Re: P5K quality??
- From: "~misfit~" <misfit61nz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 19:35:47 +1300
Somewhere on teh interweb RobV typed:
occam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I have a few problems with this motherboard and wonder if somebody
else have experienced something similar - and, if so, discovered any
solution to such problems.
1) I have a Pioneer DVD-116, an IDE drive, connected via the JMicron
chip. Sometimes it is discovered at boot, sometimes it is not
discovered.
There is probably something wrong with the cabling. In a standard mini-tower
case a standard IDE cable is stretched to reach the top 5 1/2" bay. Can you
drop your drive down a bit?
2) Sometimes (when running WindowsXP) the computer slows down so much
that it is very difficult to navigate with the mouse, and graphics
change very slowly.
A 7300GS is only marginally faster than a GeForce 3ti500, a 7 year old card.
Also, what are your CPU temps like? (Use CoreTemp to monitor). The CPU could
be throttling.
3) And last, during normal use, I got a spurious message that I had
connected somthing to an audio socket - and repeated messages made it
very difficult to get out of that loop.
The first time that message is displayed you get the option to net have it
display further messages. I'd say that, somewhere in the audio settings,
that option would still be there. Perhaps it's caused by a bad connection
top a front panel?
The CPU is an Intel Core2Duo 6750, the RAM is 2*1GB Corsair, and the
graphics board is a Gigabyte GeFOrce 7300GS. Windows XP gives me
problems, Slackware 12 other problems, but Arch and Kubuntu run well.
I have been using ASUS motherboards for many years now. Maybe I
should try Gigabyte instead?
Maybe you should just sort out what's happening with this board first?
There's nothing wrong with them (unless you have a crook one), changing
brands isn't the answer.
What brand hard drive? Are you certain the jumper is correct for the
HD. The HD should be set to master and on the end of the ribbon
cable, the 116 on the middle connector jumpered as slave.
Good advice and all that. However, obviously you haven't seen a P5K. The
single IDE port is as far away from the top of the case as is possible to
put it.
http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=11&l3=534&l4=0&model=1637&modelmenu=1
(click "enlarge", it's the red thing)
I don't see how it would be possible, in a standard case to have the optical
drive in the slave position and the HDD in the master position using an
in-spec IDE cable. I have a P5K-E and, just last week, bought a Pioneer
DVR-212 SATA DVD writer (even though my DVR-110D is still perfect) as
stretching a ribbon cable up to the top of the case was difficult and
interfered with airflow. (The 212 is Pioneer's best drive since the 110D
anyway so it was an excuse to upgrade...)
Really, folks using P35/ICH9 mobos really should have all-SATA drives
--
TTFN,
Shaun.
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