Guys, I need some help.
Like a week ago when I was unpacking some rar-files on one of my harddrives the entire computer froze and I had to reboot after which I kept getting CHKDSK saying that there was something wrong with the disk. That went away after like 10 reboots but now everytime I browse that HDD or try to run like HDTACH on it everything freezes again. When I check the Event Viewer there's alot of errors called iaStor which are the AHCI drivers, something about them not responding within the set time.
So, I thought it was the HDD that was dying, but nooo.. I've tried reformatting it and it didn't help, I've also tried using IDE instead of AHCI emulation within BIOS but I couldn't even get passed POST, everything would just freeze and I had to reboot.
Then I disconnected one of the harddrives (got 2 500gb samsung and a raptor) and boom, I got passed POST again when having the disks set to IDE.
So far I've narrowed it down to possibly the motherboard, cause if I have SATA-ports 1-4 occupied I can't get passed POST, but if I take for example the disk in port 3 and move it to port 5 I get passed POST. I still get hangups within Windows though, when running like HDTACH or trying to extract a file. Now the other samsung-drive is getting CHKDSK errors aswell and one folder isn't accessible cause it's broken or something.
Today I'm gonna low format the first disk and try to reinstall windows with just the raptor and that one samsung disk connected and see if I can pass HDTACH tests without everything freezing.
Do you guys have any idea of what the problem might be?
EDIT: The raptor disk passes HDTACH tests and never makes the system hang, it's only the samsung disks. Also, I have a SATA-dvdburner, that's why I've got 4 SATA-ports occupied
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