt]

Have you tried set RAM timing SPD to ENABLED and also increased FSB voltage ???

No. SPD on this board sets my RAM to something awful like 6-5-5-15
I have maxed both northbridge and FSB voltage.

[sbinh]

No. SPD on this board sets my RAM to something awful like 6-5-5-15
I have maxed both northbridge and FSB voltage.

Nobody likes that .. but by doing so, you can boot into windows and use memset to make changes ...

I can run my E6600@ 3906Mhz ... on water .... FSB:RAM = 1:1 .....

[cujo]

anyone know why i wouldn't be able to change the cas in memset? it shows options 3-6 but it won't let me change it from 5.

[BulldogPO]

Damn, now I have problem with brand new P5W DH v1.04G and E6600, just does not post, no video.
Waterchill NB block and Swiftec Apogee.
I try to find PC beeper so I can hear if mobo gives any errorcodes.

[sesdave]

That's true, but the same thing happens if I use 2x1GB. Also, it posts at 390, but that doesn't make it stable. It hard-locks memtest. I need to work more on it, but I'd like to keep my 400FSB for 3.6GHz (nice round number). How much performance gain are we talking about going from 800 to 1000MHz with a divider?

Check this arcticle out - lots of detail and the author knows his stuff. http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mem...ory-guide.html
according to this It looks like you would be better 1:1 with tight timings at 400FSB.

[cbell]

Does anyone know if volume write-back cache should be enabled in the Matrix Storage Manager when using a RAID 0 array? Intel says it's only for RAID 5, but when I enabled it, my HDTach results increased by a rediculous amount (Burst Speed went up by over 10x).

Does enabling this feature actually make this big a difference? Or does it somehow just screw up the results from HDTach?

[jagt]

What does this "Performance mode" thing do? It can be set to auto, standard or turbo. I've always left it at auto.

[lawrywild]

I've always used Turbo but never seen any difference between them..

[GFORCE100]

I've always used Turbo but never seen any difference between them..

It increases the FSB slightly and also overclocks the GPU from what I could gather. I'm not sure how it decides to overclock the GPU but I definitely remember it doing this when I had a 6800GTO on the then P5AD2-E Premium.

[BulldogPO]

I solved my problem.
D9GMH´s are broken, kind of as they wont even post at 2.1V anymore.

[Burner27]

It increases the FSB slightly and also overclocks the GPU from what I could gather. I'm not sure how it decides to overclock the GPU but I definitely remember it doing this when I had a 6800GTO on the then P5AD2-E Premium.

I doubt it overclocks the GPU as I have mine set to turbo and CPUz reports my FSB as 1067.4. It might overclock the PCIe port a wee bit but it does nothing to the GPU as my 8800GTX reports stock speeds.

[davexl]

Hi guys,

I want to take a pair of hard drives that are currently in the EZYRAID (RAID0) my older P5W-DH, and put them in a newer P5W-DH.

Can I just plug them in and hope, or is this naive, suicidal and asking them to be wiped?