Hard drives stop and spin up Crash with ASUS MAXIMUS FORMULA

nick_000000 · 18 Oct 2007 at 02:29

Hi there just wondering if anyone else is haveing problems with this board's sata contoller as I think my board is having problems with at least one of my 2 Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 1TB drives.

The problem is that I hear the drives stop and then spin up again which causes the computer to crash moments afterwards.

I'm pretty sure that this is down to the sata contoller but not 100% as I have been troubleshooting this problem but haven't been able to solve it yet.

Error report here:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 2057

Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: 8086
BCP1: 0000000000000000
BCP2: 0000000000000000
BCP3: 0000000000000000
BCP4: 0000000000000000
OS Version: 6_0_6000
Service Pack: 0_0
Product: 256_1

Files that help describe the problem:
C:\Windows\Minidump\Mini101507-02.dmp
C:\Users\Nick\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-94146-0.sysdata.xml
C:\Users\Nick\AppData\Local\Temp\WER8FB1.tmp.versi on.txt

Do you think there will be any useful info in these files?

Cheers for anyones help

J1nxy · 18 Oct 2007 at 09:06

Nick

I'm running 2 x 500GB WD drives in Raid 0 with no issue and also a SATA DVD and a couple of 160 drives with no issues.

Steve

Jay_t · 18 Oct 2007 at 09:10

Are you sure the electrical connections to your drives are good? When this happened to me, it was down to a damaged molex connection.

str · 18 Oct 2007 at 10:30

In the advanced power settings try changing the Turn off hard disk after option to 0 (Never).

nick_000000 · 18 Oct 2007 at 11:07

I will try another PSU tonight, to see if it is the PSU or connection is faulty I think it could be a voltage issue on the board as it seems to happen when under stress (playing games). Str is this in the BIOS or operating system, I don't think it is down to this as it seems to be happening sometimes even when the drives are in use.

Thanks for the suggestions.

str · 18 Oct 2007 at 13:06

The turn off hard disk option is in the OS (Vista) and yeah it's probably a hardware thing so likely won't help but I figured might be useful to try as I read of an issue with the X38 chipset and power saving modes but probably it's totally unrelated.

nick_000000 · 18 Oct 2007 at 13:44

Yeah I think it could be down to the board voltages thanks for pointing that out though, I will have a look and disable all power savings modes. Still haven't swapped the PSU will do that when I can and report back.

Beckett · 18 Oct 2007 at 15:39

This same thing was happening to me prior to the board killing it's BIOS and refusing to POST. It's now awaiting collection for RMA.

fake edit: I did a pretty careful check to disable all the hard drive power saving entrys in the BIOS and Vista.

nick_000000 · 18 Oct 2007 at 18:33

Welcome to the forum Beckett

, so you were having the same problem? Your board died

I hope this isn't going to happen to mine I just want to fix this. What are your system specs? What OS were you using?

Beckett · 19 Oct 2007 at 09:03

nick_000000 said:
Welcome to the forum Beckett , so you were having the same problem? Your board died I hope this isn't going to happen to mine I just want to fix this. What are your system specs? What OS were you using?

Specs were

Maximus Formula SE
Q6600 @ stock
4x1GB Ballistix 6400 @ 2.2v 400mhz
700Watt FSP PSU
1x500gb hitachi, 1x500g WD and 1x250g Maxtor, all SATA +2 SATA DVDRWs
Vista

Basicly I got the system up and running stable with one drive then when i added the other two the small maxtor drive was powering up and down constantly. Eventually it crashed and restarted, never to POST again.

The drive was plugged into SATA port 5 or 6. The other drives had no problems.

nick_000000 · 19 Oct 2007 at 09:47

I didn't happen yesterday or crash ... I hope it isn't a problem with the board cause RMAing with ASUS is a pain in the ANUS lol. I hope your ram didn't get fried, it does sound a bit like my problem. I have emailed ASUS asking about this problem but haven't heard anything back yet.

randal · 19 Oct 2007 at 09:52

Drive firmware?

I had to update my WD 160s because the NVraid wouldn't detect the array properly and kept doing some nasty things at system shutdown with the drive heads, resulting in some savage "parking".

Worth a look on the Hitachi/IBM site to see if there's anything similar.

nick_000000 · 19 Oct 2007 at 10:22

Had a look at the Hitachi site and not much help there even contacted them, but I think it is the boards problem. After changing a few things in the BIOS it seems to be ok for the moment but maybe I am talking too soon.

Beckett · 19 Oct 2007 at 13:15

nick_000000 said:
Had a look at the Hitachi site and not much help there even contacted them, but I think it is the boards problem. After changing a few things in the BIOS it seems to be ok for the moment but maybe I am talking too soon.

Can you remember what you changed in the BIOS?

Also I checked all 4 memory sticks on an IP35 and they all worked fine so I think my board was just defective rather than having any underlying BIOS issues with the ballistix stuff.