ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

[Creek Tha Gray]

Ok... I finally figured out what the problem is. When I save my OC profile it sets the C1E and Vcore to AUTO. The only way to fix it is to clear the BIOS (jumper). I tried clearing the BIOS before, but I loaded a saved OC profile right after, so it didn't work. Not sure why just saving a OC profile will do this, hmmm!

Even though I'm able to set the Vcore I can't get the board to go beyond 9x340MHz with a Q6600 CPU. I've went as high as 1.6V with all other voltages maxed, but it's a no go I have another identical CPU to this on a P35 board and it overclocks to 3.4GHz on air, so it's not the CPU.

Time to retire this mobo I guess.

same issue here had the mobo for some time just can't get the cpu above 3 ghz stable on it

Asus P5W DH Deluxe
Swiftech H20-apex ultra Water cooling, cpu only
Intel Core 2 Due Q6600 2.4ghz @ 3.1ghz
2x 2GB Mushkin Blue PC6400 @ DDR2 688mhz
3x 74GB WD SATA Raptors Raid 0, 2x 400GB WD SATA RE2 16mb Raid1, 2x 200GB WD SATA 8mb xp on one.
Pioneer DVD-RW, Xbox 360 HD DVD drive
ATI HD2900XT 1gb, X-fi Platnum
Antec NEO HE 500w power supply
Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows xp PRO x64, Dual Dell 2407FPW Monitors Woo!

[w2richwood]

thankz for the reply weldzilla yea i would love to have a e6600 some day owell 3.0 works good nuff on the e6400 dayly

[michaellundmark]

I have a problem with speedstep

First i had the E6600 Prosessor with the 2004 Bios and speedstep was working fine. Then i changed to Bios 2206 because i was to change the prosessor to Q6600. I don´t know if speedstep was working then.
And now i have changed to Q6600 and speedstep won´t work. Everytime i set speedstep Enable it disable it automatic everytime i restart the computer, How come? I have even tried the 2301 Beta Bios with no success.

[mikepaul]

OK, so when I replaced the power supply and cranked the OC back up to my previously acceptable speed listed in my sig, Orthos went way over 62C and leaving video transcoding to run overnight found the computer rebooted in the morning.

So, I reinstalled the Thermaltake V1 cooler with fresh AS5 and it didn't help. Even the 30% OC profile seems to run hotter than before.

Can you break a motherboard so that the cooler doesn't clamp down tight enough to dissipate the heat? Is it obvious when you look? I'll admit I wan't careful when I moved the computer back when the Arctic 7 cooler was on, but I didn't think I had done permanent damage: I figured the cooler had stopped working. All 4 legs seem to be firmly in-place, but I'm no expert.

I'm now wondering if I should pass on buying once of those CoolIt peltier coolers and get a fresh motherboard. I'd be ticked if I spent the $500 and found that even that cooler wasn't able to do a good job...

[WeldZilla]

w2richwood so you sit at 3000mhz. A fsb speed of 375, where are you running your mem? How have you got that page in your bios set up? ARe you sure that is not the reason you can't pass 375? At that speed you may well run it at 3-3-3-3 easily I should think at 3-3-3-4. Or are you running a divider? One thing people need to remember is when you get your cpu as far as it will go. it is time to turn to your memory and get it as tweaked as possible.

Hey michaellundmark did you read the last section in the P5WDH manual that came with your board about finishing the setup of EIST pages A-1 A-2. for the life of me I don't know why you would want your cpu to throttle back for any reason but hey different strokes.

w2richwood Memory settings look like this? Well at this point perhaps your timings don't but everything else?



WZ

[w2richwood]

OK, so when I replaced the power supply and cranked the OC back up to my previously acceptable speed listed in my sig, Orthos went way over 62C and leaving video transcoding to run overnight found the computer rebooted in the morning.

So, I reinstalled the Thermaltake V1 cooler with fresh AS5 and it didn't help. Even the 30% OC profile seems to run hotter than before.

Can you break a motherboard so that the cooler doesn't clamp down tight enough to dissipate the heat? Is it obvious when you look? I'll admit I wan't careful when I moved the computer back when the Arctic 7 cooler was on, but I didn't think I had done permanent damage: I figured the cooler had stopped working. All 4 legs seem to be firmly in-place, but I'm no expert.

I'm now wondering if I should pass on buying once of those CoolIt peltier coolers and get a fresh motherboard. I'd be ticked if I spent the $500 and found that even that cooler wasn't able to do a good job...

