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VNF4 Ultra, XP, SATA (Raptor) data loss problem

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ITloser

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Er - I think this might need to be moved to the Technical Support forum...

I just discovered that my sweet Raptor loses data that is placed on the D partition. I installed Nero to the D drive, used it once (and browsed the install folder) and then shortly after, noticed the desktop icon was that "broken" icon you get when the file it points to is gone. I looked at the Nero folder and sure enough, most of the install was gone! :0

This was in the span of a half hour, so I know exactly what was going on.

At "approximately" the same time (within minutes) I see the following logged in the event log:
An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk0\D during a paging operation.

I strongly suspect that anyone experiencing the issue could actually be losing data due to this problem. Some may says thats obvious because of the message, but I had finished an entire install of Nero (50+ MB) and it disappeared minutes later. Thats much bigger than any disk cache, right?

I have a VNF4 Ultra, bios v2 - selected "optimized settings", Raptor 74GB wd740gd, 1GB PQI memory, FX-53 cpu, XP Pro w/sp2 and patches, latest NVidia SW IDE driver (and all other NVidia mobo drivers), NO RAID.

Any ideas? Is there a way to uninstall the NVidia IDE SW driver and replace it with the Microsoft driver without causing a bluescreen? (I've had this happen once by simply uninstalling the NVidia driver)

What about the disk drive properties? Is there a known issue with XP, NForce4, SATA, Raptors and write caching? its currently enabled on the drive.

And no, rebuilding my XP system is not really a valid troubleshooting step. I might have to, but if I can switch from the Microsoft driver to the NVidia driver, I should be able to undo it.
 
You have to use the nvidia IDE drivers.

Dunno what to tell you though, I've got a similar setup except I have two of the old 36gig raptors in a RAID stripe.

Havnt had any issues.

Also have a 320gig sata drive as a data drive.
 
You do not have to use the nV SW-IDE drivers!!
As a matter of fact, those drivers are very flakey and quite a few members here strongly advise others to not use them (myself included).

Try booting in safe mode and merely roll the drivers back to the standard M$ ones.
 
BTA and KGBMAN - thanks for your feedback. 🙂

I still haven't figured out from the forums if there is any "need" to use the NVidia SW IDE drivers. Does it provides enhanced functionality over the MS drivers? Do I lose on TCQ capabilities, etc?

KGBMAN - Which drivers do I roll back? The three Device Manager entries under "IDE ATA/ITAPI controllers" that are labeled with NVidia? Are there others? What about the "nForce4" entries under System Devices? Do I have to change these drivers?

I've placed a ticket into ChainTech support about the drivers, since they provide them. I've yet to hear back though.

Thanks again.

The more help I get the better.
 
loser,

Just roll back the entries under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers.
Leave everything else relating to nForce alone.

I've built dozens of systems using NF2, NF3 and NF4 motherboards and I've had nothing but trouble with those nVidia SW-IDE drivers.
I'm at a point now where I don't even try them anymore.
The standard M$ ones will work just fine.

 
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