ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

[Ripper18]

I have a configuration problem on P5W DH.I have a raid 0 on ich7(2 sata seagate 7200.11 500Gb,1 sata seagate 7200.9 250Gb on Jmicron Sata,1 PATA 160 seagate 7200.7 on Jmicron Pata,1 Pata NEC DVDRW 3500 on Ich7 PATA.I buy a samsung DVDRW SATA 203b and when i connect it at EZBACKUP1(i have remove all the EZBACKUP Jumpers first)it stucks at the post screen.When i remove it,all works well.Any help?

[turtle05]

I am having problems properly connecting the following 5 sata drives to this motherboard...

(2) 75GB 8MB Cache WD Raptors [ RAID 0 Boot Drives ]
(1) 300GB WD 16MB Cach Hard drive [ data drive ]
(2) Optical drives [ one asus dvdrw drive and another sony oem dvd drive ]

System Specs:
q6600 Cpu / Asus P5W DH Deluxe
4GB DDR2 800 Crucial Ballistix Tracers
Evga 8800gt
Xifi Soundcard
Corsair 500W Power Supply
vista 64 bit

This is my first time trying to set up RAID drives and i'm totally lost. It was running ok when I was just using 1 raptor as a system boot drive but now i have another identital raptor and would like to set up raid 0.

Can someone please tell me the best way to connect these drives to the mobo. ( which sata port for each drive ) I see there's 6 sata connectors on the board.

I have tried hitting Cntrl I during bootup in which I configured the 2 raptors as raid but when i try to install vista....it does not see any hard drives. I have set the RAID Jumper to the Leftmost side for Raid 0 per the manual. I am not sure what the proper settings to change in the bios as well.


I have read some older posts here...am I suppose to use the two orange EZ raid ports for raid and the others for my 3rd hard drive and optical drives after switching the jumper to "big"?

[Chrysalis]

as I understand it vista has its own ahci drivers but not raid so you may need to use a driver cd on vista install to make it see the raid.

[lawrywild]

as I understand it vista has its own ahci drivers but not raid so you may need to use a driver cd on vista install to make it see the raid.

Nah, it has all ich7r drivers including raid.

Assuming you are using the intel raid, then you don't want to move that jumper at all. That has nothing to do with what you're trying to do.

Maybe you are using an illegal version of vista.. probably vlited or something..

If that's the case then download the "f6 floppy configuration drivers" from intels website. Open the exe file with WinRAR. Extract the .img file to a directory and use the trial of poweriso to extract the .img to a usb flash drive. Then when vista asks, plug in the usb key and it'll automatically find the correct drivers.

If you are using a legal, untouched version of vista, I think you probably have just not bothered to read the manual well enough. It explains everything step-by-step pretty clearly..

[turtle05]

as I understand it vista has its own ahci drivers but not raid so you may need to use a driver cd on vista install to make it see the raid.

Thanks for the reply! I have managed to set up raid now by hitting control I during boot and installed vista 64bit. I have the two raided drives on the red sata port and the one next to it ( ports are labeled sata 1 and sata 3 ) I connected one of my optical drives to the sata 4 port and the other to one of the orange EZ sata ports...that one is not showing up in windows. I have also not connected my 3rd data drive. Can someone tell me where to connect my remaining 3 sata drives? Should i connect the 2 raided raptors to the orange ports instead? I apologize for all the questions and really apreciate the help!!!

[JimmyDDD]

Hey Larrywild, i noticed your VDIMM is 2.1, isn't it better to have 2.2? I also tried your exact configuration and sometimes I get "a clock interrupt was not received on secondary processor" . I wonder what that mean?
Also, aoe, when you say run memory at 1:1, y memory now is 833 MHZ, Bios 2406, Auto vcore, 333Fsb, Pci 33.3, Pci-e 100, EIST enabled, DDR2 833Mhz, Vdimm , is this configuration pretty conservative or aggressive you think?

[Ripper18]

I have a configuration problem on P5W DH.I have a raid 0 on ich7(2 sata seagate 7200.11 500Gb,1 sata seagate 7200.9 250Gb on Jmicron Sata,1 PATA 160 seagate 7200.7 on Jmicron Pata,1 Pata NEC DVDRW 3500 on Ich7 PATA.I buy a samsung DVDRW SATA 203b and when i connect it at EZBACKUP1(i have remove all the EZBACKUP Jumpers first)it stucks at the post screen.When i remove it,all works well.Any help?

Anyone?

[Donseba]

Does anybody upgrade to 2406? how it works ? what is the best bios for this board ? be cause i have a corsair 1066 mems and i can´t select 1066, but yes in 760mhz..

thanks
Bye

[Lurker246]

Does anybody upgrade to 2406? how it works ? what is the best bios for this board ? be cause i have a corsair 1066 mems and i can´t select 1066, but yes in 760mhz..

thanks
Bye

I'm not running the same memory as you but it might help..as I had some trouble getting my memory running at 1000Mhz

It could be your timings- set them as 5-5-5-15 and see if it will boot.

[Lurker246]

Anyone?

I've read all of this thread and can't remember anyone getting a DVD SATA drive to run on the orange raid ports.

As far as I can remember the only solution was to run a HDD from the orange ports and plug the DVD SATA into the ICH7R or the Jmicron.

The jmicron will only recognise an optical drive in later bios' 2004>

The above is from memory so forgive me if I'm not 100% on it

[Ripper18]

I've read all of this thread and can't remember anyone getting a DVD SATA drive to run on the orange raid ports.

As far as I can remember the only solution was to run a HDD from the orange ports and plug the DVD SATA into the ICH7R or the Jmicron.

