Re: A7N8X Deluxe, "click" (on/off?) noise from RAID drives, PC freezes/unfreezes constantly.
- From: Bill Smith <bs@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 16:31:43 GMT
You may have tried this, but I will suggest it anyway:
Try switching to another PSU power connector, it may be an
intermintant power flow problem due to a poor connector.
Try different SATA cables...
Is there anything at the WD / Asus / NForce site(s) which may relate
to a support issue ? It may be worth a search if you haven't tried it.
Maybe a specific issue with those drives and that chipset...
On Sun, 07 May 2006 07:32:19 -0400, YouKnow <friend@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
A7N8X Deluxe, "click" (on/off?) noise from RAID drive, PC freezes.
for 10-20 seconds then ok?
I found basically the exact same problem on a web site, getting the
exact same error message in event viewer. Another site mentions
similar problems, but none so far have a concrete solution. Any ideas?
http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic24920-pg1.html
For me it's an Asus A7N8X deluxe board, 1 GB Kingston 3200 DDR. 400
Watt Antec Power supply. I'm going to try disconnecting a few things
just in case the PSU is going bad or something, but it is pretty new,
and like I said I haven't changed anything in a while (at least a good
year) My drives that seem to be going off and On are 2 Raptors 36 GB
connected to the onboard Raid SIL3112r. It seems, that when/if I try
to access this array that the click on/off/freezes occur. In fact now
Diskeeper 10 can't even defrag it.
The portion below (taken from the above URL) basically is exactly
what problem I'm having. I have not added any new hardware, or changed
anything in quite some time (at least a year), and this has otherwise
been a rock-solid system.
"Also very important details to this problem:
Motherboard uses nForce2 chipset
SATA Raid adapter is SIL3112r (though on POST screens is says 3112A)
THE PROBLEM:
This problem shows itself by freeze behavior and error log entries.
The freezing is just that, it will seem fine, then boom, it freezes
solid and you can't do
jack for a good 40 seconds. Then it unfreezes and comes to life and
acts like nothing ever
happened. This appears to be the only problem I know about. That is,
maybe it causes other
problems too? But the freezing is the main end result. And this
freezes all activity, not just
HDD operations. In other words, if I have an MP3 playing, it freezes
silent too. Then starts
playing again where it left off when it comes back.
Also, during the "freeze", keyboard strokes and possibly mouse
movements, are still cached. So
when it comes back, letters I was typing will appear, and the cursor
will jump around.
Lastly, it is extremely random. Sometimes it will freeze many times in
a hour. Sometimes it
will run good for days. I could be playing a game, or just reading a
text file and not doing
anything HDD intense. Nothing except the freeze period are timely. I
would venture to say that
the freeze time is dang near exactly the same each time. But
absolutely random to get there.
Promptly after a freeze an error log entry is created:
Type: ERROR
Source: si3112r
ID: 9
"The device, \Device\scsi\si3112r1, did not respond within the timeout
period" "
Thanks for any help!
"I say we create a new airline, called the ACLA,
the American Civil Liberties Airline where you
don?t check anybody, you don?t ask any questions,
and let those morons fly on that one".
-Dennis Miller
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