Re: P5K Premium Power problem ACPI2 /Hard Drive spindown?

UPDATE:

KB938979 was the culprit, apparently htis update for vista which is suppose to enhance drive performance actaully impedes it in certain cases.

Unisnatalling it seems to have worked.

Do i still need acpi 2.0 ?

Jeff



"Jeff" <Jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ku%Ji.236$B01.69@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Follow-up

I mean by spin down, windows stays on but there'll be a freeze in video movie playback or in accessing disk manager.

I just want to rulke out MB failure.

Again, no problem with a prev MB and 7 drives, just this drive..Do i need to tweak my cpu, what can i do to prevent HD spin down?

jeff



"Jeff" <Jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:QG_Ji.231$B01.37@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I'm using ACPI 2 but there is still hard drive spin down. will upgrading to bios 0204 from 0102 help.

Are there any other tweaks i can use with my q6600?

jeff


"Jeff" <Jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:b7VJi.143$B01.116@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Yes, it comes back to life, but I'm never sure which drive or drives actually spin down. So i can rule out a defective MB?
I have the bios that came with this board, whjat step should I take, enable acpi 2.0 first?

jeff


"Howard Goldstein" <hgoldste@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1190657528.65821@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:14:20 -0400, Jeff <Jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
: Hi.
:
: I built a P5k Premium system with 7 hard drives Quadcore CPU 4 gigs ram 700
: watt PS
:
: Problem is that I have drive spindown, i can hear the clicking sound and
: whirring sound as it powers down and eventually powers back up.
:
: My previous asus p5wd2 with seven drives and a 550 PS and a dual core ee
: didn't have this proble,
:
: Do i need to activate acpi 2 in the bios, ?
:
: Can it be a defect on the MB, a problem with the OS (Vista)?
:

Does the entire system power back up? If so I'm seeing the same
problem on a P5W DH running freebsd with bios rev 2206 (to support the
Q6600 G0 stepping) and I have acpi2 enabled. Didn't have the problem
with bios rev 2004 and a Core2 e6600 (b2 stepping) though.




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