[18th Anniversary] Asus Black Pearl - P5k-Premium Testing Report

[Toeni]

So far my experiences with the P5K Premium are bad.

My rig: P5K Premium (2.04), Q6600, 4GB Corsair QuadX, XFX 8800GTS 640MB, 2 WD400 AAKS SATA.

The installation of Windows Vista Ultimate (32 bit, AHCI mode) went extremely slow. Unpacking of the files took about 2.5 hours. After 4 hours the installation was finished, apart from all the available updates.

I tried to install Vista with a minimal hardware configuration (LAN, HD Audio etc. disabled) 1 GB insted of 4 GB. I checked my harddrives with WD Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostics (no errors) and I used Memtest86 to test my memory modules (no errors found). I installed the Microsoft patch that Asus recommends.

The installation of Windows XP Pro went fine and fast. This morning I tried to download the Medal of Honor: Airborne demo.After the download was finished Windows wanted to move the file from the temporary directory --> very slow and at nearly 80 percent this resulted in a BSOD and a reboot.

After the reboot the systeem was extremely laggy. Windows started up very slowly. Again I tried to download the Medal of Honor: Airborne demo. After finishing the download Windows tried to move te file --> also very slow (30 minutes predicted) en after a few minutes it stopped and freezed (the rest of the system was still responding).

I started HD Tach --> results: CPU Utilization 26%, average read and burst speed only 3.9MB.

I just updated my bios to version 0302 --> but no sata problems solved for me.

If someone wants to try bios 0302 just let me know.