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

[sesdave]

Thanks.

Now I have decide whether it's worth the trouble to get an exchange board or just get Seagate drives

RMA without a doubt - The MB you have will still have an issue whatever you do. Why should you have to pay to change perfectly good drives because the MB you have bought has a spurious controller fault/compatabiility issue. Show me where Asus states that the board will only work with specific makes of sata 2 drives - buying seagates being a possible (not guarranted) way of bypassing the issue - not resolving it. You would probably be better with a x38 as an RMA or wait till the Gygabyte x48 DQ6 arrives in November/December because if you get another Premium it may also have the controller/drive issue.
Dont get me wrong - I have nothing against the Premium . I have one and I like it- its great for o/c the q6600 and the memory but I have no drive/raid/ahci issues with the one I have.!