SATA HDD

[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

 

[Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User]]

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.

 

[Clayton]

thanks
So is it ok to run a couple of 500GB SATA2 hard drives on SATA1 controllers?

 

[Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User]]

I don't see why not. The drives should be compatible with the original SATA
standard.

 

[Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User]]

I don't see why not. The drives should be compatible with the original SATA
standard.

 

[David B.]

What did you check the memory with?

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[Guest]

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

 

[Clayton]

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

 

[Chris]

Hi, some Sata2 drives require a jumper before using on sata1. Check with the
manufacturer...
ChrisC