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Hi all, Same problem here. WinExplorer is stuck/frozen as long as my USB stick is plugged even though the USB drivers seem properly installed (from Windows) and no problem are reported by the Device Manager... Any idea?

@Imp: my SATAII HDD is plugged to a SATA1 connector. I boot from it (I don't use the IDE HDD booting solution) and it seems to work now (no freezing, no BSDO). Still, I am having problem accessing my USB stick: WinExplorer is stuck/frozen as long as the stick is plugged even though the USB...

No, I didn't until now. Actually I never experience specific cold boot problems: the freezings occured at random (during WinXp boot, while surfing on internet, etc...) I just noticed that after a first freezing warm booting was not helping and and freezings then constantly reappeared.

@qsrk: with the HDD on SATA1 I did of course cold boot and even warm booted once (WinXp updates). But no problem until now. What's about the side plate of the case causing our problems? ;)

Yesterday evening after slowing down the SATAII HDD to SATAI speed I plugged it to a SATAI connector. Everything went fine and UNTIL NOW no freezing to report... But how often did we think we got rid of the damn' freezings and then notice that they suddenly re-appear (especially for me when I...

I can't even sell that POS (or maybe I can try for a couple of beers) since I had to bend some of the rips of the heat sink near the processor socket (GREAT design) in order to be able to mount the processor heat sink...:( If it works with the HDD connected to the SATAI controller I will keep...

Thanx qrsk for the details. I bought my SATAII HDD in bulk so I didn't get any manual nor tools. For the ones interested I found how to set a jumper for slowing my SATAII Seagate HDD down: http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/faq/sata_lock.html I gonna a give a try this evening.

@qsrk: the SATAII drive is running currently in IDE mode but to my experience the mode didn't change anything regarding the (in)stability. I didn't forget to enable the SATAI ports in the BIOS but I didn't slow down the SATAII drive. How do you do that actually? :o

Hi guys, Here is my report about my IDE HDD attempt: I boot now on an (old) IDE drive (as master) and uses the SATAII as slave (even thouh I didn't set any jumper for that one). Actually it worked easier than I expected. I plugged the SATAII HDD on the SATAII connector and WINXP detected...

Hi guys, Here is my report about my IDE HDD attempt: I boot now on an (old) IDE drive (as master) and uses the SATAII as slave (even thouh I didn't set any jumper for that one). Actually it worked easier than I expected. I plugged the SATAII HDD on the SATAII connector and WINXP detected...

Sorry guys but I had little time to mess with my PC last week. I installed yesterday WinXP on an IDE HDD. Still I will have to use the PC a couple of days before judging if the 'freezings' really disappear. A couple a days ago my PC started again to F**K around and I noticed that during...

Hi all, I have a new Seagate SATAII HDD (ST3160812AS) and scanned it with seatools. The "Full Test" passed but the partition tests failed with critical errors ("One or more errors were found in the index", "One or more errors were found in metadata file records"). I used WinXP Chkdsk but it...

Hey, I would be curious to know if you are using the a SATA or a SATA II data cable. I personnally used until now SATA data cables (the one delivered with the mobo and another one I purchased). I discovered today that there exist SATA II data cables... Letdown: thanx a lot for the link...

I disabled the SATA controller in the BIOS, there should be no need for it since I just have nothing plugged into the SATA slots.

Hi all, Bad news, the freezing problems came back. ~:-((((( So this was NOT solved by putting the optical drives on IDE2... I even deactivated IDE1 in the BIOS but it didn't change anything. As qsrk I replaced the flimsy ASRock SATA cable but it didn't bring any success. Yesterday I did a...