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

[sesdave]

Hey people,

I've been reading most of this thread in the past few days. First time posting, though. I bought this P5K Premium mobo a few days ago here in Belgium, and didn't know by then that there was so many problems reported using it.



FYI, mine has purple *and* red capacitors on it,
PCB made in Taiwan
Rev 2.00g
I can't look at the sticker at the bottom of the last PCI slot right now, so I don't know if the whole board is made in Taiwan or China.

According to the pictures I saw in this thread, I have the old box and manuals, though.



I first installed it with Hitachi SATAII drives on it, and had several errors displayed in the Windows XP Event Viewer. I'm now installing Seagate SATAII drives on it instead of the Hitachi's... we'll see if it gets better then.



I had mail contact with ASUS France tech support about the SATA problems. They answered me that they are not aware of any issues with this board (!!!) and that they'll contact ASUS Taiwan to see if they do have any informations on that...

I have the same rev and boxes(I wouldnt get to hung up on this by the way!) I am running 2 xT7K500 on the ICHR controller with matrixs RAID 0/1 on both disks and have no problems at all. I was running them as single drives no problem before. Latest BIOS 0402 fixes most sata releated issues except for samsung.
What the rest of your setup and what do you mean by several errors? Have you run a diskscan for errors? Check drives with HD tune and HD TAch and see what performance you get.