P5K Premium issue

[sesdave]

Hey!

Soooo, I also tried disabling the Marvell Yukon LAN adapter completely in the BIOS, since I read there could be problems with -probably old- firmwares of it resulting in the same errors as I get. That didn't help.

I also tried upping a bit the RAM voltage to 2.1v, which is the spec voltage, didn't help neither.

The last time I had the errors, which is five minutes ago, no iaStor error showed up, but still 18 (no typo here, 18) warnings saying "An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk0\D during a paging operation"...

I guess those warnings are not normal neither, and shouldn't be happening.




Now, the problem is that the shop where I bought the mobo doesn't want to exchange it for another P5K Premium. As they have a lot of problems with these, the only thing they offer is to swap it for a P5K-E, which isn't as good in overclocking (which I planned to do after the issues are resolved). So, I don't know what to do.


I'll also try to connect the harddrives to ports 3 to 5 on the mobo, change SATA cables, eventually try limiting the drives to SATA1 to see if it works better or not. In any case, I agree that I shouldn't have those problems with such a high-end board...

Before switching to SATA 1 try switching to IDE as previously mentioned. I wouldn't have thought that you would see that much of a performance difference with IDE against AHCI on your drives.. AHCI and especially RAID 0 look great in HD tune/TACH tests but I have read numerous reports that they make little difference to IDE in real world application loading speeds. ANANDTECH state that there is no benefit from using RAID on the desktop. And since I setup matrix raid0/1 a week ago I have had to do a Vista repair/restore on corrupt registry on RAid 0 and RAID 1 is doing its 3rd verify/repair as I write this. I will probably go back to using seperate SATA drives in IDE myself once I buy a new USB backup drive to copy my data off because it never gave me any problems -ever!.