VCORE: FAIL mobo: GA 81K1100 REV 2.XX

[xJUANGRAMx]

Ok, another problem. And I tried to search around for this but couldn't find anything specifically to what's wrong w/my comp. I recently bought a seagate barracuda 250gb HD. I plugged it in correctly, turned on my comp, installed windows and then it wouldn't boot windows, I'd get the blue screen where a serious error occured, tried again, same thing. Ran fdisk and it found 1 error which it fixed. Was able to get into windows and my system ran fine for a few days... took out the HD and plugged it back in... system kept on rebooting at the windows xp screen! Stuck in the windows xp cd, chose to repair a windows installation, and now it said it couldn't find any HDs! In the post, it does show the HD attached to channel 3 master.

So to make a long story short, I went into the bios to put everything at stock and I went into the PC Health and next to VCore, it says FAIL. Can anybody let me know what this means and if it's my mobo or my harddrive that's messing everything up? Here's what I got running, and it's stock right now:

P4 3.0C
1 STICK 512MB CORSAIR VALUE SELECT
GIGABYTE MOBO GA-81K1100 rev 2
antec trublue 480 watt PSU
RADEON 9500 PRO
NEC nd-3540A DVD-RW

again, I got everything at stock and I didn't start having problems w/this system until I changed the HD and the DVDr drive... THANKS IN ADVANCE!!!

 

[stevty2889]

Is this the only hard drive in the system? Is SATA raid disabled? If BIOS is seeing the drive but windows xp isn't, then most likely you need to have the drivers ready on a floppy disk. Press F6 when prompted by windows setup, and put in the floppy with the SATA conroller drivers. I don't remember needing to use them for a single drive with that motherboard though, so I think there is probably a bios setting that needs changed.

As for the Vcore problem, not entirely sure about that one..

 

[xJUANGRAMx]

thanks again stev for the reply! yes, the sata HD is the only HD on the system. But that's weird! XP had no problem when I was installing it, now for some reason it can't see it.

BUT, I upped the vcore from 1.525 (or whatever the default is) to 1.55 and it just booted up! I have a feeling it's the harddrive, maybe you are right and I should install the sata drivers... i got it oem though so hopefully i can find them somewhere on the site...

i will try to see if i can get a pic going of the vcore fail, i wish i knew what the heck is wrong, i don't want to have a unstable system, much less an unstable system that's stock!

oh yah, does SATA raid have to be disabled? again, only sata drive on the system, thanks.

 

[stevty2889]

Yeah, you want SATA raid to be disabled when only using one drive. The drivers should be on Gigabytes website(the drivers are for the conroller on the motherboard, not the hard drive itself), but I still think it's a bios setting thats keeping you for seeing the hard drive.