A8N SLI Deluxe - annoying 2 second pauses

At The Gates · 27 Jan 2006 at 14:01

Hi,

I just got the above board and a 7800 GT to go with it and all is fine apart from 1 thing. I keep on getting random (although very frequent) pauses of about 1~2 seconds, where everything locks up (mouse, keyboard etc) and if any sound is playing it starts stuttering. At the lockups the CPU usage jumps to 100%

This happens in XP, games etc. In fact in every task from using Notepad to Photoshop.

Any ideas on where to start? Is it likely to be the board..maybe a power supply issue? I have a Hiper Type-R 580w PSU powering whats in my sig.

Thanks.

At The Gates · 29 Jan 2006 at 18:01

There is actually loads of these:

"An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk0\D during a paging operation."

Not sure they correlate to the times of the freezes though. Looks like they're only at bootup

At The Gates · 29 Jan 2006 at 20:47

I haven't installed any Asus AI stuff. In fact no Asus stuff at all. Just latest versions of the 7800GT drivers and the latest nForce drivers

At The Gates · 30 Jan 2006 at 11:54

haha. Well in that case no, they're not on. Everything in the BIOS is off except for the nForce SATA controller and the AC97 audio.

My drives are listed as SATA 1-1.5G and running in DMA mode. I've had a read through that thread. Turned off NCQ and its helped a little bit. My drives dont support it so there's no speed difference but still shouldn't have to go backwards. I guess only step is to re-install XP and not use the nForce IDE SW drivers.

Complete pain. I though nForce chipsets were supposed to be rock solid. My old VIA chipset A8V was better than this board..

At The Gates · 26 Feb 2006 at 10:02

Sorry to bump, but this prob is back. I thought it was the Hiper PSU, but its just started happening again with my Akasa.

I've rolled backed to the MS IDE drivers and my drives are in ATA6 mode. No dropbacks and no errors in any Event Viewer logs.

Any ideas because this is driving me to the point of ditching the whole thing and going Intel chipset.

Thanks!

At The Gates · 26 Feb 2006 at 12:53

Thing is, the whole machine pauses so there's no way to tell. All i can see is a spike in the CPU History.

Oh, also tried with no USB devices. Same thing.

Everything in this machine was working perfectly in an Asus A8V. The only new kit is the gfx card and the motherboard.

So annoying.

At The Gates · 27 Feb 2006 at 13:04

Not sure if it's relevant, but i've been trying to copy some data (4.5Gb each / 2 DVD-Rs) over from DVDROM to the HD and XP always bombs out (on the exact same file - i burnt each disk twice) saying "CRC ERROR". Thing is: The DVDs are fine, i've copied the data on them to 3 other PCs fine.

I plugged in a USB DVDROM drive and the files copied across to my PC fine.

I checked Event Viewer and i get this error for the DVD drive:

"An error was detected on device \Device\CD ROM0 during a paging operation.

The device\Device\CDRom0 has a bad block."

So i plugged the DVDROM into another PC and it works fine.

Really doing my head. Is the controller on the motherboard dodgy?

Thig is i can read other stuff fine. I installed HL2, FarCry, Doom III and FEAR with no issues at all.