DFI Lanparty Nforce4 file corruption issue

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I have a file corruption issue with my new Ultra Lan party nforce 4 mobo, Windows XP is no9t stable for some reason, I get file corruption errors.

Anyone heard of this issue at all ?
 
Here's my post from another thread:

Personally I had the same symptoms and it was connected to the disk subsystem - either a faulty IDE driver, faulty motherboard or faulty HD. Now this was on a different, Intel, system quite a while back, and the pausing was caused by Windows falling back to PIO mode due to too many errors on the hard drives. Are you using 2k or XP?

I've just been having loads of problems with the nforce4 SATA data corruption bug, which is covered in detail here:

http://forums.nvidia.com/lofiversion/index.php?t8171-0.html

If you can't be bothered reading the whole thread (although it's an idea as different solutions seem to work for different people), it all seems to be to do with the nforce4 choking when too much data is transferred at once over the onboard SATA/ATA channels. I'm probably not explaining it very well!

In your Device Manager, are your drives listed as using DMA or PIO mode (you may need to check the NVIDIA nForce4 Serial/Parallel ATA Controllers instead, listed under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers)

My problems (DFI UT Expert, SATA-2 WD and SATA-1 WD drives) were solved (hopefully, I am not completely sure they are over) by a combination of:

1. Operating the SATA-2 drive in SATA-1 mode (1.5Gb/sec)
2. Turning on SATA Spread Spectrum in the BIOS
3. Plugging both the SATA and Molex power connectors into both drives

Some of these steps seemed a bit too much like black magic to me but they seem to have worked. Or at least I can play DoD Source and CIV4 without entire machine lockups now.

Sorry this is a bit random, but I thought it might be worth you checking out, particularly if your drives have stepped down to PIO mode.
Click to expand...

What spec are you running?
 
Well, back to the drawing board for me as it's just happened again, guess I haven't cured it after all. Perhaps I shouldn't have talked about it.

I recommend reading the thread linked in my post above, there is a fair amount of good advice there. Different things work for different people it seems. Are you running the nvidia firewall?
 
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