ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

[mikepaul]

Yes - its rev 2.1 so its Promos chips. Runs fine 1:1 @400 but dont o/c much.

I'm not sure what rev mine is, but it tops out @410 1:1. ANYTHING higher eventually fails stress testing. No really GOOD reason to replace it just for that...

[sesdave]

I'm not sure what rev mine is, but it tops out @410 1:1. ANYTHING higher eventually fails stress testing. No really GOOD reason to replace it just for that...

You may get higher FSB on CPU with better ram - you also may not !. it propbably same as mine cos the early rev had micron d9 which clock way better.

[zoob]

Background:
P5WDH 2004 BIOS
Vista Ultimate X64
4 x 1 GB RAM
4 SATA hard drives (3 ICH7, 1 SIL)

Weirdest thing happened to me just now:

I started a video encoding job pegging my CPU at around 100% load.
The drive attached to the silicon image controller starts going nuts. At first I'm in a command prompt browsing directories, then next I can't list files in a few directories, then many directories.

I check event viewer and see the following:

- The device, \Device\Ide\iaStor0, did not respond within the timeout period.
- The shadow copy of volume F: could not create shadow copy storage on volume F:.
- The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume \Device\HarddiskVolume4.

Stuff on other drives were fine, no signs of instantaneous corruption.

I did a warm boot and the BIOS gets stuck detecting the drive on the SIL controller. Cold boot, it detects fine and I can access all of the files no sweat. Chkdsk reports no problems!

Damned Asus and EZ-RAID ports.