ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

[GFORCE100]

Judging by the INSANE amount of thermal grease I see on the underside of the socket mounting clip, I think we know what your problem is.

You put too much thermal paste on there, and when the CPU was clamped down it oozed into the socket.

This is user error, and both Intel and ASUS are going to say sorry, no warranty.

Yes I 2nd that opinion, and what's with all the dust? Seems it needs a good blow-out.

[Potato Salad]

First off..is there a stable bios that does not enable the hd audio on a reboot?
Second how to flash to an earlier bios, I am using 2006 I tried to go back to earlier 2004 or 2005 tried 2103 It won't let me says it's older than the 1 I'm using..using ez-flash
I wantedto try Larrywild's 2004 bios but it won't let me..
Third, I was using Vista 64bit but started having major issues with programs crashing randomly, working fine 10min earlier then not starting up, windows error reporting poping up all the time..
I was using 4G ram Q6600 see sig.
So I have since reinstalled Vista Business 32bit and was having the same issue again, so I took out 2G ram and while doing that I was reading that by using all 4 dimms/4G I had to run ram at 667 only..What should the default voltage be for Q6600 1.24 and how high is safe? also my Corsair Voltage what is the default voltage for that 1.8-2.0 or higher and how high is safe?
It's Corsair XMS2 6400 timings of 5-5-5-12
I was forcing them to run 800 all the time before, and I swear they were working fine before at 800, but now not..
So right now everything is running perfect, Vista 32bit 2G ram running 800, Q6600 and bios 2006 except the HD audio bug..on reboot.
and my default stock score of 3dmark06 is now 11000, before I only get 9200-9400..??Vista64bit and 4Gram.
Also did a bit of case modding last weekend..
Bought an Antec Nine Hundred case..nice case except it has piss poor cable management, so I took my dremel to the back of it and made some exit holes to hide wires..cut a hole in the bottom of it to mount the PS the right way..
Now motherboard temps are 31 degrees and cpu shows 23 according to Everest..

[Potato Salad]

memory stuff

[Chrysalis]

no, EIST shouldn't do that. Check the DMA status on your host drive instead.

already been suggested the drives are defenitly in dma mode, or its been reported wrong, althoughit was acting like pio mode it isnt the case.

I have noticed tho that when not using ahci or raid it just uses the slow microsoft drivers I guess intel dont deem it worthy developing drivers for the normal ide mode. I plan to test it on multiboot to see if the stuttering is gone in ahci with eist disabled.

[BulldogPO]

So, should I update to bios version 2206, or not?

[nickfd]

Judging by the INSANE amount of thermal grease I see on the underside of the socket mounting clip, I think we know what your problem is.

You put too much thermal paste on there, and when the CPU was clamped down it oozed into the socket.

This is user error, and both Intel and ASUS are going to say sorry, no warranty.

Well, I don't expect ASUS to replace my mb, since I already voided the warranty by putting on the nb cooler. However, I'm crossing my fingers with Intel.

Yes, I guess I did put a bit of a glob of as5, but when I took the chip out of the socket, there was no paste on the bottom of it.

And like I mentioned, I got it to post and begin starting up, but it got too hot with my pump dead, not moving the water, so I had to shut it down. The CPU *may* be ok if I can clean off the oxidation properly.

I'll still be trying to rma it tho.

I'll update with progress as it comes.

[nickfd]

Can someone please remind me what the really good, huge, air cpu cooler was that people got close to watercooled temps and overclockability with?

Was it the Thermaltake CL-P0114: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835106061

Or Zalman CNPS9500: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835118223

Or the Tuniq Tower 120: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835154001

K, found someone with the Thermaltake, lapped, getting REALLY low temps. Gonna get that. http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=152722

[lawrywild]

Tuniq Tower 120
Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme

[fornowagain]

Can someone please remind me what the really good, huge, air cpu cooler was that people got close to watercooled temps and overclockability with?

Big enough?



http://forum.abit-usa.com/showthread.php?t=126195

[lawrywild]

Fornowagain, the IFX-14 was a big disappointment and is inferior to the Ultra-120 Extreme... (which is cheaper and smaller)

PS: I still haven't got a refund from Eclipse.... :/

[nickfd]

Tuniq Tower 120
Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme

URL says Thermaltake

I ordered that + Gigabyte p35 dq6 motherboard. After checking a lot of reviews and a bunch of threads on here, much of the highest clocks were on that board. It sucks that ddr3 isn't backwards compatible with ddr2, so you have to pick one or the other when you're looking into new boards.

With the price of ddr3 now, (559$ for 2gb), I think i'm gonna stick with ddr2 for now.

I contacted the company I bought the cpu from, and they're going to ship me a new one, and I have to send mine back to them after I receive it. So I figure I will try to get the rest of the oxidation or scorch marks, or whatever they are off of the chip before I ship it back. Hopefully they won't make a fuss about it!

