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[Moran Taylor]

I have a Gigabyte GA-K8N Ultra SLI motherboard with 2 Western Digital WD1200JS drives in Raid 0 reunning Windows XP x64 Edition

The system has been running in this configuration for nearly a year up untill this week when I logged into windows the Nvidia nvraidservice.exe would start crashing then I noticed boot times had increased. So I benchmarked HDD performance with Sandra soft 2005 and found my disk performace had over halved its original speed of 194MB/s to 95MB/s which is slower than a single Seagate 200gb sata2 drive I also have in my system.

I have tried repairing windows to no avail so I started from scratch deleting raid set and re creating stripped array and clean installing OS but still no luck I am at a loss to explain cause unless it was a BIOS upgrade or some other driver related issue.

This Is orig benchmark from original build install:

[m.oreilly]

it could be drivers, but also a drive...it is not as uncommon as you might think. can you run a chkdsk and see what, if anything, shows up? and you have ncq disabled? if it gets worse any time soon, you might look at a possible rma of a drive(s). since you did a clean install and have the recurring problem...wd has a diagnostic,
have you tried it? and another thought, you are benching w/sandra...try hdtach, and atto. what does your boot order look like?

[Nvyseal]

my thoughts are the drive going bad also

[Moran Taylor]

Nvyseal, on May 28 2006, 03:40 AM, said:

my thoughts are the drive going bad also

I have run the Western Digital diagnositcs on each drive no faults found

As for NCQ only the Seagate has it the JS series WDC HDD's dont have it

I have a feeling its software related even the Seagate HDD is benchmarking at half speed since reinstall I am going to try 32 bit edition of XP on the IDE hdd and becnhmark SATA drives under 32 bit enviroment. I will keep you posted on the outcome

Edited by Moran Taylor, 28 May 2006 - 06:36 AM.

[m.oreilly]

which chipset/storgage drivers release are you currently using?

[Moran Taylor]

m.oreilly, on May 29 2006, 06:15 AM, said:

which chipset/storgage drivers release are you currently using?

Nforce 4 6.69 x64 drivers I was previously using 6.66

Edited by Moran Taylor, 30 May 2006 - 12:02 AM.

[simon]

was there any problems with the drv 6.66 ?
if not I would use that 1

[m.oreilly]

simon, on May 29 2006, 06:43 PM, said:

was there any problems with the drv 6.66 ?
if not I would use that 1

that is one to avoid. that is why i asked...

[Moran Taylor]

m.oreilly, on May 30 2006, 03:37 AM, said:

that is one to avoid. that is why i asked...

I clean installed Windows on Friday using 6.69 Drivers and am still having this issue unfortunately I havent had time to troubleshoot further

[simon]

I was not sure thats why I asked could not remember what drv was the good one

Edited by simon, 30 May 2006 - 11:39 AM.

[Moran Taylor]

simon, on May 30 2006, 11:37 AM, said:

I was not sure thats why I asked could not remember what drv was the good one

Here is something funny I just discovered there was a 84.25 Video Driver release I instaled it and system is working fine now so now I am unsure if it was a dodgy video driver release causing the issue or something else.

[m.oreilly]

Moran Taylor, on May 30 2006, 07:03 AM, said:

Here is something funny I just discovered there was a 84.25 Video Driver release I instaled it and system is working fine now so now I am unsure if it was a dodgy video driver release causing the issue or something else.

great news. i had something similar happen with my m-audio drivers and the storage card. it was one or the other. using onboard audio now, but at least the thing boots up i have the latest nvidia gpu driver from their
ftp: ftp://download.nvidi.../Windows/91.28/