ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

[GLENBOY]

if i could switch my p5wdh deluxe rev1 for the latest revision at no cost, just the messing around swapping them over... would it be worth it???
would i get a better overclock if its a perfect board with the higher mch and possibly other refinement through each revision...
would i have to change anything in the os or will everything run just the same. wondering about the chipset drivers and firmware. or will everything be stored on my hard drives. will it boot up a G0 with an early bios or should i just swap the bios chips... or should i just hope it boots and then flash....
thanks for any assistance, i just like to be reasonably sure about what i'm doing.....

yes you could change the board and you would not need to put any drivers etc back , but to be honest if you were going to swap out your board you might as well get the x38, or i would keep what you have already imho, if you did change the board if you used bios 2103 thats a stable one and has the cpu codes for the G0 steppings

[nrs250]

yes you could change the board and you would not need to put any drivers etc back , but to be honest if you were going to swap out your board you might as well get the x38, or i would keep what you have already imho, if you did change the board if you used bios 2103 thats a stable one and has the cpu codes for the G0 steppings

A lot of people on boards seem to swap out boards like they were changing socks. I have a question.. When I get my board stable...I have tons of settings, program installs (maybe 15 must have programs for me)..bookmarks (I know these are easy to save) etc. Does everyone do a fresh OS install...What is your method for swapping out a board... Does anyone do a swap with the old install intact...i.e. a Windows Repair install. I would be fascinated because many times for me it is not the cost but the headache of losing a night's sleep having to rebuild the new board to the way I used to have it and the way I liked it.

I am trying to see if there is a less troublesome way to approach this process. With X38 and X48 coming out I am excited at the prospect of new OC options but I am trying to prepare for it as best I can.

[John600rr]

A lot of people on boards seem to swap out boards like they were changing socks. I have a question.. When I get my board stable...I have tons of settings, program installs (maybe 15 must have programs for me)..bookmarks (I know these are easy to save) etc. Does everyone do a fresh OS install...What is your method for swapping out a board... Does anyone do a swap with the old install intact...i.e. a Windows Repair install. I would be fascinated because many times for me it is not the cost but the headache of losing a night's sleep having to rebuild the new board to the way I used to have it and the way I liked it.

You can sometimes get away with a repair install when changing mobos. Depends on chipset usually, but it's kinda a crap shoot. I always format and reinstall.

I look at it two ways:

1. Your changing motherboard every 6 months or more: Just do a format and reinstall since you could probably use on anyway.

2. Your changing your motherboard less than every 6 months: You've got the cash to setup a second low cost system and set it up the way you want and then set up your extreme rig and change mobos like mad.

[Mixman]

I have a P5W DH and a OCZ520ADJ SLI.

I just put my old system into a new case. It did work for 6 mos together. Now in order to get it started I have to flick th power switch on the psu. It then comes on. Once on, it will stay on and work fine, but a few minutes after shutdown and I cannot power the system on without using the PSU power switch and then it comes on automatically and boots up. The green light on the motherboard does stay on. I checked all of the connections for a short and cannot find one.

Is my motherboard bad ?

[gwolfman]

(First off, disregard the CPU is too hot! error)

I'm testing a QX6700 in my motherboard 333FSB x 10 multiplier and had to up the voltage in the BIOS to 4.325V but runs @ ~4.16V. When I ran OOCT with the voltage set lower, it would error out right about when the vCore seemed to drop to 1.35. Does the following image illustrate what is known as vdroop?




What does the following picture represent with the 12v going up and down like that?

[gwolfman]

(First off, disregard the CPU is too hot! error)

I'm testing a QX6700 in my motherboard 333FSB x 10 multiplier and had to up the voltage in the BIOS to 4.325V but runs @ ~4.16V. When I ran OOCT with the voltage set lower, it would error out right about when the vCore seemed to drop to 1.35. Does the following image illustrate what is known as vdroop?




What does the following picture represent with the 12v going up and down like that?

Looks like I got passed up. Anyone?

[~aoe~]

I have a P5W DH and a OCZ520ADJ SLI.

I just put my old system into a new case. It did work for 6 mos together. Now in order to get it started I have to flick th power switch on the psu. It then comes on. Once on, it will stay on and work fine, but a few minutes after shutdown and I cannot power the system on without using the PSU power switch and then it comes on automatically and boots up. The green light on the motherboard does stay on. I checked all of the connections for a short and cannot find one.

Is my motherboard bad ?

I recently had a strange problem with another motherboard. Whilst not the same problem, it was sort of similar.

After changing the CPU and chipset heatsinks on my 2nd system (Opteron 170 on A8N32-SLi), I tried to increase my OC by upping the voltages. I wasn't able to get the system stable, so dropped back to the previous OC. However, after these changes, the PC was unable to fully switch off. Windows would fully close down, but the fans would just keep spinning until I switched off the PSU. The same problem occurred when trying to Restart (would hang in BIOS with all fans spinning).

After trying to increase the OC again, I had a boot failure that reset the BIOS to defaults. After this, the problem disappeared. Even after reapplying the OC settings in BIOS, the problem was gone.

Long story, but I think it was something in BIOS that was causing this problem, and by resetting to defaults, it seems to have fixed it. May be worth trying.

[Mixman]

I recently had a strange problem with another motherboard. Whilst not the same problem, it was sort of similar.

