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*** Official ASUS P5W DH Thread ***

Hi everyone, I have been really happy with the board. e6400 at 3.20GHz. XP 64 Problem is that it occasionally just stops. Blanks out and reboots. It generally, but not always, happens when I an playing music while editing very large photoshop images. This is rather annoying. It...
- Austin2k
- Post #1,834
- Mar 18, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official ASUS P5W DH Thread ***

Heh. That is interesting. To review: From Device Manager select one of the Marvel Yukon controllers. From the advanced tab select speed and duplex. There is no gig setting available in the dropdown box. This is with version 8.27.3.3 of the driver (Im using XP64). Updating to 8.39.3.3 made...
- Austin2k
- Post #1,508
- Dec 17, 2006
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official ASUS P5W DH Thread ***

Basically you're as fast as the slowest link. If you are running a 100Mbps hub/switch then the fastest speed for the connection will be 100Mbps. (I won't go into duplexing here) What comes out of your cable moden is likely 10 or 100Mbps. However your internal home network may be 100 or...
- Austin2k
- Post #1,502
- Dec 16, 2006
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official ASUS P5W DH Thread ***

Do you have the new memory optimization for 64-bit enabled in BIOS?
- Austin2k
- Post #1,498
- Dec 14, 2006
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official ASUS P5W DH Thread ***

Let the OS do the formatting after you have installed the ICH7R driver at the beginning of the XP install. Cheers from Austin, Texas.
- Austin2k
- Post #1,497
- Dec 14, 2006
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official ASUS P5W DH Thread ***

One more thing. If you change the EZ RAID jumpers you MUST go back into the BIOS and tell it that you changed it.
- Austin2k
- Post #1,440
- Dec 2, 2006
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official ASUS P5W DH Thread ***

I recommend using the ICH7R for your stripes. My OS (XP64) does boot faster as I have it it in raid0. I didn't think gaming was generally disk intensive. Outside of loading the programs when you start them I don't think you'll see a gaming performance improvement with raid0. Spend your...
- Austin2k
- Post #1,439
- Dec 2, 2006
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official ASUS P5W DH Thread ***

Whatever you use make sure you use a grounding strap too. The OCZ platinum seem popular. I'm using Crucial Ballistix pc6400 and running an e6400 at 1:1 (3.2 ghz) :-) What is REALLY important is that you test the memory and the memory slots. Do one at a time. Move memory that passed...
- Austin2k
- Post #1,424
- Nov 29, 2006
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official ASUS P5W DH Thread ***

If you are running stock then Qfan is okay. If oyu are going to overclock it then disable all the Qfan bios stuff and run a copy of SpeedFan. Run speedfan at system startup. (this assumes windows)
- Austin2k
- Post #1,408
- Nov 24, 2006
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official ASUS P5W DH Thread ***

Take a look at Acronis. I'm also a folder clone fan for offline (heh...nighttime) data backup.
- Austin2k
- Post #1,407
- Nov 24, 2006
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official ASUS P5W DH Thread ***

I dont know what the problem is. I ran SiSoftware Sandra for 6 hours today with no problems at all. I did a little reading and some XP64 users are going back to the basic memtest. The system is working great. Phil: The latest BIOS 1506 allows you to overclock to 400. or more and seems to...
- Austin2k
- Post #1,343
- Nov 15, 2006
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official ASUS P5W DH Thread ***

Here's a problem that is driving me crazy. Memtest86+ freezes in the middle of test 5 when I run Dual 1gig ram. I have tested each stick individually in thier own slot, and in other slots. A single stick can run for hours in any slot with no problems. I think this is a mobo / bios issue...
- Austin2k
- Post #1,335
- Nov 14, 2006
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official ASUS P5W DH Thread ***

:D WOOT! :D 3204.00MHz on an E6400 (400.5 x 8) BTW: This is going to be a 24/7 box for me. Just burned in the system for 10 hours with 2x Prime 95. Here are the settings per CPU-Z edited with comments too. Go the CPU-Z validator page to see the complete result. Note vCore was...
- Austin2k
- Post #1,332
- Nov 13, 2006
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official ASUS P5W DH Thread ***

