P5K Premium issue

[sesdave]

I also read an article about problems of the same type encountered on 965P motherboards with the Marvell Yukon onboard LAN adapter, which is the same on the more recent P5K Premium.

Users that had that problem did update the firmware of the Yukon adapter to fix the problem, or simply activated the adapter under windows (looks like it was causing problems mainly when disabled). I tried activating it, since I had it disabled since day one: doesn't change anything.

Now, the messages about this problem related to Yukon's adapter were from months ago, so I guess this problem has been fixed by now, and I can't find any firmware upgrade to this adapter anymore...

Found a suggestion to try attaching to port sata 3-5. http://www.flyingnerd.com/intel-raid...windows-vista/ The thread author also suggests the problems is mainly with maxtorr/seagate drives attached to the controller - cant think why that would be the case ! I know this mainly refers to vista but if you read the whole post there are people with Winxp having the same problem. There is one 'Dissapointed Asus user' exact same propblems on a premium -always works in IDE mode okay but that means no AHCI or RAID -ever..
Time to consider an RMA of the board on the basis it has a spurious controller fault because whilst there are a lot of people encountering these problems - there are a lot more who arent. You know your drives, memory and CPU are okay - that only leaves the board cotroller. May be a duff batch We are all using the same drivers so there is no aurgument. So why should you have to find a workaround or have a drive restriction - you could try changing your drives as some have done but why should you if the work okay. RMA my friend!