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This is weird... If I turn on my Gigaraid, it takes the same IRQ as the ICH9R controller... But in the screenshot your provided, your controllers have different IRQs.

What board did you say you have again? GA-EP35-DS3R is the one I have. I have upgraded the bios to version F3e with no improvements. Both controllers are on the same IRQ

Is there a way I could change those IRQs manually?

My board is a P35 DS3r. no extra power savings. speed step is standard for all intel cpus as cool n quiet is for amd.

My gsata(its made by Jmicron anyway) and ICH9r share as well, but as said, i have no drives on the Gsata ports yet.

Most ppl with this problem are effected by the onboard sound..
Odd for me is I DO use the tv card and firewire thats shared as well...irq conflicts are not common any more... most things play well with others.

You're right, I guess I need glasses lol

Would you be kind enough to try plugging a drive to your JMicron while a raid array is set up on the ICH9R???

If I do this, I get audio and mouse stutter. In fact it is system stutter.

Although my problems stopped when I disabled the gigaraid, I had a dvd rom plugged into the gigaraid when experiencing the stutter. Maybe we need to have something working on the second controller in order for the stutter to appear?

Thanks for your feedback!

If yours dosen't I'll send my board for RMA.

I put a 500 gig drive on it. Will keep you posted.

Also note that my raid was built on my other board and migrated(i plugged it in and it worked so i never bothers rebuilding, just a reformat and install of windows) over.

So far no skippy. i just went back to SP2 to make the testing more accurate.

With so many having this issue it would be good to find a solution. are you running the onboard audio?

Thanks for trying this out Nukemaster

Yes I use the onboard audio... But don't we all use it??

Gigabyte support say I have to send the board and they'll send me a replacement "if they see it fit"... That means I'm going to be without a computer for 1 month simply to receive the same board or another refurbished board.

I have my old sound blaster Audigy 2zs card for sound.

My friend uses onboard, but the DS3l board does not have raid or gsata. and its even a different sound card(ALC888 vs ALC889A for the DS3R boards)

Do you have a friend who you can borrow a sound card from?

Once i had an Asus(K8V SE) board doing a random audio skip/system studder but it was because asus broke it with a bios(and it was effected when running via raid, i bought a promise sata card just to make it work right then that card would not post so I rolled back the bios and it fixed it. so i never needed the card) update. I had to flash back to fix it. Since there are so many users with this problem(with every bios available), i doubt its the same. I just want to make sure its clear that such a thing has happened in the past.

Well i have been running that way up until a few days when I put the drive back on the Intel port(since i was cleaning up the computer).

I updated the drivers in case the latest ones are busted(and causing the problem), but it still worked fine and even added hardware monitoring(the cd drivers did not allow this).

I did see a slight drop in read speeds but not enough to worry about, but with a faster drive maybe it would be an issue.

James,

I would like to thank you for this anwser, I was using the WHQL drivers from Gigabyte and when I switched to the JMicro ones from the link you supplied the stuttering issue disappeared, nice one!

Thanks

Eddie

I have P35-DS3R rev 2.1 motherboard. Using ICH9R and RAID1 (mirroring) with 2*500 Samsung.
I had sound stutter problem which I described and solved here:
http://kukuras.blogspot.com/2008/0 [...] audio.html

Now I have different problem.
I added new Hitachi 500 hdd to ICH9R as single drive (but did other things as well, like installed Intel Matrix Storage Consol=IMSC) and from time to time when I try to turn off computer all goes off except fans and hdds (presumably) (I left it over night... didn't go off).

When I force to turn computer off (holding power button for 8 sec), next time I boot up computer IMSC starts verifying and reparing on RAID1. This takes long but runs in parallel so I can work on computer.

Any idea?