SATA Drives do not work anymore.

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Marv Niederhaus

Probably the wrong place to post this but I got excellent
results the last time I posted here!!

Running XP on a home built machine with Pentium 4, 3GHZ,
800 fsb, Gigabyte motherboard, raided SATA drives, All In
Wonder ATI9800 graphics card. Initially could not load
windows but with help here, I down clocked memory from
400 to 333 and loaded fine (On raided SATA drives, WD
Raptors) Ran fine for about a month, played a lot of
Freelancer. One night it burped and hasn't been the same
since. The trouble is with the SATA drives. I say drives
because I got a new set, Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9's,
tried them with same problem. Sometimes they are
recognized, most times they are not. Lost count of the
number of times reloaded windows. I can hear clicking
coming from the drives during which the system stalls,
then eventually, if I wait long enough, comes back to
life. I don't believe it is windows because It fails,
most of the time, to recognize the set during bootup.
Been working with this for over a month, tried every
configuration I could think of, downloaded every driver I
could find. Works fine with an IDE drive, but the minute
I conect the SATA drives (Or just a single drive not
raided) it starts stalling out. I guess my biggest
question is...is it time to go for a new motherboard and
maybe suggestions on one that will work. This Gigabyte MB
was not a cheap board but it is a very expensive system
when it doesn't work at all. Any comments would be
greatly appreciated.
 
Hi

I'm having a similar problem with my system. I have an
asus A7V8X MB with 512DDR Radeon9700pro with 2 seagate
sata 120GB hard drives, My primary works fine with no
problem what so ever, my second drive is causing a "write
delay failed" error. Previously I hard a Western Digital
80GB JB series (IDE) hard drive that would not boot at
all - I have gone through 4 with no change.

When I first install the second sata drive it worked fine,
now it recieves the error and won't allow any access. It
does appear in windows explorer.

Any help... i'm sick of replacing hard drives every few
weeks.
Jason
 
I think this weekend I will try to pull the graphics card.
Maybe Radeon has a conflict with the SATA controllers.
That is a new addition, but I have done so much changing I
can't remember if the problem got bad when I added the
card. I suspect a problem with the SATA controller. The
Gigabyte board has an onboard controller, I might try to
buy an external controller to see if that does anything.
 
Marv Niederhaus wrote:
| Probably the wrong place to post this but I got excellent
| results the last time I posted here!!
|
| Running XP on a home built machine with Pentium 4, 3GHZ,
| 800 fsb, Gigabyte motherboard, raided SATA drives, All In
| Wonder ATI9800 graphics card. Initially could not load
| windows but with help here, I down clocked memory from
| 400 to 333 and loaded fine (On raided SATA drives, WD
| Raptors) Ran fine for about a month, played a lot of
| Freelancer. One night it burped and hasn't been the same
| since. The trouble is with the SATA drives. I say drives
| because I got a new set, Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9's,
| tried them with same problem. Sometimes they are
| recognized, most times they are not. Lost count of the
| number of times reloaded windows. I can hear clicking
| coming from the drives during which the system stalls,
| then eventually, if I wait long enough, comes back to
| life. I don't believe it is windows because It fails,
| most of the time, to recognize the set during bootup.
| Been working with this for over a month, tried every
| configuration I could think of, downloaded every driver I
| could find. Works fine with an IDE drive, but the minute
| I conect the SATA drives (Or just a single drive not
| raided) it starts stalling out. I guess my biggest
| question is...is it time to go for a new motherboard and
| maybe suggestions on one that will work. This Gigabyte MB
| was not a cheap board but it is a very expensive system
| when it doesn't work at all. Any comments would be
| greatly appreciated.

I noticed that some of the GA-I8Pxxx have bios upgrades
for recognizing SATA drives. Just a shot.....
 
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