Hard disk diappears momentarily & BSOD /&reboot

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Tatu

Hia!

I have a A8V DLX bios 1011, newest VIA drivers & Catalysts for my gfx
card X800XT. Sounbdcard s a Audigy 2 with freshest drivers installed.
Powersupply is a 460 W BeQuite. I use striped RAID on the VIA
controller. I have 2 x Maxtor 9 120 GB sata drives.

I have experienced some problems lately. When I make large file
transfers, the system freezes & then goes into BSOD. I gotta do a hard
boot.

When entering the windows the VIA RAID-software tell's me that RAID
array is broken and fixes it! Windows tells me that is had recovered
from fatal error caused by hte Windows inability momentarily read the
RAID - array (HDs).

Any ideas how I could fix this. With bios 1009 this problmwen was
worse. The new bios did not fix the problmen, made it less frequent
though!

I appreciate your help!

THX

Tatu Heiskanen
 
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Gert B. Frob

Tatu said:
Hia!

I have a A8V DLX bios 1011, newest VIA drivers & Catalysts for my gfx
card X800XT. Sounbdcard s a Audigy 2 with freshest drivers installed.
Powersupply is a 460 W BeQuite. I use striped RAID on the VIA
controller. I have 2 x Maxtor 9 120 GB sata drives.

I have experienced some problems lately. When I make large file
transfers, the system freezes & then goes into BSOD. I gotta do a hard
boot.

When entering the windows the VIA RAID-software tell's me that RAID
array is broken and fixes it! Windows tells me that is had recovered
from fatal error caused by hte Windows inability momentarily read the
RAID - array (HDs).

Any ideas how I could fix this. With bios 1009 this problmwen was
worse. The new bios did not fix the problmen, made it less frequent
though!

I appreciate your help!

THX

Tatu Heiskanen
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It sounds as if one of your drives is failing. First thing first. Run
chkdsk against the array with all options checked. Check the event log for
errors. Then, use the VIA raid application to check everything out. If
that comes back clean, I would download Maxtor's disk utility and check the
disks for errors. You will probably need to temporarily attach each drive
in turn to a primary IDE channel. If it finds errors, don't let it fix them
until you back up your array (your RAID will be broken).
 
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Tatu

Hia!
It sounds as if one of your drives is failing. First thing first. Run
chkdsk against the array with all options checked. Check the event log for
errors. Then, use the VIA raid application to check everything out. If
that comes back clean, I would download Maxtor's disk utility and check the
disks for errors. You will probably need to temporarily attach each drive
in turn to a primary IDE channel. If it finds errors, don't let it fix them
until you back up your array (your RAID will be broken).
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Thank you for the answer!

Basically I feared the same thing. Another thing I have learnt is that
Maxtor & VIA chipset don't go nicely together always! There is rather
long thread on the subject in the VIA - forum
(http://www.viaarena.com/). So I'll do what you suggested & then go to
buys some new hardrives & rid of these old ones (OLD - lol - like 10
months old).

I really appreciated this :)

Tatu Heiskanen
 
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