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Just curious if this is possible, if a HDD is failing, and while playing a game, it has an ATA timeout (of a second or two), and then resets the ATA bus or device, and then re-reads it, can that lock whatever system buses, and the southbridge chip, etc., long enough to cause a VPU recovery error, in Win7?
Does anyone know?
Edit: This may depend on the era of machine, too. Machine I had a question about, is a Core2Quad, so the video card's PCI-E slot goes through the system chipset, to the CPU via FSB.
On more modern machines, the video card's PCI-E lanes go straight to the CPU.
So, possibly this is a potential issue only on ancient platforms that still use FSB to the CPU (Pentium 4 and Core2?)
Does anyone know?
Edit: This may depend on the era of machine, too. Machine I had a question about, is a Core2Quad, so the video card's PCI-E slot goes through the system chipset, to the CPU via FSB.
On more modern machines, the video card's PCI-E lanes go straight to the CPU.
So, possibly this is a potential issue only on ancient platforms that still use FSB to the CPU (Pentium 4 and Core2?)
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