thanks for the screens. in XP i just get a progress bar window saying it is checking and then it disappears at the end. in the CMD prompt, it never says anything. will have to look into it i guess for XP.
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I think I hit a corruption issue in XP
Defragment/analyze doesn't work anymore. I click and noting happens.
Open Office will not install telling me windows is not installed properly.
I can't burn or even copy files to my CD-ROM drive anymore.
I fired my video cards BUT now I'm wondering could this problem cause this?
http://img.techpowerup.org/080414/sdsdsds.jpg
ASUS 790i SIIE
Installed on a 500 gig SATA drive.
Yes. But like I mentioned, it's kinda extreme (and stupid) way to test disk controller. :) I didn't do it from the beginning.
I would get lock-ups while installing a game or occasional defragmentation. I first set up RAID but I quickly realized there is no way that RAID would work on that board, so I switched to IDE mode. Even with a single drive, I would get lock-ups which would eventually lead to total system corruption. I first noticed that defragmenting caused the corruption, so I decided to test it out. Even without file copying under way, non-stop defrag would result in lock-ups and corruptions. Large file copying was also another cause I noticed, so I decided to mix the two (copy & defrag) to fully stress the disk controller.
Of course I didn't sit for hours just to copy/defrag :D , but installing OS/applications and setting up the system usually involves those activities, so I just did it a little more excessively.
Again, this is a story about my past 680i. But at this point, I think anyone with 790i should fully test her/his disk controller before using it as a 24/7 system.
multa, did you try the system integrity check via cmd command?
lopri, well no, NVIDIA and the mainboard mfgs should test the disk controller before SELLING it as a 24/7 system :P
but yeah, i guess its best to test the integrity somehow.
But i thought copying large files would be enough...
didnt that trigger any problems for you?
just copy the files and then check if they are identical to the original file, or copy a rar archive and check if the checksum is ok?
i remember reading that the problem with 680 corruption had something to do with the controller cutiting off the last bits of the packages that get sent from/to the hdds. but it didnt happen all the time, or it did, but it didnt cause any problemscause it was extra bits that werent entirely necessary or something.
I would like an answer to this as well.
Last time I tried sfc /now, I had multiple times a popup requesting XP cds, and after the progress bar finishes nothing happens, no msg whatsoever...
Also what is the most robust way to check that your system suffers from data corruption, what are the signs?
Note: I realized that I had a lot of data corruption using the network adapters. I was connected to my other rig though gig ethernet (other rig is nforce 4 sli + amd x2 4600+) and for every file above > 5 GB I had 1 or 2 bytes corrupted.
I uninstalled nvidia network access manager and now it seems to be fixed.
Again wtf ! The network corruption bug was already there on nforce 4 (remember active armor?!).
AFAIR in Windows XP if SFC asks you for your windows disc, then it's "replacing" the corrupted files.
damn you are right:
If any of the system files is missing or corrupt, it will then search certain system folders to see if it can find a healthy version of the target system file. When a required healthy file can be found, it is then copied to the appropriate folder. If a healthy target file cannot be found in those folders then SFC will request that you insert the XP installation CD. If you have a CD that has XP incorporating SP2, then the subsequent steps in running SFC should be straightforward.
When SFC finishes its work you will not get any report - the SFC progress dialog box simply disappears. If any files are reinstated SFC will do that without telling you and as far as I know, a log file is not created. This lack of feedback is not nice.
I guess I can join the corruption bandwagon...
http://img.techpowerup.org/080415/untitled41241.jpg
corporate auto install XP disc gives me this
So far I have no corruption issues. We had a conversation with an xtreme salesman in Microcenter, who said that there are no problem only with Seagate and WD drives (exactly what I use), can anyone evaluate this information/confirm it?
Is your corporate XP disc SP2 ?
Because if you're running XP SP2 you need a SP2 cd for the SFC to recover the corrupted files [ there's also another way, but I don't remember what to do exactly to guide you through it ].
Unfortunately for you as well, this message means that you have data corruption.
Not sure if this helps.
http://www.updatexp.com/scannow-sfc.html
Involves copying the I386 folder from Cd to harddrive and then a simple regedit.
RLM
Sorry if I missed it, but could these issues be avoided by using a Areca RAID Controller? Obviously this doesn't help if your RAM overclock is what mucks it up, but would it help in the other cases?
Anybody besides OBR had corruptions or BSoDs using RAID with Nvidia Mediashield?
Much time has passed for me testing the Striker II Extreme & I'm still not sure how I corrupted my first install of vista 64bit.
I'm now 100% sure that this issue does not apply to my setup or motherboard.
I've tried everything to get corruption to happen but it just won't repeat. How many times can you BSOD ect, run everything that you can think of & windows still boots.
Now on another note, I changed from vista64 to vista32 can this be the difference?
Can we get a run down on what operating system is being used, just a thought but maybe nothing.
Only other change I made was viper 1600 to viper 1800, just can't see that making a difference.
I'm just going to hold off on major ocing to they release a bios to fix this.....