ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

[Supa Chiney]

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Originally Posted by Falkentyne View Post
Remove one stick of memory and see if the problem goes away. Or switch the remaining stick. Memory that is dying (like micron D9's) will cause this to happen.

Raise the memory voltage to 2.1v .....does the problem go away then?
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Originally Posted by Supa Chiney View Post
this sticks are brand new, i did that when i first installed them, i forgot to mention that this problem started when i added a pair of the same type i had before (on my sig) but those were different version, so i though that was the problem, that's why i bought the new ram.

I cold booted twice this morning without issues will, report back in a couple days or later if problem stops/continues

is it safe to run them at 2.1v even if they are rated to run at 1.8v ?
the only way around i found to "fix" the problem is to switch the PSU everytime i'm gonna shutdown and it boots everytime i turn it on

Update.... i found out what the problem was.. it was my PSU that is faulty I tried my old ULTRA PSU that I had on my bro's PC and it instantly booted, i ordered a new PSU right away

[SOS_DK]

So I bought it, installed it, at first boot, the bios said 2,2xGHz....???... I was forced to CMOS, saved & rebooted and it went dead.

Reset the CMOS with jumper, got into bios, everything set at auto by default, and it set everything right, FSB to 1333MHz and CPU 2,83GHz, happy day. I saved, rebooted -> board went dead. Tried that several times....

Finally I set the BIOS JumperLess part to manual (changed nothing else), started with Bus Speed of 233MHz, worked fine, worked my way up to 266/300 and finally 333MHz, and still it works fine. Now everything is the way it should be, but still set to manual, changed nothing else. According to CPU-Z it multiplies with 8.5 (which someone said on a ASUS forum was only possible in auto).

I am unable to compare what other changes might be set when using "auto" since i cannot boot up to use CPU-Z or even go to CMOS for comparison.... but at least it works :-) Now comes a few days of stability testing...