Gigabyte with RAID 5 crashed

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I am having trouble rebooting the computer. It "freeze" randomly when the windows startup screen has done 2 - 6 bars.

It is totally stable once I get it up and running, then I can run all heavy games, test etc and its stable for weeks even month.

...however it´s very unstable once I reboot or turn it off for the night, next reboot it "freezes".


Windows xp pro (64-bit)
This is with the current raid 10 as seen in my sig.
...so when it crashes it can take 20 min for c: or 6-8 hours for d: to verify the raid 10.

I have been dual booting by going into bios and selecting a 1 TB Samsung Spinpoint F1 ( UJ ) with windows xp pro (32-bit) and usually it has been stable while booting but the last couple of weeks it has also "freeze" randomly as the (64-bit)



Monday I spent 3 hours trying to start the computer until I went to bed and turned it of for the night.
Tuesday, I had read that sometimes usb hardware can cause crashes and my printer is on a almost 5 meter cable (3+2m or something). When windows is running it from time to time the "pling plong" sound is heard as it find the printer. I disconnected the printer and next the time I started the computer it worked like a charm.

I have since had it on, until today when I turned it off and when it rebooted it freeze again again and again in both 32-bit and 64-bit windows. I could not even get into "Safe mode".

I can conclude that the usb-printer is not the culprit for the "freezes"





Then got into bios and set the 2400 @ 3200 Mhz oc to 2400 and the 266 @ 400 Mhz FSB to 266.

...restarted and after a 20 min raid verify it started without a problem.






Question: Is this the "cold bug" or some other thing?

How can I make the stable 2400 @ 3200 overclock stable during booting windows?