Retail Abit IN9 32X-MAX - Pictures, observations and testing...

[shawn1998]

Well like has been said you are very lucky, the raid problems currupt hds are not a hit or miss proplem, a lot of abit users are having the same isuses, it is clearly a nvivida problem, anyhow, im curious did you install/run the media shield ?? this i beleive cuases a lot of problems, when i had it installed i got a load of bsods, randam restarts, curupt hds, cuasing it to loose files, of the boot drive, ie ntdlr, bal hbalh, as soon as i stopped using media shield it went back to normal., and please remember this problem has been anounched by nvidia themselves, so it must be a combination of facters, ie hd make moddke ect and the install of the nvidia sata management software, i think its calle dmedia shield. have you checked the properties to see if there are errors there, are you using microsoft drivers or the proper nvidia drivers .
hope this helps

This announcement you speak of from nVidia is only refering to reference motherboards, ie XFX, EVGA, BFG and ECS. The Abit, MSI and Asus were not included in that announcement, as they are not the base reference boards made by Foxconn for nVidia. Also, I am not aware of all of "alot" of Abit users all having raid problems. I'd say it's more like "a few". I am on the Abit forums daily and do not see a whole lot of threads dedicated to raid and sata issues like I did over at the EVGA forums.

Edit - Here is the link to the "announcment" from nVidia that you referenced. Note what it actually says.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/680i_hotfix.html

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/n...i=&p_topview=1