SATA HDD

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Clayton

Is it ok to run a couple of 500GB SATA2 hard drives on SATA1 controllers?
I have had 2 blue screens on this machine and thought it maybe the HDD, the
memory checks out fine

NMI: Parity check/memory parity error
The system has halted

Or could it be the montherboard
DELL Dimension 8400 925X Chipset

Thanks
 
Could be the motherboard, or the memory, or a bad expansion card. Probably
not the hard drives but you can't rule that out either since an NMI Parity
Check error is a hardware halt (not a Windows error) caused by bad data on
the system or memory bus.
 
I don't see why not. The drives should be compatible with the original SATA
standard.
 
I don't see why not. The drives should be compatible with the original SATA
standard.
 
I have 2 SATA drives configured in RAID 0 BIOS recognizes drives but Vista 64
bit will not. I have a Gigabyte K8U-939MB. I searched all sites and even
purchased driver detective (what a waste of money) Anybody out there that can
point me to a driver, I searched, Gigabyte, ALi and Uli sites but can not
find a Vista driver anywhere. I can not believe Vista have such difficulty
with SATA drives

Thanks all
Henry
 
Memtest86 and the built in memory diagnostics in windows, I should really
test each module over night and then test them both at once, it gave me the
BSOD once before with different memory in the system
 
Hi, some Sata2 drives require a jumper before using on sata1. Check with the
manufacturer...
ChrisC
 
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