ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

[anzial]

After I made the floppy disk, I went into the BIOS (not the RAID BIOS, the main bios) and went into IDE config... and changed the way SATA drives are configured to "RAID" instead of IDE.

So yes to the best of my knowledge, I enabled RAID int the BIOS

Uhm, there's one more step involved. Did you enable Raid bios? You need to go there too (Ctrl-I), and configure raid proper in that thing

BTW, anyone knows how to get rid of cpu fan check? I have bios 1602, couldn't find an option to do that...

[REwell]

Yup,

I built a RAID in the RAID BIOS

[sepol]

Yup,

I built a RAID in the RAID BIOS

what XP did you use? an original or a mod one?

Some of the mod XP´s crash in the begin or even at the end....
Try with an original or non mod...... nlite make OS crash
in Raid configuration I tried several and all crashed in P5W
If you can try in Vista....

[REwell]

No Mods, original.

I think its kinda crappy if you have to make a custom XP cd just to install some RAID Drivers...

[crazyea]

So I'm not sure how you claimed to get their SATA optical working off the EZ_RAID 1.... either you're mistaken (maybe?)

I never claimed anything. That is exaclty how I set it up. I have a Liteon drive though. Anyway, your welcome.

No Mods, original.

I think its kinda crappy if you have to make a custom XP cd just to install some RAID Drivers...

The newer drivers reflect ICH8 as the default driver. You need to open the txtsetup.oem file and look at the entries and change it to reflect ich7.

[Defaults]
scsi = iaStor_ICH7DH

[crazyea]

Here is some discussion from ASUS forum:

http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?...Language=en-us

[REwell]

crazyea,

As you suggested, I replaced the scsi = iaStor_ICH8DH with scsi = iaStor_ICH7DH. After trying that it actually loaded instead of giving me an error when I pressed F6!!!!

However, In the list of drivers it lists:

"Intel(R) 82801GH/GM SATA RAID Controller (Desktop ICH7R/DH)"

Instead of what the Motherboard manual tells you to choose:

"Intel(R) 82801GR/GH SATA RAID Controller (Desktop ICH7R/DH)"

Ultimately it picks up my full "array" later in the install but is that ok to pick that one or should I try to find a different version of the drivers???

[REwell]

Do I just add that string of code at the end of the default stuff????

[intense321]

This is a noob question, but every experienced computer technician I asked hasn't had a reasonable answer.

What is the purpose of having two gigabit ethernet controllers on this board? What am I supposed to do with the 2nd one? Hook that one up to my router to grab a 2nd IP? Hook it up to a 2nd ISP?