USASMA
I ran the disk diagnostics (WD) as you suggested and did not find any problems on the disks. I ran the quick diagnostics as I have 2 1.0T disks. BTW i ran chkdsk /r on the disks a week ago and they came up clean as well.
I do not know if this matters, but i had to disable AHCI in the bios to get the diag disk to boot.
Thanks again for your help.
Mark
When I disable AHCI and native SATA support in bios everything works.
AHCI seems to be somehow involved.
Mark
Hi Ken:
I am not running RAID.
I have done some further testing and it turns out that Native SATA support does not matter. AHCI and BSOD. No AHCI and everything works.
I would like to use AHCI as I have a portable SATA drive and I believe I require AHCI to be enabled to be able to Plug and Play or hot swap the drive.
Thank you all for your help.
Mark
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Thanks for the thought (and the help), but for me the problem is not really solved as I would like to be able to use AHCI to enable hot swapping of SATA drives. I am happy to have a work around though.
Mark
Ah, the problems with using beta software :)
There are issues with a particular section of the coding for storage drivers (I found this out from Microsoft when reporting a bug on the Connect site). You have to use Windows 7 drivers in order to ensure that the storage stuff will work - so I'd suspect that this would also affect the AHCI functions. In my case, it required that I purchase a new RAID card - since the company (HighPoint) wasn't going to make Win7 drivers for my old RAID card.
Neither Intel nor Gigabyte offers Win7 drivers for this chipset. You may want to try these drivers direct from Intel (using the Vista x64 one's)
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Don't forget to install them in Compatibility Mode for ALL USERS - using "Run as Vista" and "Run as administrator".
Good luck!
Usasma:
Thanks for the suggestions and your continued help. Sorry for not getting back to you earlier but I had some big work things com up on Friday and I did not have access to the computer in question over the weekend.
Anyway, I tried the earlier vista drivers as you suggested and things went somewhat better - BSOD 1 out of 5 wakes (instead of every time), but I had other problems coming out of wake (sometimes USB devices did not work, other times apps would hang or restart).
So, reverted back to disabling AHCI and did a system restore to bring me back to the previous chipset drivers.
Here, it became interesting again. I got to the welcome screen and the machine sat there. After 5 minutes, the machine went to sleep. I woke it up ... it sat there for 5 minutes then went back to sleep. (note sleep is set for 5 minutes)
I repeated this 5 or 6 times, then reset the machine and booted into safe mode where the restore completed successfully. The machine now works as before and I will leave it like this until the RTM comes out.
Thank you very much for your help and triggering the thought that the problem could be related to AHCI and the storage system.
Best regards,
Mark
Hi Mark,
I'm not sure if you've since found a solution as the last post was a while back.
I've been struggling with the same problem on my HTPC - BSOD with kernel_data_inpage_error and the 0x7A error on wake from sleep - really annoying when you turn the machine on just before a show you want to watch!
I've upgraded to the latest intel chipset drivers and installed the Intel Matrix Storage Manager - both from the intel website (windows update seems to be a little bit behind). It only updated the ICH10R and the AHCI drivers during installation and I have't had any problems since.
Hope this helps.
Antony
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