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bigdogchris
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I have a system that was up for 90 days strait w/o any issues beside a few graphic drivers problems. I bought a 2nd WD6400AAKS and set up raid-0 and reinstalled Vista x64 and used Nvidia 15.17 raid drivers.
The problem is, later that night after I installed Vista, the system froze out of no where. It was a hard lock, the HDD LED stopped blinking. I had to reboot it and it worked fine. I thought because I was running both HDD's off of the same lead that it could of been a power issue so I switched to separate leads for each HDD. The system ran 24 hours a day for 10 days w/o a single issue, even had defrag scheduled every night. On the 10th day it froze again, HDD just stopped blinking out of no where. Then I disabled NCQ on both drives and it's been fine for 3 days now.
I highly doubt this is a hardware issue. SMART is reporting no errors with either drive. Could buggy drivers be causing this? If it locks up again, should I rollback to 15.08 or just use the default Vista driver for raid? EVGA (I have a 750i ftw) recommends 9.92 on their download site but I know they are often behind the time.
The problem is, later that night after I installed Vista, the system froze out of no where. It was a hard lock, the HDD LED stopped blinking. I had to reboot it and it worked fine. I thought because I was running both HDD's off of the same lead that it could of been a power issue so I switched to separate leads for each HDD. The system ran 24 hours a day for 10 days w/o a single issue, even had defrag scheduled every night. On the 10th day it froze again, HDD just stopped blinking out of no where. Then I disabled NCQ on both drives and it's been fine for 3 days now.
I highly doubt this is a hardware issue. SMART is reporting no errors with either drive. Could buggy drivers be causing this? If it locks up again, should I rollback to 15.08 or just use the default Vista driver for raid? EVGA (I have a 750i ftw) recommends 9.92 on their download site but I know they are often behind the time.