SATA problems on P5W DH

[RMSe17]

I have P5W DH with 2 x 120Gb PATA in JMicron, 2 x 250Gb PATA in Intel controller, 2 x DVD drives in PCI IDE adapter card. I bought 2 x 320Gb SATA 2? Seagate drives. The DVD drives don't work very well on the adapter card, so I bought 2 SATA-PATA JMicron adapters, and so I plugged in 2 x 320Gb drives into Intel SATA, and a DVD drive in 3rd Intel SATA. The board would not post. The board did post when I would remove the SATA-PATA adapter, so I figured that I just wouldn't use it. So, the board's BIOS was set to Enhanced PATA+SATA, and it would see all my drives. I decided to play with RAID, and held CTRL-E, or SHIFT-E, or whatever other key that the manual said during POST, and everything froze.
Since then, I can not get the computer to get past POST when I have any SATA drives connected to the Intel SATA controller. The board shows that it sees 4 of my drives on internal controller, then shows me SMART status for 2 of them, and locks up. I tried BIOS update to latest, no effect. I disconnected the battery, did the CMOS reset jumper thing, and then the board POSTS just fine with the SATA drives, but only once. After restart, no go, freezes again. I tried tthe battery/clear CMOS again, same effect. POSTS ones with the SATA drives, after restart doesn't go through POST any more.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
RMSe17

 

[SkyDiver]

I recently had some similar problems and got some very good advice from Bozo Galora.

SATA on P5W DH Link

 

[RMSe17]

Thanks, I'll try those things out.

 

[JustStarting]

go to XTremeSystems.

They have thread over 100 pages long on the board full of fixes. I have a P5B read the P5B thread there before I built my rig. Ther are drivers on the P5B you need for SATA to play nice. It may be the same for your board. There is an Intel Matrix fix and some other SATA fixes. I had to create a floppy to F6 at startup on the buils to install the correct SATA stuff.

 

[Eurasianman]

I've come to notice that when you overclock your computer, that the SATA drives won't work correctly. I recently tried to overclock my computer after installing XP and after going to around 400*9 with my Core 2 Duo E6600, my SATA drives wouldn't work at all. Try putting your processor back to stock and see if that works.

 

[JustStarting]

Originally posted by: Eurasianman
I've come to notice that when you overclock your computer, that the SATA drives won't work correctly. I recently tried to overclock my computer after installing XP and after going to around 400*9 with my Core 2 Duo E6600, my SATA drives wouldn't work at all. Try putting your processor back to stock and see if that works.

Mine works just fine.... 425 FSB x 8 w/ a E6600 also.

Edit: 425 FSB x 8 is my everday setting... it works fine up to 460 FSB x8.

 

[Eurasianman]

You also have a different motherboard than me as well. It might be the chipsets themselves seeing that you're running an ICH8R and I'm running the ICH7R. *shudders*

I only state what I have seen and experienced lol. Mine is stable at 401*9, but the hard drives won't boot. And I know for a fact that my power supply is more than efficient lol! I also have adequate cooling. So I don't know. Maybe I have a faulty motherboard.

At least everything works at stock speeds =D