Marv Niederhaus
December 9th 03, 02:10 PM
I think this weekend I will try to pull the graphics card.
Maybe Radeon has a conflict with the SATA controllers.
That is a new addition, but I have done so much changing I
can't remember if the problem got bad when I added the
card. I suspect a problem with the SATA controller. The
Gigabyte board has an onboard controller, I might try to
buy an external controller to see if that does anything.
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi
>
>I'm having a similar problem with my system. I have an
>asus A7V8X MB with 512DDR Radeon9700pro with 2 seagate
>sata 120GB hard drives, My primary works fine with no
>problem what so ever, my second drive is causing a "write
>delay failed" error. Previously I hard a Western Digital
>80GB JB series (IDE) hard drive that would not boot at
>all - I have gone through 4 with no change.
>
>When I first install the second sata drive it worked
fine,
>now it recieves the error and won't allow any access. It
>does appear in windows explorer.
>
>Any help... i'm sick of replacing hard drives every few
>weeks.
>Jason
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Probably the wrong place to post this but I got
excellent
>>results the last time I posted here!!
>>
>>Running XP on a home built machine with Pentium 4, 3GHZ,
>>800 fsb, Gigabyte motherboard, raided SATA drives, All
In
>>Wonder ATI9800 graphics card. Initially could not load
>>windows but with help here, I down clocked memory from
>>400 to 333 and loaded fine (On raided SATA drives, WD
>>Raptors) Ran fine for about a month, played a lot of
>>Freelancer. One night it burped and hasn't been the same
>>since. The trouble is with the SATA drives. I say drives
>>because I got a new set, Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9's,
>>tried them with same problem. Sometimes they are
>>recognized, most times they are not. Lost count of the
>>number of times reloaded windows. I can hear clicking
>>coming from the drives during which the system stalls,
>>then eventually, if I wait long enough, comes back to
>>life. I don't believe it is windows because It fails,
>>most of the time, to recognize the set during bootup.
>>Been working with this for over a month, tried every
>>configuration I could think of, downloaded every driver
I
>>could find. Works fine with an IDE drive, but the minute
>>I conect the SATA drives (Or just a single drive not
>>raided) it starts stalling out. I guess my biggest
>>question is...is it time to go for a new motherboard and
>>maybe suggestions on one that will work. This Gigabyte
MB
>>was not a cheap board but it is a very expensive system
>>when it doesn't work at all. Any comments would be
>>greatly appreciated.
>>.
>>
>.
>
Maybe Radeon has a conflict with the SATA controllers.
That is a new addition, but I have done so much changing I
can't remember if the problem got bad when I added the
card. I suspect a problem with the SATA controller. The
Gigabyte board has an onboard controller, I might try to
buy an external controller to see if that does anything.
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi
>
>I'm having a similar problem with my system. I have an
>asus A7V8X MB with 512DDR Radeon9700pro with 2 seagate
>sata 120GB hard drives, My primary works fine with no
>problem what so ever, my second drive is causing a "write
>delay failed" error. Previously I hard a Western Digital
>80GB JB series (IDE) hard drive that would not boot at
>all - I have gone through 4 with no change.
>
>When I first install the second sata drive it worked
fine,
>now it recieves the error and won't allow any access. It
>does appear in windows explorer.
>
>Any help... i'm sick of replacing hard drives every few
>weeks.
>Jason
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Probably the wrong place to post this but I got
excellent
>>results the last time I posted here!!
>>
>>Running XP on a home built machine with Pentium 4, 3GHZ,
>>800 fsb, Gigabyte motherboard, raided SATA drives, All
In
>>Wonder ATI9800 graphics card. Initially could not load
>>windows but with help here, I down clocked memory from
>>400 to 333 and loaded fine (On raided SATA drives, WD
>>Raptors) Ran fine for about a month, played a lot of
>>Freelancer. One night it burped and hasn't been the same
>>since. The trouble is with the SATA drives. I say drives
>>because I got a new set, Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9's,
>>tried them with same problem. Sometimes they are
>>recognized, most times they are not. Lost count of the
>>number of times reloaded windows. I can hear clicking
>>coming from the drives during which the system stalls,
>>then eventually, if I wait long enough, comes back to
>>life. I don't believe it is windows because It fails,
>>most of the time, to recognize the set during bootup.
>>Been working with this for over a month, tried every
>>configuration I could think of, downloaded every driver
I
>>could find. Works fine with an IDE drive, but the minute
>>I conect the SATA drives (Or just a single drive not
>>raided) it starts stalling out. I guess my biggest
>>question is...is it time to go for a new motherboard and
>>maybe suggestions on one that will work. This Gigabyte
MB
>>was not a cheap board but it is a very expensive system
>>when it doesn't work at all. Any comments would be
>>greatly appreciated.
>>.
>>
>.
>