okay , so i installed a new hdd in my system and this happened all my other HDDs are working fine and this hdd is working fine on a friends pc the hdd seems to suddenly freeze and then get back to normal reformated it , reinstalled the drivers .. any inputs on this ?
just put in the hdd , restarted several times ... sometimes it works like it should ... after a few minutes ,it like crashes also had a similar problem with a 500gb hdd which i put in a week ago , i reinstalled the drivers and it started working normally ever since now this starts with this hdd ... all my other ones dont have any issue
^ was thinking the same .. but wanted to know for sure before i send it for RMA and am left pc less will try changing power and sata cables to check .. will even try to install windows on a another HDD .. mayb its a windows problem
will b doing that and everything else tom morning and post here ...will even try to put a working hd in the same port and even exchange cable to see what happens
did you do any changes in the system setup?..any new components added?.. Yup do try changing the cables and plug in to another SATA port.
okay , so tested the ports as much as i could started off with - 80 gig hdd [windows ] in sata port 8 and main 1tb hdd in sata port 2 [worked ] kept checking each port with the 500gig hdd using same sata cable and power cable - hdd only worked on sata ports 1 and 7 ... sata ports 3,4,5and 6 !! are all not working so out of 8 ports only 4 are working [ these four are the sata 3 6Gbps ports... and 3,4,5and 6 are the sata 2 3gbps ports ]
so its a mobo or bios issue. Check bios to ensure all settings are correct. No sata ports should be disabled or running at lower speed. Dma or ide mode etc.
JD it doesn't look like it's running in DMA or IDE mode since the max speed is 125mb/s. I highly suspect a weak south bridge on the mobo.
best thing to do is check the HDD on another machine. This will rule out the HDD. OS is most likely fine as other HDDs are working correctly. EDIT: Just read superm4n 's last post. The issue is definitely with the MOBO. time for RMA
i guess ill have to give it for RMA what i dont get is why only the sata 3 ones are working and not any of the sata 2 , when ports 1,2,3and 4 have a different controller and 5,6,7and 8 have a different one [i read something like that when i was getting the mobo ] [each has 2Xsata 3 and 2Xsata 2 ports ] and now only the sata 2 ones are acting out
