ASUS A8N-SLI PREMIUM DISK BOOT FAILURE?

[apopilot]

I just completed building an awesome gaming rig. The follow components are part of the system.

A8N-SLI PREMIUM
AMD 3200+ VENICE core
BFG 7800GTX
CORSAIR XPERT 1GB MEMORY
Thermaltake Liquid Cooling.
and a MAXTOR 250GB 16mb DIAMOND MAX 10 Hard Drive SATA 150


I have installed windows 3 times. Everytime I do a Windows update or install a drivers and do houskeeping I reboot when it asks. I then either get a frozen screen on the WINDOWS XP PRO startup image or usually in caps it states DISK BOOT FAILURE. PLEASE INSERT SYSTEM DISK. Now, I have this on the NVIDIA SATA controller.

I also but rarely during all this have received a BLUE SCREEN stating Exception failure.

My CPU is running at 29 degrees C. The memory is right on I see it on the XPERT modules.

I am a little frustrated because last night I was enjoying DOOM 3 and FLIGHT SIM 2004 on my new rig and it was flying. Ironically it happened last night several times. I unplugged the PC overnite. This morning I plugged it back in and it booted and went to Microsofts CHECKDISK utility and it worked?

Is the hard drive bad? What do you think is wrong?

Please post.

 

[Fern]

I'd prolly start with the ram. Run Memtest86+ etc overnight.

Could also d/l and run the Maxtor HDD utility to check the HDD

Fern

EDIT: If you've OC'd it, back it down to stock for the OS and mobo/gfx card driver install.

 

[apopilot]

No actually it was booting properly. Now its even worse. It actually worked for once. Now when I tried the ASUS overclocking utility my computer froze in Windows. Then when I rebooted it wont even turn on my monitor and I can not boot from the CD to reinstall windows. Please help someone.

 

[apopilot]

Ok to follow up it was teh AIS NOS overclocking utility. I put it back on Standard and the computer booted. I do however want to check both my HARD DRIVE and MEMORY. Can you tell me where I can get these utilities.
Ok its booting because I found teh AIS NOS overclocking utility and deactivated. Now it cant boot into windows because there is a bad winlogon.exe. ERROR.

Also it says it cant find the KDBUS.dll?

Thanks

 

[apopilot]

BUMP.

DISK BOOT FAILURE ON MY THIRD INSTALL. Does anyone know why this is happening with my SATA drive?

 

[apopilot]

Update!. I have installed an older 20GB IDE drive and all seems to be well. Does anyone know if there is problem with the NVIDA SATA drivers?

 

[CrispyFried]

Sounds like the overclock has corrupted the HD. You can try to run the HDs in a slower mode, like UDMA4 instead of 5. That may be why the 20 gig works, its probably a UDMA 3 or 4 drive.

 

[Fern]

Can you tell me where I can get these utilities.

Memtest86

You may also wish to google memtest86+. It is a "modified" memtest86. I understand it was "created" to solve probs the above linked regular memtest had with a 64 systems. As I do not have an a64 system I can't confirm if the "regular memtest has resolved said prob (or if it ever existed )

PowerMax (Drive fitness proggie) Read the instructions carefully. Depending on how you've got your drive hooked up/what sata adapter you are using, this proggie may not work for you.

Fern

EDIT: Might check the box your sata HDD came in. I wouldn't be surprised if a disk with these utilities was included.

 

[apopilot]

I believe I have narrowed it down to forceware drivers. I am installing the nforce drivers immediately after I install XP PRO SP1. I am doing this so I can get the ethernet driver up and running so that I can connect to the internet. What I have done now is install everything on the PC including SP2 and I have not had a problem. I am a little worried installing the NFORCE drivers due to the fact that I am going to get into DISK BOOT FAILURE and hangups again.

Any ideas what the problem might be?

Please post.