Quote Originally Posted by sesdave View Post
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!

Hey!

Soooo, I also tried disabling the Marvell Yukon LAN adapter completely in the BIOS, since I read there could be problems with -probably old- firmwares of it resulting in the same errors as I get. That didn't help.

I also tried upping a bit the RAM voltage to 2.1v, which is the spec voltage, didn't help neither.

The last time I had the errors, which is five minutes ago, no iaStor error showed up, but still 18 (no typo here, 18) warnings saying "An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk0\D during a paging operation"...

I guess those warnings are not normal neither, and shouldn't be happening.




Now, the problem is that the shop where I bought the mobo doesn't want to exchange it for another P5K Premium. As they have a lot of problems with these, the only thing they offer is to swap it for a P5K-E, which isn't as good in overclocking (which I planned to do after the issues are resolved). So, I don't know what to do.


I'll also try to connect the harddrives to ports 3 to 5 on the mobo, change SATA cables, eventually try limiting the drives to SATA1 to see if it works better or not. In any case, I agree that I shouldn't have those problems with such a high-end board...