Are there any drivers for the Asus P5B-TMX/S

[Nick_T]

I tried registering on the Mesh website, but kept telling me that something was wrong with my product id/serial number.


After an upgrade I have been having crashing problems with my computer, and on some sites have seen reccomendations to try updating my motherboard. However, this motherboard is not listed on the Asus website. Having google searched and seen a cached page from here, I saw that I may not be able to get these from there. Can anybody help?


On the Asus site, they do have a P5B listed. Would that do?

[Davey W]

Hi Nick_T,

The motherboard is a an OEM only board so you'd need to obtain the drivers from MESH Computers directly.

You can download the drivers using the following links;

Motherboard
Lan
Graphics
Sound

Davey

[Nick_T]

Thanks.

Just to check, those drivers all say p5btmx. They will all work with the /s, right?

[Davey W]

Hi Nick_T,

We've only had the one board as far as I am aware and these drivers are the ones for that board.

Davey

[Nick_T]

Well the sticker on my motherboard definately says /s, so I guess they must be the same thing.



Also, would these drivers affect the BIOS? And if not and they do happen to be the wrong drivers, would it be reversable or would it kill the computer?

[Davey W]

Hi Nick_T,

None of these drivers edit or affect the BIOS. If they were the wrong ones the worst that would happen would be that they would either refuse to install or would install but the item they are for would not work.

The drivers could easily be uninstalled again afterwards if need be.

Davey

[Darkpowder]

Thanks for the drivers link Davey.
Couple more questions if you have the time?

- The audio drivers archive is coming up as incomplete or damaged, can you let the techs know? :) or give another link?
- What model of mesh PC does this motherboard come from?
- Are the drivers only for Windows XP, and are there any drivers for vista?

Thanks again.

[Bob Crabtree]

Just got one of these in here (within an Elite Inspire) and I need to do a clean install but keep on being asked for the (SATA) drivers.

Trouble is none of the files listed here are SATA drivers.

Are these available anywhere?

TIA

Bob C

[Bob Crabtree]

Sorry, more accurately, it's not clear which if any of the motherboard-related drivers is SATA.

Bob

[PeterStoba]

I've googled bob and cant find anything, the first result for p5b tmx is this topic

http://cgi.ebay.com/ASUS-Official-P5...QQcmdZViewItem looks promising though, maybe you could make a deal with the seller for a copy over the internet for a few quid?

[Bob Crabtree]

Peter,

Thanks for the input.

Contrary to my original posting, it's now my belief that the motherboard drivers do contain the right installers for the SATA side of things.

However, the original HDD appears to be faulty - it can't be read reliably when I attempt to view it attached externally to another PC. In addition, and this is the killer, I also think that the SATA on the motherboard is faulty.

And I've come to that conclusion only after I'd changed power and data cables - and used a different motherboard SATA port and a different (known good) lead from the PSU.

That being so, I took what seemed the only practical option and fitted a PATA HDD.

I then installed from an external USB optical drive cos I didn't want to use the existing PATA DVD burner, just in case the problem was with that drive failing to read the Vista installer disc - but it wasn't I'm now sure.

Then, once I had a working system on the PATA drive, I connected the PATA DVD burner as its slave and everything (well, everything except SATA) seems to be just fine.

Not sure how common it is for motherboard SATA to go AWOL but in this particular case, I think that's just what had happened - possibly causing corruption or damage to the original SATA system HDD.

When struggling to get things working with SATA, I'd extracted the motherboard zip file to a CD and, when trying a brand new SATA HD, the Vista installer just locked up if I didn't offer it drivers and failed to find the HDD if I did.

When I asked the installer to look for drivers, I also told it to show only hardware that is compatible with the motherboard.

It found SATA drivers but then didn't find the hard drive.

I'd also tried this with the original hard drive before trying a new SATA drive.

Trouble is, if my diagnosis is indeed correct and the SATA has failed, I'm left wondering what could go down next!

Again, thanks for your input.

Cheers

Bob

[therealpieman]

My mothers mesh elite with the P5B-TMX/S has just shown the exact same problem. It bluescreened and then failed to boot, I assumed it was a hard disk and tried a spare sata drive, the drive could sometimes be seen my the windows instalation but it would never complete the install. The old drive appears to read ok on another system, I have tried all of the sata ports with no luck.

