ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

[Arlequin]

Thank you

I got the picture.

[pee4]

So if someone who has Q6600 OC-ed on this MOBO could give me a hint i would be thankful.

My Q6600 G0 wouldn't go above 3.15Ghz on my P5WDH no matter what bios settings I used. Mine was one of the 1.65v MCH boards. I switched to P5K-E/Wifi but I have plenty of issues with this motherboard. I miss the stability and smoothness of the P5WDH. I can use my Q6600 G0 at 3.6Ghz in my P5K-E/Wifi but I am yet to find 100% stability on this motherboard.

[Towle]

I have an Asus and I have updated the Bios to 2205. I have an E6600 overclocked to 3.00ghz (on air) and it is working fine.. Will this CPU work with this MB with this bios ?

I would like some reassurance please ..

[w2richwood]

yes it will even 2004 bios or earlier

[jkresh]

it should post with 2004, but at least my board seems to have some issue with the g0 (takes forever to post and says invalid cpu microcode, I am considering going to one of the newer beta bios's).

[w2richwood]

ok i see now he has e66oo in one place there and q66oo in the other guess i should have read it better

[nrs250]

My Q6600 G0 wouldn't go above 3.15Ghz on my P5WDH no matter what bios settings I used. Mine was one of the 1.65v MCH boards. I switched to P5K-E/Wifi but I have plenty of issues with this motherboard. I miss the stability and smoothness of the P5WDH. I can use my Q6600 G0 at 3.6Ghz in my P5K-E/Wifi but I am yet to find 100% stability on this motherboard.

I have to agree with that. The P5W DH falls short in many ways when it comes to pushing the OC envelope, especiallly on a QUAD but there is no doubt that compared to many of the P35 and 680i boards, this board is a 24/7 stable board. Once you find a stable OC I have found the P5W DH to be very reliable. I am looking forward to the X38 boards but I am inclined to let some others be my "beta testers" of a 1st generation product, especially ASUS's wonderful 1st generation BIOSes on new chipsets.

[X7007]

just as the screenshot says

needed to give it 1.3800 stable

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=235041

another screenshot to show stability for 24hr FPU cpu test.




and another little question, is it ok to give 2.25 to CellShock memory ?

my memory is rated 2.1 - 2.2 800mhz.
2GB Cellshock (2X1024) DDR II - PC6400 4-4-4-12 (D9GMH) 800MHz
i would like to know if its ok, so my ram wont die after a few months.

with bios 2305 beta

[jkresh]

now 24hour stable at 3ghz with 1.36v actual using 2004, prime seems to be running fine at 3.2 with same voltage, if it is still running in a few hours I will try upping fsb again. (right now cpu is set to an fsb of 300 in bios and using clockgen to get up to 355 now, once its confirmed stable I will update bios fsb and play with clockgen again).

[happ]

24/7 stable at 3 ghz vCore 1.350 in bios, 1.32 actual in Windows. Memory 667 (1:1) 4 4 4 12. Using Lawrywild's 2004 bios. Coretemp 38 38 43 43 idle 60 60 65 65 load (Prime 95) In bios all set on auto except vcore and memory timings. Eist, C1 and Speedstep enabled.

Higher speed was either unstable, doesn't mater of bios settings, or to hot for my taste, so I find above setting the most stable and reliable for everyday use. Since I use my rig mostly for video encoding it is almost 100% (for x264) faster than my old E6600 at 3.3 ghz.

[lhmk]

just as the screenshot says

needed to give it 1.3800 stable

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=235041

another screenshot to show stability for 24hr FPU cpu test.




and another little question, is it ok to give 2.25 to CellShock memory ?

my memory is rated 2.1 - 2.2 800mhz.
2GB Cellshock (2X1024) DDR II - PC6400 4-4-4-12 (D9GMH) 800MHz
i would like to know if its ok, so my ram wont die after a few months.

with bios 2305 beta

Where can I get the Bios 2305 Beta? I will try it, too.

[crishan]

Maybe it was just a typo, but I'd also like to know where to get the 2305 beta Bios.

[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

[gwolfman]

another bios came out today, that and an update of the creative drivers(and loads of random tweaks) seems to of fixed it. i can now have all 4gb enabled without BSOD and i no longer have any sound issues ingame. THANK GOD!!!!

Link to the X-Fi drivers? I tried the download from their site and autoupdate as well and it didn't show anything new.

[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

[gwolfman]

I did a little FSB testing with the vMCH pencil mod today and thought I would post:

I've had my P5W DH for well over a year now so I figured I could push on it a little to see if something would break. Here are my results for pushing the vMCH:

**All voltages are measured on the board**

1.65 vMCH: 390 max FSB
1.67 vMCH: 401 max FSB
1.71 vMCH: 405 max FSB
1.75 vMCH: 411 max FSB
1.77 vMCH: 420 max FSB
1.81 vMCH: 423 max FSB (odd POSTing issues start)
1.85 vMCH: 425 max FSB (no where near stable, wouldn't POST 25% of the time)
1.91-2.0 vMCH: Would do 427-428 but had crazy rebooting issues which would put the board into some sort of over voltage protection mode which would limit the FSB down to like 290.

I settled at 420 FSB since it's stable enough and the northbridge is still only warm to the touch.

I am curious, what voltages are you guys getting on the board with the new rev boards which allow for 1.85 vMCH in the BIOS?

CPU-Z of the 420 I settled on:
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=234629

Thanks for the details, I'll give those voltages a try. What's your idle/load temps with 420 FSB?

[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.

[jkresh]

I seem to be stuck around 3.15 with the regular 2004, its perfectly stable at 1.37 v actual (and my temps are realy good) but even going up to 1.45 (actual) I cant get it stable at 3.2 (reboots after x amount of time, most was 5 hours). Temps are not an issue (speedfan is showing about 40c at 1.47 with full prime load for each core).

[teowws]

what brand of memory runs well in 4 X 1GB for vista 64 on this board?
I have 4 X 1 GB Corsair value ram and can never get Vista 64bit to install, keeps getting BSOD even with memory remap off (onboard still 4GB with 3GB useable). Takes off 1 stick and installation can start. my P5W-DH bios is 2301 and running E6850 cpu.
Try reshuffling the ram to go to different slot also not successful. The 4GB rams was working well previously in my Windows XP 32 bit although i can only detect 3GB in windows xp 32bit.
Any advise?

[John600rr]

Thanks for the details, I'll give those voltages a try. What's your idle/load temps with 420 FSB?

CPU or Northbridge temps? I didn't record NB temps since I was not worried about them, but even at 1.9 vMCH the heat sink was only warm. Granted I have very good air flow.

CPU @ 3780 w/ 1.6 Vcore: Idles @ 32C and loads up around 70C after a few hours.

Just a lapped E6600 (29F), big typhoon, good air flow and 22C ambient temp.