ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

[BenchZowner]

I'll have the site ready tomorrow. and will I publish the related article and Asus's Tech Support evaluation results article.
Gonna publish the article on TheInquirer ( sigh ) aswell
Hopefully that'll grab Asus's attention.
Else, I will grab the details of a high ranked Asus employee ( with the help of my friends in the industry ) and will have a chat with him.

Finally! The time has come!

http://www.benchzone.com/page.php?al=asustek_evaluation

[ awaiting for my friend Ian @ TheInquirer now ]

[NghtShd]

Is anyone using a FireWire hard drive on this board's FireWire controller? I have and admittedly cheap FireWire/USB to IDE enclosure. I was getting delayed write failures and other error messages and lost a lot of data. Switching to a USB 2.0 connection for the enclosure resulted in better performance and no more errors. Now I've installed a PCI FireWire card and went back to using the drive enclosure's FireWire connection with none of the previous problems.

I wonder if my MB's firewire controller is bad or if it could simply be the FireWire to IDE chipset and my motherboard don't get along.

[grudgelord]

Is anyone using a FireWire hard drive on this board's FireWire controller? I have and admittedly cheap FireWire/USB to IDE enclosure. I was getting delayed write failures and other error messages and lost a lot of data. Switching to a USB 2.0 connection for the enclosure resulted in better performance and no more errors. Now I've installed a PCI FireWire card and went back to using the drive enclosure's FireWire connection with none of the previous problems.

I wonder if my MB's firewire controller is bad or if it could simply be the FireWire to IDE chipset and my motherboard don't get along.

I've seen delayed write failures occur frequently with cheap USB enclosures. In most cases, if you change only one component (either the computer/motherboard, the usb/fw enclosure, or the drive that lives in the enclosure) the problem ceases.

Case in point: I have a cheap USB enclosure in which I installed an old 200GB Maxtor drive. When I tried to use it with my laptop I'd get DW failures. I replaced the drive with another Maxtor 200GB (identical model) and it functioned fine. Fearing that the first drive must be failing, I installed it into a different USB enclosure and tried it with the laptop... it worked fine.

During my troubleshooting of the issue I discovered that compatibility issues between drive, controller and interface can occur, especially with cheaper chips.

I know that you are using FW instead of USB but I believe the issue is the same as it comes back to the IDE controller chip. So, no, I don't think it's your firewire port.

[OneyedK]

Finally! The time has come!

http://www.benchzone.com/page.php?al=asustek_evaluation

[ awaiting for my friend Ian @ TheInquirer now ]

Great article, hope the bots at ASUStek will read it

[cuke2u]

Hi, perhaps BenchZowner should also run articles on other Tech Support depts, such as ATI, wasted my time, told me to RMA a perfectly good graphics card, Realtek, none existant, Lian-Li, also non-existant, CT, a joke.

From my experiance Asus wasn't perfect by a long shot, but performed better than those. I'm really not sure, for a free service, whether there is any better..
ChrisC

[BenchZowner]

Hi, perhaps BenchZowner should also run articles on other Tech Support depts, such as ATI, wasted my time, told me to RMA a perfectly good graphics card, Realtek, none existant, Lian-Li, also non-existant, CT, a joke.

We will be evaluating companies from time to time.Usually there'll be a new evaluation in the horizon every 4th week.
The next company under evaluation's already picked up & we're starting the evaluation process next week

[ketma]

Finally! The time has come!

http://www.benchzone.com/page.php?al=asustek_evaluation

[ awaiting for my friend Ian @ TheInquirer now ]

Great article, I hope Asus take note.

Cheers.