ASUS P5K Deluxe - Intel P35 Bearlake + E6600 B1 / Q6600 B3

[426hemi]

Well all four sata drives recognized but in raid 0 xp keeps getting stop errors!
It installs fine in ide mode but in raid mode it reboots randomly.
Could this be a bios issue or should I rma my board before my 15 days is up?
Anyone else running raid 0 with xp pro?

[_JP_]

Well all four sata drives recognized but in raid 0 xp keeps getting stop errors!
It installs fine in ide mode but in raid mode it reboots randomly.
Could this be a bios issue or should I rma my board before my 15 days is up?
Anyone else running raid 0 with xp pro?

Well i have 4 disks. Two in raid0 and two with data.

With bios 0307 one of the data disks simply disappeared...the system was very slow and after starting vista boot dvd the mouse blocks and nothing move.
If i turn that disk off, i can format and everything runs fine...

Now with 0311 the disks are all recognized every time, but when i enter Vista after some time it blocks the mouse and everything.

I think the problem its being addressed and just like bingo said with 04xx this problem its gonna end.

[426hemi]

well I only have till the 30th to rma so I hope the bios update is soon or....... running in ide mode now....

[mat8861]

Well i have 4 disks. Two in raid0 and two with data.

With bios 0307 one of the data disks simply disappeared...the system was very slow and after starting vista boot dvd the mouse blocks and nothing move.
If i turn that disk off, i can format and everything runs fine...

Now with 0311 the disks are all recognized every time, but when i enter Vista after some time it blocks the mouse and everything.

I think the problem its being addressed and just like bingo said with 04xx this problem its gonna end.

I run raid on sata1-2 and the two data disks on the black sockets, they all show up on intel 2 as raid and 2 non-raid. on jmicron I have only the dvd burner and with vista everything runs fine (bios 311) It was also ok with 307.
Are u sure the disk is good?

[_JP_]

I run raid on sata1-2 and the two data disks on the black sockets, they all show up on intel 2 as raid and 2 non-raid. on jmicron I have only the dvd burner and with vista everything runs fine (bios 311) It was also ok with 307.
Are u sure the disk is good?

If i turn of the other data disk and plug the one that disappear its runs fine too.
It fails, or use to fail, with the two connect. And i haven't that problem with my previous motherboard.

The difference between me and you its that i have a sata dvdrw...

[mat8861]

If i turn of the other data disk and plug the one that disappear its runs fine too.
It fails, or use to fail, with the two connect. And i haven't that problem with my previous motherboard.

The difference between me and you its that i have a sata dvdrw...

Have you tried without dvd to see if the disks are recognized properly?
In the bios have you set sata-raid?

[_JP_]

Have you tried without dvd to see if the disks are recognized properly?
In the bios have you set sata-raid?

I made all possible variations...I also tried with an ATA dvdrw.

In bios i have raid set in sata menu.

I don't know what it is but i have disable the "Intel Robson"...anyone knows whats that?

[trajik78]

I don't know what it is but i have disable the "Intel Robson"...anyone knows whats that?

http://www.intel.com/technology/maga...obson-1206.htm

looks like something for notebooks in improve performance. not sure why its included on a desktop chipset. probably included since the upcoming mobile set is based on the P35.

[Mr Footlong]

Well all four sata drives recognized but in raid 0 xp keeps getting stop errors!
It installs fine in ide mode but in raid mode it reboots randomly.
Could this be a bios issue or should I rma my board before my 15 days is up?
Anyone else running raid 0 with xp pro?

Dude, I feel your pain. I have exactly the same problem on XP Pro as you and it did it's best to waste half my day yesterday. I was getting blue screen reboots, pauses occasionally too of up to 40 seconds where nothing would respond on the machine, iastor errors in the system event log, no fun at all. I had the 4 drives running in slots 1,2,3,4 and a dvd drive in 5. I changed all 4 drive cables and swapped them to slots 1,2,5,6 and had the dvd in 4. Booted back up as expected, made zero difference to the stability. I ran hdtune etc to try and stress the array and it would last less than 30 seconds before pausing but would then unpause and continue to run briefly again. I eventually got a read error on one of the runs, the intel raid manager flagged up an error on one of the drives and I rebooted.

Drive now flagged as having a problem. I reinstalled with just a 3 drive stripe, leaving the apparantly 'problem' drive as a single drive so that I could run tests on it. The WD diagnostics ran the full suite and it passed everything without error. I have used both the 0304 bios and the 0311 bios, stock clocks and a mild 3Ghz oc on a Q6600. No dice. These same 4 drives ran as a quad stripe flawlessly in both a P5WDH and a P5W64.

Don't take this the wrong way but I am glad that someone else seems to have the same issue that I have.

[sofarfrome]

Don't take this the wrong way but I am glad that someone else seems to have the same issue that I have.

It appears there is a hardware problem as many people are having issues with functionality of the sata ports. My board is going back today RMA because I can't get ports 1-4 to recognize/detect a drive when connected to them. I did a 22hour cmos clear and things began to come around but after getting the OS installed and all drivers and updates taken care of it began happening again where I had to go back to sata ports 5/6 to do anything and then I got the final error that there was no OS installed. I contaced ASUS first and they indicated it is hardware related. They believe the controller is bad.