ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

[markq4xprt]

In the bios there's an option to "enable memory remap" I think it's in chipset configuration. Only a 64-bit OS will see the full 4GB.

i see so it isnt fixed in vista sp1


thanks

[aNDY^aND]

What else might he look at in order to get his 32-bit XP OS to see the rest of the ram?

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system...AE/PAEmem.mspx

[Random Murderer]

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system...AE/PAEmem.mspx

that's a nice concept, however microsoft removed the usefulness of pae in xp after xp sp1. for some reason it caused instability, so rather than fixing it they disabled it. not sure if it works under vista though.

[shaithis]

I have a friend using this motherboard, along with 4 gigs of Ballistix, and even with this enabled, he still only sees 2GB of ram.

What else might he look at in order to get his 32-bit XP OS to see the rest of the ram?

If he has a lot of other hardware in the PC, that might be his limit....

Every piece of memory in the PC has to sit in the range that the PC can address, for 32bit OSes, that is 4GB. If you have 2 x 8800GTX (for example) you will be down to 2.5GB available before you take any other hardware into account.....

[t_ski]

thanks for the screen shot

im quite confused why does it only shows 28.8gb/s bandwidth and gpu 411/450mhz

It appears the default GPU selected was the secondary. If I changed the GPU (bottom left of first tab), the core speeds go up. IDK about the bandwidth. My guess is either an error by W1zzard in the GPU-z program, or add the two GPU's together for the full speed (28.8gb/s x 2).

[Lurker246]

It appears the default GPU selected was the secondary. If I changed the GPU (bottom left of first tab), the core speeds go up. IDK about the bandwidth. My guess is either an error by W1zzard in the GPU-z program, or add the two GPU's together for the full speed (28.8gb/s x 2).

Just got my second 2900xt today. GPU-Z won't read the overclock at all on either card. I'm running the HR-03 at 858/1153 and the other 803/1140 (stock cooler). GPU-Z reports both as stock even though I know there overclocked.

I've had some time to play with the latest BIOS and it's let me run at 3.2 Ghz 356 X 9. Only 3dmark tested so far although xp has been running without problems for the last couple of hours but I'm going to leave it fold overnight to test for stability.

Managed to hit 17181 in 3dMark with 2 x 2900xt 1gb with the overclock above :

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=5330595

[markq4xprt]

It appears the default GPU selected was the secondary. If I changed the GPU (bottom left of first tab), the core speeds go up. IDK about the bandwidth. My guess is either an error by W1zzard in the GPU-z program, or add the two GPU's together for the full speed (28.8gb/s x 2).

i see im quite relieved by that i thought it was a bottle neck

[markq4xprt]

Just got my second 2900xt today. GPU-Z won't read the overclock at all on either card. I'm running the HR-03 at 858/1153 and the other 803/1140 (stock cooler). GPU-Z reports both as stock even though I know there overclocked.

I've had some time to play with the latest BIOS and it's let me run at 3.2 Ghz 356 X 9. Only 3dmark tested so far although xp has been running without problems for the last couple of hours but I'm going to leave it fold overnight to test for stability.

Managed to hit 17181 in 3dMark with 2 x 2900xt 1gb with the overclock above :

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=5330595

wow nice, it seems that gpu-z is really a bit buggy, btw hd 4xxx might come in june omg cant decide what to buy

[X7007]

PLEASE HELP

i succed to run the mobo, i updated the same bios asus EZ-update 2602. now i am AFRAID to turn it OFF. i connected almost everything but i didnt connected the DvD-RW and now i cant run from DOS to Reflash older version 2504. Can i connect the DVDRW to pc when its on ? its SAMSUNG DVD SATA 203B. Its my only chance or to get USB DVDRW.

i need it to get to DOS and reflash.

Will it ruin anything ?? I REPEAT, I CANNOT TURN THE PC OFF, it might not turn on !.

S.O.S please Urgent help.

I CANNOT BELIEVE ASUS WILL RELEASE SUCH BIOS !! IT JUST UNBELIEVBLE, WHAT WILL HAPPEN THE NEXT BIOS ?? i dont know if it could be the PSU or the MOBO itself nor the BIOS VER.


**** FIXED*** I connected the DVD+RW and it worked , i flashed using the USB FLASH and finally got 2504.

now everything runs Perfect.

