Follow -up on Maxtor SATA drive saga

[tmodel37]

Ok, I have learned that you really must press F6 and load the Asus SATA drivers as I was told, and as to the drives I have, I learned you must also update the firmware on the drives. This was a first for me. Not any fun!! I still have only 1 drive accepting SP2 without causing boot errors, and it took 2 try's to do it. So much for Raid 0.
If I ever get this monster up and running properly, I will never buy Maxtors again!
I have it OC'd running under AIBoost at 2.6 GB. I'm running Burnmax on it now, and getting a CPU temp of 54C. Both CPU's are running flat out.
Is this too hot? been running like this for several hours, with a room temp of ahout 82 F.
Wer'e having a warmspell here in SC





Previouse post for reference
I realise this forum is about motherboards, but I am trying to start up my new system, and my question is this; Has anyone else had issues with Maxtor SATA drives? I finally got smart enough to realise I had to press F6 and load the Silicon Image SATA drivers off the asus CD. DUH!! I hope I picked the right one! But I still have my problem. WinXP Pro loads and reboots ok. I have tried loading 4 in 1 drivers next. Then I load SP2. If SP2 does load, and sometimes it doesn't, then after loading my 4 in 1 drivers, some thing still goes wrong. This time it's my network wont work. Most times I get a boot error after loadind SP2 . It's always something. I have recently started up 2 systems using WD Raptors without any problems at all. What gives?
I have what looks to be 2 bad maxtor drives. Is this possible? Both are brand new just out of the box.
This is the first time I've ever had a problem with Mator drives, used them for years! But never SATA drives!
I should mention that the drives in question are 200 GB SATA drives, mod. #6L200SO. And yes I ran the Maxblast diags, no errors, so the drives are not bad?
After loading WinXP Pro numerous times on both drives I've concluded the drivers have a definite problem or something.
BTW, I have used SATA port 1 on all installs, Including the Raptors.
help, help help

My system as of now!
Case- Antec SLK2650-BQE(A bit tight)
PSU- Antec 550W True Power 2.0
MB- A8N32 SLI Deluxe
CPU- AMD 64X2 4800 W/stock cooler
RAM- 2 GB Corsair TwinX2048-3500LLPro
HD- 2 Maxtor SATA 200 GB and 1- 74 GB WD Rapter
Floppy
DVD- Sony
CDRom

 

[dabhpr]

You should not be trying to load windows = or any other highly complex program while overclocked. I always make sure to slow to stock or just slightly higher than stock, when reinstalling windows. Then, as soon as I'm done, I ramp it back up.

Slowing my 3800X2 (running at 2.65 GHZ) to 2.2GHz seems to make very little difference in the load times for Wndows. Probably it makes less than a one minute difference.

I am using two Maxtor 300GB Sata150 drives (16 MB cache) and have no problems. I am NOT running them in Raid 0 - just as two normal drives.

 

[tmodel37]

dabhpr, I had not even loaded AIBoost until after I tried loading SP2. Even I am not that dumb(maybe). My problems started way before I oc'd anything. I have tried it every way you can imagine, and windows will almost always install. The problems start when I try to load almost anything after that. When loading SP2 immediatly after Winxp pro, after loading the Asus 4 in 1 drivers, and it sometimes gives a win boot error from even loading the 4 in 1 drivers. The one drive I successfully upgraded the firmware on seems to be working ok for now, and I'm keeping my fingers crossed. My main gripe is the fact that I had to upgrade the firmware at all, just to run WinXP Pro on it. It's taken me several weeks just to get to this point.