MarcFOnline
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I just built myself a system with an ASUS P4P800S-X mainboard, and for storage I'm using a Western Digital WD800JD SATA hard drive in addition to a Maxtor 32049H2 PATA drive.
Over the past few weeks, there have been about four instances where the system has completely frozen, and immediately preceding that freeze was a "click" like the hard disk powered down. In the Event Viewer, I have also seen multiple instances of Error #11 (controller error on my WD drive) and a couple instances of Warning #51 (error while in a paging operation, for the same drive).
I've run diagnostics on both my hard drives and regularly monitor SMART attributes and drive temperature. Everything's in perfect shape in every way -- EXCEPT for those errors reported by Windows and the mysterious crashes.
Now, I've searched forums all across the 'Net, and I have found a couple other people who have had this same problem with the combination of a WD SATA hard disk and the ASUS P4P800S-X mainboard. I haven't found any updated drivers for either piece of hardware, and ASUS hasn't released a BIOS update.
My question is this -- does anyone else have the combination of a P4P800S-X and a WD SATA drive, and if so, have you encountered this problem? The crashes happen rather infrequently, but they come at rather awkward times (watching a DVD, accessing the Internet, running Windows Media Player or Winamp, etc). Also, the "click" concerns me. Usually that's a very bad sound, and a sign of upcoming hardware failure. However, as I search, I'm finding lots of people are having similar issues, and it almost always isn't as easy as "your drive is failing, buy a new one".
(FYI... I am replacing the WD drive with a PATA Maxtor DiamondMax PY080LO hard disk, since it seems like the simplest way to solve this problem. However, I still would like to start a conversation about the whole deal, since I'm sure plenty of people [like myself] would like to get to the bottom of what's causing the whole deal, so it can be avoided in the future...)
Over the past few weeks, there have been about four instances where the system has completely frozen, and immediately preceding that freeze was a "click" like the hard disk powered down. In the Event Viewer, I have also seen multiple instances of Error #11 (controller error on my WD drive) and a couple instances of Warning #51 (error while in a paging operation, for the same drive).
I've run diagnostics on both my hard drives and regularly monitor SMART attributes and drive temperature. Everything's in perfect shape in every way -- EXCEPT for those errors reported by Windows and the mysterious crashes.
Now, I've searched forums all across the 'Net, and I have found a couple other people who have had this same problem with the combination of a WD SATA hard disk and the ASUS P4P800S-X mainboard. I haven't found any updated drivers for either piece of hardware, and ASUS hasn't released a BIOS update.
My question is this -- does anyone else have the combination of a P4P800S-X and a WD SATA drive, and if so, have you encountered this problem? The crashes happen rather infrequently, but they come at rather awkward times (watching a DVD, accessing the Internet, running Windows Media Player or Winamp, etc). Also, the "click" concerns me. Usually that's a very bad sound, and a sign of upcoming hardware failure. However, as I search, I'm finding lots of people are having similar issues, and it almost always isn't as easy as "your drive is failing, buy a new one".
(FYI... I am replacing the WD drive with a PATA Maxtor DiamondMax PY080LO hard disk, since it seems like the simplest way to solve this problem. However, I still would like to start a conversation about the whole deal, since I'm sure plenty of people [like myself] would like to get to the bottom of what's causing the whole deal, so it can be avoided in the future...)
