ICH10R problems, and problems, and more problems

[PoopyPants]

Since getting my DFI P45 JR (ddr2 model) i have had nothing but issues with the ICH10R.
i am getting NTFS.sys BSOD, ich driver errors. and a couple of others that are related to either the hard drives or drivers.

now first thing is this is vista and for whatever fvcking stupid reason Intel doesnt offer Vista drivers for their chipsets.. why ? who knows
but if you install the XP version it clearly says its for Vista also

so,,, i run 3x 36gb Raptors in a raid zero and then i have a single 320gb drive for intermittent storage (until i move it to one of my many usb drives)

i am going to test tonight if unhooking that 320gb drive fixes it, but in the interim has anyone elsse been having weird ICH10/10R issues with ntfs or ichr drivers which result in BSOD?

p.s. all my drives have ran in many systems of the years and they have all performed flawlessly, when i installed this mobo all i did was remove the old mobo and install this one, i didnt jack with the drives or cables or anything, so the drives should, i hope, be fine.
i did a full delete of the raid and remade it, i formatted the drives and did a fresh reinstall.

i am going to install XP tonight and see what happens but if everything is fine, then we know vista is the issue and/or its drivers.

but chime in if you have seen this issue with ICH10/R chipsets and vista or XP

 

[SunnyD]

Nope - don't run intel systems, however I recently changed from a NVIDIA chipset to an AMD chipset, and have had issues with one of my hard drives intermittently dropping from the system since I switched. You can physically hear the drive go into a reset continuously when it happens, and it seems to take the whole system down with it. Every time I try to do some diagnostics on the drive, it comes back fine. When it's in this reset mode - I can't do squat. It seems to make the system itself unstable. I'm hoping it the drive and not the motherboard, since the motherboard is about a month old.

 

[Idontcare]

The symptoms you describe can come from some as simple as a damaged SATA cable or a damaged SATA port to something as benign as a voltage issue with your PSU and SATA power on one or all of the hard-drives.

My point being that it might be hardware, not sotware, related and in addition could have nothing to do with ICH10. I can be frustating and laborious to debug these problems.

The only practical way to do it at home is to replace hardware components to see if you can eliminate the problem. (replace sata cables, wait for problem to re-occur, then replace mobo, repeat, replace hard-drive, repeat, replace PSU, repeat)

It's not very practical, but you end up down that road if the problem doesn't turn out to be 100% software related.

 

[PoopyPants]

Originally posted by: Idontcare
The symptoms you describe can come from some as simple as a damaged SATA cable or a damaged SATA port to something as benign as a voltage issue with your PSU and SATA power on one or all of the hard-drives.

My point being that it might be hardware, not sotware, related and in addition could have nothing to do with ICH10. I can be frustating and laborious to debug these problems.

The only practical way to do it at home is to replace hardware components to see if you can eliminate the problem. (replace sata cables, wait for problem to re-occur, then replace mobo, repeat, replace hard-drive, repeat, replace PSU, repeat)

It's not very practical, but you end up down that road if the problem doesn't turn out to be 100% software related.

i 100% agree with you and it is in my roadmap for troubleshooting, i simply am first attempting to see if anyone else has this issue with either this DFI baord or some other baord using the ICH10/R controller, in raid or not.

but thanks for the words, its reassuring to see you backing up my own unspoken thoughts on this matter.