ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

[mikepaul]

Well, I called ASUS today to ask about the promises made months ago to recreate the 1.02G issues there, and my case shows no updates since the first guy talked to me. SO now I'm going home to forward the emails I sent on the issue since that first call.

Meanwhile, it sounds a LOT like no such recreate-there plan would ever have been offered, and now even getting a newer revision instead of a 1.02G is OUT. Repaired is all I was just promised, and only if they can recreate the issue.

NO amount of anecdotal evidence is acceptable. Everyone who posts here has the same issue? Too bad, you needed to RMA the board so they can document it. I'm told NOBODY has sent in a 1.02G board to be documented as non-working with 45nm CPUs. And if the Engineers said the P5W DH Deluxe worked with 45nm CPUs, that means ALL revisions were documented as working, despite field failures.

If only I'd been told this months ago, instead of the we'll recreate it story...

[Majed]

Excuse me,
I have 2x WD on raid0 (Intel sata).
Is it save to update the bios?
I'm afarid to lose the raid0 setup.

[Falkentyne]

If I still had a 1.02g board available I would have sent it in, but I gave the extra board to a friend over a year ago...

[mikepaul]

Right now, I'm just going to limp along for another year or so, until I feel that the time for the i7 upgrade is right.

Of course, I'll be looking into the best non-ASUS motherboard for the job...

[G40RoCkEt]

Excuse me,
I have 2x WD on raid0 (Intel sata).
Is it save to update the bios?
I'm afarid to lose the raid0 setup.

You can update the bios with no problem to RAID.

After update the bios just put the RAID options as same as before.

Work all fine.

[Falkentyne]

Mikepaul:
why don't you sell your P5W and grab a Ud3p? Instead of limping along, you'd be cruising at 4 ghz. (or you can keep the p5w as backup just in case the other board is doa).
I would have gotten that board if I didn't have an unlocked multiplier.

[jpmermoz]

Is there any way to resolve the "vCore auto" problem in BIOS with my p5w dh deluxe 1.04g?
I'm using E7200. Bios 2801

I've already tried downgrading to 2701, etc..
also tried clearing CMOS

thanks!

[the_gas]

Guys i am about to upgrade to vista 64 ultimate. Specs are below

3.4ghz e6750
2gig ddr 800mhz corsair
450gig hd raid (0)
asus p5w dh latest bios 2801

I have never installed vista before, and have just bought another 2 gig of ddr 2 to put in my pc. Do i need to enable memory remap before os install, and do i need to decrease the mem speed from default 800mhz to 667mhz as i have heard once you have 4 sticks in.

What about raid, do i install that like i do in xp? Anything else i should know?

[Yolanda]

If you install 64 bit OS then enable memory remap, however you can do it any time after installing, only then you can use all your 4GB of memory, if disabled you get about 3.2-3.6GB, depends on how many cards you have in your system and how many controllers enabled in BIOS.
If your E6750 works at 3.4GHz so you have nive overclock by FSB Your FSB works at 425MHz, so your memory works at 850MHz, if you use 1:1 multiplier, most of all 4 memory modules can't work on P5W at such high frequirency then FSB overclocked more then ~380MHz, so if you get troubles (test memory by Memtest86 or something else), then decrease memory frequirency.

[mikepaul]

Mikepaul:
why don't you sell your P5W and grab a Ud3p? Instead of limping along, you'd be cruising at 4 ghz. (or you can keep the p5w as backup just in case the other board is doa).
I would have gotten that board if I didn't have an unlocked multiplier.

$137 could go towards the new i7 system next year. Paying that to replace a supposedly working board (ask them: 1.02G is supposedly able to use 45nm CPUs just like the other versions) isn't going to make me feel better.

But the whole Gigabyte-instead-of ASUS idea is wonderful...

[Falkentyne]

That's true, but your Quad could reach 4 ghz now, and that will be good enough for at LEAST another year, and then you can get a core i7 in 2010.

If I were in your situation, I would do that right away.

[mikepaul]

Really tempting. Hoping for $150 to fall in my lap...

[mikepaul]

So did everybody leave when the site went down for a while, or is everybody suddenly problem-free?...

[MacClipper]

If I still had a 1.02g board available I would have sent it in, but I gave the extra board to a friend over a year ago...

I am 3-4 mobos past my P5W which was relegated as a standby mobo for over a year. But I got around to sending in my 1.02G board today to the local service centre cos it was getting errratic just trying to get it to POST. Hope Asus Taiwan gets their hands on it in the near future, somehow.

