Hi,
I'm running a windows 7 64-bit computer which I've known to be stable. Yesterday, it crashed three times throughout the day, the first of which was a BSOD. I felt alarmed when the POST afterwards noted SMART failures for the two Hitachi HDS721010KLA330 drives (the OS is on an intel x25-m, there's another x25-m & a Maxtor also attached).
Last night, I ran the Hitachi Drive Fitness test (in IDE mode), and both checked out fine (0x00). The SMART notification only happens immediately after the OS crash, and only in the first POST (subsequent ones are fine).
All I could think is that the drives are power saving green drives & might be switching off at awkward times, so I've just disabled Write Caching.
Can anyone think of another reason why the system would be crashing? I took a look at event viewer, but I'm not so good at reading the logs. The three re-starts were listed as Event 41, Kernel Power events.
I've previously updated the SATA driver for the HDD's to the latest driver (RST 9.6.0.1014), for it's TRIM support, but hadn't noticed any problems there (it's been updated for about a month now.
Any input would be wonderful
Thanks
I'm running a windows 7 64-bit computer which I've known to be stable. Yesterday, it crashed three times throughout the day, the first of which was a BSOD. I felt alarmed when the POST afterwards noted SMART failures for the two Hitachi HDS721010KLA330 drives (the OS is on an intel x25-m, there's another x25-m & a Maxtor also attached).
Last night, I ran the Hitachi Drive Fitness test (in IDE mode), and both checked out fine (0x00). The SMART notification only happens immediately after the OS crash, and only in the first POST (subsequent ones are fine).
All I could think is that the drives are power saving green drives & might be switching off at awkward times, so I've just disabled Write Caching.
Can anyone think of another reason why the system would be crashing? I took a look at event viewer, but I'm not so good at reading the logs. The three re-starts were listed as Event 41, Kernel Power events.
I've previously updated the SATA driver for the HDD's to the latest driver (RST 9.6.0.1014), for it's TRIM support, but hadn't noticed any problems there (it's been updated for about a month now.
Any input would be wonderful
Thanks