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Hi Guys,
Since I had this MB in December, I have "lost" 4 hard drives, now one DVD-ROM and one of the Ethernet ports played up the other day.
Right, now for the detail. BIOS version 1.2, MSI Eclipse SLi.
Up until now, I thought it was crappy Samsung disks as these were the ones failing (Never used them before, and they are cheaper than most other drives, although that's not why I bought them!), but tests in other PCs showed them to be OK. Now it is a 2 week old Seagate drive that has apparently "failed". However, the coincidence this time is that when I booted the PC and it classed the drive as "failed", one of the ethernet controllers also kept showing as "failed", it constantly kept showing up and disappearing from the device list, and also one of my DVD drives has stopped appearing in the device list (although it opens and closes). 3 different devices all failing at once? Seems too much of a coincidence to me.
Has anyone else had problems with RAID drives failing? If I put a new disk into the machine, then the Intel RAID controller sees it, allows me to add it and happily does a rebuild when Windows starts. Until it "fails" again!!!!!
Also, I have Corsair 1600 memory which runs at 1333. If I go into the BIOS and set it to use the XMP progile, Windows crashes during boot. Don't know if this is related?
If I update the BIOS or any other board-level F/W, will I have to rebuild my RAID sets (and therefore risk losing my data and another week to rebuild all of the OS & software?)
Since I had this MB in December, I have "lost" 4 hard drives, now one DVD-ROM and one of the Ethernet ports played up the other day.
Right, now for the detail. BIOS version 1.2, MSI Eclipse SLi.
Up until now, I thought it was crappy Samsung disks as these were the ones failing (Never used them before, and they are cheaper than most other drives, although that's not why I bought them!), but tests in other PCs showed them to be OK. Now it is a 2 week old Seagate drive that has apparently "failed". However, the coincidence this time is that when I booted the PC and it classed the drive as "failed", one of the ethernet controllers also kept showing as "failed", it constantly kept showing up and disappearing from the device list, and also one of my DVD drives has stopped appearing in the device list (although it opens and closes). 3 different devices all failing at once? Seems too much of a coincidence to me.
Has anyone else had problems with RAID drives failing? If I put a new disk into the machine, then the Intel RAID controller sees it, allows me to add it and happily does a rebuild when Windows starts. Until it "fails" again!!!!!
Also, I have Corsair 1600 memory which runs at 1333. If I go into the BIOS and set it to use the XMP progile, Windows crashes during boot. Don't know if this is related?
If I update the BIOS or any other board-level F/W, will I have to rebuild my RAID sets (and therefore risk losing my data and another week to rebuild all of the OS & software?)
