P5K-E Wifi Issues

[[GSV]Trig]

BSOD left right, and indeed center..

Been reading about all the SATA issues people seem to have, set to ACHI mode with Robson switched on.
Fresh install too, only thing in the logs is a IaStor timeout error.

Ditched my AB9 cos it was killing my drives, at least it worked and only had 1 dodgy SATA channel on it ;/

[badass]

BSOD left right, and indeed center..

Been reading about all the SATA issues people seem to have, set to ACHI mode with Robson switched on.
Fresh install too, only thing in the logs is a IaStor timeout error.

Ditched my AB9 cos it was killing my drives, at least it worked and only had 1 dodgy SATA channel on it ;/

What BIOS version are you running?

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Erm, dunno will check when I get home nad see if it'll let me update, I did try yesterday but the asus software within windows sucks compaired to FlashMENU, also missing my uGuru clock :'(

[Clunk]

Never use the windows bios flashing thing on an Asus board, the chances are, itll end up dead.

You just need a usb stick with the rom file extracted to it, enter the bios, go to tools>ezflash and loacate the rom file, and it will prompt you to do the rest.

Grab the latest bios from here.

Grab the latest chipset drivers from here as well.

[Smudger]

I've just bought the P5k-e, if I want to update the bios before i do anything else, which one of those files would i need?

[Clunk]

0503 looks to be the latest.

[Smudger]

Ah, American dates, I getcha. Thanks.
What are the x3216-pk5-e zips?

[Clunk]

Manuals

[badass]

Never use the windows bios flashing thing on an Asus board, the chances are, itll end up dead.

You just need a usb stick with the rom file extracted to it, enter the bios, go to tools>ezflash and loacate the rom file, and it will prompt you to do the rest.

Grab the latest bios from here.

Grab the latest chipset drivers from here as well.

I was amazed when I used EZ-Flash. It just worked. That seems pretty rare with computer parts these days. Its more like "faf around for hours trying to get the damn thing working"

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I was on, wait for it...


201...


Now on 503, used the windows flash utility too lol

[Clunk]

Did it fix it?

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Will see, no BSOD yet, have upgraded BIOS and the drivers as per your suggestion..

[Toobad]

BSOD left right, and indeed center..

Been reading about all the SATA issues people seem to have, set to ACHI mode with Robson switched on.
Fresh install too, only thing in the logs is a IaStor timeout error.

Ditched my AB9 cos it was killing my drives, at least it worked and only had 1 dodgy SATA channel on it ;/

Hope the latest BIOS update sorted your problem and you'll post soon to let us know. I've got a P5K-E here waiting for its Q6600 G0. I intend to enable ACHI but am not sure what the "Robson" bit is all about. I assume it is the same Intel technology that is referred to as "Turbo Cache" in the new Santa Rosa laptops that have come out. Is it working with flash memory on the hard drive electronics and can my Sammy T166 Spinpoints make use of it? Anybody got any ideas?

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It was fine overnight, moved ~300Gb around 3 different HDD's, will give it some proper hammer 2nite as I intend to install games and give it some welly...

[Smudger]

No-one tells you when they recommend these things that it's an absolute pain getting the IDE cable from your optical drives to the only IDE port, on the other side of the board! Especially when your big graphics card is in the way. I guess this is ASUS's way of telling me to get SATA optical drives...

[Martin87]

No-one tells you when they recommend these things that it's an absolute pain getting the IDE cable from your optical drives to the only IDE port, on the other side of the board! Especially when your big graphics card is in the way. I guess this is ASUS's way of telling me to get SATA optical drives...

Yeh....preferably there own brand ones aswell!!