ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

[radlord]

haha. I know what you mean about the embarrassing thing. Mine won't sleep or hibernate properly without rending the world in twain, and nobody has a clue what's wrong with it. I've decided to just live with it.

Anyway this USB thing - is there enough power? Also have you updated the chipset drivers?

[radlord]

oh I see you've said it's not the power supply.

Sounds like maybe your southbridge needs updated drivers. The newest intel release for the chipset the P5W uses was a couple of weeks ago I think.

ALSO thanks guys about the E8400 overclocking thing - 1.65v on the northbridge did it! Cheers

[NghtShd]

@Dabrin

You are right about the WiFi running off a USB port. It sounds like a +5v power problem. Maybe it's not the fault of the PSU but something on the board.

[sonicwind]

Hi can someone please help me with two problems with this motherboard? thanks in advance

(1) Crucial Ballistix 2GB 8500 would run fine at the stock speed if the cpu (E6400) is run at stock speed, however when I push the cpu to 3.2Gb, I would get all sorts of problems in WINXP even at 8500 5-5-5-15 @ 2.2v, doesn't help if the voltage is increased to 2.3v, very strange! Corsair Dominator 2GB 8500 ver 4.1 wouldn't even post!! is this motherboard plagued with memory incompatibility problems?

(2) this is a more recent problem, my pc would freeze at WINXP (SP2) boot screen, I figured out that if I turned off Jmicron in BIOS things would return to normal, is this a software conflict or hardware issue?

I am using BIOS ver 2602. thanks again

[Marvin_The_Martian]

I posted in the thread before and now it hit a million I thought I'd try again. FCG was bussy with a Vgtl+ mod for this board to help the quad cores clock higher, but he never finished his article about it.. I know p35 boards are cheap but I want to keep this one and be able to get some more fsb.

So, anyone heard about a vgtl mod? Anyone at all? Please?

[Dabrin]

(2) this is a more recent problem, my pc would freeze at WINXP (SP2) boot screen, I figured out that if I turned off Jmicron in BIOS things would return to normal, is this a software conflict or hardware issue?

I am using BIOS ver 2602. thanks again

I actually bumped into the same problem. Sometimes it would help if i would disconnect my external harddisk (which is running over the firewireport). And sometimes it would just get stuck, no matter how many times i tried restarting.

I tried starting the computer in safemode, and it still got stuck at the "jgogo.sys" file.

Personally things got fixed when i reinstalled Jmicro, and i heard others got the computer to start better, when they just deleted said file. So my guess is it is software issue.

[DBest1]

has anyone managed to get the Q6600 any higher than 3.2ghz on this board?!

[sonicwind]

I actually bumped into the same problem. Sometimes it would help if i would disconnect my external harddisk (which is running over the firewireport). And sometimes it would just get stuck, no matter how many times i tried restarting.

I tried starting the computer in safemode, and it still got stuck at the "jgogo.sys" file.

Personally things got fixed when i reinstalled Jmicro, and i heard others got the computer to start better, when they just deleted said file. So my guess is it is software issue.

Actually this won't work. The Jmicron needs to be disabled in order to get into windows, but then because the driver can't detect the hardware it won't start the installation. Any other ideas?

[updawg]

Help! I just purchased a e8200 over at ocforums and in the bios if I try to manually set the voltage the lowest setting is 1.45 volts, also If I do a bad overclock I have to reset the cmos and pull the battery to reenter the bios screen. I never used to have to do this. I'm running 2704 bios.

Thanks,
Mike

[radlord]

anyone else had the dreaded atimkdag driver resetting error on here? It does this as soon as I load up any 3d app at all (including stuff like Google Earth). So it makes playing games impossible. I've tried cleaning the drivers then reinstalling etc, still the same.

Some people are saying it's because the Northbridge on intel boards can't cope with an overclocked cpu and the gfx card. Is this right do you think?

this is sooo annoying

[mikepaul]

I caught some sort of malware thing causing popups and a crashed Desktop, so I did a complete reinstall of XP.

Now that instability I'd seen a few times before has come down to Flash 9 not just crashing IE7 or Firefox 3, but rebooting the PC.

Problem is, Flash 8 refuses to install when the OCX refuses to register. Has anyone else had problems with Flash 8/9 and care to share how they got them resolved? I do need some sort of Flash support for various websites that are otherwise blank pages.

Thanks...

Oh, important point after some reading: I installed SP3, which is blamed for IE7 and Firefox 3 crashing while viewing Flash pages, but I don't read about any rebooting like I'm getting...

