Asus P5K Deluxe users - SATA config chime in here

[jcniest5]

P.S. The BIOS settings are set to AHCI mode.
Does anybody can help me with some advice on that?

Thanks in advance.

Try changing it to IDE mode and see if it works? I have a Samsung SATA DVD Burner and it has never given any problem from the start.

[autist]

Ok, But why is that?

The AHCI mode is enabled to run HDD with AHCI, so if I turn it off to IDE, is the HDD will work using AHCI?

Anyway, thanks, I'll try to change in to IDE... and see what happen

[autist]

Finally fixed!!!
I forgot to check BIOS version after using ASUS BIOS Update, seems like it didn;t update that.

So I used ASUS EZ Flash 2 to update BIOS and now everything is fine.
HDD and DVD Burner running under AHCI mode and DVD is bootable.

Thansk anyway.

BTW if using SATA4 port for DVD I don;t know why but system says that ... devuce incompatible , but if SATA3 (also black one) everything is ok

[XtremeTiramisu]

So AHCI is better than IDE performance wise right??

If I've already setup my single Seagate 7200.10 HDD as IDE in BIOS and I've already installed my XP MCE2005, can I still change IDE to AHCI and get the windows to properly recognize my HDD and DVD(They're both SATA)?

[autist]

I guess you can.

Before doing that just check you BIOS to be sure that you dont have already the AHCI driver. Just change IDE mode to AHCI.

reboot, if after reboot windows will not boot, so
you can set settings back to IDE or you can to repair windows with installing AHCI drivers.

before doing this, you need to prepare AHCI drivers which usually coming with motherboard support CD (except Vista), and copy them on floppy drive (thats what I did) - so anyway you need to set settings back in BIOS to do this

Then boot from Windows bootable CD and press F6 on the very first screen when its asking you "Press F6 is .... SCSI or RAID ..."
The move on until it ask you that it cannot find proper driver in there and please insert floppy with driver, and so on.

So, after driver is hooked up move on with the steps and on the first screen when installation asking you to repair, do not press 'R', press Enter to continue, after that installation trying to detect installed system on your comp, and when its found it will ask again, then press R to Repair.

This procedure will not delete all references to already installed software.


After installation complete you can use in BIOS any settings. (IDE or AHCI) and it should work.

May be somebody knows how to do it without windows repair, but I don't...

[1heone]

0403 is out on ftp site


ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/asus/mb/so.../P5K%20Deluxe/

as i kno there is not change log yet. sry if this was posted else where

[RamjetRanch]

So AHCI is better than IDE performance wise right??

If I've already setup my single Seagate 7200.10 HDD as IDE in BIOS and I've already installed my XP MCE2005, can I still change IDE to AHCI and get the windows to properly recognize my HDD and DVD(They're both SATA)?

AHCI enables three capabilities as I understand it: SATA 150 or 300 MB/s burst mode, NCQ, and Hot Swap. NCQ is a mixed bag. It should improve performance by intelligently ordering random access requests, but there is overhead involved. SCSI has same issue.

I had a two-drive Windows-spanned array on Dell 390 (975X) used to store very large files (1GB-100GB). I was having problems with the Intel Matrix Driver (IASTOR) pausing about every minute on files over 1GB. I switched the BIOS to IDE mode for the SATA ports. No problem starting Windows here since these were data drives. XP changed over to the Ultra-ATA driver, also Intel, on its own. The drives were in PIO mode initially, and some fiddling was required to get them into UDMA-5. After that, no more problems! The sustained data transfer rate improved about 5-10% as well. So IDE was actually better for this application. The drives never appeared as hot swappable on the Safely Remove applet when they were running SATA. Same story on two other similar machines.

[RamjetRanch]

I went to download the latest driver (bundled with the Matrix Storage Manager) : 7.5.0.1017 6/4/2007 and found this. Might explain some of the wide variation people get in their results

http://www.intel.com/support/chipset.../CS-025783.htm

Intel® Matrix Storage Manager
Possible Issues With Windows Vista* and Intel® RAID

Issue

The following issues may occur on Windows Vista* with a supported Intel® RAID Controller hub:

Inability to install Windows Vista (i.e. system halts during installation)
Performance degradation
Timeout errors reported by iastor or iastor(v) in Microsoft Event Viewer*
Cause

A change was made by Microsoft* in the Windows Vista setup process. The result of this change is that the Intel® Matrix Storage Manager Link Power Management (LPM) registry settings that were intended for mobile installations are added for desktop installations as well. These LPM registry settings are added for both the Intel® Matrix Storage Manager RAID driver on the Windows Vista installation disk, as well as for any drivers added during the installation process.
Various desktop Serial ATA devices such as hard drives and CD/DVD drives have been reported that do not comply with the Serial ATA LPM device specification and display erratic behavior when LPM is enabled.

