NTFS corruption 9800 pro

[Paradigm UK]

I agree with changing the order that you have your hard drives / CD/DVD drives connected, though I believe the convention is:

Primary IDE: hard drive drive > master, second hard drive > slave,
Secondary IDE: DVD > master, CDRW > slave

In my Plextor readme file, using HDD and CDRW in Primary IDE slot and HDD and DVD in Secondary IDE is not a supported configuration, though I understand why you would consider this to be the `optimal' setup for your kit.

Don't intstall the ide driver that comes with the 4in1 (hyperion) drivers.

Rob

Good suggestion Rob, but according to the information already supplied by Magwheelz the VIA 4in1 Hyperion IDE driver is not installed on his system, he's using the default Microsoft driver:

Magwheelz, does your system drive connected to the Promise Ultra133 TX2 (tm) IDE Controller also suffer corruption?

In which PCI slots do you have the Promise Ultra133 TX2 (tm) IDE Controller and XMASSCSI SCSI Controller fitted?
Please refer to the following information from my A7V266 FAQ for correct installation:


The PCI slot numbers are screen printed on the motherboard and number 1 to 5 down starting from the AGP slot.
The corrected table yields the following PCI adapter installation rules:
PCI 1: Install only Network Interface Card/ISDN terminal adapter or a MODEM. Shares IRQ with PCI slot 5, USB controller and Promise RAID controller.
If you have the A7V266-E RAID version and disable the Promise RAID controller in the BIOS, the IRQ is not released so beware of conflicts.
PCI 2: No adapter should normally be installed in this slot as the IRQ is shared with the AGP slot.
Severe system instability, lockups and blue screens is the likely result of installing any PCI Bus Master device.
Adapters that do not use an interrupt (I/O port only, e.g. 3dfx Voodoo2) may be installed if all other slots are utilised, though this is not verified.
PCI 3: Shares an interrupt with the onboard C-Media audio, so if you are using the C-Media leave this slot free.
If you have disabled the onboard audio, the slot (and interrupt) is free for installation of a PCI Bus Master adapter, e.g. SCSI host adapter, ATAPI RAID controller or PCI sound card.
PCI 4: Slot 4 has exclusive use of an IRQ, so is ideally suited for installation of a PCI Bus Master adapter, e.g. SCSI host adapter, ATAPI RAID controller or PCI sound card.
PCI 5: Shares IRQ with PCI slot 1, USB controller and Promise RAID controller. Install only NIC, ISDN terminal adapter or a MODEM.

 

[Magwheelz]

I agree with changing the order that you have your hard drives / CD/DVD drives connected, though I believe the convention is:

Primary IDE: hard drive drive > master, second hard drive > slave,
Secondary IDE: DVD > master, CDRW > slave

Okay Paradigm UK, Here's what I did...

I ripped out all the cards, all the power connectors, and all the
ribbon cables. That left cpu, ram, 9800 pro, primary master HD.
The system booted up fine and put in the Omega 3.10 drivers. I copied
a large file no problem. I shutdown and added another HD as the
primary slave. When I copied the file from one drive to the other it
copied slowly then finally locked up. I rebooted, chkdsk ran, and the
system log read 'Source ntfs - The file system structure on the disk
is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume
D:'. I replaced the Radeon with my old card and was able to copy back
and forth with no errors or lockups. I think it's the blasted card!!
PS. I put everything back together in the accepted configuration. Any
more suggestions before I send this thing back??


Gotta go,
Magwheelz

 

[John Hall]

Weird, wild, wacky stuff. Until you said that everything was ok when you
used another video card, I would have concluded that the ribbon cable to the
second slave hard drive was defective. But no, all was fine when you went
back to your other video card. I agree, your 9800 pro seems to be the
component causing the problem, although I can't imagine how it would do that
directly. One thought that comes to mind is that your 9800 pro is fine, but
in the motherboard that you are using, some combination of flakey
electronics is causing corruption when you use two hard drives on the
primary IDE channel and the 9800 pro is in the AGP slot. Could be that your
motherboard is not compatible with the 9800 pro. RMA the video card, and if
you have the same problem with a replacement, buy a new motherboard. My
A7N8X deluxe works fine with my 9800 pro.

JK

 

[Magwheelz]

Weird, wild, wacky stuff.

you caught that eh?

Until you said that everything was ok when you
used another video card, I would have concluded that the ribbon cable to the
second slave hard drive was defective.

Tried swapping ribbon already

I agree, your 9800 pro seems to be the
component causing the problem, although I can't imagine how it would do that
directly.

That's why i brought it up in the first place

One thought that comes to mind is that your 9800 pro is fine, but
in the motherboard that you are using, some combination of flakey
electronics is causing corruption when you use two hard drives on the
primary IDE channel and the 9800 pro is in the AGP slot.

I tried primary and secondary already as this was my original setup

Could be that your
motherboard is not compatible with the 9800 pro. RMA the video card, and if
you have the same problem with a replacement, buy a new motherboard. My
A7N8X deluxe works fine with my 9800 pro.

JK

What r your Aquamark 3 scores with it?? Ram?? cpu?

Gotta go,
Magwheelz

 

[John Hall]

Geez, I haven't run Aquamark 3 in a while. All I can recall is that my
score was up there in the 90th percentile of other scores that I have seen.
With my A7N8X Deluxe I'm running a Barton 2800+ XP CPU, two crucial PC3200
512 meg sticks of memory, my 9800 pro, 1 60 gig hard drive that is my
primary drive and then 2 80 gig hard drives that I use for video and
backups, a DVD Rom drive, a Pioneer DVD burner, a Soundblaster Audigy
soundcard, a 550 watt Antec psu, and XP Pro of course. I have the 60 as
master and one of the 80 gig drives as slave on the primary IDE channel, the
burner as master, and the DVD Rom as slave on the secondary IDE channel, and
the other 80 gig hard drive is running off one of the SATA channels on the
motherboard with an adapter. And all is humming like it should.

JK

 

[Magwheelz]

And all is humming like it should.

sweet

Gotta go,
Magwheelz

 

[PS]

Running XP sp1a, I had ntfs corruption on my 200 gb drive "some"
times, none on my smaller drives less than 137gb (120gb & 80gb) till I
applied the following.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;331958&Product=WinXP

http://support.microsoft.com/common...=kbWinXPpreSP2fix&Product=WinXP&MaxResults=50