ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

[mikepaul]

May be able to get u running higher or more stable if you post all your BIOS settings. What BIOS u using. Is your memory rev 2.1 - mine runs fine with WRT=4 @ DDR800.

I'm no longer confident that any post-mortem message I get means much. It crashed again at lunch to the Blue Screen mentioning why Windows was shut down to prevent damage. The BIOS change for Write Recovery was apparently useless, as is running Orthos to see if my system is stable.

One point I discussed with a friend at lunch is the iffy power supply cable I had not been using much until this rebuild. It had been feeding only the floppy drive due to oddball things hapening when anything else was attached, but I've been feeding the extra case fans off it since the rebuild so the first thing I'll do when I get home is build a bigger octopus out of the one (apparently) trouble-free cable I do have and see what results: hopefully not a fire. No SATA-to-4PIN adapters in sight to make use of the other cables.

I do have a new modular Zalman ZM 600HP PSU on order from Amazon, but it's now delayed until an estimated July 10 ship date (originally May 26 or so). If it wasn't nearly $60 cheaper than NewEgg I'd have gone elsewhere long ago.

BIOS: 1707
CPU Freq: 410
DRAM freq: DDR2-820Mhz
Performance: Turbo
PCI-X Freq: 100
PCI Clock: 33.33Mhz
vCore: Auto
vFSB: 1.50V
vMCH: 1.55V
vICH: Auto

vRAM: 2.10V since I forgot where it fits into the list.

RAM details: Corsair TWIN2XP2048-6400C4
CAS: 4
RAS: 4
RAS to CAS: 4
RAS Activate to Precharge: 12
Write Recovery: soon to be 4 again since 5 didn't prevent crash.
Hyperpath: Disabled
DRAM throttling: Disabled
Remap: Disabled

Didn't write down anything else or get RAM specs from CPU-Z, but I'm not sure what else is critical...