Because the setup change means that LPM is enabled by default for all Windows Vista platforms, using a device that does not completely follow the specification may result in one of the listed issues.

A list of these devices is not available at this time.

Solution

If you are experiencing installation issues, one of the following workarounds may help resolve the issue:

If available, install updated firmware for the device. (I guess they mean your storage device)
Switch to IDE mode in the system BIOS. Note: See your BIOS manufacturer for instructions on how to do this.
Attach the device(s) to ports 3-5 on the Intel® 82801HR/HH/HO I/O controller hub (ICH8R) or port 3 on the Intel® 82801GR/GH I/O controller hub (ICH7R)

If you are experiencing performance degradation or timeout errors, one of the following workarounds may help resolve the issue:

If available, install updated firmware for the device.
Delete the iastor(v) Parameters registry key by using the following steps:

1. Go to Start » Search.
2. Type in RegEdit and hit the Enter key.
3. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\iaStor(v).
4. Right-click on the Parameters key under iaStor(v) and select the Delete option.

[Kunaak]

2 P5K deluxes so far.

neither one is able to run my 150 gig raptors without huge slow down issues. making it barely worth using...
taking about 10 times longer to boot windows, then a single raptor.

after about 5-6 trys at installing the OS various times, and various ways, on both boards, I have simply come to the conclusion that I just dont want to bother with it anymore... it simply doesnt work very well....

[safan80]

There's now a 0404 bios
ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/so...eluxe/0404.zip

[cujo]

2 P5K deluxes so far.

neither one is able to run my 150 gig raptors without huge slow down issues. making it barely worth using...
taking about 10 times longer to boot windows, then a single raptor.

after about 5-6 trys at installing the OS various times, and various ways, on both boards, I have simply come to the conclusion that I just dont want to bother with it anymore... it simply doesnt work very well....

odd. my 150gb raptors work just fine in raid 0 on this board.

[playerX]

This RAID issue is driving me nuts. Bootsy or anyone else that has successfully installed Vista on RAID array could you please list the exact ports you used and which drivers you loaded during the Vista installation.

It's a great board except for this one thing and it's making me crazy.

Thanks for your input.

[Helevitia]

I wanted to post in this thread that I have run into major SATA issues. My system wouldn't boot up at all for a while and finally after fooling around with it for hours, I've determined the SATA ports are flaky for me.
You can read my final post in this thread: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...postcount=1005

[feanorAZ]

All 6 of my Intel SATA ports are used and working (knock on wood), see sig for configuration. I did buy cables for all the hds after reading about bad cables, but I used the angled ASUS cables for the optical drives. So far, so good.

[chiefhog]

2x WD Caviar RE 250gb running in RAID 0 on SATA ports 1 & 2. No problems with install or as of yet.

[FabricioGS]

Yes.

By the way some minutes ago I had a HDD disappearance during POST, but with a restart the HDD got detected again.
It's kinda like a 'norm' situation with the latest Asus boards, this has happened with my P5B-D / Commando / P5W DH as well.

I have that kind of bug happening all the time, and that's make me crazy. I have 3 SATA II drives and a Pioneer SATA DVD burner, all configured as IDE on BIOS and sometimes it got stuck for a while then it disappears during post. I used to have the same errors on my P5W DH too.

But the problem I'm having right now is to install Windows XP x64 with the AHCI option configured on bios. When the CD boots it gave me a BSOD Any ideas?

[jagt]

So these SATA/RAID issues still exist? I'm running 6 drives, so this would be a problem for me.

[timber715]

You need to have AHCI enabled when installing windows ( and you will have to use F6 to load the AHCI drivers as well ).

You can 'use an alchemy' to 'move' to AHCI without re-installing drivers, but I wouldn't recommend doing it.

would it be possible to back-up system, reinstall os with the AHCI controller and reinstall the system that was backed up?

[timber715]

i finally got it to run on ahci mode, how would i know if there are any changes/improvements?