4 3 3 and 10 on my memory and 2.15 mvolts

[w2richwood]

ok sit mine up just like yours had to put the volts up to 2.2 and yes 1 on 1

[mykep]

I have a problem with speedstep

First i had the E6600 Prosessor with the 2004 Bios and speedstep was working fine. Then i changed to Bios 2206 because i was to change the prosessor to Q6600. I don´t know if speedstep was working then.
And now i have changed to Q6600 and speedstep won´t work. Everytime i set speedstep Enable it disable it automatic everytime i restart the computer, How come? I have even tried the 2301 Beta Bios with no success.

same probleme here with speedstep, using e 6600, it just disables automatic after restart.

[michaellundmark]

Hey michaellundmark did you read the last section in the P5WDH manual that came with your board about finishing the setup of EIST pages A-1 A-2. for the life of me I don't know why you would want your cpu to throttle back for any reason but hey different strokes.
WZ

This problem has nothing with windows to do, it´s bios that disables it automatic

same probleme here with speedstep, using e 6600, it just disables automatic after restart.

What Bios are you using?

[lawrywild]

Oh lawry relax I will get to your bios. Good grief take a pill.

Maybe you should read your posts before you make a rididuculously hippocritical statement like that. You're the one who needs to chill mate.

PS: What does my bios have to do with this? Or do you think that I actually care you personally didn't try it?

[Snake_Eyes]

hey lawrywild does your bios 2004 G0 45mn edition support EIST enabled ?
I want to buy a Q6600 but i dont know if your bios does support EIST.

And can i change the multiplier from 6 to 9 in the bios with your bios version ?

[lawrywild]

Yeah, EIST works but you can't adjust vcore with EIST enabled and multipliers are adjustable. (just like any other bios)

[Snake_Eyes]

Yeah, EIST works but you can't adjust vcore with EIST enabled and multipliers are adjustable. (just like any other bios)

Okay but EIST doesnt work with newer version bios newer than your 2004 G0 45nm edition (correct me if i'm wrong)

And if i disable EIST, can i than change the miltiplier and the Vcore ?
And how about the C1 option, i dont know not so match about that setting and what it does.
if i enable it what can i do with it or what it do ?
Sorry for this noobies questions :P have to learn something about newer features of CPU's

I have now a Intel D950 clocked @ 4,2Ghz so that is not the problem overclocking i can do it myself, its only the newer features.

[mykep]

This problem has nothing with windows to do, it´s bios that disables it automatic




What Bios are you using?

2206

[michaellundmark]

2206

Can it be someting wrong with the Bios that ASUS doesent know about?

[Lurker246]

Hi Guys,

First off, I'd like to thank you all for the amount of information I've picked up on this thread. I've spent the last 5 weeks reading all 246 pages of this thread (It's been a slow month in work- he he). As this is my first ever system build, I went with the P5W but I'm still not finished picking up parts.

Now I might have a small problem and one I'm trying to nip now instead of one that occurs after I build the system and have to take it apart again.

Basically all I need to know is this... I picked up a Q6600 G0. Now I don't have a socket 775 cpu apart from this one. Will this motherboard boot with a Q6600 G0 and give me a CPU ucode error and then allow me to flash the Bios or will I have to order a bios chip/p4 775. As I don't even know what bios is currently flashed on the board at the moment...I'll be getting a PSU for it next week. Just wondering if anyone has had any problems with G0 on an older bios as I haven't seen this mentioned in the thread?

Again thanks for all the information it really has helped this noobie a hell of a lot.

[Creek Tha Gray]

Hi Guys,

First off, I'd like to thank you all for the amount of information I've picked up on this thread. I've spent the last 5 weeks reading all 246 pages of this thread (It's been a slow month in work- he he). As this is my first ever system build, I went with the P5W but I'm still not finished picking up parts.

Now I might have a small problem and one I'm trying to nip now instead of one that occurs after I build the system and have to take it apart again.

Basically all I need to know is this... I picked up a Q6600 G0. Now I don't have a socket 775 cpu apart from this one. Will this motherboard boot with a Q6600 G0 and give me a CPU ucode error and then allow me to flash the Bios or will I have to order a bios chip/p4 775. As I don't even know what bios is currently flashed on the board at the moment...I'll be getting a PSU for it next week. Just wondering if anyone has had any problems with G0 on an older bios as I haven't seen this mentioned in the thread?

Again thanks for all the information it really has helped this noobie a hell of a lot.

if your have just ordered the mobo then you should be good the bios will support quad core if for some resson you get a older board and the bios is out of date you will most likly need to get a new bios chip flashed.
but if you are just getting the mobo you will be good to go vary unlikly to get a board that old.

