**Official ASUS Striker II Formula Discussion/Review/Overclock/Guide/BIOS Thread**

[Kevin1970]

This is not a mobo problem. Though I have a few suggestions for you.
Check your system hard disk for errors.
Check you hard disks in case you have enabled spread spectrum and adjust the BIOS accordingly.
Start Run cmd and type "sfc /verifyonly"

A few SATA DVD drives are the source of problems.
X-fi is another source of conflicts in many cases.
You may remove them for a while to exclude compatibility issues.

Remove all nforce Nvidia drivers from control panel. We only need SATA or RAID drivers. Manually check in device manager the list of SATA drivers. In case you haveone you are OK. Otherwise install those you installed in the past one by one with manual update and then check the box to uninstall AND delete each driver. This way you end up with the original Vista SP1 driver.
Now install 9.99 SATA drivers (this is on the previous Nforce version 9.64).

I prefer to enable RAID for all SATA Ports in BIOS and set all my disks as jbod with F10. This way I install the SATA RAID drivers only. Try it. It works. Be careful not to choose "clear the contents of the disk" during this conversion. Add one disk or DVD each time, convert it and then add the next one. Convert to jbod your system disk also and set it as boot (notice the B mark).
You only have to install uninstall or update the Nvidia Nforce Raid controller driver from device manager from now on.

"sfc /verifyonly" showed itegrity issues. i reviewed the file it made, but i havent a clue what it all means. I don't know where the spread spectrum settings are in the OS. i looked at the drives in device manager and nothing.

This problem began a few days after i got my new striker 2 to replace a broken striker 2. I was getting Bsod for no known reason. i reinstalled the os and still got them. I had learned later the issue might have been the sound card being on the same irg as both the video cards. so i swapped pci slots and the sound card is now on it's own irq. i believed the issue to be fixed utill today. I never had this issue with the old board. And all the hardware is the same. Perhaps cause the irq issue caused some damage to the OS software. and even when i reinstalled the OS i had the sound card still sharing the same irq as the video cards cause i didnt know of that issue. Maybe i need to reinstall the OS again. What do you think? And also how would Repair errors reported from the "sfc /verifyonly" if i can't figure out what the error is?

Also i dont need RAID, but how do i install just the sata drivers. Is there a download just for them?

Another thing. When i had issues with the last mobo i thought it might be the hard drive and i took out the main drive and installed vista on one of the 2 other drives i have in. Now that i erased the instal on that drive the drive is still showing up as a active partition. is this a problem?