After changing the CPU and chipset heatsinks on my 2nd system (Opteron 170 on A8N32-SLi), I tried to increase my OC by upping the voltages. I wasn't able to get the system stable, so dropped back to the previous OC. However, after these changes, the PC was unable to fully switch off. Windows would fully close down, but the fans would just keep spinning until I switched off the PSU. The same problem occurred when trying to Restart (would hang in BIOS with all fans spinning).

After trying to increase the OC again, I had a boot failure that reset the BIOS to defaults. After this, the problem disappeared. Even after reapplying the OC settings in BIOS, the problem was gone.

Long story, but I think it was something in BIOS that was causing this problem, and by resetting to defaults, it seems to have fixed it. May be worth trying.

Tried a total cmos reset and am using default settings. The system still will not start up without me "jumpstarting" the psu. I bumped into another P5W DH owner who is having similar problems. Hmmm.....

At first I was leaning at a psu solution, but once I get the system jumpstarted, it works fine. I can even overclock by a good amount. I think if the psu was faulty, I would be able to do that. I am just dreading spending the money to get another board right now.

[w2richwood]

Tried a total cmos reset and am using default settings. The system still will not start up without me "jumpstarting" the psu. I bumped into another P5W DH owner who is having similar problems. Hmmm.....

At first I was leaning at a psu solution, but once I get the system jumpstarted, it works fine. I can even overclock by a good amount. I think if the psu was faulty, I would be able to do that. I am just dreading spending the money to get another board right now.

try unhooking any usb device and in bios under power power off after power off to off hope this helps
Rich

[Nitrium]

I have a P5W DH and a OCZ520ADJ SLI.

I just put my old system into a new case. It did work for 6 mos together. Now in order to get it started I have to flick th power switch on the psu. It then comes on. Once on, it will stay on and work fine, but a few minutes after shutdown and I cannot power the system on without using the PSU power switch and then it comes on automatically and boots up. The green light on the motherboard does stay on. I checked all of the connections for a short and cannot find one.

Is my motherboard bad ?

I've started to have the same problem two weeks ago, but it doesn't happens always. I'm starting to think that the motherboard is faulty. I've already checked all connections too and didn't find any problem.

[kensweep]

A lot of people on boards seem to swap out boards like they were changing socks. I have a question.. When I get my board stable...I have tons of settings, program installs (maybe 15 must have programs for me)..bookmarks (I know these are easy to save) etc. Does everyone do a fresh OS install...What is your method for swapping out a board... Does anyone do a swap with the old install intact...i.e. a Windows Repair install. I would be fascinated because many times for me it is not the cost but the headache of losing a night's sleep having to rebuild the new board to the way I used to have it and the way I liked it.

Mate you raise a very important issue. When one considers the time it takes to configure and install everything, you'd be nuts to want to waste that time again, it can be literally days over time.

Well I have good news for you. Without wanting to sound like a viagra salesman (though PM if you want that - joke) there's a 100% reliable solution.

Acronis True Image with Universal Restore.

As long as you have made a backup using TI of your preferred setup - and if you haven't, you should have on day one anyway - ATI w UR *ALWAYS* lets you restore your Windows image to any PC hardware. Saves taking a chance. Saves reinstalling the 97-odd security updates released since XP SP2 if you use XP's Repair function. Costs money of course.

UR uses Windows' generic drivers to allow you to boot. Then soon as you install the chipset drivers everything's hunky dorey. In my case it takes 10 mins.

With respect to the person who replied to you first, because I appreciate we all use PCs differently, you'd be mad to want to reinstall all your again. It can take an age. There's no need if you have a clean reliable backup.

Peace.

Now someone help me with my PCI issue please!

[mlbspike]

A nice option ... only downside being the price. $100 isn't outrageous ... I may spring for it, if I wind up doing this more than twice a year, but for now I'll stick with ghost 2003 ... yes, I have to do a repair install ... but I've got decent broadband ... the Windows updates didn't take an excessive amount of time ... Moved a work machine from an old intel MB, with a 3.8 processor, to a P5K deluxe, with a Q6600, with little trouble. More interesting test comes next ... moving from P5WDH (motherboard Silicon Image raid0) to P5K deluxe, raid0. hmmm.
And why not install from scratch ... dozens of programs, with associated keys, serial numbers, and/or passwords ... in my case at least ... a nightmare.

[nrs250]

Mate you raise a very important issue. When one considers the time it takes to configure and install everything, you'd be nuts to want to waste that time again, it can be literally days over time.

Well I have good news for you. Without wanting to sound like a viagra salesman (though PM if you want that - joke) there's a 100% reliable solution.

Acronis True Image with Universal Restore.

As long as you have made a backup using TI of your preferred setup - and if you haven't, you should have on day one anyway - ATI w UR *ALWAYS* lets you restore your Windows image to any PC hardware. Saves taking a chance. Saves reinstalling the 97-odd security updates released since XP SP2 if you use XP's Repair function. Costs money of course.

UR uses Windows' generic drivers to allow you to boot. Then soon as you install the chipset drivers everything's hunky dorey. In my case it takes 10 mins.

With respect to the person who replied to you first, because I appreciate we all use PCs differently, you'd be mad to want to reinstall all your again. It can take an age. There's no need if you have a clean reliable backup.

Peace.

Now someone help me with my PCI issue please!

Are you using Acronis True Image 10 ? I have that one.