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okayplayer

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I have an older desktop that recently had its only installed HD crash.
I have replaced the drive and re-installed my OS (Vista 32-bit).

My problem is, after a seemingly random amount of time, the system will lock up and reboot. Upon trying to reboot, the following error is displayed:
"Reboot and select proper Boot device
or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key".
Sometimes this happens within 5 minutes of me turning on my pc, and other times it will be fine for a day or longer before it crashes.

From here I need to power the machine off completely and then restart for it to find the hard drive. It has been suggested before that I may not have the correct chipset drivers for my motherboard. I have downloaded drivers from Asus (Intel_Chipset_V9111019_XPVistaWin7.zip) and installed them (or at least tried) but that has not helped. I've also noticed thousands of atapi "event ID 11" errors in the event viewer. Sometimes these errors occur every second for minutes at a time, sometimes they disappear completely for a few minutes. If I'm playing audio off the HD, the audio will skip/pop at the time of the event errors.

I've tried removing and reinstalling the ATA controllers in Device Manager and now my controllers tree looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/K12wi.jpg. Which seems a bit odd but hasn't produced any new/bad symptoms.

I've also tried connecting the HD to different ATA ports on the mobo and that doesn't help.
I've run a bunch of diagnostic tools on the new drive and it appears to be fine.

System Specs:
Vista Home Premium 32-bit
Asus P5B Deluxe w/ wifi
Core 2 Duo @ 2.13ghz
2GB Mushkin RAM
EVGA 8800GTX
Creative X-Fi xtreme Gamer
Silverstone Strider 750W PSU

So I'm thinking it's either chipset drivers or my mobo is failing. Can someone walk me through the chipset driver install process?

Thanks!
 
Go to the motherboard manufacturer's website
Find the latest chipset driver for your mobo from said website
Download
Install.

Do you have a spare PC?
 
Thanks for the reply Danny,

I get this when I run setup.exe for the "new" drivers...

"This computer currently contains software version 9.3.0.1019, which is newer than the version you are about to install. Are you sure you want to overwrite the current software with the older version 9.1.1.1019?"

Should I give this a try or is it likely to cause more problems?
 
The new drivers don't help, and neither does switching out the SATA cables.
I'm pretty sick of vista, do you think upgrading to windows 7 would help, or is this a hardware issue?
 
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