Now for the problem, could it be because i used from Vista to Update ? or the bios is total ?

[Reefa_Madness]

If he has a lot of other hardware in the PC, that might be his limit....

Every piece of memory in the PC has to sit in the range that the PC can address, for 32bit OSes, that is 4GB. If you have 2 x 8800GTX (for example) you will be down to 2.5GB available before you take any other hardware into account.....

He has a single 8800 GTS card with 640MB of memory, if I recall correctly. Seems like he should be showing at least 2.5GB available, but only shows 2 GB.

that's a nice concept, however microsoft removed the usefulness of pae in xp after xp sp1. for some reason it caused instability, so rather than fixing it they disabled it

That was my understanding, as well. Beginning with SP2 the feature was disabled. He has SP2 on his system.

It doesn't make sense, so it must just be something simple that is being overlooked.

[TuTu]

I have a problem. My dvd drive's have low burst rates and when I burn dvd's they sometimes have pauses in them now. this is something that just somehow happened in the past couple weeks. i put my pc together a year ago and haven't had any such problems before. i suck at troubleshooting. any ideas on what I should do? i've backed up all my important stuff onto an external so i'm ready to do a fresh install of windows. i just really don't want to do it unless i have to.

[lawrywild]

I have a problem. My dvd drive's have low burst rates and when I burn dvd's they sometimes have pauses in them now. this is something that just somehow happened in the past couple weeks. i put my pc together a year ago and haven't had any such problems before. i suck at troubleshooting. any ideas on what I should do? i've backed up all my important stuff onto an external so i'm ready to do a fresh install of windows. i just really don't want to do it unless i have to.

What are your burst rates according to Nero CD/DVD/Disc Speed? (In the Benchmark (Transfer Rate Test) tab)

Mine are about 29 MB/s through IDE on this board (UDMA 4).

[TuTu]

My liteon is udma 4 and it's burst rate is only 23 mb. They all seem about 5-6mb lower than they should be. My Benq is udma 2 and is only 17mb burst when it should be 23mb. i was looking into updating or reinstalling ide drivers but i don't even know how or if that will help. My samsung sata burner is in the low 30's when it should be in the upper 30's burst rate.

[TuTu]

i googled and found out how to install microsoft drivers for the ide instead of the intel ones. it made no difference. still same low burst rate. i'll try changing the ide cable later tonight. besides that, is there anything else I can try before the final resort of reinstalling windows? i'm starting to think that reinstalling windows won't help and it's a mobo problem.

[secretworld]

AFAIK, speed should be between 16-33mb, it´s never the top possible speed, but somewhere between one step lower and indicated.
23 burst is fine and plenty for a removable optical disc.
Mine here are 24mb/s for a dvd rom drive and 18mb/s for a CDR/RW (both P5W).
Really, don´t worry about it, it´s a waste of time. (or money if your gonna invest in new mobo´s and drives for just, if your lucky, a few mb/s more).
Vincent

I tried on my other computer, DVDrw, and got 23mb/s (asus K8V-X)

[nicko]

Did you try change a cable?

[X7007]

Does someone have a Segate 500GB 32MB Cache drive using P5WDH Deluxe with 2504 bios ? the hardisk has S015 Firmware, so it does not have the Cache problem.

because when using AHCI and with Intel Matrox manager driver the Hardisk freezes when trying to copying to or copying from this hardisk, in XP it works without a problem. and all other hardisk does not have problems, and my friend bought the same hardisk with me in the same time, i dont think it a hardisk fault because it works nore to do with AHCI. but he has Gigabyte DQ3 P35 chip and he uses AHCI without a problem. What could be the mainfest here? he uses Vista 64bit too.

only in Vista 64bit it freezes and i need to restart using the reset, the hardisk shows Steady L-e-d without flashing it just glow without doing nothing. but i cannot close the copying windows or extracting windows from winrar or whatsoever.

[phoeniXfury]

Does anyone have a Q6600 G0 on the P5W DH board? I've heard that voltage management on the 975X is giving problems on quads.

I've had my E6600 at 9x400 or 3.6Ghz 24/7 at 55-58C load temps. So the board can do the FSB and I know it has more cus I ran that chip at 3.87 for Pi 1M before my cooling gave up on me cus of the voltage.

