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Hi, just want to share my experience, see if any of you know anything about this.
So I have a ds3 p965 mobo, and recently started to use the jmicron disk controller to hook up one of my left over 250 gig PATA drives up for more disk space. My main 320 gb WD drive is hooked up through the intel SATA controller, whcih doesn't have PATA support.
Now I remember why I avoided this in the first place. I installed Stalker CS and Fallout 3 on it and once in a while the game would freeze up. First I thought it was just stalker and fallout, but then looking through the event log, it looks like there were disk IDE paging problems or something similar, that caused Stalker and Fallout to not be able to read the drive, which causes the game to freeze, randomly, exactly the same times of the crashes. . This was through the standard Vista x64 IDE controller driver.
So I installed Jmicron drivers from gigabyte, but the same problem still persisted, except the errors were slightly different since now windows views it as a SCSI drive(Jmicron drivers).
I did some googling and seems like a bunch of people are noticed the same issue too. Not surprisng since I guess the Jmicron controller isn't renown to be the best.
Anyways, I went to http://www.jmicron.com/Driver.htm and got the latest drivers, and I'd say after 10 hours of play and countless hours of my computer on, no problems.. I do notice occasionally the sound through my X-Fi gets "broken up" for a split seccond once in a blue moon in game, so I wonder, if there's some sort of DMA trickery happening, that these new JMicron drivers are helping sort out.
IF it ever happens again, I'm going to switch off this controller and be forced to get a new SATA drive and use the Intel controller. Hope this is the last of this problem though, I rather spend the money on new vid games than a new HD right now.
So I have a ds3 p965 mobo, and recently started to use the jmicron disk controller to hook up one of my left over 250 gig PATA drives up for more disk space. My main 320 gb WD drive is hooked up through the intel SATA controller, whcih doesn't have PATA support.
Now I remember why I avoided this in the first place. I installed Stalker CS and Fallout 3 on it and once in a while the game would freeze up. First I thought it was just stalker and fallout, but then looking through the event log, it looks like there were disk IDE paging problems or something similar, that caused Stalker and Fallout to not be able to read the drive, which causes the game to freeze, randomly, exactly the same times of the crashes. . This was through the standard Vista x64 IDE controller driver.
So I installed Jmicron drivers from gigabyte, but the same problem still persisted, except the errors were slightly different since now windows views it as a SCSI drive(Jmicron drivers).
I did some googling and seems like a bunch of people are noticed the same issue too. Not surprisng since I guess the Jmicron controller isn't renown to be the best.
Anyways, I went to http://www.jmicron.com/Driver.htm and got the latest drivers, and I'd say after 10 hours of play and countless hours of my computer on, no problems.. I do notice occasionally the sound through my X-Fi gets "broken up" for a split seccond once in a blue moon in game, so I wonder, if there's some sort of DMA trickery happening, that these new JMicron drivers are helping sort out.
IF it ever happens again, I'm going to switch off this controller and be forced to get a new SATA drive and use the Intel controller. Hope this is the last of this problem though, I rather spend the money on new vid games than a new HD right now.