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Hard Drive Freezes system

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BoomerM3

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I completed building my system last week - ASUS P8Z68-V. Two SATA (WD) drives. I loaded Win 7 and everything ran fine.

Twice in the last 2 days, my system freezes - only the mouse moves. Looking at the drive activity light, it is on solid. I cannot reboot the system, but must do a hard reset.

Looking at the event log shows nothing - no error before the lockup. What I do see in the log is: an Event ID: 7026 - "The following boot-start driver failed to load: VDiskBus." This may not be related to the freeze problem. But...

The Virtual Disk service was set to start Manually and I changed it to Automatic. The error in the Event Log still occurs - on every re-boot.

Any ideas on what may be causing the system to freeze?

Any idea on how to eliminate the VDisk error?
 
Download the CD image of Hitachi Drive Fitness Test, burn the ISO file to a CD, and then boot from it, just like you would do with the XP/Vista install CD. Test the hard drive and see if any problems are found. DFT will run on most manufacturers' hard drives. Alternatively, you can use Seagate's SeaTools for DOS to test a Seagate or Maxtor drive. For a Western Digital drive, you could use Data Lifeguard Tools for DOS to test a Western Digital drive. For a Samsung drive, you could use Samsung's ES-Tool.
 
Ran the WD test - passed everything.

Think it's a drive issue? Software? Controller?
 
Did you put the Hard drive on the Intel ports? Also, Did you install the motherboard drivers?
 
Are you using AHCI mode? If so, have you installed the Intel AHCI driver?

I had a similar issue with an AMD-based system also involving a WD hard drive when using the default MS AHCI driver. In my case, the pauses were temporary, but they lasted about a minute. The pauses went away after installing the AMD AHCI driver. Did you wait long enough to see if the pauses were temporary?
 
I installed the drives on the SATA II connectors on the mobo and installed all the drivers. I Will look to see if there are any other Intel AHCI drivers.

The hangs have only occurred 2 times in 5 days, so it is hard to know if I fixed the problem. I watched the system for about 5 minutes, trying to get in. Perhaps they last forever - but clearly more than 5 minutes.

No error messages -- and I can't force the problem...
 
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