ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

[Falkentyne]

I'm really not sure what to do about the 1.02 version.
Perhaps try to pick up a cheap 1.04 or grab a P45 board? Did you try to call Asus and demand to speak to level 3 support about the 1.02g boards and the vcore bug with those 45nm cpu's? (not the grunts at the basic level?). A 1.04 should get you 360-380fsb, and 360fsb should be doable at 1.55 mch.

BTW i got mine to post at 400 FSB with the QX9650, with 2x1GB gskills, 5-5-5-15, and 2.2v but didn't even try to enter memtest... 1.85vmch+1.30 vfsb gave a "slow" post then cpu ucode error (i was surprised it let me enter BIOS without everything crashing or corrupting the chip), 1.40 vfsb was normal speed POST without that error, but was too unstable to even enter memtest86+

Even with 6 GB RAM installed in all 4 slots, 380 FSB+1.85 vmch was stable except some weird things happening when I had the 6 GB of RAM in there (2x2 GB and 2x1GB filled), PCIE link was being set to 8x; set vfsb to 1.30 and it was 16x again; power off, set it back to 1.20 and 16x again O_o....guess its something to do with that much FSB with a quad and all 4 dimms filled... fully stable tho. But since I don't have windows 7 yet (i was too slow to register) and am on XP/32, I pulled the 2x2GB dimms (4-4-4-12) so I could run the 2x1gb gskill d9's at 3-3-3-8.

And yes 1.85vmch is high; even with fan mounted on NB I don't know if that will cause eventual damage or degrade, so I don't keep it at those settings; I usually use 333x12, 1.3625v (1.375v for linpack) if I need 4 ghz for a game or quick stress test. Board is pencil vdroop modded.

[mikepaul]

I'm really not sure what to do about the 1.02 version.
Perhaps try to pick up a cheap 1.04 or grab a P45 board? Did you try to call Asus and demand to speak to level 3 support about the 1.02g boards and the vcore bug with those 45nm cpu's? (not the grunts at the basic level?).

Nope, didn't escalate. I noticed over the weekend that the email I sent with my specs was in November. I guess I'll have to ask about that.

And I don't WANT to spend more money on a board for this CPU. That's for the i7 I want to get next year. This year's Top Of The Line will be cheaper then...