pee4
08-23-2007, 06:57 AM
I bought the Asus P5K-E/Wifi. Previous motherboard was Asus P5WDH.
I had to flash the bios to the latest version or I got a "CPU microcode" error during post, but I was able to use the Q6600 G0 to do it (regardless of the microcode error). I did the flash from a USB stick because the bios is too large for a floppy disk.
Next (to avoid a reinstall) I tried to boot my old WinXP installation on the new motherboard and this was fairly successful. First I installed a PCI SATA controller in the P5WDH. Then I installed the drivers for it. Then I transferred the hard drive to the SATA controller and booted windows (still on P5WDH) and installed the latest Intel Chipset Inf drivers on my WinXP installation. After I shutdown, I took both the PCI controller card and the hard drive across to the P5K-E and booted up with the hard drive still on the PCI controller card. WinXP booted and I was then able to install the P5K-E motherboard drivers.
Most things seem fine. I have an intermittent rogue process that's pinching 10% cpu every 10 seconds - not solved yet. This is probably because I didn't reinstall windows. I have had one Blue Screen Of Death (cause unknown and not something we are used to with the P5WDH).
Minimal overclocking attempts at this stage. On the P5WDH I couldn't get more than 3.15 Ghz out of the Q6600 G0. But on P5K-E/Wifi I have booted into Windows and used it at 3.6Ghz - but it's not 4xPrime stable, but I haven't had a chance to work on that yet.
I absolutely HATE the USB mouse - I am used to PS2 which I find a LOT smoother than USB.
Vcore = Auto works a lot different on this motherboard compared to P5WDH. The system will automatically increase Vcore to whatever it likes.
Norton Ghost hates the JMicron controller and I've had to buy a SATA DVD drive and disable JMicron in the bios in order to use Ghost.
Hope that helps some one.
I had to flash the bios to the latest version or I got a "CPU microcode" error during post, but I was able to use the Q6600 G0 to do it (regardless of the microcode error). I did the flash from a USB stick because the bios is too large for a floppy disk.
Next (to avoid a reinstall) I tried to boot my old WinXP installation on the new motherboard and this was fairly successful. First I installed a PCI SATA controller in the P5WDH. Then I installed the drivers for it. Then I transferred the hard drive to the SATA controller and booted windows (still on P5WDH) and installed the latest Intel Chipset Inf drivers on my WinXP installation. After I shutdown, I took both the PCI controller card and the hard drive across to the P5K-E and booted up with the hard drive still on the PCI controller card. WinXP booted and I was then able to install the P5K-E motherboard drivers.
Most things seem fine. I have an intermittent rogue process that's pinching 10% cpu every 10 seconds - not solved yet. This is probably because I didn't reinstall windows. I have had one Blue Screen Of Death (cause unknown and not something we are used to with the P5WDH).
Minimal overclocking attempts at this stage. On the P5WDH I couldn't get more than 3.15 Ghz out of the Q6600 G0. But on P5K-E/Wifi I have booted into Windows and used it at 3.6Ghz - but it's not 4xPrime stable, but I haven't had a chance to work on that yet.
I absolutely HATE the USB mouse - I am used to PS2 which I find a LOT smoother than USB.
Vcore = Auto works a lot different on this motherboard compared to P5WDH. The system will automatically increase Vcore to whatever it likes.
Norton Ghost hates the JMicron controller and I've had to buy a SATA DVD drive and disable JMicron in the bios in order to use Ghost.
Hope that helps some one.