I have a new Badaxe 2 installed. No overclocking, new WinXP SP2 install with all updates, latest BIOS, latest drivers, Kingston memory, Q6600. Almost no other software has been installed, so this is very much a "virgin" install.
The system operates perfectly normally in most respects. However, I have a need to copy large numbers of small files. When I do so, it dies part way through.
Almost like clockwork, it'll die at the same point - I'm talking about ~700k small TIFF and text files. This happens using any type of software to copy - robocopy, WinExplorer, a custom VB6 utility, or even Cygwin.
Even stranger, it doesn't matter where the files are coming from. USB to internal SATA, fail. Network to USB, fail. Once it hits roughly 700k files, it drops the network, and the machine becomes extremely unstable. Reboot, everything's fine. Never seen anything like it.
I'm concluding that there's a bug either in Intel's driver, or in their hardware. Is there a way to make them aware of this? Their support web form seems kind of useless; I've "escalated" my report, and we'll see what happens next.
FYI, as a sanity check, I've done the same copy the same way on an AMD based XP SP2 system, and on an old box running Win2k Pro. No problems.
FYI, don't need to fix this, as the fix is replacing the mobo's 🙂 I can't trust what I've got. Hopefully Tyan and an Intel server-class chipset will help put things right. If not, I'm off Intel chipsets for the rest of time.
The system operates perfectly normally in most respects. However, I have a need to copy large numbers of small files. When I do so, it dies part way through.
Almost like clockwork, it'll die at the same point - I'm talking about ~700k small TIFF and text files. This happens using any type of software to copy - robocopy, WinExplorer, a custom VB6 utility, or even Cygwin.
Even stranger, it doesn't matter where the files are coming from. USB to internal SATA, fail. Network to USB, fail. Once it hits roughly 700k files, it drops the network, and the machine becomes extremely unstable. Reboot, everything's fine. Never seen anything like it.
I'm concluding that there's a bug either in Intel's driver, or in their hardware. Is there a way to make them aware of this? Their support web form seems kind of useless; I've "escalated" my report, and we'll see what happens next.
FYI, as a sanity check, I've done the same copy the same way on an AMD based XP SP2 system, and on an old box running Win2k Pro. No problems.
FYI, don't need to fix this, as the fix is replacing the mobo's 🙂 I can't trust what I've got. Hopefully Tyan and an Intel server-class chipset will help put things right. If not, I'm off Intel chipsets for the rest of time.
