Raptor + ( Vista vs XP )

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I have hada big search for info on this and I find that many many poeple have a similar issue.

Im using a 36GB Raptor as my C: and under XP64 its fine, but under Vista U64, I had a load of pauses in media playback ( MP3, WAV, DVD, DivX... Anything, they all paused now and then ).

After some time, I realise that when it does indeed pause, the HD clicks.

Bit scary

Never did this in XP64, only Vista64 and for a bit, I had assumed that one of the HDs could be on their way out... Surely it could not be the raptor as that was only just sent back from WD less than a month ago because vista killed it ( Yes , it did actually, and I have the letter from WD backing up that statement )

Anyway, after some time, the hangs got to me, as did *** clicks and I went back to XP64 and the problem has now gone away again ( as I expected it to )

Now, it turns out that Vista is simply not good with Raptor HDs.

Is there a cure, other than to not bother with using Raptor HD?
 
Use my name and search, There is known issue with Vista+8800+Raptors.

I aint sure if only 32bit OS and I aint sure if only is 16MB Raptors, but its the Control PCB.

Edit: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/wd-raptor-nvidia-g80-dont-play-nice-with-vista,review-2336.html

I was having some sort of issue but unsure if same as that report, I used there little APP but it still happened.

As I said in another post, the issues gone now AFAICT, and I dont know what I did, but I did get new Mobo Chipset Drivers just released.

I have :

1x 8800 Ultra

2x Raptor X's (only got 1 fitted right now) as of length of GPU and HDD Cage needing modded.

Vista Ult 64
 
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Yes, I came upon that page yesterday or the day before... Whenever!... Never did read it fully as it more pointed to the nVIDIA + Raptor rather than the Raptor in itslelf, or to be more specific... They were not at all specific in what errors they were getting other than them saying that the errors wer cyptic!???

Example?

Anyway... I will however read it fully just in case???

Drivers etc...

I have all *** latest updates. Got them right before I installed and then checked once it was installed for any updates etc but they didnt help.

My specific error was simply that the HD keeps powering down every few minutes under Vista and then starts back up straight away, giving a really nerve grinding click when doing so.
 
Oh no, this cannot be happening to me???

I have Vista32 Ultimate on my AMD upstairs. This AMD has a 400GB Seagate and a 320GB Maxtor

All of a sudden, yesterday, it started crashign when I play music with WinAmp... BSODs with some kind of error 000000124 or something ( Dunno about the number of ZEROS )

If I dont touch the Audio, its fine.

I left it fanny about all night and it was still chugging along earlier on, so I tried to get it to play some music and 20 or 25 seconds into playing it, it BSODed again... Same 000124 error, so I went to put XP64 onto it, so I can get rid of Vista on this PC too, and now its telling me the HD cannot be formatted.

Its a 400GB Seagate and its near to brand new ( about 3 weeks old ) and C: is a 30GB and E: is the rest of it... The snag is that E: is choc-full of files that I need.

I bloody well hate Vista and everythign about it now.

If this is disk No.2 that has been killed by Vista, I am going to want to know why?
 
Hmmm.. Its ok.

I have just bought Acronis ( To replace my Partition Magic 8 ) and it works in both Vista and XP64 and it has recovered the partition, and it seems ok.

I have killed off the smaller 30GB from it, and made the second partition bigger to cover the entire drive, and I dug out a 40GB Maxtor for C:

It seems to be working fine again and no loss of data, other than Folding At home, which is very iffy anyway since going to Vista.
 
I posted this in another thread, but after reading through this one it got me wondering. . .

Scoobie Dave said:
Been trying to set up Raid0 with my Abit pro but with big headaches to go with it.

Unless im doing something completely wrong I might have trouble with one of my Raptors.

This is what I have been doing from the start. . . First I would go into the bios and enable the Raid function then reboot. Then I would go into the Raid setup, select the disks (I only have the Raptors connected to make things simple) go through the options for creating the array which goes smoothly. Then I let it boot from the Vista64 dvd til you get to the section where you select the hard drives, and the raptor array is there ready and waiting. I click the more options tab (that gives you options for formatting/load driver etc). This is where I'm a little bit confused as the raid array is listed as 'Unallocated space' so to change that I have to press the 'new' tab and once that is done you can format the drive if you want also (would not give me the option for formatting before as it was grayed out). Whether or not I have to do this I'm unsure, so if someone can clarify this that would help.
Anyway after I have done that I then click next when it tries to install, and this is where it goes funny. Its quite random on where it stops, it always does that small bit or writing to the hard drive, then it goes on to the next step where it's expanding, and you get the (12% . . . etc progress thing) but I have never gotten past this stage. It will either get so far and just come up with a message saying that the 'drive was lost' or something like that, or I have had lock ups and sometimes even a blue screen.

As far as I'm aware doing the above should get me going, unless I'm missing something here.

I even installed Vista on one of my 7200.10 Barracudas last night, and it worked fine first time.

This is really frustrating. What I am doing at the moment is testing each Raptor, I am writing zeros to both drives so they are completely wiped, and I will run the other diagnostics to see if the drives are ok. Then if they both pass the tests I will install Vista on each Raptor just so I know they definitely work. If I get this far with the Raptors then I really dont know, but my gut feeling is one of the drives is failing. Only time will tell. . .

Anyone else had any experiences like this?
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Do you think there could be a connection?

As when I would try and install a OS the drive would just randomly give up?
 
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