ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

[sesdave]

There is a big difference between them - rev 1.2 have microns D9s and the 2.1 have promos which dont o/c much at all! Here the ramlist to check
http://ramlist.ath.cx/ddr2/ and heres a review of the early revisions performance capabilities. http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mem...dr2-800_2.html
I know cos I bought a pair thinking I was getting great memory and ended up with the 2.1's.

[TR1GG3R]

just droped back down to 1901 and still have the same problem i cant oc and this is on a clean instal of vista as i reformated some 1 has to have some ideas ? thanks

[experttech2007]

Hello all! Thanks for all the info in this thread. I have a Asus P5W Deluxe Wifi and OCZ Platinum R2 RAm with 4-4-4-15 timings. I am running my E6600 at 400x8 = 3.2 Ghz which is about as stable I cant get.

My problem is, I have to set the memory to SPD or the machine wont boot. With SPD my memory runs at 5-6-6-18 (see pic). I used memset to change it to 5-5-5-15, which is reflected in the SPD in CPUZ (see pic) but I dont understand why the memory speed keeps switchign back to 5-6-6-18. Any ideas how I could resolve this? And any way I can get this running at 4-4-4-15?


Thanks!

[sesdave]

Hello all! Thanks for all the info in this thread. I have a Asus P5W Deluxe Wifi and OCZ Platinum R2 RAm with 4-4-4-15 timings. I am running my E6600 at 400x8 = 3.2 Ghz which is about as stable I cant get.

My problem is, I have to set the memory to SPD or the machine wont boot. With SPD my memory runs at 5-6-6-18 (see pic). I used memset to change it to 5-5-5-15, which is reflected in the SPD in CPUZ (see pic) but I dont understand why the memory speed keeps switchign back to 5-6-6-18. Any ideas how I could resolve this? And any way I can get this running at 4-4-4-15?


Thanks!

a little more info like all your bios settings for memory,vdimm, vcore,MCH etc would be useful . Which batch e6600- what PSU - have you done NB/SB with AS5 replacement. I take it you save memset to apply settings at windows boot. Read the first post and disable anything in BIOS that you arent using e.g Vitulisation, memory remap etc.

[experttech2007]

a little more info like all your bios settings for memory,vdimm, vcore,MCH etc would be useful . Which batch e6600- what PSU - have you done NB/SB with AS5 replacement. I take it you save memset to apply settings at windows boot. Read the first post and disable anything in BIOS that you arent using e.g Vitulisation, memory remap etc.

Here are my voltages:

MEM: 2.0
CPU: 1.3875
FSB: 1.4
MCH: 1.55
ICH: Auto

With these settings its rock stable at 400x8

With memset I dont do a Save, i do an apply which reflects it in the SPD in CPUZ. I'll try doing the save but SPD is thru BIOS so I dont understand how a Save would help.

Memset doesnt allow me to set it at 4-4-4-15 though.

Which batch e6600- what PSU - have you done NB/SB with AS5 replacement.

CPU: E6600 2.4 Ghz
Batch: L701C326 (Packed 3/20/2007) Made in Malaysia
OC: 3,200 Mhz (400x8)
VCore: 1.3875

Can you shed some more info on the N/B/SB with AS5? I dont know what that is.

PSU is a Fsp Group FX 700-GLN 700W

[Donni]

Hello all! Thanks for all the info in this thread. I have a Asus P5W Deluxe Wifi and OCZ Platinum R2 RAm with 4-4-4-15 timings. I am running my E6600 at 400x8 = 3.2 Ghz which is about as stable I cant get.

My problem is, I have to set the memory to SPD or the machine wont boot. With SPD my memory runs at 5-6-6-18 (see pic). I used memset to change it to 5-5-5-15, which is reflected in the SPD in CPUZ (see pic) but I dont understand why the memory speed keeps switchign back to 5-6-6-18. Any ideas how I could resolve this? And any way I can get this running at 4-4-4-15?

http://maldivz.biz/uploads/2ab85b7179.gif
Thanks!

Hi

I have the same Problem , with my P5WDH and OCZ Flex CL3 ?
And any way I can get this running at 3-4-4-15?

Why not ?

Thx

[yenclas]

Hello !

I'm spanish, sorry by my bad English.

In this forum all the people has having problems with this motheboard and different memory.

I have GSKILL 2*1Gb HZ and my max FSB Stable is 415 where this memory can do very high better overclock.

I see that if we change the tRFC/tRD settings in memset this problem is solved, but it is in windows.

Many people is talking about a bios with the possibility of change this timmings in bios, but at the moment there isn't any bios with it.

Any info if Asus finally release this functionality in bios ?

Why not email we to asus talking about this issue ?

Thank you very much

[psy4fun]

Please, read the whole thread and stop posting the same thing ever and ever and ever...

Hello !

I'm spanish, sorry by my bad English.

In this forum all the people has having problems with this motheboard and different memory.