The Q6600 I have will not go over 3.06Ghz! at which I have idle temp 29C. At that speed I can't even complete 3DMark 06. 3.15Ghz will not boot to windows no matter what voltage.

I'm seriously considering the DFI X38 or ASUS Maximus.

[renozi]

I have a Q6600 G0 with this board and I can't seem to change the vcore! This is so frustrating! I've read through the last 5-6 pages of this tread but every time someone who has this exact same problem brings it up, no one here can seem to help.

Another thing is I can't downgrade my bios through EZ flash anymore because it doesn't work. It just sits there and none of the usual A:\ or C:\ would show up, in fact only the box that shows what bios i have shows up. The two big boxes in the middle are blank.

My E6700 that this new Q6600 replace was able to change the vcore in bios, but the EZ flash problem was still there. This sucks.

[phoeniXfury]

It's really odd with this board...I flashed with the new 2602 BIOS from my old 1503...

Vcore adjustment on this board requires that you turn off EIST and C1E....it's odd that intel speed step option does not always appear under the CPU page...but play around with the settings and reboot a few times if u don't see that option...once it appears...disable it. You'll have access to Vcore then.

Let me know how it goes cus if I can get this Q6600 to work at close to 4Ghz on this board...I'd be a happy camper. Otherwise I gotta shell out over 200 for a new board.

[renozi]

It's really odd with this board...I flashed with the new 2602 BIOS from my old 1503...

Vcore adjustment on this board requires that you turn off EIST and C1E....it's odd that intel speed step option does not always appear under the CPU page...but play around with the settings and reboot a few times if u don't see that option...once it appears...disable it. You'll have access to Vcore then.

Let me know how it goes cus if I can get this Q6600 to work at close to 4Ghz on this board...I'd be a happy camper. Otherwise I gotta shell out over 200 for a new board.

for bios 2602 i think you have to disable the multiplier change thingy to see intel speed step. I did this several times and speed step would show up and i would disable it along with C1E but still can't change vcore. It still says "auto" as the only option. I just want to get to 3.6GHz!

[lawrywild]

for bios 2602 i think you have to disable the multiplier change thingy to see intel speed step. I did this several times and speed step would show up and i would disable it along with C1E but still can't change vcore. It still says "auto" as the only option. I just want to get to 3.6GHz!

Use afudos 2.17 in DOS to flash to 2403.

afudos /i2403.ROM /pbnc

Use a floppy drive or a usb stick with a boot sector on it. (google)

[bichi]

LiteOn Burst Speed and P5WDH, 1.02g; BIOS 2602
- have never seen burst deviations with last 5 BIOS'es and older LiteOn drives, back to 165H6S series
- both drives connected to INTEL Primary IDE, UDMA Mode 4, master: 20A4P; slave: 20A1H
- 80-wire
- CDSpeed v4.7.7.5 (as well as older versions)

DH-20A4P-08C - Retail - Sept 07 - China - MOD CAP
9P57: 37~39mbits/sec (RW media: 25~28mbits/sec)
9P59: 39~42mbits/sec

LH-20A1H-186C - Retail - Dec 06 - MOD 3
LL0A to LL06: 39~42mbits/sec (RW media: 25~28mbits/sec)

Posted tests with burst speed results, seen at:

Lite-On DH-20A4P - Post your scans here
- one of many of my posts:
http://club.cdfreaks.com/f44/lite-dh...ml#post2002563

thread:
http://club.cdfreaks.com/f44/lite-dh...s-here-231051/


LiteOn DH20A4P/H Fast Burn, Enhanced OverSpeed & Enhanced OHT Patched Firmware
- one of many of my posts:
http://club.cdfreaks.com/1996533-post288.html

thread:
http://club.cdfreaks.com/f44/liteon-...re-new-231875/

[bichi]

FYI:
- noticed a small noise floor increase during X-FI Elite (SB0550) testing/mods and P5WDH BIOS 2602. (system specs in sig below)
- see across RMAA v6.0.6 tests, THD, THD+Noise, etc.
- installing older BIOS, 2406 fixed issue.
- theory might be processor PWM control code for newer processor support might be cause.

More of a "curiosity" than an operational problem.

RMAA Test Result:
http://www.esnips.com/doc/ff7268ae-8...7/X-FI-MOD-104

[P5WDHdeluxe]

Anyone knows if Xigmatek S1283 fits, with no problems on our board?