[Lurker246]

Thanks for the quick reply, I only picked up the mobo 3 weeks ago, I figured it should be OK for quads. When I looked at the board it had rev 1.03g which made me wonder- I thought it would be a 1.04g with a new-ish bios. I'll probably pick up a P4 anyway, may as well have a spare.

Thanks again.

[orrimarrko]

I too have spent the last few weeks reading all "245+" pages of this massive thread. The info here is invaluable and could almost be consolidated into some sort of Overclocking white paper or technical journal on the Asus P5W. My system is as follows (approx 5 weeks old):

Asus P5W Deluxe
Intel q6600 quad core G0 Stepping (boxed August 19, 2007)
Thermalright 120-Ultra Heat Sink and 120mm Antec TriCool fan
4GB Ballistic memory
ATI Radeon 2900xt
WD 150gb Raptor
Antec p182 case
Running Windows XP w/ all updates installed

With that said, I received a 1.04g revision of this board from ebuyer, and the BIOS on it was 1901. I installed a Intel Q6600 quad core cpu, and it recognized it immediately with no issues. I do get the incorrect CPUcode at bootup, but everything still works fine.

I read throught all pages on this forum before I attempted overclocking. Disabling everything I didnt need, I'm able to get up to 3.2ghz (fsb 1422, bus 355 ) with no problems. The system remains rock solid at this OC and I can run 20+ hour loops of Prime taxing all CPU's without a lockup. Half Life 2 Lost Coast Stress test can run for hours also with no issue.

I've had to adjust my MCH voltage to 1.65v, Mem voltage to 2.2v a FSB voltage of 1.4v and a CPU voltage to 1.4v also. PCI Express freq is at 110. Memory timings are at SPD.

Running Prime for a few hours, CPU 0&1 reach about 55C, while CPU 2&3 reach about 51C.

This is all on air colling only. I can get the system to boot and go into Windows at 3.4ghz (bus speed 378 x 9 multiplier) and remain stable with Prime for 20+ hours also taxing all 4 cpu's. Temperatures go up ofcourse, with CPU's 0&1 reaching 59C and 2&3 reaching 55C after several hours.

I can not run 3D games at this setting though. Half Life 2 or Bioshock will launch, but after 2-3 minutes, the game crashes and I get some sort of ati.dll error and thrown back to windows, or a hard lock will take place and the system will reboot.

Can anyone recommend some settings to adjust to try and get the videocard stable at these settings? Obviously the CPU has no problems at this OC, but the videocard doesnt want to make the leap from 3.2 to 3.4ghz it seems. Would increasing voltages in certain areas help this?

All in all, I love this board and CPU!! I'm amazed how much the G0 stepping allows me to overclock and temperatures remain very low. I was a bit leary initialy reading other peoples problems getting the G0 to overclock with this board though. I'm not sure if its the combined factor of having the latest rev board, or still using the 1901 BIOS, or possibly getting lucky with a good yield on all the pivotal components I've place in the system so far? But I'm amazed that an off the shelf quad core CPU could go from 2.4ghz to 3.4ghz so easily?

I'm confident I can get the videocard stable somehow at 3.4ghz, I'm just not sure what to adjust at this point voltage wise?

Cheers!
-Chris

Edit: An added note:
I originally had a second ATI 2900xt in crossfire configuration. I could not get the system stable in 3D games at anything above 3.0ghz (and even then, games after a few hours would crash, getting ati.dll errors). The performance of Crossfire also was dodgy at best with some games, so I returned one of the Radeon boards. Using only one Radeon card, I was then able to get up to 3.2ghz rock stable running anything. Clearly, running in Crossfire configuration seems to limit the potentials of Overclocking in some way?

[w2richwood]

try putting your pci-e lock back to 100 see if that helps
Rich

[holwill]

Firstly nice o/c there orrimarrko, I could not get my Q6600 stable above 340fsb on this board unlike my E6600 which sat 400-420 fsb 24/7( which bios? , I used lawry's), anyway was really posting to say this thread has been very helpful over the last 12 months and to wish everyone who continues to use this board all the best. I have jumped ship to a P5K-Premium which has allowed a 400fsb and my target of 3.6 out of my Q6600 and will also post and prime @3.8, although temps a bit toasty. Hopefully this will not be seen as thread crapping , more a farewell.

