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A7N8X HDD detection
I have a system built around the A7N8X mainboard (Athlon 2700+ CPU 1GB Corsair XMS memory standard settings). I also have a Promise ATA 133 controller card installed. All total, I have seven hard drives and one optical drive. One of the hard drives is SATA. I boot from the Promise card. I have run this configuration for almost a year with absolutely no problem. I have a TruePower 550w PS so power is not a problem. Two weeks ago I suddendly got a blue screen of death message and a reboot. Upon reboot one of my PATA drives did not have the correct name and a check of properties showed it was not formatted! That blew my mind, but I used Get It Back to completely recover the digital files on that drive (it was not my boot drive). Everything was find until a week later when my PC began to take longer and longer to detect the devices connected to my main IDE controller built into the mainboard. At the time I had two HDD and two optical drives. I have since removed one of the opticals. I could reboot the machine and eventually get the first set of IDE devices detected. Then there began to be a problem detecting the for HDDs connected to the Promise controller. It would not find any of them or just find one or the other pair of drives. I could reboot and get past the first IDE detection and then the Promise detection and finally to the SATA detection. I have reseated memory and all PCI cards. I have reconfirmed all IDE and SATA cables. I have even replaced both cables on the Promise Controller. It now takes me three reboots to the the system started and recognizing all IDE devices. In addition, I notice that sometimes the video flickers (I have a Matrox Parhealia triple head card with two monitors). This clears up after a few seconds and after that the sytem runs without problems. I am about to tear the machine down and install a new mainboard, procesor and memory. Before I do, does anyone have any other ideas for me? I do have another promise controller I plant to try tonight. Thanks |
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