Got a brand new P5B Premium V.E set as replacement and I promptly installed Win 7RC for a spin, posting with it now. Guess it's game over for my P5W DH Dlx experience, wishing you guys still hanging on to their P5W all the best.

[graham_h]

old board, most would have moved on I guess

[w2richwood]

im still using mine as a back up with a e6700 es in it havent had any problems at all its a ver.1.03
Rich

[AkaFroz]

I leave when the site went down, I have a "new" P5W DH Deluxe 1.03G. A month ago i saw this piece at $58 inc taxes in my local wholesale and i cant say no. I use all components from my old configuration ( E4400, 2 x 1GB Kingston DDR2 667, Seagate 160GB 7200.10 + Samsung 250GB, Gigabyte 2600XT 256MB DDR3 ) In the beggining it was a little unstable but after read this threat and some tweaking in BIOS it runs just fine. I didnt test overclock yet, i wish i could do it this week. What I tried its windows 7, both x86 and x64, with a very nice results, but i have some doubts. I want to put some 45nm processor here, like E7400 or E8400 Is it run stable? I read some people having real trouble to set their 45nm processor and also I read some people here taking their 45nm to 4GHz. In Asus's support forum some people also have trouble setting Windows 7 x64 in 45nm processors with BIOS 2801 and 2704, They tried downgrading BIOS and other things but the problems is still there, some BSOD related to Multiprocessor. Has someone here tried Windows 7 RC x64 with 45nm + P5W DH Deluxe? I know this could be annoying all my questions and I know that this its a little older board but i read here some experiment people with this board and I also think this board its really good just a little hard to tweak and configure. Thanks in advice for your help and patience.

[G40RoCkEt]

Here i try install W7 x64 and get a BSDO error in the begining of installation. (using the last bios 28xx)

W7 32b works very fine and fast. No problem.

XP 64 works great and VIsta 64 too.

I think that some kind of problem called: Microsoft...

[AkaFroz]

G40RoCkEt, what build are u try? SOme pepople reports problems with 7000 and 7077 i dont know if with RC1 the problems persists.

FIY: Asus Update thier FAQ for 45nm with this
http://support.asus.com/faq/faq.aspx...luxe&product=6

[firestarter.pt]

My P5W is still running every day at 4.1 Ghz with the E8600 and since last month with a brand new ATI 4890 that makes possible to play any game with maxed out settings. Very nice for a 3 years old motherboard

[AkaFroz]

Well, today I play some time with my board and took my E4400 to 3GHz with stock cooler and volts, very nice to stock volts. At 3.2GHz (320 x 10) its unstable Ill try later with a little more voltagge

[G40RoCkEt]

G40RoCkEt, what build are u try? SOme pepople reports problems with 7000 and 7077 i dont know if with RC1 the problems persists.

FIY: Asus Update thier FAQ for 45nm with this
http://support.asus.com/faq/faq.aspx...luxe&product=6

Build RC = 7100

I hope that Microsoft fix this error before they launched the final version!

[Chrysalis]

guys is there a specific reason why memory remap should be disabled on 32bit os? I have tried it on and off and seems to have no impact.

Also I got a problem and I am wondering if the board is to blame.

Certian things on my pc are very sluggish and I think its to do with memory/mainboard bandwidth. One thing that is always sluggish and repeatable is loading nvidia control panel.

On my weaker spec'd machine if I load up the nvidia panel it only takes about 1 second, on this machine it waits 3 seconds with cpu usage maxing out. The ram and cpu are both higher spec than the other machine.

The delay isnt hdd, it occurs if I close it and reopen it (from cache) and I also watch the hdd light which doesnt come on.

Also intel speedstep doesnt seem to be working on my box (bios 2704) I noticed bios 2801 is listed a shaving broken speedstep so I am guessing 2704 is also broken, C1E is ok I guess (and more reliable in my experience) but I wanted to do some testing with speedstep since C1E goes full clock even at the slight hint of cpu usage.

Also bad news on that guy running win7 RC1, I have been playing with it on my laptop and like it and was planning to install it on my main box but it be typical if it has issues with this board.

[Yolanda]

I tryed one of pre RC1 64bit builds of Windows 7, it was OK. Many 32bit builds, including beta, rc1 are also fine.
My HDD in AHCI mode, I have 2GBs of RAM, but don't think that other settings will lead to errors.

Offtopic: However, I think ~4GHz Core is very fast in WinXP, but perfomance in Vista and W7, expesially in multitasking, then many programs loaded, is much lower.

[firestarter.pt]

Anyone played with a SSD on this board?