HI,
Just thought I'd investigate a problem I've been having recently. Does anyone else suffer from corrupt booting Via SATA in WXP ? I'm pretty sure it has something to do with the chipset. However, the same problem happens on two of my own systems, and a friends system.(which is a system I have had no input on) Both boards I have,have raid and are both ASUS £100 + .The problem is, that on boot, I keep getting corrupt files, which prevent it from booting. I tried repairing them with the original windows disk, but this didn't work. So in the end and to prevent loss of data, I installed another windows on the same drive, under a different directory. To my suprise, after doing this, the supposed 'corrupt' installion that caused all the problems in the first place worked again?I wasn't having this. So I spent about 4 or so hours contemplating and experimenting with the problem. I tried to get it to fail again. Sure enough after a few restarts, I succeeded. Now I had recreated my original problem, I tried selecting the newer version of windows that I just creating from the dual boot menu. Which, as I thought it might loaded fine.( I might add :it was a windows, sans drivers)Then I went to loaded the 'corrupt' version and that worked too, so as you might understand, I currently thinking, what the F**k? So, I delved into the Bios, it was up to date, as this computer I was on was only ten days old.I Changed alot of things in there systematically, trying to figure out what it could be, in the end I got to the chipset voltage. It was set to auto, so I disabled that and set it to the highest option. When I booted up after this, the bastard wouldn't boot, so I went back and changed the whole section to what it call 'standard', and reset.This leads me right up to this present minute, for it has seemingly worked on this computer, but for how long I am unsure. At least I am getting closer to a solution anyway.
Code:A few more things you might want to know: 1.When not booting, it wouldn't even boot in safe mode 2.my drives are Westerndigital SATAII(so is this board)and the other board is SATA I - as are the drives. 3.Board is a ASUS A8N-SLi Premium and the other is a ASUS PC-DL Deluxe 4.PSU brand NEW Enermax Noisetaker 600W EG701AX-VE(W) SFMA ATX2.0 SLI Compliant PSU on both 5. All Chipset Drivers up to date
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Im not too sure of the problem but I would suggest you back up any important data and just format your hard drive and do a clean install.
I also have a Asus A8N SLI Deluxe running 2 hard drives, both SATA. They both have OS. One with Win XP Pro and the other Win XP X64 (64 Bit Windows). I can boot from both without any problems. Im using the latest BIOS (I think, version 1003).
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I have a similar problem happen occasionally. In my case it loses the SATA boot drive, but I have had the corruption happen once or twice. I put in the XP disc and boot with that, then reboot and everything is fine again. Apparently the XP disc heals it.
If it doesn't boot at all, just gets stuck on the splash screen, I unplug the computer for 30 minutes and it boots just fine. This I'm assuming is the time for the PS to bleed all power off the RAM chips. Turning off the PS switch doesn't work.
I never figured it out. I suspect the OS or the motherboard prefers a PATA boot drive and if there is any glitch, even minor in the boot timing, it loses the SATA drive. The problem could be in the BIOS or the startup, though I've never managed to isolate it.
The computer that it happens with is usually on 24/7 so I only have it happen rarely. When I ran it with a PATA boot, it never happened even once.
I have a second one with a SATA boot. Unplugged one of the other SATA drives while on. (Hot plugging is OK but risky with SATA if the drive is being written to.) Had to reinstall XP as the computer refused to recognize the boot SATA again. That computer has X64 on it. -
i hate the connectors
"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems." - Rene Descartes (1596-1650) -
The connectors on the drive end are the worst, they kind of hang there and flop around. They make some neat right angle ones now that work a little better.
I have an external SATA-e drive box. One end of the SATA external cable looks like a miniature Firewire plug and the other end looks like a 6pin Firewire plug. I'm sure somebody will end up plugging a Firewire device in there and fry it.
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