WD Raptor 150gig Problem

.:dhry:. SiroVa

.:dhry:. SiroVa

.:dhry:. SiroVa

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Just got one of these babies, plus the special WD cable.

Installs windows fine, boots it all up nice.

Go to install my Nvidia Nforce Mobo drivers (5.11) and I get a quick flash of a blue screen of death and the HD shuts down (I can hear it spinning down) and the screen goes black.

Upon restart windows does not load at all, cant get it into safe mode, or repair or anything.

So I reinstall windows, same thing happens again.

Whatcha reckon guys?

MSI Neo2 Plat mobo
AMD 3500 CPU
2x512mb Crucial Ballistix DDR400

Latest BIOS etc
 
The Neo2 Platinum doesn't support SATA2, chances are the disk doesn't have the jumper set on the back to limit it to SATA1.

I saw almost identical symptoms on a friend's machine a couple of months back, stuck a jumper on the drive and away it went.
 
I had this happen to me a couple of times. Fresh Windows XP Pro install, no programs or anything. I began installing my drivers then when it rebooted it wouldn't load Windows. I was forced to do a "Restart using last known good configuration".

This was on a Gigabyte nForce4 motherboard. I narrowed it down to the nVidia chipset drivers. I was using the latest version at the time (Sorry can't remember what version they were). When I loaded the ones that came on the CD with the mobo it worked fine.

So if you can try a different motherboard chipset driver.
 
If it is a HDD problem then don't install the nvidia IDE drivers, just the AGP and system driver. If it still has problems, use a newer set of drivers.
 
Thanks gents.

With the Nforce3 Chipset, the latest version is 5.11 which I tried.

It gives me 5 drivers to install:

Nvidia.jpg


Upon installing the 2nd driver (SM Bus) the crash occured. (Do I really need that? I know its got somthing to do with an intel chip?)

There is no way for me to get to that point again without formatting and putting windows on again. Which takes a heck of a lot of time and I couldnt really be bothered with it.

I guess all I need is the Audio and Ethernet, I think anyway.

Overclockers support have given me a WesternDigital utility to try out:
http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp?cxml=n&pid=999&swid=2

So I'm going to run that test, then try re installing windows (again :mad: ) and just install the Audio and Ethernet.

If it still fails ill try putting the SATA1 Jumper on.

If it still fails, I guess ill have to leave it as a backup drive until I get my new mobo.

Comments appreciated.

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Get a copy of Ghost - install Windows then ghost an image to another drive/partition.

After testing/playing about/knakering the copy of windows boot to a dos prompt (or Ghost boot disk) copy back you pristeen copy of windows and start again. Just make sure your data/documents are a seperate partition.

Anyway you probably don't need the SMbus driver.
 
SMBus driver - That's the one that gave me problems too! I didn't think it was anything to do with my hard drive though, I just put it down to a dodgy driver. Like I said try using an older version, maybe the one that came with the mobo.
 
if the driver is giving u problems then just dont install it and see how things go from there. but if that driver works fine on a different hard drive then id say its the drive thats gone dodgey. try a bios update if your not on the latest bios version.
 
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