ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

[bichi]

Chrysalis,
"...the soundcard is sharing irq with nothing and is in bottom but 1 slot..."

- not sure from your description, exactly where your audio card is installed, "bottom" vs., "Slot 1"
- P5WDH manual, page 2-23, PCI slot 1 is in the middle, closest to PCIE x16 slot
- "bottom," assuming the edge of the board, is Slot3, which is shared with ICH7 SATA controller
- my normal practice when installing new MB's is to map IRQ assignments and install cards appropriately
- lots of opinions about modern OS's assigning/sharing IRQs vs., MB assignments
- attached "IRQ" and "Device by Connection," XP Pro SP2, as sample references (JMicron enabled for clarity)

Secondly, I do remember playback stuttering, back when WPM 11 was released
- ripped out all codex and re-installed updated versions, Feb 2007'ish....
- never used any "codex packs," and reinstalling was a real PIA...

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ADDITIONAL INFO:
- from notes at install time, Nov 2006:

Intel 82801GR/GH SATA AHCI Controller (P5WDH)
- IDE Primary
- Port0 SATA 1 (red) (LOC 0)
- Port1 (to SI4723 controller) (LOC 1)
- Port2 SATA 3 (black) (LOC 2)
- Port3 SATA 4 (black) (LOC 3)

Silicon Image SI4723
- EZ_RAID 1 (orange)
- EZ_RAID 2 (opange)

JMicron JMB383 (ICH7 PCI Express Port 27E0)
- EPATA IDE
- SATA RAID1
- External SATA Port

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IRQ SHARED - (Page 2-23 of manual)

PCI1 - shared with 1394 FireWire <-- (where my Creative is installed, firewire disabled in BIOS)
PCI2 - shared with ICH7 IDE Controller
PCI3 - shared with ICH7 SATA Controller (edge of board)

Onboard IDE (JMicron) - shared with USB Controller 2
Onboard LAN1 - shared with USB Controller 4 and HD Audio
Onboard LAN2 - shared with PCIE x16 and one PCIE x1 slots

PCIE x1 - shared with USB Controller 4

USB 2.0 Controller - shared with USB Controller 1

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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Session Manager\Memory Management

Governs the amount of memory set aside by the system for certain kernel processes. If it's set to 1 (allegedly improves performance on systems with more than 512MB of memory), can cause data corruption on some systems and produce "Delayed Write Failed" error. Try resetting it to 0 if it's been set to 1.