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BSOD - possible issue with SATA 3 control??
Hi,
I have put together a brand new tower:
mobo: ASROCK X58 EXTREME3 LGA1366 INTEL X58+ICH10R
ram : CORSAIR 12GB DDR3 (3X4) VENGEANCE SERIES CMZ12GX3M3A1600C9
video: GIGABYTE GTX580
cpu: INTEL CORE I7-960
HDD: 2x SEAGATE ST32000641AS 2TB 7200RPM SATA
Windows 7 pro 64 bits.
It worked for about two weeks before I started noticing strange stuff happening; second HDD dissappearing from My computer list during a copy (writing on that drive).
Then, BSODs when surfing on internet (during caching I think mostly, or flash video).
Access to hard drives suddenly very slow at times (even entering folders can result in "Not responding", and temporary freezes, bsod's, extremely slow cache swapping in internet browser, "windows explorer" crashing and restarting every minute or so, HDD not recognized at boot, computer not being able to boot, BSOD during boot, safe mode not starting, safe mode freezing, etc...).
I want to format the whole thing and start over again; I notice SATA3 in my BIOS is on IDE instead of the better (as I've read) AHCI. I read about the issues concerning switching from one to the other when an OS is already installed, so I decide to to a clean re-install of windows7 (format) with disks set on AHCI (SATA2 still on IDE for my optical drive, AHCI made even the windows7 install crash!!!).
So I re-install, let windows do the countless updates it needs to, I even restart a couple of time just to make sure, and then I start moving archives in on my internal drives (45 GB of files); the drive starts well - slows down - hangs - not able to click anything - cursor freeze - bsod. (sob!)
I did quite some installs from DVDs and from files downloaded from the internet. no problems there, it's when files are copied around that it has problems now. for now.
So from all the problems it could have been, I'm wondering if the harddrives are being controlled properly... It's not software since I've taken great care into installing one thing at a time and rebooting between installs, starting with windows updates, then drivers, then some apps (google chrome, trend micro Titanium maximum security).
I've installed the motherboard chipset and sata3 drivers, have an anti-virus and not much else is running when it hangs. I'm just preparing for it to worsen again.
help?
I've included the perfmon report of my current install, as well as the mini-dump(s) of the last crash(es). (all in one zip.)
Here's the last log, just bluescreen this one, not bsod;
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.48
Locale ID: 1033
Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: f4
BCP1: 0000000000000003
BCP2: FFFFFA800C36FB30
BCP3: FFFFFA800C36FE10
BCP4: FFFFF80002F815D0
OS Version: 6_1_7600
Service Pack: 0_0
Product: 256_1
heeeeelp!!