I have had this issue for a long time and have done so many things that it is all a blur now.
Issue: Read access bogs down or read & write issues. Not sure how to explain it because it has more than one symptom.
Not hard drive related because it has always happened across several hard drives and operating systems (WinXp, Vista, & Windows 7)
My work around was to just plug hard drive into different SATA port on motherboard. Issues is then resolved, till over time it comes back.
I believe large file transfers shortens the time between when the issue will occur again.
Symptoms can happen to any hard drive in the computer, work around is to just swap SATA cables between hard drives, or an extra one that I have unhooked inside.
Some examples of symptoms I have had.
Long boot times
Accessing data on hard drive will be slow or not read at all.
Write access, just recently tried copying from thumb drive to one of my hard drives wouldn't work (worked fine on all other computers).
Disk Boot Failure (when its the system drive)
Basically all the kind of symptoms you get when a hard drive goes bad (except for the noise).
Only changing the SATA cable to different SATA port on motherboard resolves the issue.
Things I have tried:
Updated to latest BIOS version, changed settings in BIOS, defaults, etc.
Replaced RAM, use to have OCZ Platinum 6GB SDRAM DDR3 1600
Replaced SATA cables (with others that came with motherboard & new ones)
Replaced hard drives (Seagate, Western Digital, Samsung) as part of upgrades.
Different Operating Systems (Originally dual boot with XP & Vista, since upgraded to Win7 64bit, has always happened with all OS's)
Different power supply, swapped in a SeaSonic SS-750KM3 from another computer.
Anyone have any ideas to try?
Hardware:
Antec Three Hundred
i7 920 C0 2.66ghz / Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 12GB ( F3-12800CL9T-12GBRL )
EVGA X58 SLI ( 132-BL-E758-A1 )
EVGA GeForce GTX 260 ( 896-P3-1255-AR )
500gb WD RE4, 640gb WD Caviar Black, 750gb WD Caviar Black
CORSAIR CMPSU-750TX
Issue: Read access bogs down or read & write issues. Not sure how to explain it because it has more than one symptom.
Not hard drive related because it has always happened across several hard drives and operating systems (WinXp, Vista, & Windows 7)
My work around was to just plug hard drive into different SATA port on motherboard. Issues is then resolved, till over time it comes back.
I believe large file transfers shortens the time between when the issue will occur again.
Symptoms can happen to any hard drive in the computer, work around is to just swap SATA cables between hard drives, or an extra one that I have unhooked inside.
Some examples of symptoms I have had.
Long boot times
Accessing data on hard drive will be slow or not read at all.
Write access, just recently tried copying from thumb drive to one of my hard drives wouldn't work (worked fine on all other computers).
Disk Boot Failure (when its the system drive)
Basically all the kind of symptoms you get when a hard drive goes bad (except for the noise).
Only changing the SATA cable to different SATA port on motherboard resolves the issue.
Things I have tried:
Updated to latest BIOS version, changed settings in BIOS, defaults, etc.
Replaced RAM, use to have OCZ Platinum 6GB SDRAM DDR3 1600
Replaced SATA cables (with others that came with motherboard & new ones)
Replaced hard drives (Seagate, Western Digital, Samsung) as part of upgrades.
Different Operating Systems (Originally dual boot with XP & Vista, since upgraded to Win7 64bit, has always happened with all OS's)
Different power supply, swapped in a SeaSonic SS-750KM3 from another computer.
Anyone have any ideas to try?
Hardware:
Antec Three Hundred
i7 920 C0 2.66ghz / Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 12GB ( F3-12800CL9T-12GBRL )
EVGA X58 SLI ( 132-BL-E758-A1 )
EVGA GeForce GTX 260 ( 896-P3-1255-AR )
500gb WD RE4, 640gb WD Caviar Black, 750gb WD Caviar Black
CORSAIR CMPSU-750TX
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