Ok, I'm having a problem with my Seagate SATA drive that is driving me nuts, I wonder if somebody has any idea of what's causing it. First let me give you the system specs:
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ @ 2.8 GHz
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4
Video Card: 2 X BFG GeForce 8800GT OC 512MB SLI
RAM: 2 x 1GB G.Skill DDR2 PC6400 @ 800 Mhz
HDD: Seagate Barracuda SATA II 7200.10 320GB
HDD2: Seagate Barracuda PATA 200GB
RocketFish 700W PSU
Windows XP Professional SP2 32-bit
I use the SATA drive as my primary drive where I have Windows installed and my programs, the PATA drive I use as backup and storage. So about 20 days ago my computer started freezing up ramdomly, and everytime I rebooted it automatically scanned the SATA drive for errors and it always found some. It got to a point where it corrupted the entire drive, it wouldn't boot or anything. So I installed Windows on my PATA drive and from there I tried to recover the data from the first one. I could only read the drive with a data recovery software. So I was pretty much certain the drive was dying, and since it was under Seagate warranty I just RMA'd it. Received my replacement drive last week. Installed Windows, all my programs and everything on it and it seemed to all going well, but about 2 days ago it started doing the same thing... freezing up ramdomly and automatic drive scan upon boot up. So I had a theory that maybe the SATA data cable was damaged or something, and I replaced it with a new one that had never being used before that came with the motherboard. I thought that had solved it because it seemed to work fine for about 10 hours, but then ramdom freeze up again. Then I thought maybe that particular SATA port on the motherboard could be damaged. I tried every other SATA port on the motherboard but same problem keep occuring. Then I thought well, it could be a power supply problem. I replaced my PSU with a spare one I had laying around that I know works fine.... but no luck there either.
So now I don't know what is going on here. It could be the drive, but I think it's highly unlikely that this replacement I just received could be dying already. Then I thought it coulbe be something that's misconfigured on the BIOS, so I loaded the safe default options on the BIOS, but no luck.
I think maybe the SATA controller on this board could be the culprit. The PATA drive works just fine, never had a problem with it, and it is twice as old as the SATA one. What do you think? Any ideas.
Thanks,
Daniel
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ @ 2.8 GHz
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4
Video Card: 2 X BFG GeForce 8800GT OC 512MB SLI
RAM: 2 x 1GB G.Skill DDR2 PC6400 @ 800 Mhz
HDD: Seagate Barracuda SATA II 7200.10 320GB
HDD2: Seagate Barracuda PATA 200GB
RocketFish 700W PSU
Windows XP Professional SP2 32-bit
I use the SATA drive as my primary drive where I have Windows installed and my programs, the PATA drive I use as backup and storage. So about 20 days ago my computer started freezing up ramdomly, and everytime I rebooted it automatically scanned the SATA drive for errors and it always found some. It got to a point where it corrupted the entire drive, it wouldn't boot or anything. So I installed Windows on my PATA drive and from there I tried to recover the data from the first one. I could only read the drive with a data recovery software. So I was pretty much certain the drive was dying, and since it was under Seagate warranty I just RMA'd it. Received my replacement drive last week. Installed Windows, all my programs and everything on it and it seemed to all going well, but about 2 days ago it started doing the same thing... freezing up ramdomly and automatic drive scan upon boot up. So I had a theory that maybe the SATA data cable was damaged or something, and I replaced it with a new one that had never being used before that came with the motherboard. I thought that had solved it because it seemed to work fine for about 10 hours, but then ramdom freeze up again. Then I thought maybe that particular SATA port on the motherboard could be damaged. I tried every other SATA port on the motherboard but same problem keep occuring. Then I thought well, it could be a power supply problem. I replaced my PSU with a spare one I had laying around that I know works fine.... but no luck there either.
So now I don't know what is going on here. It could be the drive, but I think it's highly unlikely that this replacement I just received could be dying already. Then I thought it coulbe be something that's misconfigured on the BIOS, so I loaded the safe default options on the BIOS, but no luck.
I think maybe the SATA controller on this board could be the culprit. The PATA drive works just fine, never had a problem with it, and it is twice as old as the SATA one. What do you think? Any ideas.
Thanks,
Daniel