ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

[lawrywild]

Your SPD was never 4-4-4-15, rated timings aren't spd

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=128060

[experttech2007]

Thanks for the info.

[Amon 83]

Hi guys,
I want to know if one of you have made a bios mod for these mobo with the American trend program's? I ask you because i have the locked multiplayer on my qx6700 and anymore bios that i tested unlock it!
Can you help me with a bios mod? Thank you

[GFORCE100]

Hi guys,
I want to know if one of you have made a bios mod for these mobo with the American trend program's? I ask you because i have the locked multiplayer on my qx6700 and anymore bios that i tested unlock it!
Can you help me with a bios mod? Thank you

Very good question. The answer is no, not yet at least. Only BIOS 1506 and earlier allow changing the multiplier on Extreme CPU's. I don't know why Asus is being as pathetic to not understand this.

Here's hope hey.

[BenchZowner]

actually its BIOS v1601 and earlier [ lol I missed a key and typed earlies instead of earlier ]

[WeldZilla]

G.Skill 6400 HZ works just fine on my P5W DH boards.
Here are a couple shots for you.


Just incase you need proof it is G.Skill


This is 6400HZ to me, it is the best around

WZ

With my latest P5W DH I have broke into the 12minute50xx range with G.Skill HZ
You will note I had to loosen the timings just a bit!

Oh and if you really go nuts it will run 4 sticks also. I have run them up to 417fsb but it runs out real
smooth here


I just love my P5W's. So much in fact I have yet another one headed my way!!
Lucky number 13. I am keeping this one too.

WZ

[Cornel]

Hello, i need some help...

What ram shold i select? i shall have 4GB

Corsair Dominator TWIN2X6400C4D 2048MB, DDR2,2x1GB(KIT),DHX,E.P.P, CL4-4-4-12T

or

Crucial DDR2 BallistiX PC8500 2048MB CL5 ,Kit w/two matched BallistiX 128Megx64

I am currently running at 395 x 8 = 3.2 ghz, and are not planning to overclock any more, maybe raise it to 400, time will show...

[pr33tz]

Is it possible for the the P5W DH to boot up from a RAID card? I have a Rocket Raid 2310 PCI-E card with 4 x 320GB HD's and want to boot using these as I'm planning on getting rid of the Raptors.

[jagt]

Does anyone know if it's possible to run one IDE DVD burner and one IDE HDD on the same IDE cable/channel on this board? I have one IDE HDD and one IDE DVD burner in my system, and it's so annoying that I have to use separate IDE cables for both of them. I have yet not gotten it to work, no matter what I've tried. It would make my cable management so much easier if I could ditch the other IDE cable!

[graham_h]

easiest fix for this board ??
Buy a P5K Deluxe...... all your problems go away

[nicepun]

Does anyone know if it's possible to run one IDE DVD burner and one IDE HDD on the same IDE cable/channel on this board? I have one IDE HDD and one IDE DVD burner in my system, and it's so annoying that I have to use separate IDE cables for both of them. I have yet not gotten it to work, no matter what I've tried. It would make my cable management so much easier if I could ditch the other IDE cable!

Make one a master and the other one a slave and see what happens.

easiest fix for this board ??
Buy a P5K Deluxe...... all your problems go away

PIC REMOVED TO KEEP IT SHORT

Ha ha, Cas 33 LOL

[jagt]

Make one a master and the other one a slave and see what happens.



Ha ha, Cas 33 LOL

Yeah well, I obviously tried that. It just finds the master, and the slave is gone. Is it in fact possible to run HDD + Optical on the same IDE cable on any motherboard?

[nicepun]

Yeah well, I obviously tried that. It just finds the master, and the slave is gone. Is it in fact possible to run HDD + Optical on the same IDE cable on any motherboard?

What are you running on the SATAS?

[jagt]

What are you running on the SATAS?

2x 200GB in RAID 0 and 2x 320GB on all the primary SATA ports (IC7H).

[nicepun]

2x 200GB in RAID 0 and 2x 320GB on all the primary SATA ports (IC7H).

Well, if you rather have a SATA Cable going across instead of an IDE cable, you can always get an IDE to SATA adapter and use the far left SATA plug.

[Family man 72]

Hello, i need some help...

What ram shold i select? i shall have 4GB

Corsair Dominator TWIN2X6400C4D 2048MB, DDR2,2x1GB(KIT),DHX,E.P.P, CL4-4-4-12T

or

Crucial DDR2 BallistiX PC8500 2048MB CL5 ,Kit w/two matched BallistiX 128Megx64

I am currently running at 395 x 8 = 3.2 ghz, and are not planning to overclock any more, maybe raise it to 400, time will show...

Get Ballistix, use 4:5 divider and see them fly

[EntityAT]

I have a GeForce 7300 and a 8800GTO, and I continually have problems when the computer tries to boot and run chkdsk. I get the first couple of bootup screens, followed by the XP Splash screen, but when the screen for checkdisk loads the video goes out, and while I can see the LED lit up and see it apparently trying to work/check the disk, I can't see any of the actual progress. I've left it for upwards of 1/2 an hour while the disk grinds away with no luck. The same thing is true when it tries to boot other programs that access the disk in a similar way (Acronis, Partition Magic). Any ideas what might be going on and how I could fix this?

Rob

[WeldZilla]

Well graham if all you are getting is 3600 with those lame memory timings , uh...... no thanks. Come back showing a daily clock of over 4050mhz with your p5K on air or liquid and I'll take a look as long as it has tight timings and can run pi in under 13 and hits over 23,000 on cpu score on aqmk3 and over 3500 cpu score on 3D06 and if not . go crap a different thread cuz 3600 is embarrasingly low and lame!

