ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

[lawrywild]

Id, there is something wrong with this bios. I just flashed to 2205, immediately after reboot, when I entered windows, it said: "Found new PCI-Device" - I was like "wtf?". I took me a while before i recognized it was one setting in bios that wouldn't be saved; more exactly "Disable onboard sound device". This is freakin' irritating, since I have X-Fi and don't want to use the onboard, it keeps popping up on every reboot. I haven't had any problems with anything else though, but this problem is extremely enoying.

I'm forced to just "disable" the yellow "?"(PCI-Device) in Device manager to keep it from popping up on every reboot. It helps, but I hate to have yellow "?" in my Device manager.

I have tried to revert back to 2004 - but I haven't figured out how to do it. When I try to flash back with Asus Update Utility(even with "Bios downgradable" enabled), It says: Warning! Bios date is older etc etc. Please use ASUS DOS. And when I use the Asus Ez Flash utility, it says the same; "Bios is older than current version" - and program ends back to main menu.

I really would like to flash back with AFUDOS, in DOS mode; however here comes my problem: How can I flash with a bootable floppy when the bios file is too large to fit on a floppy? I mean, I made a bootable floppy disc and copied AFUDOS on it - but the bios file is over 1 mb large, so there's no space for it?

If anyone could explain it for me, I would appreciate it - and surely try to revert back to 2004.

Hope someone is able to help =)

Yes, and also for me it found pci modem (i assume the gigabit controller) which I had disabled in the bios. Just a seriously badly coded bios, nice one asus

edit: (as well as the onboard audio)

[roger_h99.nor]

Seems that this crappy little bugger has made it official..(Asus Web site).

Found this at Asus forums: (pay attention to the last paragraph!)

My system: E6600, 8800GTX, 4GB Corsair (dual), 640 Gb HDD, P5W DH Deluxe. Vista Ultimate.

I flashed 2103 several days ago and problems started. The system became totally unstable! PC hangs up even when I try to open file manager. In my E6600 core 1 is loaded for 5 - 7% and core2 - for 100%.
So it's no way to reboot or shut down the computer. Explorer stops responding completely
The rollback to bios 2004 does not help to solve the problem!
I've tried to tune the bios up in different ways - no chance to fix the bug!
BTW, Asus had already removed 2103 from ftp. I asked the support of Asus in my country about the problem but until now - no response.

Now I flashed 2205. Loading the defaults after flash procedure to apply the new bios was a problem - the defaults did not apply from the first time - I had to repeat it 3 times to make changes!!!

So - DO NOT FLASH to 2103!

Next thing:
How to get rid of existing 2205 bios.
Method 1.
Under Windows start AsusUpdate utility (from the original support CD)
Start flashing 2205 procedure. Straight after "Erase ROM" part is finished - kill the process with Task Manager or Process Explorer. That's it. You don't have any bloody bios at all.
Insert original motherboard CD to drive. Reboot. The system will start to recover bios from the CD. In my case I obtained finally bios ver. 0801.
Method 2.
Do the same without windows. Start AFUDOS.exe. Start flashing 2205. After it deletes the current ROM - just unplug the power from the outlet. The rest - is the same as above. Insert CD. Recover...

Link: http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?...Language=en-us