SATA HD - A7N8X - Chkdsk at each XP boot

I've installed 3 weeks ago a SATA HD (80Go Deskstar Hitachi) as boot disk on
my Asus A7N8X Dlx motherboard.
The disk is split in 2 partitions (C & D).

At first everything was OK, but since a few days, I get the Chkdsk blue
screen at each XP boot. Chkdsk systematically checks the status of D: ,
sometimes the status of C: , and never finds anything wrong (no damaged
block, no lost data, all descriptors are OK, ...).

Any clue ?

 

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 21:40:35 +0100, "Karthago"
Some background. When windows starts it sets a bit on the harddrive as
dirty and sets it in the reg, when it shutsdown it clears this bit. If
it doesnt shutdown properly it sees this bit is set to dirty and runs
chksdk.

It can get things wrong if it shuts down to quick and cant clear the
bit in time. There is a known problem with some scanners.

Here is a way to turn it off which may well cure it


To turn it off
Open a registry editor and navigating to the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session
Manager\BootExecute sub-key. Change the entry to reflect a value of:
autocheck autochk *
Your system will now bypass the test at startup.

This issue can occur if the System registry hive or the Software
registry hive is damaged, or if both of the following conditions are
true:
You use a Hewlett Packard (HP) ScanJet 5100c scanner with the HP
driver.
You have not updated the scanner driver to the Windows XP version that
is available from Hewlett Packard.
RESOLUTION
To resolve this issue, use the appropriate method.
Hewlett Packard ScanJet 5100c Scanner
To resolve this issue, follow these steps:
Disconnect the HP ScanJet 5100c scanner from the computer, and then
restart the computer.
If the issue no longer occurs after you disconnect the scanner, you
need to update the driver for your scanner. To do this, proceed to
step 3.

If the issue continues to occur after you disconnect the scanner, a
program that is loaded when you start the computer may cause a
conflict. For additional information about how to determine if this is
the cause,, click the article number below to view the article in the
Microsoft Knowledge Base:
310353 How to Perform a Clean Boot in Windows XP

Download and install the Windows XP version of the HP PrecisionScan
update for your HP ScanJet 5100C scanner from the following HP Web
site:
http://www.hp.com/cposupport/swindexes/c5197a_swen.html

 

BIOS. Versions before "1007" are known to have SATA bugs.
If you have already updated, then the other reply might be "on-
song".
HTH

 

What chipset is that mobo?

Nasty. Is that a chipset-level bug, or an Asus anomaly?

Dreams are stack dumps of the soul

 

I'm running BIOS v1007 ; I'll apply the register trick (my scanner is an
Epson 1260 and not HP, but let's give it a try).

Thanks.

 

It has an Nforce 2 chipset. The SATA bug was 'kind of' chipset-related
(SATA isn't integrated into the southbridge though, so it's not a "VIA"
type of chipset problem), and only affects RAID setups, I believe.
I have a couple of these boards (deluxe 2.0 version) and they are
definitely the best mobo's I've ever had (or supported), by quite some
distance. Highly configurable (recommended if you're into overclocking).
Mine run XP2500s as XP3200s (ie at 200FSB) in dual-channel DDR
mode (ie 400MHz), with no instability or overheating problems.
HTH

 

OK. I was wondering what the NForce were like; if I was doing AMD,
I'd prolly be most interested in them. nVidia are boss on SVGA, just
wondered how together they were on the rest of motherboard biz... my
guess is prolly yes; they'd be unlikely to chance undoing their rep if
thier excusion into mobos was found to be buggy etc.

Sounds good! The first few Intel chipsets with RAID also has the
S-ATA/RAID as a 3rd-party add-on (in the case of the i845G boards I
built with, the add-on was by Promise), and I haven't tested that
functionality on them. The i865G has S-ATA as part of Intel's
chipset, and so far that has worked well as S-ATA RAID 0.

I think generally, I'd be more confident with S-ATA / RAID that was
either integrated into the chipset, or in a self-contained card that's
designed and tested to work with arbitrary chipsets and BIOSs.

Dreams are stack dumps of the soul