The jmicron will only recognise an optical drive in later bios' 2004>

The above is from memory so forgive me if I'm not 100% on it

Proble solved.Works fine on Ich7 sata 4 connector

[Ripper18]

HD Tach with 2 Seagate 7200.11 32Mb 500gb RAID 0 on ICH7.It's good result?

[t_ski]

Pretty good. If you utilize the Matrix Raid for the ICH7R chipset, you can partition off the fastest part of each drive and make the array faster. With four 250 GB 7200.10's I can get 435 MB/s reads on the Raid 0 array.

[lawrywild]

Pretty good. If you utilize the Matrix Raid for the ICH7R chipset, you can partition off the fastest part of each drive and make the array faster. With four 250 GB 7200.10's I can get 435 MB/s reads on the Raid 0 array.

Well, it'll bench faster yes, but it won't make the array faster. Same speed as making a normal windows partition on the front of the array, but just that matrix fools windows into thinking they're seperate drives so the bench will only run on that first part of the drive, taking an average from there whereas windows partition bench the whole drive and take an average.

[bithkits]

Hi Lawrywild!

Thanks for maintaining this amazing thread!

I have the following problem, maybe someone can help me out!

Spec's are in sig(workstation).

I am running XP x64 and BIOS 2406

When I enable memory remap feature, in order to use 4GB's of RAM, windows crashes right after the loading screen - just goes to a black screen when the desktop should load. I can get into safe mode and memtest86+ and Prime95 report no errors at all after hours and hours.

If I disable the memory remap feature, everything works exactly right, except that the BIOS only reads 3072MB's of RAM. in the MAIN tab, under system information it says:

System memory -
Total - 4096
appropriated - 1024
available - 3072

How on earth do I fix this? I have been looking through the Asus forums but found nothing...

What does appropriated mean? the manual says nothing about it or the remap feature.

EDIT: I went to BIOS 2302 - no change in this problem.

I do not have service pack 2 installed, this is a complete clean reinstall as the previous install kicked the bucket. I am downloading it now - hopefully it might fix something.

[lawrywild]

Thank You.


Have you tried another bios? 2004 maybe? The manual doesn't say anything about the option because it was added later on in a bios update.

[bithkits]

Thank You.


Have you tried another bios? 2004 maybe? The manual doesn't say anything about the option because it was added later on in a bios update.

I am using a C2D E4600 which requires BIOS 2302 or later

Before this CPU I used 2004 without any problems at all

Maybe windows update will solve something. I will also update drivers.

It is definitely Windows that is full of it, because Ubuntu 7.10 gutsy instally perfectly with remap enabled... Stupid Windows...

Will let you know!

[Donseba]

I'm not running the same memory as you but it might help..as I had some trouble getting my memory running at 1000Mhz

It could be your timings- set them as 5-5-5-15 and see if it will boot.

i have corsair xms2 2x1gb 1066, and a E6420 at 3.0, fsb 375, i cant use the ram more than 760mhz

[bithkits]

Windows update did something right - now it is working as it should with memory remap enabled...

I cannot install service pack 2 though, keep getting errors about the cryptographic services. I am getting sick of microsoft. Anyway, at least all 4 gig's works now

[lawrywild]

Why not slipstream SP2 into the disc?

[neilka]

I'm using a Q6600 G0 with my P5W and I don't seem to be able to change the vcore to anything but "auto". I've tried several different BIOS versions and even resetting the CMOS via the jumper but nothing seems to solve the problem.

I know the first post mentions this problem but I've tried both of the solutions and neither works - even if I disable EIST and C1E it still has the "disable EIST and C1E to change vcore" message under the vcore setting... Any ideas?

[bithkits]

Why not slipstream SP2 into the disc?

Good idea Lawrywild, I forgot you could do that!

Thanks

[911us]

How can I go back to 2004 ?..I 'm using 2406 right now.

[bichi]

P5WDH; Rev 1.02g; 66M0AG; (July 2006); Q6700 G0 @ 3.0G; BIOS: 2406
- switched from QX6700 B3 to Q6700 G0, Aug 23, 2007
- Q6700 Retail BX80562Q6700SLAQ - G0 - FPO/BATCH: L723A656 - Pack: 07/20/07
- stable @ 300FSB with either QX6700 B3 or Q6700 G0
- OCZ OCZ2G11002GK 2x1gB, PC2-8800; vDIMM = 2.15vdc; 500mhz; 3:5; 5-5-5-15
- Enhanced C1: AUTO - Internal Thermal Control: AUTO - Speedstep: ENABLED
- FSB, MCH, ICH volts set manually to lowest values
- no problems with "onboard audio" staying disabled (X-FI Elite installed)
- all QFan PWM settings disabled
- 36watts less AC power, same machine clock/specs/parts, than QX6700 B3 (WattsUpPro)
- OCCT v1.1.1-b5; screenshot taken right before 4min idle monitoring
- Idle temps: CORES: 36c/36c/33c/35c CPU: 78f/25c MB: 87f/30.5c
- AMB: 66f/18.8c; case closed
- (detailed specs in sig below)

GRAPHIC:
http://www.esnips.com/doc/7070459b-3...406-OCCT-15min

BIOS ScreenShots (2406) used in above test:
http://www.esnips.com/doc/548739a4-d...6-Screen-Shots

[mikepaul]

I was going to attach a 40MM fan to the NB heatsink but no screws I found would do the job.

I picked up an Antec Spot Cool fan at CompUSA for 20% off. It would hover over the heatsink so I guess it'll work, but now I'm wondering which one (NB or SB) it should be used on for the most benefit? I'm running out of room to put stuff so I'm not sure I'd go back for another one even if it does a great job...