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[Chris]

I encountered this problem once. It can be very annoying especially when you miss 20 minutes of state of origin. I ended up configuring a counter log with the physical disk object and threw in read per sec and right per sec counters and set it to run between 6 and 8 of a night. The next time I had the problem I ran the log file and the counters where at 100%. I then ran a check hard disk program and two of my disks failed. I was nearly going to buy some new disks until I looked in the Nvidia serial ATA controllers. For some reason the primary channel disks were set to PIO mode, every time I changed them to serial ATA 2-3 GB they would revert back to PIO mode. I finally found a setting that let the BIOS set the transfer rate and now it stays at 2-3 GB and I have not had the problem since. I still don’t know what I downloaded to make the controllers change, although it was getting updates from a WSUS server. Hope this helps.

[blaize]

I have the same problem with my AM2+ board which is a Gigabyte GA-MA78G-DS3H (rev. 1.0) and it happens fairly frequently

Has anyone found a fix for this problem as all the ones I have found so far refer to Intel controllers not AMD

This is really affecting the WAF as well because I have recently gone to the dark side from Intel hoping to fix alot of these silly problems but seems it has followed me
I have even replaced hard drives with new 1TB Samsungs but has made no difference at all.

Thanks

Tony

[blaize]

I have sent a support e-mail to Gigabyte but not too sure how much good that will do but will post anything useful if arises.

Tony

[banksy]

Hi Guys...installed a microsoft update on Sunday evening and the problem appears to have gone away. No restore was required.

[Nobes]

I swapped my Corsair ram out for a cheapo version which seems to have fixed my problem, however that was Sunday as well.....damn, which one fixed my problem

What update was it?

[blaize]

I swapped my Corsair ram out for a cheapo version which seems to have fixed my problem, however that was Sunday as well.....damn, which one fixed my problem

What update was it?

lol isn't it always the way

Hmmmm i have taken my u beaut Corsiar RAM and put OEM ram in as well trying to troubleshoot another problem and it fixed mine as well but might try the good ram again and see if the problem returns The OEM Ram is a slower ram then the Corsair if thats a possible cause of problems???

Tony

[banksy]

All I got was a prompted critical update for Windows. Didn't look too closely. Still 3 days later and back up to normal operation again.

[Nobes]

Chris,

For interest sake, where are the NVIDIA serial ATA settings?

[Chris]

The NVIDIA serial ATA settings are in Device Manager-IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers if they are installed.

[bigwoof]

Hi guys

Sorry I haven't updated my situation on the thread, I have been preoccupied wit other things (funerals in other countries). haven't had much of a look at the system as a consequence, and probably wont have a good look in a while. from what i have seen the so far the best way to solve this problem is to set your drives to run on IDE in the bios, however this is probably not the best option for your new sata drives. you will also need to reinstall vista (also a problem if you only have an image from the manufacturer and not an install disk, grrr)

thanks for all your responses

Philip

[wilsonj]

Just to add to the problems. My PC now comes up with memory errors and today a windows defender error. MCE just drops back to desktop and displays the error message. After a while it reboots on its own!!!! Its getting worse. Thankfully my new mobo arrives today. I hope this is the easiest way to fix the problems.

[bigwoof]

It seems the problem is solved, finally

I spoke to Assus and they said that it was the intel hard drive driver not playing nicely with vista. I had previously tried installing the latest driver form the intel site but it didnt help. However the link i got from Asus was from thire site and the driver has worked (so far). It seems the repackaged driver somehow worked, i dont understand why but i am happy my computer is not randomly locking up anymore. (yay)

Thanks everyone for your help

cheers

phil

[JaniWick]

I have Windows 7. The problem was the hdd light goes solid and the interface stops responding for a time close to 1 minute. Then it starts responding from the place it stopped. Installed Intel Matrix Storage Manager and the problem has vanished.

http://downloadcente...d=2101&lang=eng

[skypilot]

Do you have a Seagate 1.5 Tb disk? - there was a bad batch of those.

[warboss36]

im having the exact same issues, at first i thought it was a driver issue then a hardware issue. i have scanned the computer with multiple applications and everything comes up fine, but all my programs freeze near constantly, when it happens the hdd light goes solid and every program gets 'not responding' on it and everything freezes. this can last for 1-5 mins. i found that tapping the case helps unfreeze it but it is only a tempoary solution and dosnt always work.

this has been happening about 6-8 months now countless times today, it has happened twice while writing this.

any help any one can give would be very appreciated.

thanx