[Zray]

I've just installed window vista64bit, but now I lost "ASUS WiFi-AP Solo Wizard" app , could anybody upload this one for me, I cannot find it. thx

[bin20]

Hello guys , I just wanted some help , I have P5W DH and I'm using long time , just like 3 years without no problem , but now i see some strange problem , when i need turn on the pc i hear the vga fan without screen responce , so i must restart the pc , and i see signal , after that it says overlocker failed , choose f1 or f2 , i must choose f1 , than it works without any problem , so i dont know where is the problem , could u plz guys give me some advice.
I forgot somethink else about a week ago i cleaned the tonic tower and reapplied the artic silver 5 , so mayby the headsing is not good or dont know .


thanks

[mikepaul]

Change the battery, use a can of air to blow everything off, and hope for the best...

[bin20]

u mean the cmos battery ? i cleaned all the dust , and i still get that problem evry ather day . i mean , when i turn on in the morning i see the problem ,

[Falkentyne]

Help! I just purchased a e8200 over at ocforums and in the bios if I try to manually set the voltage the lowest setting is 1.45 volts, also If I do a bad overclock I have to reset the cmos and pull the battery to reenter the bios screen. I never used to have to do this. I'm running 2704 bios.

Thanks,
Mike

You should never have to pull the battery after a failed overclock, even if except under absolute worst conditions, except to replace it. The thing many people seem to not do is to UNPLUG the mains before clearing cmos. Turn off the PSU, if you have a rocker switch (only old or crappy psu's don't have one), then unplug its cord, then hit the power button to try to power the computer on (this can release extra stored current; you do NOT have to do this though), and then clear the cmos. This should get you back up and running.

[jdhaan]

Hmm, when I use my reset button from my pc, it will freeze with a black screen while starting up again.

I got bios 2103. Anyone know if thats a common problem with that bios?

Else I'll go back to a different bios version? Which one would be better, 2004 or 2704?

Also, I presume it is, but never hurts to check.. Downgrading the bios works exactly the same as upgrading, correct?

Thanks,
Jeroen

[lawrywild]

2504 works fine for me.

[JimmyDDD]

I have the Q9300, I was only able to get 2.62 GHZ per core. What is the maximum you guys were able to get and what configuration did you use? Thanks

[mikepaul]

u mean the cmos battery ? i cleaned all the dust , and i still get that problem evry ather day . i mean , when i turn on in the morning i see the problem ,

Yes, the CMOS battery.

I installed the spare one last year just to be sure I had no issues, and beyond cleaning it's all I can think of for maintenance. If it doesn't help, it also shouldn't hurt...

[jdhaan]

2504 works fine for me.

Is there something like a change file for Bios files? Or is it always a try-and-error kind of way, to see which bios suits you best?

[mikepaul]

I caught some sort of malware thing causing popups and a crashed Desktop, so I did a complete reinstall of XP.

Now that instability I'd seen a few times before has come down to Flash 9 not just crashing IE7 or Firefox 3, but rebooting the PC.

Problem is, Flash 8 refuses to install when the OCX refuses to register. Has anyone else had problems with Flash 8/9 and care to share how they got them resolved? I do need some sort of Flash support for various websites that are otherwise blank pages.

Thanks...

Oh, important point after some reading: I installed SP3, which is blamed for IE7 and Firefox 3 crashing while viewing Flash pages, but I don't read about any rebooting like I'm getting...

So it turns out that SP3 is VERY unstable combined with my 7300 GS video card. I uninstalled that video driver and tried to carry on but the lame default VGA driver plus other crash-like issues forced me to restore an old SP2 backup I had and I'm rebuilding from that instead.

Has anyone else found SP3 to be an issue? If it's just because of the Q9450 I'll be VERY annoyed...

[aelo]

Hi,

I've no problemes with the new service pack 3.
My System runs great, I've never had any real problems with the Board (Revision 1.02G, Bios 2704).
The other parts of my system are Core 2 Duo E6600, GeForce 7900Gt (before: 7600GT), 4Gb Ram, 4x 1GB DDR2-800 Corsair TwinX XMS CL5.

regards
aelo

[phillai]

I got a problem encoding - After a while it will just switch off.
Sometimes straight away sometimes after about 60%...

But it always switches off when I'm encoding!!!

Everything else works for me so I'm quote puzzled why my PC switches off when I'm trying to encode.

Can anyone help me out?

Is there a program to 'stress test' my setup so I can possibly see what is wrong?

[radlord]

try Prime95.

Sounds like you're overheating, check your temps.

Also, can I just ask if anyone has any experience of installing Leopard with the P5W? I know it's supposed to be one of the best boards to do it on.

Which is the better 'distro', Kalway or iAtkos, for this board? Any major things I should be aware of? i know i should disable the JMicron controller and that's not a problem. Is it OK with SATA? What about overclocking, is it OK to do that?