Quote Originally Posted by |MB| View Post
Anyone have had weird HDD issues with this board? I have had 3 HDDS go slow on me and suddenly dissapear from disk manager and explorer. Amongst one of them a rather new Samsung spinpoint F1. On reboot it would hang at drive detection and I have no choice but to disconnect the HDD. But HDD isn't the problem, hooked up via usb case it works fine. Replaced sata cables, tried diff ports, didn't help.
The only HD problem I ever had was running RAID 0, normally during benching I could push the board out of stability & get it to crash resulting in one or more of my drives disappearing from the RAID array.

I tried Samsung, Maxtor & Hitachi drives in 2 & 4 disk arrays & they were all the same, I don't think my issue was the drives but just pushing the board too far resulting in BIOS corruption.

The interesting thing with the Abit is really no matter how hard you try to bend it out of shape & whatever strange things may happen as a result the board would always bounce back happy with just a CMOS clear.

CN