Systematic crash with 1 HD PATA and 2 HD SATA on A8N SLI deluxe

[Guest]

Here is my config:
Windows XP pro
A8N SLI deluxe bios 1.06
1 IBM HD 120Go PATA
2 Hitachi 7k250 SATA, non raid
Drivers nVidia 6.39

I added one sata drive to my well working MoBo and thus installed Windows on
the SATA master drive this time.(I kept the the two other drives)
But after 1 week I begun to have several failure on my windows.

Finally I could not start the PC again (ntldr was missing).
I reinstalled windows, installed nvidia 6.39 etc..but the PC encounted
difficulties to start nearly everytime.
After 5 reinstall, I finally reinstalled windows on the PATA drive.

And now it seems to work fine. Strange, no ?
I encountered alos some issue with Nero (communication failure) when windows
was installed on the SATA drive.

I believe that either the SATA hard drive do have some pb, or the Mobo when
windows is intalled on the SATA drive with a PATA drive present.

When isntalling 6.59 nvidia drivers, system is crashing also.

Any clue, advise ???

 

[Ben Pope]

Here is my config:
Windows XP pro
A8N SLI deluxe bios 1.06
1 IBM HD 120Go PATA
2 Hitachi 7k250 SATA, non raid
Drivers nVidia 6.39

I added one sata drive to my well working MoBo and thus installed Windows on
the SATA master drive this time.(I kept the the two other drives)
But after 1 week I begun to have several failure on my windows.

Finally I could not start the PC again (ntldr was missing).
I reinstalled windows, installed nvidia 6.39 etc..but the PC encounted
difficulties to start nearly everytime.
After 5 reinstall, I finally reinstalled windows on the PATA drive.

And now it seems to work fine. Strange, no ?
I encountered alos some issue with Nero (communication failure) when windows
was installed on the SATA drive.

I believe that either the SATA hard drive do have some pb, or the Mobo when
windows is intalled on the SATA drive with a PATA drive present.

When isntalling 6.59 nvidia drivers, system is crashing also.

Any clue, advise ???

I usually attribute randomness when adding hardware to the PSU.

Can you test the voltages and let us know what they are for +3.3 +5 and
+12V?

Ben

 

[Guest]

Here are my voltage:
12v : 11, 712
5v: 4.919
3.3V: 3.248

 

[Ben Pope]

Here are my voltage:
12v : 11, 712
5v: 4.919
3.3V: 3.248

Well, thats well within spec for all of them. How did you read them to
that precision?

I hope the nVidia SATA drivers don't have the issues of the older SW IDE
drivers.

Will be setting up my board (Neo4 Diamond) in Windows soon.

Ben

 

[aberger]

That's not conclusive. If your power supply is marginal it could be
dropping out when one of the disks spin up.

ab