MB corrupting HD ? EVGA 131-K8-NF44

I picked up a new motherboard, and since then ive had multiple problems.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813188007


First i installed everything slowly and carefully. I took an old HD, and tried to install windows, it keeps freezings on format saying my drive is damaged. I tried another Harddrive, same thing. I took the drives into another PC, they formatted fine, and ran chkdsk, gave no errors.

I put them back onto new mobo, skipped format, and on file copy, will freeze after 1-2 files.
This happened trying from IDE, or SATA ( using SATA Adapter ) again on both drives..
I made a maxtor boot disk, and tested both drives, both passed.

I took a HD back onto my older PC, use that to install windows ( copied files over no errors ) and after file copy on reboot ( before it installs drivers, ect ) then put back into my new mobo, and froze on windows splash screen.

Ive tried multiple ribbon cables, 2 seperate power supplies, different sticks of ram, in different configurations, reset defaults in bios, cleared CMOS, ect. Only thing i havent done is flash bios.
I'm just running out of options, any ideas what else it could be? Pretty sure I've tried quite a bit with no success so far.... Think i installed it not as carefully as i thought?

Try different memory. I know this sounds odd, but if data reading and writing to memory gets corrupted, it can make all kinds of weird things happen.

I built a PC for a friend a couple of years ago, and the same thing happened that you were describing. I went through three motherboards, 2 PSU's, 2 CPU's, a couple of video cards, several hard drives, several drive cables, and I discovered that the memory I was using wasn't compatible with the motherboards chipset.

I changed the ram to something else, and all the problems dissappeared. The problem was the value ram I was using just didn't work right. I had also tried some Mushkin ram that was a little older, it didn't work either. I never thought the Corsair Value Ram wouldn't have been incompatible with anything, but it surely was.

I'd check out the support forums for the ram you've got and see what results people are getting with it.

I would also suggest a BIOS flash so its compatiable with all your kit. Is it an IDE or SATA disk? Have you tried another optical drive and cable on the optical drive?

Firelord said:

I would also suggest a BIOS flash so its compatiable with all your kit. Is it an IDE or SATA disk? Have you tried another optical drive and cable on the optical drive?

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IDE drive, but i have a SATA adapter, that i was trying with both. Tried a few ribbon cables(4 ), and 4-5 different SATA cables.
And EVGA didnt list a bios update on their site =(.
I just tried 4 different memory sticks, in different slots, 2 were mushkin, other 2 im not sure ( stickers peeled off ) Running memtest now on the mushkin.

I ended up RMA'ing the board.

This is really odd, I reflashed the bios, and reset CMOS, it let me copy over install files, next reboot, it would freeze on loading windows. Cleared CMOS again, let me get a littler further into the install, but still froze on detecting devices. Tried installing windows again, froze on copy files, Reset CMOS again, then let me copy over.

Not sure what would be causing this, but I RMA'ed the board. After about 15 hours of changing cables, and reseting shit, i give up.

edit: to add i ended up running memtest from that board on my memory, after 4 passes had 0 errors.