Trouble with hard disks on Asus P5B-Deluxe

[AstroGuardian]

Hello friends,

I juste assembled my new PC with an Asus P5B-Deluxe mobo. I works just fine but one thing is happening which should not.

These are the hard disks:
2 x Western Digital 160Gb SATA-2 disks in a stripe array on ports 0 and 1
2 x Hitachi Desk Star 250Gb SATA-2 disks independent on ports 2 and 3 (not in RAID)

When i restart my PC from windows, it shuts down the two Hitachi hard disks. And when it posts while detecting the drives it starts up the two Hitachi disks one by one. I really annoys me not because it takes maybe 10 seconds a disk to start, but the frequent shut down and restart of the disks which will decrease their lifetime considerably.

Anyone has an idea?

The CPU is 2,8 Ghz Intel Smithfield and the PSU is ColorsIT Extreme power 600W with 40 amps on the 12 volt pin.

 

[AstroGuardian]

Come on people, does anyone have similar rig?

Please help.

Thanks

 

[NotQuiteAPCGuru]

Is there an option in the BIOS for power saving on the HDD's? I know my current mainboard has a drive power down option if I'm idle. Maybe if you disable this it will help. Otherwise, I'd have to spend some time on the Knowledge Base over at ASUS. I'm interested in this since I have one of these OTW even as we speak.

if ZZF ever gets my dang order processed >.<

/sigh

The stuff I'll put up with to save a few bucks.

 

[AstroGuardian]

No. There isn't such option i BIOS. Also the drives are never idle. They are under load while i work. I thought about it but that is not the problem.
Anything else?

 

[rwpritchett]

Sounds like the problem I was having. Here's an Asus thread on this matter:

AHCI boot issue

Update your intel P965 chipset driver to the latest version and the problem should go away.

Intel 965 Chipset Driver v6.2.1.1002

This solved the problem for me, I hope it works for you.

 

[AstroGuardian]

Hm.. i read the thread at Asus forum and now it makes sense.

The driver issue explains why those drivers are restarted only at warm boot. So the drivers are still resident in memory and they shut down the drivers.

I will try that later today and post the results here.

Thanks friend!