Looking for a new Motherboard

crowarth

crowarth

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Hey all,

I'm currently looking for a new motherboard as I appear to be getting an intermittent error when booting - "Disk read error". Thing is, when testing, no other SATA devices are connected, but sometimes when booting, it throws up that error. The SSD is also new by a few weeks.

Short of removing all other unnecessary devices, I can only assume the motherboard is at fault. Currently the SSD, an optical SATA drive, a USB3.0 PCI adapter, Sound card, and GPU are connected,

what I'm currently running is: Asus P6T Pro V2 with an Intel i7 920 (socket 1366), 6GB Corsair Dominator - and the SSD is an Intel 530 Series 120GB , and I would love to keep all these parts.. so the new motherboard would need to accept them. I reckon I'll have around £100 to put toward it, but if there's something that's worth it, I can throw more at it.
 
crowarth said:
Hey all,

I'm currently looking for a new motherboard as I appear to be getting an intermittent error when booting - "Disk read error". Thing is, when testing, no other SATA devices are connected, but sometimes when booting, it throws up that error. The SSD is also new by a few weeks.

Short of removing all other unnecessary devices, I can only assume the motherboard is at fault. Currently the SSD, an optical SATA drive, a USB3.0 PCI adapter, Sound card, and GPU are connected,

what I'm currently running is: Asus P6T Pro V2 with an Intel i7 920 (socket 1366), 6GB Corsair Dominator - and the SSD is an Intel 530 Series 120GB , and I would love to keep all these parts.. so the new motherboard would need to accept them. I reckon I'll have around £100 to put toward it, but if there's something that's worth it, I can throw more at it.
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You maybe pushing you luck trying to find a new motherboard for that socket
 
You need to remove everything from motherboard, including taking it out of the case, then bench run it using onboard graphics if possible, also using only 1 stick of ram, see if error persists, if so, then try different sata cable, different stick of memory, sata drive in a different port, and if possible test the drive on a different machine, if you can't try in different machine, try a different hard drive in there instead and see if it still errors on you. Also make sure in BIOS that SMART is turned off.

If after all of these you are still getting the same error, then I think it safe to say that the sata controller is on its last legs.

**Edit**

Just out of curiosity, have you ahd any power surges or power cuts laterly? And are you using a generic PSU or a branded one?

Also what hardware and make / model of the drive you are having issues with?
 
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It would seem the problem was the motherboard being set to IDE rather than AHCI .... since changing that, it's behaved reasonably well. Odd thing is, I never changed it from AHCI, it must've reset :confused:
 
crowarth said:
It would seem the problem was the motherboard being set to IDE rather than AHCI .... since changing that, it's behaved reasonably well. Odd thing is, I never changed it from AHCI, it must've reset :confused:
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Have you ever updated the Bios before, maybe the bios update changed the setting for some reason
 
King of Old School said:
Have you ever updated the Bios before, maybe the bios update changed the setting for some reason
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It was up to-date prior to the issues - that was one of the things I looked at whilst troubleshooting it, but never noticed the aforementioned setting. Fingers crossed, it's behaving now :D

Thanks for every ones input though, appreciated :D
 
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