WZ

[SiliconValley]

easiest fix for this board ??
Buy a P5K Deluxe...... all your problems go away

What kind of problems ? This is a very stable board for me.

Anyway, at the same clock speed, P5W DH is still faster. I have both boards so I know.
But the P35 board does much better in FSB overclocking. Change the multiplier, Run it in 8 x 450 on the P5K and it'll man handle the very same chip running 9 x 400 on the P5W DH, period.

[lawrywild]

Only thing I dislike enough on this board to make me want to change it, is its crappy ram clocking ability. I can't even reach ddr2-1000 stable grrrr. I know some boards are better but mine just sucks with ram clocking but can do decent fsb on air, kinda strange...

[Amon 83]

actually its BIOS v1601 and earlier [ lol I missed a key and typed earlies instead of earlier ]

For me the only bios that unlock all multi is 1506 but if you give me the ucode error ! Isn't there anyone if can mod the bios for disabled the microcode update menù?

I have seen on the asus site under the cpu support 3 celeron supported from bios 2103 it's new? Do you know anthing about that?

Thank you and sorry for my bad english!

[zcwaa22]

Hi,

Im new to this forum so i hope this is the right place to post

I am having problems booting up my computer, my specs are as follows and all components are new;

Intel Core2DUo 6420
2Gb Corsair Ram
**Asus P5W DH Deluxe**

**Antec P150 with NeoHE 430W**

The light on the mainboard is on when the NeoHE's power switch is turned on but the machine only occasionally powers up when the cases' power button is pressed. It sometimes powers up fine, sometimes not at all and sometimes comes on 30secs to 10minutes later. I have rebuilt the system out the case many times and bought a 2nd Asus P5W DH Deluxe to check if i had a faulty mainboard but the problems persist.

I would like to RMA my case+PSU but i have read that the Neo HE series did have incompatiblilities with this mainboard, is this the case? I dont want to RMA it only to find that the PSU works fine and theres just an incomaptibility between components.

Please could you suggest what i should do next,

Thanks in advance

[dDub]

So, now that it's summer time here on the east coast and with things heating up i decided to grab another case fan and Northbridge cooler to keep the temps from raising in the warm weather...

First off i went with the easy install and threw in the case fan and attached it to Chassis 1 pins. Powered up, and nothing. Moved it to Chassis 2 and still nothing. hrmn. Plugged it into CPU and guess what, nothing. So the thought was that the fan is defective but i decided to prove it by unplugging one of the Power fans ... guess what this time, it worked! The deal was the same with the NB cooler so it's not defective products that i bought.

Trying to resolve the issue i tried default BIOS settings, various Q-Fan on/off and all sorts of combinations. The bottom line though is that with default settings everything should work, right? One thing i've noticed in the BIOS fans settings is a N/A reading for all but the PWR fans.

As a side note - PC Probe is not detecting any sensors whatsoever and i can't see or modify the position of the monitoring panels, it's stays stuck on "right" no matter where i change it. WHen i hit config, all i see is a blank white box .Could this somehow be related? CPU-Z, SpeedFan and Core Temp all seem to be working fine.

Is there something blatant that i'm missing or could it be a corrupt BIOS issue(2004)? I've looked here and elsewhere but can't find anything similar. Any ideas?

[WeldZilla]

Well I took delivery of my 14th P5W DH today I Have had great success with the previous 13!! Well I had to pull my P5N-E sli board out of WZ3 first. So tonight I tore apart one system and put together 2. A few shots of the action
It came from the Egg!!

As you can see my case was gutted like a fish and just waiting.

Together again!

I repaired widows so I could get my Intel ICH7 raid drivers back on so my raid would work. Then had to reinstall all the Windows updates including service pack 2. So while that was happening I put my P5N-E sli back together.
Oh and here is the speed I have been running right out of the box!!

OK back to the P5N-E

It too was up and running in no time!!

And my little 6400 on My P5N-E runs good too!!

See it is easy to get these P5W DH boards to run nice and fast!!!
Their little brothers too!
You will note I run G.Skill 6400HZ on both systems.
I also put on bios 2004
WZ

[skorzney]

Gday

Im new to this sort of thing and have been researching overclocking over the last few months.
I have been able to get my pc to 3.4 Ghz but sorta chickened out and am now running at 3ghz.
My question relates to Ram timings on this motherboard.

When i first overclocked the Cpu the motherboard automaticly chose 3200 as its ram setting and after reading this forum i have changed it to 834 Mhz. It now correctly shows me as 6400 in the bios post. I hope im making sense here. And now my question.

Since now my ram is running at 416Mhz will this make me out of sync with the bus speed of the cpu 333 mhz and is it safe to do this since i cant determine the temperature of my ram ?

I hope you can give me a few pointers as i have tried to make sence of all the forums but still have many questions.

My current specs are: ( is this a good system for overclocking ? )


Gigabyte Aurora Case (Black)
Themaltake 850w Power Supply
Asus P5W DH Deluxe Bios 2004 03/07/2007
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4Ghz running @ 3000 MHz (9 x 333)
Asus Silent Square over CPU
Leadtek Nvidia 8800 GTX 768mb
4 x 1GB Kingston 6400 DD2 800 running @ 416.8 Mhz FSBRAM 4:5
SoundBlaster X-Fi