ASUS A7N8X SATA data corruption - Silicon Image 3112 - Serial ATA- BSOD

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Señor Apellido wrote:

Hardwa ASUS A7N8X Motherboard (1004 Bios), Seagate 80GB SATA Hard
Drive, high quality ram, case, ps.

OS: Windows XP Pro (1.0.0.22 SiI3112A SATA drivers)

Problem: Hard drive data corruption (NTFS boot drive).

Symptoms: Windows XP Pro reboots during bootup sequence. Drive will
cause any computer that attempts to read from partition to crash.
Recovery Console BSOD with a STOP 0x00000024.

My Theory: Bad SATA drivers or bad SATA controller (SiI3112A).

Solution: Swap motherboard and SATA drive with IDE drive. The
motherboard (except for SATA drivers) might have been fine, but ASUS
does not provide enough information to determine this.

Notes: Corrupt (primary) partition was lost. Seagate's bootable utility
cd exits to a DOS prompt after loading SATA drivers, so you can delete
the bad partition using fdisk. Do not try to get partition information
of bad parition using fdisk (http://www.23cc.com/free-fdisk/). After
bad partition was deleted, drive was recognized and accessible as a
second disk.

NTFSDOS can be used to access an NTFS partition from DOS
(http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/fr.../NTFSDOS.shtml).

Conclusion: This is the first problem I have had with ASUS, and I might
buy another motherboard from them. I would never purchase another
product that includes hardware or software from Silicon Image.


For what it's worth, Silicon Image claims that the problem is with the
ASUS BIOS.


It is, and the latest BIOS fixes it.


I should not have been able to purchase a new motherboard
with a known bug this severe.


Er, the bug is fixed.


The corruption didn't crash the system until two weeks ago. The latest
BIOS wasn't available when I purchased the motherboard almost a month ago.

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Hardwa ASUS A7N8X Motherboard (1004 Bios), Seagate 80GB SATA Hard
Drive, high quality ram, case, ps.

OS: Windows XP Pro (1.0.0.22 SiI3112A SATA drivers)

Problem: Hard drive data corruption (NTFS boot drive).


The problem is cured with the VERY LATEST BIOS.

Flash it, then reformat ALL your drives, and reinstall Windows XP. Use

the

.29 SATA driver from here

http://web.newsguy.com/nomnet/silicon_v10029.zip

Other than the corrupted partition, why is it necessary to reformat all
drives?


Because you need to remove the corruption that's already present.
If you want to miss out this step, then go ahead. But it's likely you'll run
into problems later.


I replaced the drive, so I should have that covered. I was just
wondering if you knew any specifics about the corruption.

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Nom wrote:
"Señor Apellido" wrote in message
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Señor Apellido wrote:

Hardwa ASUS A7N8X Motherboard (1004 Bios), Seagate 80GB SATA Hard
Drive, high quality ram, case, ps.

OS: Windows XP Pro (1.0.0.22 SiI3112A SATA drivers)

Problem: Hard drive data corruption (NTFS boot drive).

Symptoms: Windows XP Pro reboots during bootup sequence. Drive will
cause any computer that attempts to read from partition to crash.
Recovery Console BSOD with a STOP 0x00000024.

My Theory: Bad SATA drivers or bad SATA controller (SiI3112A).

Solution: Swap motherboard and SATA drive with IDE drive. The
motherboard (except for SATA drivers) might have been fine, but ASUS
does not provide enough information to determine this.

Notes: Corrupt (primary) partition was lost. Seagate's bootable
utility
cd exits to a DOS prompt after loading SATA drivers, so you can delete
the bad partition using fdisk. Do not try to get partition information
of bad parition using fdisk (http://www.23cc.com/free-fdisk/). After
bad partition was deleted, drive was recognized and accessible as a
second disk.

NTFSDOS can be used to access an NTFS partition from DOS
(http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/fr.../NTFSDOS.shtml).

Conclusion: This is the first problem I have had with ASUS, and I might
buy another motherboard from them. I would never purchase another
product that includes hardware or software from Silicon Image.


For what it's worth, Silicon Image claims that the problem is with the
ASUS BIOS.


It is, and the latest BIOS fixes it.


I should not have been able to purchase a new motherboard
with a known bug this severe.


Er, the bug is fixed.


The corruption didn't crash the system until two weeks ago. The latest
BIOS wasn't available when I purchased the motherboard almost a month ago.

Same situation here.
But now the problem is fixed, so don't worry about it

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Señor Apellido wrote:


Hardwa ASUS A7N8X Motherboard (1004 Bios), Seagate 80GB SATA Hard
Drive, high quality ram, case, ps.

OS: Windows XP Pro (1.0.0.22 SiI3112A SATA drivers)

Problem: Hard drive data corruption (NTFS boot drive).

Symptoms: Windows XP Pro reboots during bootup sequence. Drive will
cause any computer that attempts to read from partition to crash.
Recovery Console BSOD with a STOP 0x00000024.

My Theory: Bad SATA drivers or bad SATA controller (SiI3112A).

Solution: Swap motherboard and SATA drive with IDE drive. The
motherboard (except for SATA drivers) might have been fine, but ASUS
does not provide enough information to determine this.

Notes: Corrupt (primary) partition was lost. Seagate's bootable

utility

cd exits to a DOS prompt after loading SATA drivers, so you can delete
the bad partition using fdisk. Do not try to get partition information
of bad parition using fdisk (http://www.23cc.com/free-fdisk/). After
bad partition was deleted, drive was recognized and accessible as a
second disk.

NTFSDOS can be used to access an NTFS partition from DOS
(http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/fr.../NTFSDOS.shtml).

Conclusion: This is the first problem I have had with ASUS, and I might
buy another motherboard from them. I would never purchase another
product that includes hardware or software from Silicon Image.


For what it's worth, Silicon Image claims that the problem is with the
ASUS BIOS.


It is, and the latest BIOS fixes it.



I should not have been able to purchase a new motherboard
with a known bug this severe.


Er, the bug is fixed.



The corruption didn't crash the system until two weeks ago. The latest
BIOS wasn't available when I purchased the motherboard almost a month ago.


Same situation here.
But now the problem is fixed, so don't worry about it


I wish I could. I think I suffer from POST traumatic stress disorder.
Hardy har har