ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

[BulldogPO]

So nobody is using S-ATA DVD drive with this mobo?

[sesdave]

So nobody is using S-ATA DVD drive with this mobo?

I bought a NEC AD-7170s a few month back cos I didn't want to use the IDE connections any more especially the Jmicron one. It runs very nicely connected to one of the Ich7 sata ports. Why do you ask?

[BulldogPO]

I have a NEC AD-7170s cos I didn't want to ise the IDE connections any more especially the Jmicron one. It runs very nicely connected to one of the Ich7 sata ports. Why do you ask?

What port did you use for it?
I have NEC AD-7173S.

Bios says on boot:

Master Drive: ATAPI Incompatible.

Drives are recognised like this:
1- master 320GB S-ATA Western Digital
2- slave 320GB S-ATA Western Digital
3- master: not found (not instaled)
4- slave NEC AD-7173S

NEC is found as master if I put it in S-ATA port 1.
Nothing works on that weirdly placed S-ATA connector near CPU.

I tried AHCI and IDE settings in bios and no matter what select, every time in post/boot I have to hit F1 to resume boot.

[sesdave]

Connect boot drive to RED sata port1- next drive to black sata port 3 beside RED port and DVD to second black sata port 4 below the first one. Disable Jmicron in BIOS if you arent using it. Set Sata to IDE in BIOS. U need to reinstall windows and drivers if u want to use AHCI mode.

[BulldogPO]

That is jus like I did, boot drive is at red and second drive is at black and DVD rive is below that.
And bios says something about master drive missing...
DVD drive is recognised as master only if I put it in that red conector.

[sesdave]

Check you boot drive priority and sequence settings under boot in BIOS.Sound like its picking up the wrong SATA hard drive for boot.

[BulldogPO]

It still boots Vista, it only says about that non present master drive and I have to press F1.
But Vista´s device manager has exlamation mark on that NEC and it does not work.

[SKiLL3D]

So nobody is using S-ATA DVD drive with this mobo?

Been runnign a Samsung 162 but it kept dissappearing in XP...and sometimes the board didnt even recognize it at booting(almost all BIOSes 1201-2004). So i switched it with an older IDE DVD-RW :-( BUt the SATA DVD-RW runs fine in my Sis' Computer so thats definitely a Asus/Board-Problem.

I am running my Sys on a 68board(1,85Vmch). My Pal is using 66board and is using the same SATA DVD-RW without any problems. Even with both our Drives his Board hasnt had any Problems...

iLL