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Dave
I have an Intel D845PEBT2 mobo with the SI3112 SATA
controller built in. I installed a Seagate 120gig SATA
drive, and performed a fresh install. I noticed that
after shutting down (with XP Pro powering off the system
afterwards) that the system would run a scan on the
drives upon the next bootup.
Currently I'm on my 3rd drive of the same sort, and have
determined that the system is powering off before the
drive has finished writing data to the drive. After a
short time, the drive develops bad sectors. My temp
solution is simply not to turn off the computer until I
resolve this Not good, however, it's storm season!
I've updated all the drivers in the system, updated the
BIOS (the sata controller is built on the mobo, and can't
be flashed seperately that I'm aware of). If I restart
as opposed to shutting down, it's fine. But, about 50%
of the time shutting down causes scandisk to check the
drives, and it finds errors, eventually causing the drive
to go bad as has happened in the past.
I tried to disable the write-behind cache, but there
aren't any options to do so on the SI3112 controller in
the device manager, and the options to do it on the drive
itself are grey'd out. Swell.
Just wondering if anyone has heard of this before, and
has a method of resolving it ... or a workaround. Can I
prevent XP Pro from shutting down the system
automatically? Perhaps be brought to the old "it is now
safe to shut off your computer" message? My BIOS doesn't
have a great many options for ACPI, and "disable" isn't
among them.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
-=D=-
controller built in. I installed a Seagate 120gig SATA
drive, and performed a fresh install. I noticed that
after shutting down (with XP Pro powering off the system
afterwards) that the system would run a scan on the
drives upon the next bootup.
Currently I'm on my 3rd drive of the same sort, and have
determined that the system is powering off before the
drive has finished writing data to the drive. After a
short time, the drive develops bad sectors. My temp
solution is simply not to turn off the computer until I
resolve this Not good, however, it's storm season!
I've updated all the drivers in the system, updated the
BIOS (the sata controller is built on the mobo, and can't
be flashed seperately that I'm aware of). If I restart
as opposed to shutting down, it's fine. But, about 50%
of the time shutting down causes scandisk to check the
drives, and it finds errors, eventually causing the drive
to go bad as has happened in the past.
I tried to disable the write-behind cache, but there
aren't any options to do so on the SI3112 controller in
the device manager, and the options to do it on the drive
itself are grey'd out. Swell.
Just wondering if anyone has heard of this before, and
has a method of resolving it ... or a workaround. Can I
prevent XP Pro from shutting down the system
automatically? Perhaps be brought to the old "it is now
safe to shut off your computer" message? My BIOS doesn't
have a great many options for ACPI, and "disable" isn't
among them.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
-=D=-