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Changing Sata port for the Win-7 HDD glitchy issue
Good afternoon,
I recently needed to reinstall Win -7 Pro x64. I unplugged all my other drives (5 all total) and installed Win-7 with the new HDD connected to the SATA0 port of my MB.
Then post install, I moved the HDD with Win-7 on it to the SATA4 port and then plugged in my other client disks that I support, in Sata3 - 0.
I use my "F12" key to boot from one to the other.
Since I have done this, (and did a fresh install of everything - NO cloning) Skyrim operates glitchy, with frequent NVIdia driver crashes and recoveries while in game. And it is not exclusive to Steam and Skyrim. Windows itself is glitchy, with spurts of speed, followed by what appears to be a "dead" desktop for about 2-3 seconds, followed by everything coming back to life...
The graphical subsystem only hangs/restarts under Skyrim and not under normal system load such as (CAD/CAM). But the glitchiness I'm describing happens regardless of what I am doing in Windows.
When Win-7 was connected to SATA0, I had no such issues.
I am going to assume that installing to this HDD attached to SATA0, then changing the cables to SATA4 has caused Windows to become unhappy.
I have done some tests. As I have good backups, I reversed the role of the HDD's, and the problem follows Windows, not the HDD. The problem seems to be specific to installing while any HDD is connected to SATA0, then post install and post updates, moving the HDD to SATA4 port.
No Overclocking of anything in my MB settings.
Hardware: AMD 8350 CPU
32 GB DDR1600 ram
Win-7 HDD = new W.D. 1TB Black.
NVidia GTX-660
MB = Gigabyte 990XA-UD3
Latest Drivers.
And I cannot install Windows to sata4 with other drives connected. I tried and Windows wiped out my customer's FreeBSD boot partition and the drive numbering that Windows showed in the installation partition selector was all weird. So after recovering my customers boot partition....then I bought this new drive and did my installs of Windows while only one hdd was plugged in at a time.
The issue seems to show up after everything is all done, and the drives are all plugged into where they should be....that Windows begins misbehaving periodically.
I did install the MB's sata and chipset drivers before attempting to install Windows.
Question: Is there a registry setting(s) I need to tweak to settle all this down? If so can someone point me to it please?
Sincerely and respectfully,
Dave
Edit: The drive is at current firmware rev. No update needed.
Last edited by dcbdbis; 05 Mar 2014 at 19:23. Reason: Additional Info