I have GSKILL 2*1Gb HZ and my max FSB Stable is 415 where this memory can do very high better overclock.

I see that if we change the tRFC/tRD settings in memset this problem is solved, but it is in windows.

Many people is talking about a bios with the possibility of change this timmings in bios, but at the moment there isn't any bios with it.

Any info if Asus finally release this functionality in bios ?

Why not email we to asus talking about this issue ?

Thank you very much

[crazyea]

If you look at the first page of this thread you will see that in some cases SPD must be enabled at high fsb.

I have the exact same memory as you, used the same settings as you, and my timings were set the same as yours. The chipset is to blame. Not the memory. The only way to avoid this issue is different memory.

[experttech2007]

If you look at the first page of this thread you will see that in some cases SPD must be enabled at high fsb.

I have the exact same memory as you, used the same settings as you, and my timings were set the same as yours. The chipset is to blame. Not the memory. The only way to avoid this issue is different memory.

yeah the FSB has to be set to Auto or it wont boot. I think a BIOS update might help resolve this problem? There may be so many users who use the OCZ Platinum R2 with this chipset. It used to work like a charm on my M2N SLI Deluxe mobo.

[Psitech]

Has Asus totally given up on bios development for this board?

[Chiboy04]

anyone? need your help....

[yobi]

ICH7 is faster !
The Silicon Image 4723 is a real hardware RAID controller. I takes one of the four ICH7 SATA ports and lets you connect 2 HDDs to it which can be run in hardware RAID0 or RAID1.

The Silicon Image 4723 is the reason you only get 3 ICH7 ports since the 4th port is hard-wired to Sil =)

I succesfully ran RAID1 and RAID0 on this controller with a recent -mm kernel. While the RAID worked just fine, it was very slow. I ran some tests and was dearly disapointed. If you want to run a RAID0 or RAID1 use Linux SoftwareRaid but stay away from EZ-BAckup!.

If you remove both EZ jumpers you can use the right EZ-Backup port as the 4th ICH7 port.

[experttech2007]

The Silicon Image 4723 is the reason you only get 3 ICH7 ports since the 4th port is hard-wired to Sil =)

Nice post! I think its also possible to use the 4th ICH7R port by disabling both the EZ Backup jumpers. Didnt try it though, but that should give equivalent performance to using a ICHR7 port (just like the other 3).

[Chrysalis]

ICH7 is faster !
The Silicon Image 4723 is a real hardware RAID controller. I takes one of the four ICH7 SATA ports and lets you connect 2 HDDs to it which can be run in hardware RAID0 or RAID1.

The Silicon Image 4723 is the reason you only get 3 ICH7 ports since the 4th port is hard-wired to Sil =)

I succesfully ran RAID1 and RAID0 on this controller with a recent -mm kernel. While the RAID worked just fine, it was very slow. I ran some tests and was dearly disapointed. If you want to run a RAID0 or RAID1 use Linux SoftwareRaid but stay away from EZ-BAckup!.

If you remove both EZ jumpers you can use the right EZ-Backup port as the 4th ICH7 port.

Thanks I was wondering what the hell ez backup was and if could be used in non raid.

So to disable it have to use jumpers? not enough to disable in bios? and one of the ports will then simply be a ICH7 port?

[Chiboy04]

tnx man... currently using those controller, the only vacant is the silicon cantroller... maybe i will the ICH7 for my os and the silicon for my back-up... tnx.

[Gig4moller]

Anyone know why my P5W refuses to boot at 8x multiplier? :| It can run 9x400 fine, but whenever I try 8x400, even just 8x266, it won't boot. I'm using 1707 bios. Everything like c1e and eist, etc is disabled.

[experttech2007]

Anyone know why my P5W refuses to boot at 8x multiplier? :| It can run 9x400 fine, but whenever I try 8x400, even just 8x266, it won't boot. I'm using 1707 bios. Everything like c1e and eist, etc is disabled.

RAM set to SPD?

In my case 9x400 wont work but 8x400 is stable.

[Gig4moller]

RAM set to SPD?

In my case 9x400 wont work but 8x400 is stable.

Yeah mems are SPD Enabled in bios. This is really weird :|

[semiskilled]

Iam gona replace my noctura to this one as soon as its avaible here in sweden =) http://www.anandtech.com/casecooling...spx?i=2981&p=1

[brock01]

happends to me as well Gig4moller

[renozi]

lawrywild, can you put Thermalright Ultra 120 eXtreme in the recommended coolers? thanks

[lawrywild]

lawrywild, can you put Thermalright Ultra 120 eXtreme in the recommended coolers? thanks

Done and also did IFX-14 for the future.

[crazyea]

lawrywild there is an updated drivers thread....

http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?...Language=en-us

[lawrywild]

lawrywild there is an updated drivers thread....

http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?...Language=en-us

Ya I know but it's not regularly updated. It's just a cache of the old thread.