Abit IN9 32-MAX Crashing when I defrag disc :(

FlakMagnet

FlakMagnet

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Hi.

I have had my new build now for nearly 2 weeks, and I've had no problems at all with it. However, I thought I'd defreg the disc this morning, and about 2 minutes into the defrag, BOOM! BSOD :(

Hoping this was just a 'hickup', I restarted and tried again. Same thing.

The system runs fine apart from this and I can run Orthos over-night without issues. I've also run a UT2K4 BotMatch overnight without any problems at all.

Anyone got any ideas?

The other strange thing is that my SATA OS disc appears in the 'Safely Remove Hardware' list. It looks like the OS thinks it's removeable :confused: Could this be related?
 
OK, a bit more info:

I was using DiscKeeper Pro to defrag, so I uninstalled it and used the OS defragger. Still the same thing.

The BSOD shows a STOP 0x000000F4, and the HDD light stays on. F4 says that a critical thread of the OS has unexpectedly quit, and there Windows has to shutdown.

So could this be SATA driver issues? Do I need to upgrade my nForce drivers at all? I'm currently running the set that came with the mobo. The nForce IDE version is showing as 6.91.

If I go into Device Manager and look at the Properties for my drive, it shows the driver as being a Microsoft driver! I was expecting this say NVidia! Is that right?
 
The sata os remove thing is fine. Part of the sata spec after all. Nvidia boards seem to always have this. The drivers which came with the mobo were the latest on the nvidia site as of the mobos release date.

I get the occasional nvata warning message in even viewer but not as bad as the evga by a long shot. Can't help you with diskeepe thoughr. Running 2007 Pro Premier with no issues. Did you try reinstalling, updating to latest version of diskeeper ? I leave mine on autodefrag. But tried a full manual defrag and it worked fine.
 
Hi Flanno,

Didn't know that about SATA :) This is my first SATA rig, so thought it was a bit strange. Especially as I can unplug the disc my OS it sitting on!

I did think my issue could have been Diskeeper, but I have uninstalled it now, and OS defrag crashed in the same way :(

I think it crashes in defrag, because the disc is being really hammered. When in normal operation, the disc doesn't get hammered as much.

Luckily so far, I have not lost any data when it crashes.
 
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