Hi there everyone, I am having a problem with a drive dissapearing after so many hours of operation(1/2 to 3 hours). In my PREVIOUS install with RAID 0 I had a hard drive (SATA 2) on the other controller that dissapeared at times leaving a trail of error messages. I thought Oh its just a bug that will go away with a reinstall. Fast forward to the next fresh install on a new Seagate hard drive 500 GB with 12 MB of cache. I did the updates then stopped about 5 - 6 updates short. The next time I started the PC it would not get past the last boot screen. It just hung there like a dope waiting...OK so I tried rebooting a number of times and I found that it would not detect the Seagate drive C:. Not detecting the drives was my clue, so I first disconnected the Western digital SATA 2 that is the backup drive, no success on reboot. Ok so I switched the hard drive connectors for both the SATA 2 drives, with a successful boot(YEAH). I noticed hard drive activity while not doing anything. Next, the Western Digital drive dropped off the map. And followed by a Blue screen STOP error. I am starting here as this seems like the best place to start as it involves a hard drive malfunction. However, at this time I suspect a controller issue.
System Specs.
Win XP home SP 2
running on: GA-8i945P-G gigabyte mobo
HD: seagate 500 GB, WD 160 GB, WD 160 GB on the RAID controller(one drive at this time but plan to add another for gaming drive RAID 0).
MEMORY: 1024 MB
VIDEO: 8800 GTS 640 MB OC (good room heater)
158 driver (outdated I know but 3DMARK requires it for testing)
BIOS UPDATED to f11
Thanks in advance ...
