- Nov 8, 2005
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Hi all, I have had significant build issues on a system with an A8N32 Sli Deluxe board, 74 GB Raptor drive, Twin Corsair Memory (2G). If you're up for a story of length, read on.
The problem is that after letting the box sit for about 30 minutes, on bootup I get a message "Disk Read Error. Press Ctrl-Alt-Del to restart". Brand new Raptor and all equipment, mind you.
I have gotten a variety of other strange errors as well, such as the system locking up at recognizing the second hard drive, just sitting there at recognizing 4th IDE master. Sometimes it boots to there and hangs. Other times it boots to the Windows x64 screen and hangs. Sometimes it boots to a blank screen.
Now here is some more background. I called Asus and they said, sounds like a bad motherboard capacitor, or a bad power supply. Great, someplace to start. I had the vendor, Monarch computer, swap out the board for me. They were great, no hassles, right away, boom new board. Same issues.
I also swapped the power supply, ram, hard drive(s), CASE (yeah i know), processor...actually the only thing I never swapped was the video card.
I also chased down the Disk Read Error, and according to WD's website, this is not a problem with the hard drive, it is a disk geometry error and should be fixable via Windows Recovery Console. So I followed their instructions and booted with the x64 CD ROM into the Recovery Console, did a CHKDSK /r to repair the install (and it did find problems), as well as FIXMBR. This did not solve the issues.
I have built many computers, even using this board without this kind of trouble. My customer is waiting. I was up ALL NIGHT last night trolling every board I could think of for clues. I discovered this board indeed has a lot of problems, but they probably all do if you are looking for them.
I neglected to mention I am using the SATA I and II ports for the hard drives. One is a Raptor, the other a WD2500MKS. I have also swapped out the SATA cables, several times in fact, and updated all drivers to the very latest. I have probably spent over a 100 hours on this build, seriously, over about 5 months, its absolutely ridiculous at this point, I don't know what else to do. The one contant seems to be, the system works like a charm after about 2-3 bootups, but on initial bootup after it having been off for 30-45 minutes, it hangs with the aforementioned issues.
I'M IN HELL. HELL-P!
The problem is that after letting the box sit for about 30 minutes, on bootup I get a message "Disk Read Error. Press Ctrl-Alt-Del to restart". Brand new Raptor and all equipment, mind you.
I have gotten a variety of other strange errors as well, such as the system locking up at recognizing the second hard drive, just sitting there at recognizing 4th IDE master. Sometimes it boots to there and hangs. Other times it boots to the Windows x64 screen and hangs. Sometimes it boots to a blank screen.
Now here is some more background. I called Asus and they said, sounds like a bad motherboard capacitor, or a bad power supply. Great, someplace to start. I had the vendor, Monarch computer, swap out the board for me. They were great, no hassles, right away, boom new board. Same issues.
I also swapped the power supply, ram, hard drive(s), CASE (yeah i know), processor...actually the only thing I never swapped was the video card.
I also chased down the Disk Read Error, and according to WD's website, this is not a problem with the hard drive, it is a disk geometry error and should be fixable via Windows Recovery Console. So I followed their instructions and booted with the x64 CD ROM into the Recovery Console, did a CHKDSK /r to repair the install (and it did find problems), as well as FIXMBR. This did not solve the issues.
I have built many computers, even using this board without this kind of trouble. My customer is waiting. I was up ALL NIGHT last night trolling every board I could think of for clues. I discovered this board indeed has a lot of problems, but they probably all do if you are looking for them.
I neglected to mention I am using the SATA I and II ports for the hard drives. One is a Raptor, the other a WD2500MKS. I have also swapped out the SATA cables, several times in fact, and updated all drivers to the very latest. I have probably spent over a 100 hours on this build, seriously, over about 5 months, its absolutely ridiculous at this point, I don't know what else to do. The one contant seems to be, the system works like a charm after about 2-3 bootups, but on initial bootup after it having been off for 30-45 minutes, it hangs with the aforementioned issues.
I'M IN HELL. HELL-P!