P5K Premium issue

[thefiddler]

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...

[sesdave]

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...

Before switching to SATA 1 try switching to IDE as previously mentioned. I wouldn't have thought that you would see that much of a performance difference with IDE against AHCI on your drives.. AHCI and especially RAID 0 look great in HD tune/TACH tests but I have read numerous reports that they make little difference to IDE in real world application loading speeds. ANANDTECH state that there is no benefit from using RAID on the desktop. And since I setup matrix raid0/1 a week ago I have had to do a Vista repair/restore on corrupt registry on RAid 0 and RAID 1 is doing its 3rd verify/repair as I write this. I will probably go back to using seperate SATA drives in IDE myself once I buy a new USB backup drive to copy my data off because it never gave me any problems -ever!.

[thefiddler]

They just replace them with X38, also I ordered a P5K DLX for friend , my shop never could get it ( Cloetens main importer doesn't even have them on the list anymore)...

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Groetjes vanuit Limburg...

Well, yeah, X38 looks good too.
Though, I read that the X38 chipset wasn't as good an overclocker as the P35, and what makes me hesitate even more is that Intel already plans on replacing the X38 in something like 3 months... :/

Concerning the P5K Deluxe, my usual computer shop told me the Deluxe was actually getting replaced by the Premium. That would be the reason why the Deluxe is disappearing from the vendor's shelves.

Groetjes vanuit Brussels

Before switching to SATA 1 try switching to IDE as previously mentioned. I wouldn't have thought that you would see that much of a performance difference with IDE against AHCI on your drives.. AHCI and especially RAID 0 look great in HD tune/TACH tests but I have read numerous reports that they make little difference to IDE in real world application loading speeds.

Yup, I know there's not much differences in usual real world applications.
Though, as this computer is also my workstation for professional multimedia works, I planned on using RAID 0 for media applications and treatment, and RAID 1 for sensitive data.

Even then... buying a RAID board which can't work in RAID mode... sounds disappointing

[sesdave]

Yup, I know there's not much differences in usual real world applications.
Though, as this computer is also my workstation for professional multimedia works, I planned on using RAID 0 for media applications and treatment, and RAID 1 for sensitive data.

Even then... buying a RAID board which can't work in RAID mode... sounds disappointing

Some suggestions
1-If you want to go RAID in future have you tried changing from AHCI and setting up matrix raid0/1 on your 2 drives now - the different driver might remove the problem
2- If problem still persists you could try connecting to the Jmicron controller
3- If problem still persists and you still want to keep the MB and get the best disk performance you could always invest in a PCI-E RAID card and forget using the ICH9R. It means more spend but at least its forward compatible with any MB. That would give you the overclocking capability of the MB and top disk performance.