@fornowagain - lol that's intense heh.

[lawrywild]

I know the link says thermaltake but the thermalright ultra-120 extreme is much much better than any thermaltake heatsink.

[sbinh]

Well, I don't expect ASUS to replace my mb, since I already voided the warranty by putting on the nb cooler. However, I'm crossing my fingers with Intel.
.............

Put it back and RMA ...

[JLT2000]

for you patato salad take the 2004 mod by larrywild or beta bios 2103 the others is not running so great and i just flash it with my usb pen in dos no problems back and forward with afudos 221...

or use a floppy good luck

[miochza]

Just got my Q6600 G0 L24A760 in, testing it at stock volts currently, at 3.0 ghz prime stable 10 min so far. My VID is 1.2875 and my load volts are bouncing between 1.25-1.26. 2206 bios.

[MarcusTaz]

Just got my Q6600 G0 L24A760 in, testing it at stock volts currently, at 3.0 ghz prime stable 10 min so far. My VID is 1.2875 and my load volts are bouncing between 1.25-1.26. 2206 bios.

Nice!!

Air or water cooled?

[miochza]

Water, load temps are ~38 C, 38 C, 43 C, 43 C at 21 C ambient

[MarcusTaz]

Can you try 400 FSB x9 for a 3.6Ghz and let me know if that proc will do it?

[nicepun]

Just got my Q6600 G0 L24A760 in, testing it at stock volts currently, at 3.0 ghz prime stable 10 min so far. My VID is 1.2875 and my load volts are bouncing between 1.25-1.26. 2206 bios.

What rev mobo do you have?

[Lee13168]

Hey, i have a huge problem with my p5w. Im hitting fsb wall of 335 and its unstable that high. Currently im at 330x9 so my e6600 is around 3.0. I tried everything and i cant solve the problem. My bios is 1901, is updating it gonna help it anyway? I didnt get around updating bios because im out of floppys. My cpu stepping is 6 revision b2 vcore at 1.280.
Ram gskill 1gbhz at ddr 1000 4-4-4-12. Mobo revision is c0. Did i get unlucky on my mobo or something is wrong with it?

[miochza]

Can you try 400 FSB x9 for a 3.6Ghz and let me know if that proc will do it?

I'll do some extensive OC testing tomorrow, I'm done for the night, pretty much conclusive that its 3 ghz stable at stock volts.

What rev mobo do you have?

Rev 1.02G
Probably one of the oldest versions, its pre 1.85 MCH

[nrs250]

Well I am expecting my Q6600 G0 in 4 days.

I upgraded to BIOS 2204. All is well.

Anyone have a Q6600 G0 running at stock stable on 2204? (not the modded flavor).

Should I go to the mod because why (someone help with this point)???

[nrs250]

I have a question about the BIOS flash utility:

1) I used a Win98 boot disk on a USB floppy (set BIOS up right to boot from it) and then inserted a second floppy with AFUDOS 2.11 on it (second floppy be so I made sure room was not an issue). I was able to type:

AFUDOS /oOLDBIOS1.rom

as per page 4-6 in the manual and it worked as expected.

Next:

I tried using a USB stick formatted in WinXP as an MSDOS boot disk (not the 98 version I describe above), I then put AFUDOS on it and repeated the procedure. It would not work. The USB key was a Sandisk 2GB U3 key. No go. I kept getting drive "write errors" on the AFUDOS /oOLDBIOS1.rom command after the flash was read. It seems to have an issue writing to the USB stick.

I even used this to prep the key and used Sandisk's U3 uninstall utility to make sure the key is clean and free of the U3 crap that Sandisk loads on it.

Can anyone tell me how you went about
1) getting a USB key to work with AFUDOS
2) what key did you use (if it even matters)
3) how you prepped or formatted the key.
4) what Windows boot disk you used (98, XP etc)

I will save the rant that we have a damn QUAD CORE processor and we are using 1990 floppies to flash mobos in 2007.

[nicepun]

Rev 1.02G
Probably one of the oldest versions, its pre 1.85 MCH

O.K., I have 1.02g 1.85mch version and no matter what I tried I was never able to change the vcore from "Auto". So I've moved on to the Asus P5K Premium. TTFN!!

[bichi]

O.K., I have 1.02g 1.85mch version and no matter what I tried I was never able to change the vcore from "Auto". So I've moved on to the Asus P5K Premium. TTFN!!

P5WDH; Rev 1.02g; 66M0AG; 1.65MCH; BIOS: 2206; Purchased: Jul 29, 2006
- setup for testing only
- VCore set to 1.25vdc
- C1E and EIST both disabled
- CPU-Z v1.40.9b (cpuz.ini - Sensor=OFF to show Core VID)
- reboot and BIOS pix taken

No problems with VCore or any other settings with any BIOS
- maybe the newer revs are the ones affected?