Asus P5W DH Deluxe - doesn't support Conroe out of box?

OK, I have recieved my replacement motherboard, i tried it with my connie and it it powers on but no picture. I then tried my P4 from work and it booted fine. I retried the connie and no go. :(

The bios was 0401 and i flashed whist running my P4 to bios 0602, connie then worked fine.

I dont know whether this is a ES problem only or not.


At least my 16x GFX slot works fine on this one ... w00t! :D


At last after 4 rebuilds in 2 weeks im done. Phew!
 
At last after 4 rebuilds in 2 weeks im done. Phew!
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glad it worked out for you there, i hate it when a build becomes complicated by incompetent board manufactures.

when you get it up and running, could you report back what your max unmoded FSB you attained with it. By unmoded i mean just by the option available in the BIOS.

thanks

I will tell you tomorrow
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that would be great, i would really appreciate it.

thanks
 
Devious said:
OK, I have recieved my replacement motherboard, i tried it with my connie and it it powers on but no picture. I then tried my P4 from work and it booted fine. I retried the connie and no go. :(

The bios was 0401 and i flashed whist running my P4 to bios 0602, connie then worked fine.

I dont know whether this is a ES problem only or not.


At least my 16x GFX slot works fine on this one ... w00t! :D


At last after 4 rebuilds in 2 weeks im done. Phew!
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HI there

What you should have tried was putting a bootable floppy in the drive the necessary files on. As I remember back in the days if you put an unsupported CPU in and even if the system did not post but powered on if their was a floppy in the drive the BIOS would automatically flash the BIOS with the BIOS file from the disk and it would just then reset. This was a handy feature but only remember it on Abit boards but it could be an answer if the Asus does it?
 
Yeah I once flashed my bios on my laptop blind. A previous flash had worked, except for the graphics card, so I did it all with no display.

If the disk you create auto loads and flashes, its a doddle though. Can somone not create one for the asus?
 
Gibbo said:
HI there

What you should have tried was putting a bootable floppy in the drive the necessary files on. As I remember back in the days if you put an unsupported CPU in and even if the system did not post but powered on if their was a floppy in the drive the BIOS would automatically flash the BIOS with the BIOS file from the disk and it would just then reset. This was a handy feature but only remember it on Abit boards but it could be an answer if the Asus does it?
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I guess I didnt really need to as I had a P4 which i 'borrow' from my work pc ;)

But if you had mentioned it earlier I would have given it a go.

Anyway im having problems with ram on this 2nd asus board, it wont boot with any kind of reasonable ram overclock which my other board did easily :(

If i select DDR800 it wont boot unless i use auto :confused:

Same with both my teamgroup Ram and the G.skill HZ i got with the mobo today..

With the board I RMA'ed I could use quite aggressive timings. :(


Gonna try another bios :rolleyes:
 
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Devious said:
I guess I didnt really need to as I had a P4 which i 'borrow' from my work pc ;)

But if you had mentioned it earlier I would have given it a go.

Anyway im having problems with ram on this 2nd asus board, it wont boot with any kind of reasonable ram overclock which my other board did easily :(

If i select DDR800 it wont boot unless i use auto :confused:

Same with both my teamgroup and my G.skill HZ i got with the mobo today..

With the board I RMA'ed I could use quite aggressive timings. :(
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Your not having much luck are you.

Thanks for trying with your connie in :)
 
Gibbo said:
HI there

What you should have tried was putting a bootable floppy in the drive the necessary files on. As I remember back in the days if you put an unsupported CPU in and even if the system did not post but powered on if their was a floppy in the drive the BIOS would automatically flash the BIOS with the BIOS file from the disk and it would just then reset. This was a handy feature but only remember it on Abit boards but it could be an answer if the Asus does it?
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Doing it blind with awdflash is easy. You make an AUTOEXEC.BAT but the P5W DH Deluxe uses an AMI BIOS (afudos) and they don't read / support AUTOEXEC.BAT files. :(

However all is not lost. Page 4-9 of the P5W DH Deluxe manual for this board talks about ASUS Crash Free BIOS 3. Now if you read that, it's not much different from how you recover an AMI BIOS (instructions below maybe a bit old tho)

RECOVERING A CORRUPT AMI BOOTBLOCK BIOS
With motherboards that use BOOT BLOCK BIOS it is possible to recover a corrupted BIOS by reprogramming it from a floppy diskette as long as the BOOT BLOCK section of the BIOS remains unmodified. When a system with an AMI BIOS has a corrupt BIOS the system will appear to start, but nothing will appear on the screen, the floppy drive light will come on and the system will access the floppy drive repeatedly. AMI has integrated a recovery routine into the BOOT BLOCK of the BIOS, which in the event the BIOS becomes corrupt can be used to restore it. The routine is called when the SYSTEM BLOCK of the BIOS is empty. The restore routine will access the floppy drive searching for a BIOS ROM file named AMIBOOT.ROM, (this is why the floppy drive light comes on and the drive spins.) If the file is found it is then loaded into the SYSTEM BLOCK of the BIOS to replace the missing information. NOTE: Make sure that the PC speaker inside your computer is working before you proceed. When the BIOS has been restored your system will beep four times to let you know. To restore an AMI BootBlock BIOS follow these steps: 1) Format a good working 1.44MB floppy diskette. 2) Copy a working BIOS ROM file for your motherboard onto the floppy disk. BIOS ROM files can usually be downloaded from the motherboard manufacturer's web site. If you cannot locate a BIOS ROM file for your motherboard then call the motherboard manufacturer for technical support. 3) Rename the BIOS ROM file `AMIBOOT.ROM' 4) Turn the system on and insert the disk into drive A: 5) After about 3 ~ 4 minutes the system will beep four times. Remove the disk from the drive. The computer will then restart. At this point your BIOS should be restored and the system should startup normally. If your system does not startup normally then try using a different BIOS ROM file for your motherboard and read the TROUBLESHOOTING PROBLEMS section below.

You can see the similarity between the above and ASUS Crash Free BIOS 3. It seems good old AMI have a built it recovery, and you don't need afudos and an autoexec.bat.
The only difference being my italic says rename the file `AMIBOOT.ROM' and the manual says 'P5WDH.ROM'

It may work, just need a guinea pig. ;)
 
split said:
It may work, just need a guinea pig. ;)
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I will be your guinea pig if no one else has done it by the time I get my board :)

Funny you mentioning the bios crash recovery thingy as I was thinking about it last night before I went to sleep and was going to go to the Asus website to read up a bit more on it.

looks like you dont even need a FDD, you can use USB flash

from Asus website:

CrashFree BIOS 3
The ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3 allows users to restore corrupted BIOS data from a USB flash disk containing the BIOS file. This utility saves users the cost and hassle of buying a replacement BIOS chip.
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Hmm thats tedious stuff with the Asus and trying a blind flash/ive burned all my floppy drives and hope to never use one again !

bootable cdrom? maybe someone can tell us blindly how to select cdrom as 1st boot device eh ? :p
 
I agree it's a pain (and all speculation until we get a retail chip / board) but if you have no hard drives attached, it should look for IDE ATAPI drives if the floppy doesn't exist and find CD/DVD.

It would need to be bootable either.

NOTE ADDED: Isn't it ironic that some boards are doing away with one IDE channel and leaving a floppy.
 
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