ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

[Falkentyne]

I have 2 gigs of RAM installed. (2*1 GB of G.skill).
I've tried turning on and off remapping, doesn't do anything.

NOTE, in SAFE MODE, Windows not only does NOT show PAE, it also shows the real CPU speed. But in normal mode, it thinks it's 400-500 mhz.

I think I had that type of performance when I used Intel PAT on my X6800 and set the CPU duty cycle to 87.5%...well then again it was still a lot faster (UT2004 was perfectly playable at that speed).

FWIW, I'm running on 2 cores now and things are running fine so far. (for some reason I had to install new Catalyst drivers or I got blue screens in UT2004 with 2 cores disabled (huh?). I'm at 3.6 ghz and 1.3v (haven't tried lower or higher). If the 4 core thing is a bug, I want it fixed. If it's something with my windows installation, well, huh...... O_O

I tried a repair install, (not a clean install; I can't stand redownloading everything from scratch, HOWEVER I do have a clean empty E: drive...maybe if I'm bored I'll install windows on THAT from scratch later on) that took forever, and even the repair install didn't solve anything (except made my Windows updates uninstallable without that workaround from microsoft for update+repair installations).

It DOES sound like a sort of driver bug, but it doesn't make sense.... why would the OS think my CPU is 400 mhz, but CPUZ finds the real speed ? Not sure what Coretemp reports....My system is completely up to date with windows updates....

If the clean install tomorrow doesn't work, then its CLEARLY a BIOS bug...eitiher that or Yorkfields only work on Vista? (doesn't seem like thats the case...). My gut feeling says it's 70% a BIOS issue. Unless someone else has seen this and can replicate it somehow....

And, why does disabling 2 cores make everything work as it should? (EXCEPT even with 2 cores running, the identification in system properties still says 360-400+ mhz, AND PAE enabled O_O.....) If it says that with 2 cores, why can't the system run at full speed with 4? T_T