Asus P5K Mainboard Issues

[flyinghendrix]

There are several reports spreading around in the internet like mushrooms in jangstangs shoes, that there are still (production started in may 07) big big troubles with the intel ICH9R controller chip and the driver issued by intel.

Many Customers experience BSOD blue screen of death while trying to setup
Windows Xp, or Vista while having 2 HDDs attached to the ICH9R in Raid Mode, Raid0 and Raid1.
In Most cases Samsung and WD type hard-drives where used when the problem occur,

the only solution for now is to switch the sata to IDE mode instead of AHCI or RAID mode there was a Beta Bios around but it did not solve the issue,
currently Asus makes no attempt to fix the problem, nor does intel.

GUYS Hands Away from this BOARD , wait for the X38 Chipst, its much better, faster and a real hardware replacement bugfix for the p5k-premium

[Buckshot]

Running the P5k here on a Vista 64 system and I'm extremely happy with it. I never bothered with RAID on this machine though, so can't comment there, but based on reviews around the net, and my experience so far, I'd have to say it's a damn good board. I think you are correct also Acedy on the P38/P35, right now P35 is definitely more bang for the buck.

[flyinghendrix]

i bought a p5k premium black pearl edition, with two WD5000YS hard-disks
4GB QCZ SLI Ram (1033Mhz) and a Q6600 CPU, but it is absolutely impossinble to get windows running on this brand new machine.
i ve worked on this issue about 3weeks, but no solution appeared on the
artificial horizon.

so for me the mainboard is not worth the money, because either the AHCI MODE (witch includes the NCQ for hard-disks) nor the Raid Mode seem to work on this machine.

Asus gave a unofficial statement, that the x38 chipset solved the problems with the ich9r controler.

[flyinghendrix]

Running the P5k here on a Vista 64 system and I'm extremely happy with it. I never bothered with RAID on this machine though, so can't comment there, but based on reviews around the net, and my experience so far, I'd have to say it's a damn good board. I think you are correct also Acedy on the P38/P35, right now P35 is definitely more bang for the buck.

this means you didnt try to switch to AHCI Mode?? you dont have any advantages from the sata bus with your hard drives, i guess you loose around 25% harddisk performance in IDE mode.