Hi All, I recently bought a Samsung HD501LJ 500gb harddrive (SATA II) and added it on top of my regular IDE (which has xp/vista on a dual boot). The problems started happening about a day later. My computer would start blue screening randomly. This happened last time I tried to use my SATA Raptors... there was always blue screening. I have no idea what's going on. I use the newest VIA SATA RAID controller (the 500gb is only on one, naturally). The A8V motherboard only supports SATA I, but I'm told the SATA II harddrives are backwards compatible (which they obviously are, since it works). Anyways, I have no idea why it blue screens... this makes no sense. I've tried multiple settings in the bios, but this extra SATA drive just seems to throw everything out of whack. I'm testing right now to see if maybe it's because I had the regular IDE drive set to 32bit mode in the BIOS (it's always been at 16bit), but I highly doubt it. I'd really appreciate some guidance on where to go from here.
if you have a spare sata controller, try that, I think your mobo's sata controller is busted thats why it shows the BSOD.
classical via problems at all people can think i'm just a rival producer of via not that but via has a bad image in my mind when i used via problems had occured too much so i become an enemy for the producer as i said classical problems the via mobo is just a product of a fool building it to sell people and earn money performance or stability is not concerned your problem has got a simple solution unplug the new disk and plug the old one take your importent content onto a flash drive etc. and format both and install o.s. onto the sata disk (unplugging the ide gives better result, after installing continue using the old hdd) or if you can sell your old hdd go sell it with your mobo and buy an nforce mobo (430 maybe or sli version of a sc939 boards are cheap now) running your current system is a temporary solution because in the future your mobo will make you to burn it, broke it. eat it etc. not joking about that beacuse it just a shit not worthing money if you got a little money spend it on upgrading but your system uses ddr ram and 939 form factor cpu but the newest mobos are using 940 (am2) form factor and ddr-2 memories so be careful if you gonna change
