Systematic crash with 1 HD PATA and 2 HD SATA on A8N SLI deluxe

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Here is my config:
Windows XP pro
A8N SLI deluxe bios 1.06
1 IBM HD 120Go PATA
2 Hitachi 7k250 SATA, non raid
Drivers nVidia 6.39

I added one sata drive to my well working MoBo and thus installed Windows on
the SATA master drive this time.(I kept the the two other drives)
But after 1 week I begun to have several failure on my windows.

Finally I could not start the PC again (ntldr was missing).
I reinstalled windows, installed nvidia 6.39 etc..but the PC encounted
difficulties to start nearly everytime.
After 5 reinstall, I finally reinstalled windows on the PATA drive.

And now it seems to work fine. Strange, no ?
I encountered alos some issue with Nero (communication failure) when windows
was installed on the SATA drive.

I believe that either the SATA hard drive do have some pb, or the Mobo when
windows is intalled on the SATA drive with a PATA drive present.

When isntalling 6.59 nvidia drivers, system is crashing also.

Any clue, advise ???
 
Corwin said:
Here is my config:
Windows XP pro
A8N SLI deluxe bios 1.06
1 IBM HD 120Go PATA
2 Hitachi 7k250 SATA, non raid
Drivers nVidia 6.39

I added one sata drive to my well working MoBo and thus installed Windows on
the SATA master drive this time.(I kept the the two other drives)
But after 1 week I begun to have several failure on my windows.

Finally I could not start the PC again (ntldr was missing).
I reinstalled windows, installed nvidia 6.39 etc..but the PC encounted
difficulties to start nearly everytime.
After 5 reinstall, I finally reinstalled windows on the PATA drive.

And now it seems to work fine. Strange, no ?
I encountered alos some issue with Nero (communication failure) when windows
was installed on the SATA drive.

I believe that either the SATA hard drive do have some pb, or the Mobo when
windows is intalled on the SATA drive with a PATA drive present.

When isntalling 6.59 nvidia drivers, system is crashing also.

Any clue, advise ???
Click to expand...

I usually attribute randomness when adding hardware to the PSU.

Can you test the voltages and let us know what they are for +3.3 +5 and
+12V?

Ben
 
Corwin said:
Here are my voltage:
12v : 11, 712
5v: 4.919
3.3V: 3.248
Click to expand...

Well, thats well within spec for all of them. How did you read them to
that precision?

I hope the nVidia SATA drivers don't have the issues of the older SW IDE
drivers.

Will be setting up my board (Neo4 Diamond) in Windows soon.

Ben
 
That's not conclusive. If your power supply is marginal it could be
dropping out when one of the disks spin up.

ab
 
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