nForce3/Western Digital SATA/PATA Issues

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fluxion

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Ive recently been having some problems with Western Digital drives and my Chaintech VNF3-250. note: all SATA drives mentioned are SATA300 running in SATA150 mode

initially, i had a PATA Western Digital 120gb 1200JB drive as ide1 master. no problems. i then installed a WD 500gb 5000AAKS SATA drive on SATA channel 0. no problems, initially...

few months later the WD PATA drive would sometimes not be detected by the BIOS. after a reboot or 2 it would show up fine and function as normal.

recently i rebuilt the system with the same mobo, and added a 320gb seagate 7200.10 on SATA channel 0 as the OS drive, and moved the WD to SATA channel 1. all other drives removed.

now i get the same issue with the SATA WD, but it's only about 3 months old and i think the drive is okay. i ran WD's diagnostics on it successfully, and the SMART tests say its okay as well. i switched power connections with the cable powering the Seagate drives (never any issues with that one) and the problem persists, i've switched cables and the problem persists.

however, when i hook up the WD to a PCI Via SATA150 controller, i get no issues. and i also have a Pioneer DVDRW hooked up to the onboard SATA channel 1 port, and no issues there either.

is it safe to assume this is just some odd issue with my mobo's SATA support and WD drives? Is there any connection between this issue and the PATA problems i had earlier?

just looking for some inputs because i have a ton of data on the sata drive, and plan on using the pata drive for another system and want some assurance the drives are okay. thanks in advance
 
First I would try unhooking all HDD's except your SATA drives and see what happens. If you still have issues, you could try a bios update. If your still having problems after that, then let us know :-p
 
well as it's currently configured the seagate and wd sata drives are the only ones connected (other than the optical drives) and chaintech stopped releasing bios updates for this board in like 2005, so i have the latest bios release. also checked wd's site, and there's no firmware upgrades for this drive from what i can tell
 
Maybe your boards starting to go? I dont know man, that boards probably at least 5 years old. They quit the nforce 3 stuff a while ago.
 
Do the problems still occur with all the optical drives removed?
 
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