I just got a P5W DH Delux with an Intel 6800 extreem, and 4 meg of matching ram. My HDD is a SATA 3Gig sec type. 3 partitions, with D and E being NTFS, and C (boot drive) is FAT32. When I set the bios to AHCI on the drives page, I cannot boot. I have to set it at standard IDE. Further along in the bios, there is a setting to have the IDE act like AHCI, and I have that set. Where have I gone wrong, and why is it not running as fast as it should (UDMA-5) only.
Also, at the moment I have everything set to auto. My memory, which is DDR2-6400 (800MHZ) does not run that fast. When I set the memory speed to 800mhz, and change SPD to manual, I set the ras, tras ect. as the spec shows for the memory. On auto, everything works fine. When I bring up the speed to 800mhz, I get motherboard heat warnings on Sisoft Sandra, and my HDD will run continuosly when a task starts. When I shut down, and restarted, I got an overclock failed message. I changed everything back to AUTO, and it booted right up.
What am I doing wrong? (probably everything).
I am not trying to overclock, I just want a fast computer without heating it up.
Thanks,
Pilot53
My Machine
Asus P5W DH Delux
Intel Core 2 Duo 6800 extreme
4 meg matching DDR2 OCZ Gold High Performance (2 sets 1G matching)
Nvidia 7950 GX2 video card
250GIG SATA-2 HDD
550W PSU
lousy case, not very great cooling. Lots of fans that seem to do nothing.
Windows XP SP2
Also, at the moment I have everything set to auto. My memory, which is DDR2-6400 (800MHZ) does not run that fast. When I set the memory speed to 800mhz, and change SPD to manual, I set the ras, tras ect. as the spec shows for the memory. On auto, everything works fine. When I bring up the speed to 800mhz, I get motherboard heat warnings on Sisoft Sandra, and my HDD will run continuosly when a task starts. When I shut down, and restarted, I got an overclock failed message. I changed everything back to AUTO, and it booted right up.
What am I doing wrong? (probably everything).
I am not trying to overclock, I just want a fast computer without heating it up.
Thanks,
Pilot53
My Machine
Asus P5W DH Delux
Intel Core 2 Duo 6800 extreme
4 meg matching DDR2 OCZ Gold High Performance (2 sets 1G matching)
Nvidia 7950 GX2 video card
250GIG SATA-2 HDD
550W PSU
lousy case, not very great cooling. Lots of fans that seem to do nothing.
Windows XP SP2