ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

[w2richwood]

ok here ya go beta bios http://support.asus.com/download/dow...Language=en-us hope it works for ya

[Bloke]

ok here ya go beta bios http://support.asus.com/download/dow...Language=en-us hope it works for ya

There is definitely a 2301 BETA BIOS there but no sign of 2305

[eblaster101]

got my q6600 go stepping but got weird on bios i set to 390 x8 so i rebooted to find it shows 3.51ghz vcore is 1.41 i think around that area.

but when i open cpu z it shows 3.123. but when i right click my computer shows 3.51ghz again.

anyone shed some light on this using new latest bios

also after i installed the new cpu it takes like 6min to load up windows i dont know why it shows windows sign with scroll bar forever i tried safe mode etc. do i need to format? was perfect on e6600

[eblaster101]

quick update guys changed multiplyer to 9 and now it shows correct reading it seems stable done orthos for a while.

reports 3.4ghz easily and i havent pushed it properly yet. getting stupid temperatures 43 idle and 70 load??? i layed the As5 a bit thicker than usual i will prob have to undo that now.

[equilibrium]

I just tried the 2206 BIOS and the CPU fan still runs at 100% also there is another problem where you cannot disable the onboard Audio.

So I thought I'd give the 2301 BIOS a go just to see and it seems to be the same as the 2206 but I put the audio into vista mode and then disabled it, so now it seems to be detected as a unknown device.

I'm just using speedfan to get my cpu fan down to 75%-80% so it's not noisy, need to find something similar for linux now tho

I notice the BIOS program only allows updates aswell, I was going to try the 1305 or even 1503 BIOS if I could get it to force a downgrade

[w2richwood]

you have to use afudos to down grade bios and older one 2.12 or something like that

[equilibrium]

you have to use afudos to down grade bios and older one 2.12 or something like that

n1

I tried loads of BIOSes but ended up going all the way back to the 1305 which I was already on before.

BIOS's I tried:

1305 - been running it for nearly a year, no probs so far
1503 - CPU Fan Problem (100% all the time)
1506 - CPU Fan Problem (100% all the time)
1601 - CPU Fan Problem (100% all the time)
2004 - CPU Fan Problem (100% all the time) - had hardware crash in quake4
2206 - CPU Fan Problem (100% all the time) & Unable to disable onboard Audio
2301 - CPU Fan Problem (100% all the time) & Unable to disable onboard Audio

[pee4]

got my q6600 go stepping but got weird on bios i set to 390 x8 so i rebooted to find it shows 3.51ghz vcore is 1.41 i think around that area.

but when i open cpu z it shows 3.123. but when i right click my computer shows 3.51ghz again.

anyone shed some light on this using new latest bios

also after i installed the new cpu it takes like 6min to load up windows i dont know why it shows windows sign with scroll bar forever i tried safe mode etc. do i need to format? was perfect on e6600

Are you saying you have a Q6600 G0 stable at 3.51Ghz on a P5WDH? If so, do you have the 1.65V MCH version or the 1.85V MCH version of the P5WDH?

Because I thought with the quads on this board we were limited to about 3.2Ghz? If the latest bios has fixed that, I might dump my P5K-E and come back to P5WDH.

[eblaster101]

Are you saying you have a Q6600 G0 stable at 3.51Ghz on a P5WDH? If so, do you have the 1.65V MCH version or the 1.85V MCH version of the P5WDH?

Because I thought with the quads on this board we were limited to about 3.2Ghz? If the latest bios has fixed that, I might dump my P5K-E and come back to P5WDH.

yes my q6600 is solid stable at 3.5ghz 390x9 i dont know how to check the verson of the board but on cpuz it sais REV0 and REV.1 XX. If you tell me how to check i will gladely do so and im using 2301. My fsb voltage is maxed at 1.5v and mch at 1.75v need to check this again will confirm but its definetly rock solid stable. but if i got higher its not working it just reboots when it shows windows screen at 400x9 i tried 1.5v still no go.

[~aoe~]

i dont know how to check the verson of the board but on cpuz it sais REV0 and REV.1 XX. If you tell me how to check i will gladely do so and im using 2301.

Board revision is printed on the board just above the memory slots.

[pee4]

yes my q6600 is solid stable at 3.5ghz 390x9 i dont know how to check the verson of the board but on cpuz it sais REV0 and REV.1 XX. If you tell me how to check i will gladely do so and im using 2301. My fsb voltage is maxed at 1.5v and mch at 1.75v need to check this again will confirm but its definetly rock solid stable. but if i got higher its not working it just reboots when it shows windows screen at 400x9 i tried 1.5v still no go.

Thanks for that. You've done well. I seem to have my P5K-E/Wifi stable now with Q6600 G0 at 3.6Ghz using 1.4875 vcore in bios and Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme cooler. The rest of the bios settings for motherboard voltages are left at AUTO which is nice. So I think I'll stick with P5K-E now and sell my P5WDH. Thanks again.