Gave up on the Asus P5K-E, are other P35 boards a problem with SATA?

Per trouble post below, I gave up on the SATA problem with the Asus P5K-E wifi board I received last Friday. I tried and tried with the ICH9R ACHI driver, but nothing worked (different boot disk variations, etc). These seems to be a problem between my WD Raptor 150X drive and the ICH9R driver. Every time I would install the iastor.sys driver, after the first reboot I would get the BSOD.

I must have formatted by hard drive 10 times in last 24 hours. I give up...

I also give up on Asus, this is the second time Asus motherboard had problems. It's time to move onto some other brands...

I want to order another board, but am affraid that I might get the same problem. That is I am interested in another P35 variation, perhaps Abit or MSI, but since they all have P35 and ICH9R, will I also experience the SATA problem with the other boards?

Maybe I should stay away from the ICH9R and the P35, get an Nvidia680 SLI or something similar. I am looking for something in the $100-$150 price range.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks!
frustrated...

I haven't had any problems with my Abit IP35-E and my Sata drive....or at all for that matter.

im running two rapter in raido on a p5k premium no problem what so ever with any thing over clocks very easy
Rich

ICH9R and the P35 are very good (better than the 680i thats for sure). Go for a higher end board, P5K dueluxe or premium