[Creek Tha Gray]

I too have spent the last few weeks reading all "245+" pages of this massive thread. The info here is invaluable and could almost be consolidated into some sort of Overclocking white paper or technical journal on the Asus P5W. My system is as follows (approx 5 weeks old):

Asus P5W Deluxe
Intel q6600 quad core G0 Stepping (boxed August 19, 2007)
Thermalright 120-Ultra Heat Sink and 120mm Antec TriCool fan
4GB Ballistic memory
ATI Radeon 2900xt
WD 150gb Raptor
Antec p182 case
Running Windows XP w/ all updates installed

With that said, I received a 1.04g revision of this board from ebuyer, and the BIOS on it was 1901. I installed a Intel Q6600 quad core cpu, and it recognized it immediately with no issues. I do get the incorrect CPUcode at bootup, but everything still works fine.

I read throught all pages on this forum before I attempted overclocking. Disabling everything I didnt need, I'm able to get up to 3.2ghz (fsb 1422, bus 355 ) with no problems. The system remains rock solid at this OC and I can run 20+ hour loops of Prime taxing all CPU's without a lockup. Half Life 2 Lost Coast Stress test can run for hours also with no issue.

I've had to adjust my MCH voltage to 1.65v, Mem voltage to 2.2v a FSB voltage of 1.4v and a CPU voltage to 1.4v also. PCI Express freq is at 110. Memory timings are at SPD.

Running Prime for a few hours, CPU 0&1 reach about 55C, while CPU 2&3 reach about 51C.

This is all on air colling only. I can get the system to boot and go into Windows at 3.4ghz (bus speed 378 x 9 multiplier) and remain stable with Prime for 20+ hours also taxing all 4 cpu's. Temperatures go up ofcourse, with CPU's 0&1 reaching 59C and 2&3 reaching 55C after several hours.

I can not run 3D games at this setting though. Half Life 2 or Bioshock will launch, but after 2-3 minutes, the game crashes and I get some sort of ati.dll error and thrown back to windows, or a hard lock will take place and the system will reboot.

Can anyone recommend some settings to adjust to try and get the videocard stable at these settings? Obviously the CPU has no problems at this OC, but the videocard doesnt want to make the leap from 3.2 to 3.4ghz it seems. Would increasing voltages in certain areas help this?

All in all, I love this board and CPU!! I'm amazed how much the G0 stepping allows me to overclock and temperatures remain very low. I was a bit leary initialy reading other peoples problems getting the G0 to overclock with this board though. I'm not sure if its the combined factor of having the latest rev board, or still using the 1901 BIOS, or possibly getting lucky with a good yield on all the pivotal components I've place in the system so far? But I'm amazed that an off the shelf quad core CPU could go from 2.4ghz to 3.4ghz so easily?

I'm confident I can get the videocard stable somehow at 3.4ghz, I'm just not sure what to adjust at this point voltage wise?

Cheers!
-Chris

Edit: An added note:
I originally had a second ATI 2900xt in crossfire configuration. I could not get the system stable in 3D games at anything above 3.0ghz (and even then, games after a few hours would crash, getting ati.dll errors). The performance of Crossfire also was dodgy at best with some games, so I returned one of the Radeon boards. Using only one Radeon card, I was then able to get up to 3.2ghz rock stable running anything. Clearly, running in Crossfire configuration seems to limit the potentials of Overclocking in some way?

wow you get into os with a q6600 that high you are lucky must be mobo rev 1.04 i have 1.02 can't get stable passed 3.0. 3.1 will boot into windows but not stable at all and one time only i was able to get to my desktop at 3.2 but crash

[Donseba]

Hello, i can´t pass 388mhz ddr2 corsair xms2 TWIN2X2048-8500C5, and if i pass the 388fsb in the motherboard the system become very unstable, i´m using the 2206 bios, what is the best bios to overclock that have best stability ??

thanks!!

[Creek Tha Gray]

Hello, i can´t pass 388mhz ddr2 corsair xms2 TWIN2X2048-8500C5, and if i pass the 388fsb in the motherboard the system become very unstable, i´m using the 2206 bios, what is the best bios to overclock that have best stability ??

thanks!!

sorry to tell you i had that same kit of ram and was never able to get it to run at 1066 or even close it has to do with the motherboard not supporting the ram at that high of a speed.

[mikepaul]

sorry to tell you i had that same kit of ram and was never able to get it to run at 1066 or even close it has to do with the motherboard not supporting the ram at that high of a speed.

I guess it depends on the CPU you are using, or maybe the age of the motherboard.

My TWIN2X2048-6400C4 tops out at 410Mhz, after which any stability test fails. I really wanted to try that 8500 memory, but to rebuy the faster stuff just for a trial isn't in MY budget. And I think I'd be better off getting 2 more gigs of the 6400 even if some of that RAM is unavailable under XP.

But like I say, with a lowly E6300 and an old P5W DH that tops out at 1.65V vMCH, I'm not sure any of my results can be compared to what other folks are getting...