Failed Raid Chip on A7N8X deluxe

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Has anyone had experince with the raid contorller failing, and not the
entire MBO? I had a maxtor literally fry a chip and now when I install a
SATA drive I get a blue screen of death "hardware failure"
 
I had a floppy controller go south once, with everything else on the
mobo still functioning properly, so the answer to your question is
"yes", a single chip or even a portion of a chip (the floppy
controller was part of the SuperI/O chip in my case) can fail yet the
remainder of the mobo may still function properly.

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Best regards,
Kyle
| Has anyone had experince with the raid contorller failing, and not
the
| entire MBO? I had a maxtor literally fry a chip and now when I
install a
| SATA drive I get a blue screen of death "hardware failure"
 
Has anyone had experince with the raid contorller failing, and not the
entire MBO? I had a maxtor literally fry a chip and now when I install a
SATA drive I get a blue screen of death "hardware failure"
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Yes, but not that board - mine was a P4B-E. The MB is still working
fine and I put a Promise RAID card in to control the drives.
 
I had a floppy controller go south once, with everything else on the
mobo still functioning properly, so the answer to your question is
"yes", a single chip or even a portion of a chip (the floppy
controller was part of the SuperI/O chip in my case) can fail yet the
remainder of the mobo may still function properly.
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I've had that happen too where the floppy controller part was the only
thing that died, also have a voodoo 2K video card that only runs
3D games at about half the speed but still works fine in 2D. ;p

Ed
 
| On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 02:26:06 -0500, "Kyle Brant" <[email protected]>
wrote:
|
| >I had a floppy controller go south once, with everything else on
the
| >mobo still functioning properly, so the answer to your question is
| >"yes", a single chip or even a portion of a chip (the floppy
| >controller was part of the SuperI/O chip in my case) can fail yet
the
| >remainder of the mobo may still function properly.
|
| I've had that happen too where the floppy controller part was the
only
| thing that died, also have a voodoo 2K video card that only runs
| 3D games at about half the speed but still works fine in 2D. ;p
|
| Ed
|


It is also possible for passive components to fail which may appear to
be an IC failure. Had a resistor pack go bad in a printer port
circuit once. I wrote a simple VB program to toggle the outputs on
the printer port connector, found the bad signal, traced it out,
discovered the pull-up resistor pack had gone bad and stole an
identical resistor pack from another "old" mobo to fix the problem.
Probably not worth the time spent, but fun stuff to do when you have
the tools and skills.
 
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