Asus P5B; any common problems when installing?

dagwoood · 3 Aug 2007 at 04:00

I'm changing my motherboard to a P5B and I wandered whether there were any common problems when installing/setting-up one of these boards.

I'll be using my current CPU and memory, 1 IDE hard drive, 1xSATA hard drive, 1xSATA DVD-RW and an 8600GTS.

Any other hints or tips would be welcome.

TIA, dagwoood.

dagwoood · 3 Aug 2007 at 20:13

Thanks for the tips and offers of help guys, it's appreciated.

chaosophy said:
Any chance you can replace the IDE drive for another SATA one? It'd make things easier as then you can totally disable the Jmicron controller and just use the Intel one. If it's just a storage drive maybe stick it in a USB caddie?

My IDE drive is going to have XP on it, it's not a storage drive; there's no chance of my swapping it or getting a new one either as it's only a couple of months old.

dagwoood · 9 Aug 2007 at 23:40

chaosophy said:
Also decide what mode you want to run the Intel SATA in before you start installing windows. i.e if you want to run ACHI or RAID you need to make sure you have the drivers ready.

I originally set up my P5B-D in IDE/enhanced mode and later managed to frig it over to ACHI. Seems to work ok but a bit messy doing it that way.

I've been thinking about the above and I would appreciate it if someone could clarify something for me please.

I don't want to install my floppy drive in my new case, so I plan on installing XP onto my IDE drive and set my SATA hard drive to IDE enhanced in the BIOS. If I do this and when XP is installed, can I then install the ACHI driver, reboot into the BIOS and set my SATA drive to ACHI mode? Can anyone see any problems doing it this way?

TIA, dagwoood.