GA-7N400 Pro2 Rev 1 SATA Problem

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I was successfully running a single WD 36GB 10k RPM SATA drive as the boot
disk (set to "BASE" ) on my GA-7N400 Pro2 board (Rev 1) for several months.
Then it started to get flakey recognizing the drive when booting. Would take
a couple of reboots to get past detecting the drive and on to booting.
Finally, Windows 2000 started getting errors when accessing the disk and the
system would crash.

I RMA'ed the disk back to WD. It was returned as "recertified" but is still
not recognized by the board. I suspect that the SATA controller has a
problem, but I have no other SATA drives to test with. I am on F5 and
briefly loaded F11 to no avail.

Has anyone else had an experience similar to mine? Any ideas on a fix?

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John Bissell

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"John Bissell" <bissell@nospam.alum.mit.edu> wrote in message
news:E0Hxd.4225$9j5.3940@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net...
>I was successfully running a single WD 36GB 10k RPM SATA drive as the boot
> disk (set to "BASE" ) on my GA-7N400 Pro2 board (Rev 1) for several months.
> Then it started to get flakey recognizing the drive when booting. Would
> take
> a couple of reboots to get past detecting the drive and on to booting.
> Finally, Windows 2000 started getting errors when accessing the disk and
> the
> system would crash.
>
> I RMA'ed the disk back to WD. It was returned as "recertified" but is
> still
> not recognized by the board. I suspect that the SATA controller has a
> problem, but I have no other SATA drives to test with. I am on F5 and
> briefly loaded F11 to no avail.
>
> Has anyone else had an experience similar to mine? Any ideas on a fix?
>
> --

Had the same problem,
It was the motherboard fcuk SATA channel

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