On 8/4/07, Francois Duranleau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/3/07, Brad Sawatzky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Francois, > > > > I agree with Doug: CRC errors shouldn't be ignored. At _best_ they are a > > sign that something in your system is marginal. At worst you end up > > reading and/or writing bogus data. The fact that the errors persisted > > after you changed hard drives suggest either a bad cable (most likely), bad > > secondary device on that cable, or bad motherboard (unlikely). > > I tried to change the IDE cables (I had a few spares from my father's > computer). > I happened to notice that I had a 40 pins cable. I replaced it with a 80 pins > cable. I have two, I tried both: nothing changed. I still have CRC errors. > BTW, > there is only one drive on that cable. > > However, I noticed that the motherboard's chipset's fan is dead. I knew it was > having a hard time spinning lately, but now, it's gone. Would it be the > motherboard's chipset that causes those errors because it's too hot?
Browsing around to look for potential problems with the VIA chipset driver, I came upon this: http://www.tiny.cc/xORCV (see the last post in the thread) Apparently, I am not the only one getting this kind of CRC errors on the primary IDE interface (and I do happen to have this exact motherboard: ABIT KT7). I will look if there are still some BIOS updates that may change something. -- Francois -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
