Quote Originally Posted by Melhisedek View Post
Oh so I'm not alone... Do you use Vista to? My drive is Seagate as well... It is driving me crazy. I disabled SMART in BIOS closed unused SATA ports and set SATA to Compatible it is "acting" as IDE. Any harm in disableing SMART? Also is there some kind of seagate health check software?
yeah i use vista ultimate 64, i installed vista in emulated ide mode but switched to ahci with this procedure:


1. Exit all Windows-based programs.
2. Click Start, type regedit in the Start Search box, and then press ENTER.
3. If you receive the User Account Control dialog box, click Continue.
4. Locate and then click the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Msahci
5. In the right pane, right-click Start in the Name column, and then click Modify.
6. In the Value data box, type 0, and then click OK.
7. On the File menu, click Exit to close Registry Editor.

go to bios, change to sata ahci mode and restart

im not sure is it better to leave smart disabled but there r seatools on seagate site for download


Quote Originally Posted by MarkJohnson View Post
I too get lockups randomly after passing all stress tests. I just readjusted my overclock (bumped vcore) and no issues since (only been a week or so)

What errors does it give to make you think it is AHCI?

-=Mark=-
it doesnt give any errors, it just freezes the entire desktop, u can move the mouse but u cant click on anything, and the browser is kinda whitish, like its been hit with a glass of milk