Quote Originally Posted by TheHardCase View Post
My final report on S2E
I was having nothing but issues, everything from BSOD, freezing & corruption.

Let's get started from the start.
1st set of hard drives failed in Raid 0, sent back for RMA.

2nd set New Hitachi Deskstar 160GB x 2 Raid 0, nothing but problems installing windows vista ect.

Noted problems,
Corruption
BSOD
Freezing
9800GX2 Driver Has Recovered, could only use v174.74
SP1 would fail sometimes
Windows Updates sometimes fail
SoundMax Crackling
Video Corruption sometimes
Random Restarts
You could hear the drives turn off or make a clicking noize & in a short time things above would happen.
All these problems are related to hard drives & corruption.

3rd set new 80GB seagate drives x 2 Raid 0
Can you say 0 problems?
How can all the problems above just go away?
Nothing has changed at all in bios, same settings.
I don't care what anyone says about this, all the problems are gone after I installed 2 new drives.

Just for the fun of it I reinstalled IBM drives & guess what, system went for a crap again.
Removed them & installed seagates no problems.
Yeah man the HD situation on this board is sketchy to say the least.. Check this one out my board works perfectly with my raptors in raid0 and my external connected through e-sata no problems.. Then I bought a 1TB Seagate to match my external and put it inside my system, now the computer can't read the drive in the external through e-sata only USB.. Not a big deal but it just shows that there are still a lot of issues.. I mean HD issues and also there are issues installing vista with 2 sticks of ram if you just use 1 stick vista installs perfectly BTW especially true for 64bit Vista...