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A8N-E & SATA Corruption

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grnade

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It started out with a complete freeze when I was tabbing in and out of a game doing web browsing. I wasn't really suprised, this sort of thing happens, I reached down and held down the power button to turn it off. When I rebooted, error messages galore. Windows was corrupt beyond repair. So I reformatted. Only the weirdest thing would happen when I tried to reformat: XP Setup would format the drive to 100%, then it would tell me that "XP failed to format this hard drive" and it could not be formatted. WTF? I did this with my main hard drive (164GB SATAII Hitachi Deskstar) and my spare hard drive (82 GB SATAI Hitachi Deskstar) and got the same message for both. After retrying this formatting process several times, I discovered that the partitions were actually formatted and Windows setup would detect them at the beginning as a selection to install to. Strange, but I figured maybe it was just some bug with the Windows setup software. Installed XP to my main hard drive with no problems... at least for a while.

When I was trying to reinstall my applications, a lot of the installers would say "File not found". The weird thing is, I could watch the files in Windows Explorer as the installer installed them, so I knew they were there. I had no trouble copying large files to and from a CD ROM or hard drive to hard drive... it only had problems when it came time to install.

I'm at a complete loss as to what would cause this. This never happened before Windows got all corrupted, and this seems like a hardware problem to me. I don't even know where to start. I have the latest nVidia nForce4 drivers installed (off their website as soon as I formatted), and I just flashed my bios last month. I've scandisked, which all came out okay, defragged, and disabled NCQ. Nothing so far has changed a thing, and now I'm starting to get bluescreens.
 
Questions:

1) Are you overclocking?
2) Are you using the nForce4 sata ports?
3) Are you using the nVidia IDE/Sata driver?

Try using the WHQL windows drivers for IDE and SATA. Some forum members have had similar problems with the nVidia drivers and nForce4.
 
1 - No overclocking. Out of the box settings when possible.

2 - Yeah, I'm using SATA1 and SATA2 of the nForce4 ports on the board. Haven't tried an SATA controller expansion card but thats my next step.

3 - I am using the nVidia IDE drivers. Maybe that's the problem, but that still doesnt explain the weird windows setup bug. I'm going to try a reformat with just the WHQL drivers and see how that effects things.

Any other suggestions/recommendations/experiments you have would be greatly appreciated, I've exhausted all of mine and I have no idea what the source of this problem is.
 
This afternoon, I did (seemingly randomly) get windows xp setup to
format the 82 GB hd and install there. Have been able to install stuff
so far, but I did blue screen while setting up an application. I
haven't nearly begun to reinstall applications yet either. This time
I'm not installing the nForce4 storage drivers, gonna see how it works.
 
My rule of thumb is to never use storage/IDE drivers. never had anything but bad in doing that... Hope that works for ya....
 
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