How to reset my P5W DH?

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I had my E6600 working nicely @ 3.4GHz and 1.475v when I got reading that a lot of people had managed to OC at 1.35v but up'd the MCH to 1.65v, and I was on 1.50v

SO I reboot, up the MCH and lower the vCore and guess what! IT won't post!!!
Nothing, nadda, diddly squat!

So I remove the battery and do the jumper thing for 30 secs, not an easy task with 2 water cooled 7900Gt's in the way I can tell you! And guess what? Still ***k all!!

So my friends, any advice? Or am I screwed?
 
The P5W should default to standard settings if an overclock fails, but failing that try reseting the BIOS but this time with the PSU turned off.

Jokester
 
Thanks Jokester.
The manual says it should, but trust me it ain't!
How do you mean turned off?
I unpluged the PSU, took out the battery, then swapped the jumper for 30 secs, still unpluged as per manual, then put jumper back, battery back, gfx cards back! Restarted and nadda!!

Getting very :mad:
 
This happened to me once. Turned the power supply off and took the battery out for 5 minutes and it booted up fine :)

You dont have to remove the battery and change the jumper just remove the battery for a good 5 minutes. Unplug the power cable from the PSU basically...
 
If you unplugged it that should have done the trick, as Xez said it might just take a bit longer as I've seen similar (different board though) where I've reset the BIOS and it hasn't worked then all of a sudden 10mins later it will start up again without any problems.

Jokester
 
I have a USB keyboard, so it does not work until the board has posted!!!
Most annoying when you want to get into the bios as it has to read all the drives etc before you can get in!

So what you are saying is give it another 10 mins and try to restart it again and see if it boots?
 
Or are you saying I should turn it on and leave it, and hopefully it will start up all of a sudden?

One thing I have noticed though. I have a USB internal card ready with power and use lights. It now has both the lights (use light very dim though) on when the power is on.
 
The LED's will just be indicating that power is getting to it. Uplug your power lead and leave the battery out for a while and hope for the best :p
 
Right, battery out at 2.45pm!
Think I will leave the bloody thing till tomorrow night before I launch it out the bloody window!!
AAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
I had only just got the watercooling nicely bleed! As was kicking arse on CS:S!

Any further tips? Anyone?
 
Oh well.

Left the battery out until 6pm, put it back in, and still no go!!
Tried leaving the power on and starting it 10 mins later, still nothing, hour later, nothing, 10pm last night, nadda!!

So, looks like I have to strip out everything, including my freshly, completly bleed water cooling, to get the mobo out so I can RMA the bloody thing!

No Swearing!!!!
 
westma said:
I have a USB keyboard, so it does not work until the board has posted!!!
Most annoying when you want to get into the bios as it has to read all the drives etc before you can get in!

So what you are saying is give it another 10 mins and try to restart it again and see if it boots?
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Before you strap everything out get a cheap ps/2 keyboard ;)
 
Its not even getting that far!
I hear the HD spin up, but it's not giving me any more then that! They spin up for a second, maybe 2, the CD light flashes, then HD light goes out and nothing more!
No Asus welcome screen, no RAM check, nadda!

What will having a keyboard pluged in do? Actualy I think the keboard is pluged in, and the mouse goes through the USB. Its a wireless jobby. But it does not normally work until the USB controller is setup by the bios.

And really dont think its the PSU. Just seems to much of a coincidence that I lower my voltages, save and exit, and it fails to post!

The screen just gives me a message saying 'no screen input'!!!
 
Sounds to me like it has reset itself back to defaults, but in doing so it's reset the voltage going to the memory. Have 2x1GB sticks of power-hungry memory, e.g. Geil?

Take a memory stick out and see what happens. I had a similar problem; this solved it.
 
I know, but as I said I have a usb keyboard, and can't find my adapter to change it to a PS/2 keyboard, so am knackered!
Mind you, am still waiting on my RMA number from OCuk, so maybe I could bring home my work keyboard and try it tomorrow night before I strip the dam thing!
That is if I have a RMA number!
 
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