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Asus a8n32sli
My system seems to have gone screwy recently. 6 months ago I installed SATA drivers, 2 X Maxstor 250GBs I planned to daul boot xp and vista as I wanted to run some older games.
Installed XP first due to known problems with Vista, then XP. Twice the installation now has failed after a few weeks. Last know I got 'Windows failed to start' Oxc0000428, syhlp.sys or something similair appeared. I am wondering if its something to do with the controllers on the board. Vista installation is stable when running on my IDE drive with the same components so far.
Ive ran memtest, and Maxstor diags on both HDDs, although something strange did happen on the last reinstall of XP something went wrong in the installation and it stopped my machine posting with one of the SATA drives, I then had to low level format the drive to get it working in another machine. This makes me suspicous there is an underlining fault somewhere. All tests I run pass fine. My components shouldnt be a problem, cooling and PSU is good 580 - although be it a hiper PSU its not overloaded.
Ive now installed my IDE drive (80GB LOL) back in as a temporary messure, gonna stick with this for a few months to see if this also fails. It is does then I know its not anything to do with SATA.
One thing does strike me, the SATA connectors seem very loose and dont have any latches when plugging them in the power lead is not firm. The machine is never moved, however maybe this could cuase data loss. This is the power connector. Im gonna get some better leads as I use them again.
As this is a socket 939 system, it still has a 4200 X2 cpu, and has a few more miles on the clock. I have been tempted to strip it down sell the core and rebuild a intel, however my partner and I are getting married, she will kill me if the computer comes first.
If anyone has had symptoms like this to explain what has happened I would be vert greatful
My system seems to have gone screwy recently. 6 months ago I installed SATA drivers, 2 X Maxstor 250GBs I planned to daul boot xp and vista as I wanted to run some older games.
Installed XP first due to known problems with Vista, then XP. Twice the installation now has failed after a few weeks. Last know I got 'Windows failed to start' Oxc0000428, syhlp.sys or something similair appeared. I am wondering if its something to do with the controllers on the board. Vista installation is stable when running on my IDE drive with the same components so far.
Ive ran memtest, and Maxstor diags on both HDDs, although something strange did happen on the last reinstall of XP something went wrong in the installation and it stopped my machine posting with one of the SATA drives, I then had to low level format the drive to get it working in another machine. This makes me suspicous there is an underlining fault somewhere. All tests I run pass fine. My components shouldnt be a problem, cooling and PSU is good 580 - although be it a hiper PSU its not overloaded.
Ive now installed my IDE drive (80GB LOL) back in as a temporary messure, gonna stick with this for a few months to see if this also fails. It is does then I know its not anything to do with SATA.
One thing does strike me, the SATA connectors seem very loose and dont have any latches when plugging them in the power lead is not firm. The machine is never moved, however maybe this could cuase data loss. This is the power connector. Im gonna get some better leads as I use them again.
As this is a socket 939 system, it still has a 4200 X2 cpu, and has a few more miles on the clock. I have been tempted to strip it down sell the core and rebuild a intel, however my partner and I are getting married, she will kill me if the computer comes first.
If anyone has had symptoms like this to explain what has happened I would be vert greatful
