So, my system likes to randomly st-t-t-tammer for sometimes no reason, or when I am accessing data. Let's say that uTorrent is downloading data while I am watching a film. Every now and then, the film would sound like someone being pulled from the Matrix, and then it'll resume like normal. Now and then, on the other hand, the film would just freeze for 1 to 20 seconds, and it resumes, with a massive tear effect. This effect is system wide. I actually had this happen often when just moving the mouse around, etc, etc. Other points of interest... -The system will -only- do this with the SATA drive connected, where the system has access to the drive. [I.E., if I un-mount it, etc, it'll work fine.] -The drive will -refuse- to stay connected for long 'nuff to read the contents of the drive if I connect my front fan. If I don't, the system gets around 80c on the CPU. Sitting at 50c with the fan suckin' air. -The system will work -perfectly-... assuming I don't use the SATA drive. I have tried both new OSes, and now even new drives. I have used Windows 7 at first, now Windows XP Pro. My hardware is as follows: 3.20ghz P4 Intel D915PBL motherboard 4GB DDR2 PCIe video ATI Radeon 4350HD with 1GB RAM 250GB IDE HDD [system drive] 1.5TB WD Green drive [WDC WD15EARS-00MVWB0 (1397 GB)] Windows XP Pro. Video drivers, BIOS, all that jazz, up to date. The Windows OS sits on the 250GB IDE drive, and the SATA drive is a second drive, for storage. --Steps taken to try to troubleshoot-- -External USB to SATA adapter to check the HUB, no good. [Note: While using internal PSU] -Windows Virtual Memory is disabled. -Safe mode tried, still stalls. -Tried different SATA ports, different cables. different SATA power connectors. -If film is watched from the IDE drive, and the SATA drive is not connected/mounted, it works fine, even if I were defragging the drive at the same time. -The SATA drive is hours old, the first SATA drive it is replacing is days old. [I already sent in an RMA] ..so.. any ideas? Is the SATA chip just not liking my fan? And, if so, is the running too hot bit making it stammer? Thanks for your time, all. -Haz
Hi, I would try running a checkdisk on the sata drive to see if there are any errors on it. Also, maybe run memtest to check for bad ram in case that is the cause. Where the drive stops working when you plug in another device, it could be a power supply issue as well. Do you have another power supply you could test with to rule that out?
