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

[sesdave]

OK. Update. I called ASUS and they mentioned a problem with Antec PS and another brand I cannot remember. However, they had not seen this issue with OCZ. I got home and tried another power supply. I tried different memory. I tried one stick, two sticks, bank a, bank B. Same issue. I tried removing power to all devices except the MB, PSU, vid card, and main HD. Same issue.

I just got the board back from rma and it has 0204 bios on it. Should I try updating that?

Gotta run to take the dog to training. Be back later with more to try.

BTW. This is a 600W ps in this system. I have a new in box ocx 700w I can try tonight too. I'm stumped.

Upgrade to 0404/0504 were mainly in the hope of fixing the ICH9R/SATAII problem with AHCI/RAID. I didnt have the problem and upgraded in the hope of a higher overclock. Didnt see much difference between the BIOS's apart from some additional voltages/strap settings. I am sure others may offer a different view but I would stay on 0204 until you get to the bottom of this problem. What hard drives are u running IDE or sata or both. ? whats your full spec. Have u run any of the compnents on another MB before building this one?