new scsi hd corrupt?

[bradford]

i recently bought an atlas 10k iii and was running it fine on an abit kt7 for about 3 weeks. i got a good deal on a ecs k7s5a & athlon xp 1700+ combo and put the scsi drive on it with a fresh install of nt4 on it with sp6. the powersupply is an antec 350 w/ enough juice on the 3.3 and 5v rails. first noticed problems installing sp6. 1st time dozens of times i did it that it said one of the files was corrupt when it decompressed it. tried again it was fine. then i downloaded mozilla and it said the file was corrupt. downloaded it a few more times and it said it was fine. then i start seeing blue screen of death chkdsk runs at boot "your drive may be corrupt" big memory dump IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL ntoskrnl.exe

is this just a crappy board or is it my scsi drive? is there a tool i can use to diagnose my drive and see it is the source of the problem?

 

[bradford]

it might be flaky pc133 ram. just got a blue screen with MEMORY_MANAGEMENT. strange thing is this 512mb stick of cheapo frys ram passed all the memtest86 tests. i'll try a stick of pny i have.

 

[RSMemphis]

Well, some people have claimed that the K7S5A can be flaky with SDRAM, especially if you use more than one SIMM.
I've only used DDR, so I am not sure about that. Have you tried flashing the BIOS? What BIOS version are you on?

I do agree with your assessment that it may be memory problems..

 

[Rpower]

ECS have one or two bad BIOS that could mess up SCSI cards at boot. The bad BIOS are dated 02/02/06 or before. The BIOS after that date are OK. I like BIOS dated 02/04/29.