:shocked: OMG I masochistically upgraded to 1506. Ouch! Ouch! All this for better 64bit OS memory usage?!?!?!!?!? This info may be useful to the RAIDy folks. System has 2 volumes RAID-0 on the Intel chip. Lost the drive on the EZ_RAID1 port after flashing with 1506. An OS stripe...
- Austin2k
- Post #1,330
- Nov 12, 2006
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official ASUS P5W DH Thread ***

Try this: Core 2 Duo OC guide
- Austin2k
- Post #1,313
- Nov 11, 2006
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official ASUS P5W DH Thread ***

Okay. One bad stick (out of 4). Lots of advice to do a stick at a time. Good advice. It was easy to find the bad stick. I'm burning the other 3 sticks w/ memtest86+ now and with the BIOS settings for a little overclocking. RMA was no prob with ZipZoomFly. I will have to send 2 sticks...
- Austin2k
- Post #1,299
- Nov 10, 2006
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official ASUS P5W DH Thread ***

Ouch! Is anyone able to get Memtest86+ to work on this mobo? I OC'ed the board a little bit and ran PRIME95 which fails after 1 minute in torture mode. Then I tried memtest with loads of errors. So I load a default bios and ran it without OC and I get the same failures in Memtest and...
- Austin2k
- Post #1,292
- Nov 10, 2006
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official ASUS P5W DH Thread ***

That sounds right. Let me know if it works/fails!
- Austin2k
- Post #1,291
- Nov 10, 2006
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official ASUS P5W DH Thread ***

One IMPORTANT thing :-) Make a driver disk before installing the OS. I used the method in 5.5.1 with out any problems. Remember to set the drive order back after making the driver disk. A tidbit missing from the instruction list.
- Austin2k
- Post #1,289
- Nov 10, 2006
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official ASUS P5W DH Thread ***

Some RAID notes: Set it up before install the OS. I set it up so the OS installs on a stripe volume. ICHR7 / Intel Manager will take up to 4 drives. Not all of them need to be RAIDED. Install them in this order: SATA1, 3, 4 and EZRAID_1 These map to Port 0,1,2, and 3 In the BIOS...
- Austin2k
- Post #1,288
- Nov 10, 2006
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official ASUS P5W DH Thread ***

It's over clocking time...yah yah yah....It's over clocking time...yah...yah (Off to see Taj Mahal tonight) :-) XP64 4 gigs crucial ballistix 2.2v 4-4-4-12 DDR2-800 e6400 RAID-0 on 2 sets of 2 320gig 7200.10 drives OS and progs on one volume and data on another volume. Raptor 150 for...
- Austin2k
- Post #1,277
- Nov 9, 2006
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official ASUS P5W DH Thread ***

Hi Phil, I'm getting quite an education reading 60+ pages of posts. Thanks for all your great answers. In reading the manual and posts it seems that SATA1 and SATA3 are part of controller ICHR7. If I want to add more drives to a RAID 0 then I have to use the SATA2 and SATA4 ports. Per the...
- Austin2k
- Post #1,243
- Nov 6, 2006
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official ASUS P5W DH Thread ***

i bought the same mem. Got 2 kits for a total of 4gig. * Retail * Module Size: 2GB kit (1GBx2) * Package: Ballistix 240-pin DIMM * Feature: DDR2 PC2-6400 * Configuration: 128Meg x 64 * DIMM Type: UNBUFFERED * Error Checking: NON-ECC * Speed: DDR2-800...
- Austin2k
- Post #1,223
- Nov 3, 2006
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official ASUS P5W DH Thread ***

I only build a board every 2-3 years. I'm looking for performance when it come to large files size reads and writes. Smaller I/O might be good too. Primary application is photoshop processing Its a P5W DH board. 4 gigs total of Crucial Ballistix DDR2-800 An E6400 with an Arctic Cooler 7...
- Austin2k
- Post #1,222
- Nov 3, 2006
- Forum: Motherboards

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