I pressume if I get a sata board and slot that in I should be able to get the computer working? Or do i need to use a PATA drive first to get the system working and then install the sata card?

thanks

[Bob Crabtree]

If you are installing from an XP SP2 or SP3 disc, the SATA drivers are very often installed automagically.

If, however, that doesn't work, you need to download the necessary SATA drivers from the motherboard maker (if you are lucky they will be readily available, though you may have to jump through hoops and know the precise details of the required drivers).

Of course, if the installation requires SATA drivers and you don't have them ready, then you have to abort the installation and to start all over again.

And, when you do that, you want to have the drivers waiting on a floppy disk (assuming the PC does have a floppy disc).

Then, when installing Windows, you watch out for the option to install additional drivers, which instructs your to press F6. Do that and you will be prompted a bit later, to insert the floppy.

If the PC doesn't have a floppy, you can have the drivers on a CD (you'd have to burn them there, of course).

Then, at the point where you are prompted, you remove the Windows CD and put in the drivers CD.

Bob C

[Vimeous]

Thank goodness for this thread!

Just working on my sisters PC which requires a rebuild and run into this issue.

Thanks gents!

[Dantech]

Hi

I wonder if you guys are all barking up the wrong tree. I am repairing a customers mesh computer which seemed to have hard drive problems. SATA drive, all original Mesh machine. Like you I could not find the drivers which is how I arrived here. I bought a brand new Western digital Hard drive and tried to install windows. The computer said the drive was damaged and took ages just to create a partition. I took the drive out and fitted it in an HP machine and formatted the disk instantly. I ran the built in HP hard drive test and it passed as I expected.

I had notice a very high pitch scream coming from the PSU so tested it with an ANTEC tester and that gave me a read fault light as well as a green for Good! Tested a new PSU and all lights were green. Fitted the new PSU, installed windows like a dream!

I too thought it was the falty SATA controller and fitted and IDE drive which worked fine before I discovered the real reason. Since I fitted the new PS all is fine. I just need the drivers so thanks to the guy from Mesh. I can't believe how hard mesh make it for tech guys like me to fix their machines. I do not have this with other manfuacturers. (To be fair Packard Bell (PC world) Machines are a pain too)

Mark

Peter,

Thanks for the input.

Contrary to my original posting, it's now my belief that the motherboard drivers do contain the right installers for the SATA side of things.

However, the original HDD appears to be faulty - it can't be read reliably when I attempt to view it attached externally to another PC. In addition, and this is the killer, I also think that the SATA on the motherboard is faulty.

And I've come to that conclusion only after I'd changed power and data cables - and used a different motherboard SATA port and a different (known good) lead from the PSU.

That being so, I took what seemed the only practical option and fitted a PATA HDD.

I then installed from an external USB optical drive cos I didn't want to use the existing PATA DVD burner, just in case the problem was with that drive failing to read the Vista installer disc - but it wasn't I'm now sure.

Then, once I had a working system on the PATA drive, I connected the PATA DVD burner as its slave and everything (well, everything except SATA) seems to be just fine.

Not sure how common it is for motherboard SATA to go AWOL but in this particular case, I think that's just what had happened - possibly causing corruption or damage to the original SATA system HDD.

When struggling to get things working with SATA, I'd extracted the motherboard zip file to a CD and, when trying a brand new SATA HD, the Vista installer just locked up if I didn't offer it drivers and failed to find the HDD if I did.

When I asked the installer to look for drivers, I also told it to show only hardware that is compatible with the motherboard.

It found SATA drivers but then didn't find the hard drive.

I'd also tried this with the original hard drive before trying a new SATA drive.

Trouble is, if my diagnosis is indeed correct and the SATA has failed, I'm left wondering what could go down next!

Again, thanks for your input.

Cheers

Bob

[Bob Crabtree]

Mark,

It's not possible for me to know at this distance whether or not I was barking up the wrong tree - and that's in part because I didn't have the wit to update this thread back when I could actually remember the detail, so sorry for that to all who read this thread.

As for Packard Bell - this link is most useful - just put in the info to find the relevant drivers.

And so is this PB support forum.

This is very useful for eMachines.

Cheers

Bob C