More Asus P5W woes

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I recieved my second P5W yesterday, my first one was great except it wouldnt post with my x1900xt in the orange slot.

This replacement board isnt right, i keep getting cold boots and the overclocking error in post when ever i run my Team group ram at anything but SPD. I even bought some G.skill HZ yesterday but same problem.

My other board ran beching and prime stable @ 3.807 , 423 FSB , ram @ 4-4-4-12, the new board just isnt performing.

Ive tried bioses 0502,0504,0602, It came with 0401 and would post with the conroe until i used a P4 to flash to 0602.


Im think some of these boards are duds.:mad:
 
Sorry to butt in, but is 0602 the only one that works well with Conroe?

(Just away to do the VDroop mod on mine as I'm getting 0.1V of droop on load :( ).

Jokester
 
Crikey, I hope other boards hurry up and come out for Conroe, Im not to enamored with the chioce at the mo. :rolleyes:
 
Me too,

Got rid of the bad axe,

Want the infinity but lack of fsb is putting me off,

Now issues with the Asus :eek:

Might just get the Asrock now lol :eek:
 
I wonder...
You said the first board clocked well with the graphics card in the non orange slot, why not try that on this board just to see.
 
Hey guys, ive figured out what has gone wrong with these boards. The shipped BIOS revision date is....

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Clearly, this board is the work of Satan :D
 
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Jimbo said:
Crikey, I hope other boards hurry up and come out for Conroe, Im not to enamored with the chioce at the mo. :rolleyes:
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There is, OcUK has DFI and Intel both in stock. :)
 
split said:
I wonder...
You said the first board clocked well with the graphics card in the non orange slot, why not try that on this board just to see.
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Ive tried that and still the same :(

Seem related to memory, if I try to run the mem at DDR800 it fails to post with the overclock failed message. If i remove one stick of ram it will pass that stage but reboot loading windows.


Heres what im running my ram at, though ive reduced my cpu speed to 3.4 as it keep rebooting on me. Its a far cry from the other asus i had. Time for another RMA :mad: costing me a fortune in postal charges this.





**This is the 4th time writing this as pc keep rebooting
 
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Jimbo said:
Crikey, I hope other boards hurry up and come out for Conroe, Im not to enamored with the chioce at the mo. :rolleyes:
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Me too TBH,

The bad axe needs a hardware mod to unlock the oc options in the bios.
And the DFI max's out at around 370 FSB.

The Asus looks like the one to get but issues like these but me off.
 
Locrian said:
It is a decent board, havent had any problems on mine thus far
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Please ignore that,
'USB Over Current Status Detected, Computer will shut down in 15 seconds'

What a piece of junk
 
Asus boards have a bios crash recovery mechanism which if you OC too far will give you error messages and auto revert back to the default settings to avoid you having to reflash the corrupted bios again.

Its usually a case of either the Ram only likes the SPD timings or some other OCing setting needs adjusting to prevent the bios crash/recovery mechanism.

Best way to find out is revert to SPD then adjust the other FSB, Vcore & TM2/Speedstep settings one @ a time with everything else @ default. Then you manually adjust the FSB/SPD and see what is best for your Ram. You are looking for a combination of most stable FSB vs SPD as you have several methods to OC:

1: Leave the CPU multiplier alone and ONLY raise the FSB as far as the Ram will allow.

2: Lower the CPU multiplier and raise the FSB as far as the Ram will allow.

3: AFAIK only the Engineering Samples have unlocked Higher CPU multipliers.

Intel mobos are superb @ handling Ram which is not @ a 1:1 ratio and almost always will give much higher memory bandwidth performance if run @ 3:4 or 5:4 etc etc than 1:1 if your CPU FSB is only DDR2-533 or 1066 as all Conroes are. This is because all Intel mobos from the past 9 months are built for high FSB speeds but obviously the CPUs are only capable of 1066. The bandwidth above 1066 when paired with a very quick CPU like Conroe means much better performance (when your mobo works obviously!).

The more I think about it from what you have said I think it is related to the Intel thermal throttling techs like Speedstep or TM2 settings as my slightly older Asus mobo does not like any ocing when they are enabled as both functions are designed to lower temps by auto adjusting volts according to load so when you post the demand is probably lesser than as soon as the system is asked to do something like load XP etc etc
 
Is this just the Asus P5W board (the more expensive 975x based one)? Or does it also affect the P5B (the 965 based one)? I'm planning on getting the P5B (the cheaper one), so does this have similar problems?

Thanks!
 
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