ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

[Yolanda]

ok so i finally got it to boot the e8400.. oc'd it.. wont budge past 380. =[

Q810

Try to lower memory speed, set it to SPD, disable HyperPath, disable all thermal saving functions, 400FSB or something more you should get. To make it stable add some voltage on CPU, after, if needed, MCH may be working at nominal voltage or 1.65V.

[shinnoobi]

Try to lower memory speed, set it to SPD, disable HyperPath, disable all thermal saving functions, 400FSB or something more you should get. To make it stable add some voltage on CPU, after, if needed, MCH may be working at nominal voltage or 1.65V.

Just tried.. still doesnt work =[

Maybe my ram is holding me down? its set at 5-4-4-12 right now.. G.Skill something dont remember exactly..


385 is the point where it breaks.. im currently sitting at 385x9 4.45ghz 22c idle

[Dabrin]

wauw...... 300 pages of P5W owners..... i feel like i have gone to heaven.

I have DESPERATELY been trying to find a solution for a USB problem i have had for...... the last two years (yes, yes - long time, and yes, i am a bit embarrassed that i still did not solve it).

I am running the 2004 BIOS (did not really have a reason to upgrade, and to be honest, i am a bit of a noob, and unlucky on top of that, so i always tend to mess up things when i try to "improve" them).

I originally thought my trouble had to do with unstable power supply, but i recently upgraded my old 350watt to a 650wat corsair, and yet the problem keeps on haunting me.

I got a e6400 running at stock speed, and i got 4x512 kingstons.

And something is really, really weird with my USB ports.

Sometimes they work, and then they suddenly stops working. And it does not matter if i use the ports on the board, or the ones on the front of my case.

Keyboard and mouse works fine. no trouble at all. webcam works perfect, never a glitch.

But external harddisks (with own power supply), will suddenly disappear in the middle of reading/Writing.

USB memory sticks will sometimes work, and other times i will be told i have to format, or the media is corrupt. If i then switch the stick to another computer, it will work right away - without any trouble.

My Ipod is only very, very rarely able to update more than a few songs, before i am told it is corrupt, and i need to re-install the software on it (and when i try doing this - it fails, and i have to re-format on another computer). However, if i just disconnect the ipod, without trying to re-install the software, it will work fine, and even play the songs that managed to get transfered before my ports goes wonky.

Finally i noticed that the onboard wifi is also acting the same way. And i actually noticed that the wifi ALWAYS works when i switch on my computer. And as long as i can see the wifi is working..... all the other stuff i mentioned will work fine too.

Now - i think i have found out the wifi is actually working on the USB ports, so i guess it is not the WIFI to blame for all my trouble, but more the wifi that suffers under the same illness. So i normally end up using the wifi as an indicator to see if it pays off trying to upload some songs on my ipod or not.

I even tried using an external USB hub that was running with its own power supply (because i thought the connection broke down, because the ports were not able to pull enough juice) - but alas, my computer did not even recognize the hub, and i just ended up getting the "one of your USB devices have malfunctioned"/unkown USB device error.

So........ what the heck can make the USB ports work just fine the first 10 minutes i switch my computer on? and then stop working when it gets hot?

(sorry for the long explanation - but it is a rather strange problem, and a bit difficult to explain or troubleshoot, since it seems like it's coming and going.....)

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forgot to add - i am running XP 32bit (not Vista).
And the USB ports seems to always work within the first 5 minutes when i switch my computer on. But if they stop working, and i do a restart, they do NOT start working again. Unless i let the computer power totally down, and stand for a few minutes, before i switch it back on.