Problem with Sata Drive OS:Windows 7

[terreaultguy]

Hi,
I had a dual boot (XP pro, Vista Ultimate) with 3 sata HD, ans sata dvd burner. Every thing worked fine.

A while ago I became a beta tester for Windows 7 beta, and later release candidate. Still every thing went fine.

I got windows 7 retail. I decided to make a clean Install and get rid of XP and Vista.

Then the problems started
1-the power supply died - I replaced it
2-the on board LAN card caused the OS to reboot - so I deactivated it
and installed an new network card.
3-Now I was getting bad write to second and third HDs
When I would disconnect then OS would stop crashing
So I remouved them and installed a brand new Western digital 1 TB as
second HD for a while (a couple of days the problem seemed solved)

And while I was copying a folder of 1 GB it crashed again.
I could not beleave that 4 HD went defective all at the same time.

I have tryed all HD individually and installed Windows 7 on after the other
and they all work fine untill I install as a second HD

They also work fine when I install them in a USB box as external drive
I can copy any thing to them no crashes.

Now I think that may be the Sata port or controler is faulty.
I have switch them arround still problems.

Does anybody have a suggestion short of changing motherboard or cpu.

Thanks in advance, Guy

[PrairieDawg]

Re: Problem with Sata Drive OS:Windows 7

No expert here but I have a couple ideas for you to think about. You say PSU died, then lan, and now you can not use more that one hd ..... wondering if power supply took out part of your motherboard when it died? You do not say what you replaced the power supply with. Is the new PSU powerful enough to run your system? Even if the new PSU should be more than good enough do you have yet another one to rule out the possibility that it has issues?

[terreaultguy]

Re: Problem with Sata Drive OS:Windows 7

Hi, thanks for your reply

New Power supply is
BLUE STAR
650W SLI GAMER SATA LED FAN ATX POWER SUPPLY
the old PS was 450W - And it died with lots of sparks
it shorted out.
Now did it do that because it was overloaded by defective parts of the motherboard
like the LAN is't possible
or like you said it damaged the motherboard when it shorted out?
this Motherboard has onboard sound, LAN, 4 SATA ports.
I do not know that by disactivating in BIOS the LAN is like remouving
a card. It could still be causing problems.
No I do not have a extra PSU.
Money is a rare comodity now.

I suspect the on board sata controler and or sata port 2 and 3
because
sata port 1 is the only Hard disk for now that works
sata port 4 is my dvd burner
I will try to find a pci or pci express card that has 2 or 4 sata ports
and I am not shure if I can also deactivate the on board one.
I have Slots 2,6,7 Available
- one PCI 32 BITS
- 2 PCI Express Data Bus Width 1x or x1

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System Slot 1
Name PCI1
Type PCI
Data Bus Width 32 bits
Current Usage In use
Characteristics
Vcc voltage supported 3.3 V
Shared No
PME Signal Yes
Support Hot Plug No
PCI slot supports SMBus signal No
-------------------------------------------
System Slot 2
Name PCI2
Type PCI
Data Bus Width 32 bits
Current Usage Available
Characteristics
Vcc voltage supported 3.3 V
Shared No
PME Signal Yes
Support Hot Plug No
PCI slot supports SMBus signal No
-------------------------------------------
System Slot 3
Name PCI3
Type PCI
Data Bus Width 32 bits
Current Usage In use
Characteristics
Vcc voltage supported 3.3 V
Shared No
PME Signal Yes
Support Hot Plug No
PCI slot supports SMBus signal No
-------------------------------------------
System Slot 4
Name PCIEX16_1
Type PCI Express
Data Bus Width 32x or x32
Current Usage In use
Characteristics
Vcc voltage supported 3.3 V
Shared No
PME Signal Yes
Support Hot Plug No
PCI slot supports SMBus signal No
-------------------------------------------
System Slot 5
Name PCIEX16_2
Type PCI Express
Data Bus Width 32x or x32
Current Usage Available
Characteristics
Vcc voltage supported 3.3 V
Shared No
PME Signal Yes
Support Hot Plug No
PCI slot supports SMBus signal No
-------------------------------------------
System Slot 6
Name PCIEX1_1
Type PCI Express
Data Bus Width 1x or x1
Current Usage Available
Characteristics
Vcc voltage supported 3.3 V
Shared No
PME Signal Yes
Support Hot Plug No
PCI slot supports SMBus signal No
-------------------------------------------
System Slot 7
Name PCIEX1_2
Type PCI Express
Data Bus Width 1x or x1
Current Usage Available
Characteristics
Vcc voltage supported 3.3 V
Shared No
PME Signal Yes
Support Hot Plug No
PCI slot supports SMBus signal No
==========

Motherboard
Manufacturer ASUSTeK Computer INC.
Model P5ND2-SLI
Version 1.XX
Serial Number 123456789000

North Bridge NVIDIA nForce4 SLI Intel Edition Revision A1
South Bridge NVIDIA nForce4 MCP Revision A1

CPU Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.20GHz
Cpu Socket Socket 775 LGA

System Slots 7 PCI


Disk 0
Manufacturer Western Digital
Model WDC WD10EAVS-00D7B1
Size 1000.2 GB
Firmware Version 01.01A01
Serial Number WD-WCAU46234241
Interface Serial ATA
Standard ATA8-ACS | ----
Transfer Mode (Current / Max) SATA-300 / SATA-300
Features S.M.A.R.T., 48bit LBA, NCQ, AAM (Disabled)
Temperature 42 C (107 F)
Drive Letter(s) C:

Disk 1
Manufacturer Western Digital
Model WDC WD1600AAJS-00PSA0
Size 160.0 GB
Firmware Version 05.06H05
Serial Number WD-WMAP92293354
Interface USB (Serial ATA)
Standard ATA/ATAPI-7 | ----
Transfer Mode (Current / Max) SATA-300 / SATA-300
Features S.M.A.R.T., 48bit LBA, NCQ, AAM (Disabled)
Temperature 44 C (111 F)
Drive Letter(s) E:

DVD Writer 0
Manufacturer LG Electronics
Model HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H62N ATA Device
Firmware Version CL00
Serial Number K59779J0639
Interface Serial ATA
Standard ATA/ATAPI-7 | ATA/ATAPI-7 T13 1532D version 4a
Transfer Mode (Current / Max) SATA-150 / SATA-150
Drive Letter(s) D:
Controller Buffer Size on Drive 2048 KB
Removable Yes
Capabilities
CD Reader CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW
CD Writer CD-R, CD-RW
DVD Reader DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM
DVD Writer DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM
SMART Support No

[terreaultguy]

Re: Problem with Sata Drive OS:Windows 7

Hi, all
PrairieDawg, I have baught a PCI to Serial ATA RAID & IDE controler card
Just Installed it. (20$)

I have succesfully copied 33GB of music inmany folders all at once
took 14 minutes. No Crash of windows 7.

so first test seems to confirm that Motherboard's sata ports are defective.

But let's not rush to a solved status.

Because before when I used the old ports I would delete partitions and create new one, formated it on second HD. It seemed ok but after a day or two the problem would come back.

Time will tell. I will wait a week, and if by then all is well I will return
To declare that the problem is solved.

See you then All, Guy