Strange wd3200aaks behavior

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JohnnyNapalm

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Picked up a wd3200aaks from Fry's, installed Win 7 on it, no problems. Wiped and tried to install Vista, and get a blue screen upon OS load. It's an IRQ_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL error. Took the drive back, got an identical replacement, same story. I've never had a drive with compatibility problems....but upon further research, this seems to be a recurring issue with this model.

Kind of strange, but a moot point now, since I won't be using WD for an OS drive.
 
Weird.

That's about the last thing I'd supect with that error.

99% of the time it's a memory problem.....
 
Yep, that was my first concern too, but slapped my Seagate back in and didn't see the error again. Perhaps it's a driver issue inherent to Vista and my motherboard's SATA controller, but if that's so, there's really no way around it.
 
Do you have a link referring to the wd3200aaks and a problem with Vista?
 
The more I think about this, I seem to remember a problem between some HDs (WD?) and a certain chipset.

Just a thought.....Have you updated the chipset drivers lately?

I'm probably confused......as usual! :D
 
JohnnyNapalm said:
Kind of strange, but a moot point now, since I won't be using WD for an OS drive.
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It certainly isn't WD's fault. I've used only WD drives for years, for my OS and storage, and have had no issues. Either the specific drives you tried were defective (defects happen), or there were conflicts from other sources.
 
GJSNeptune said:
It certainly isn't WD's fault. I've used only WD drives for years, for my OS and storage, and have had no issues. Either the specific drives you tried were defective (defects happen), or there were conflicts from other sources.
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I've got nothing against WD (just got that 1tb green drive as you know), but I need a drive that will WORK with this motherboard, period. If the AAKS has a conflict, so be it, it makes Gigabyte look worse if anything.

And the driver point is kind of moot, since I can't even get into the OS before blue screening, Hippie.
 
Stumbled across this in another thread:

Ok, solved now...

I think there must be a windows update that fixes the Blu-Ray/HD-DVD combo drive incompatibility with vista, because I tried again after it finished installing all of the updates on my fresh install, and now I no longer get the BSOD

I'm a happy camper, thanks for all your help.
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I haven't done an install of Vista since adding in my LG Bluray/HDDVD combo drive, which is SATA. I'll remove that during install, fully patch the system, and see if it makes a difference.
 
JohnnyNapalm said:
Stumbled across this in another thread:



I haven't done an install of Vista since adding in my LG Bluray/HDDVD combo drive, which is SATA. I'll remove that during install, fully patch the system, and see if it makes a difference.
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This worked. Unplugging the bluray during the install prevented it from choking until I could run an update.
 
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