Hi,
I'm having this strange issue with the Gigabyte (Purple) SATAII controller(s) on my Gigabyte P35-DS4.
I dual boot Gentoo Linux and Window Vista and my system mostly ran stable, but every now and then I would have this issue where Windows would fail to boot, or it would boot, but very slowly. To be more specific the hard drive would seem to experience these stalls and would freeze for a period of 60 seconds, and then resume activity like there was no interruption, then after a few seconds of the hard drive spinning it would do the same thing and lock up again for 60 seconds.
Strangely enough I was always able to boot into linux without any strange issues and it seemed that after some time the windows booting problem would just go away, only to return a week or two later.
After replacing the hard drive and switching the SATA cable I thought everything was fine, but the problem started happening again a few days ago. After plugging my SATA cable into the yellow port the problem instantly went away and windows was able to run smoothly again, so I think it must be a problem with the gigabyte sata controllers, yet I wonder how they could be faulty and work for weeks without problems.
The 60 second pauses seem like windows is blocking the hard drive for some reason, which linux obviously isn't doing, or maybe the timeouts are just not noticeable in linux. I don't think it can possibly be a problem with windows because the hard drive lockups actually occurred once during the windows installer.
Has anyone else had any similar issues with the purple sata ports?
Cheers
I'm having this strange issue with the Gigabyte (Purple) SATAII controller(s) on my Gigabyte P35-DS4.
I dual boot Gentoo Linux and Window Vista and my system mostly ran stable, but every now and then I would have this issue where Windows would fail to boot, or it would boot, but very slowly. To be more specific the hard drive would seem to experience these stalls and would freeze for a period of 60 seconds, and then resume activity like there was no interruption, then after a few seconds of the hard drive spinning it would do the same thing and lock up again for 60 seconds.
Strangely enough I was always able to boot into linux without any strange issues and it seemed that after some time the windows booting problem would just go away, only to return a week or two later.
After replacing the hard drive and switching the SATA cable I thought everything was fine, but the problem started happening again a few days ago. After plugging my SATA cable into the yellow port the problem instantly went away and windows was able to run smoothly again, so I think it must be a problem with the gigabyte sata controllers, yet I wonder how they could be faulty and work for weeks without problems.
The 60 second pauses seem like windows is blocking the hard drive for some reason, which linux obviously isn't doing, or maybe the timeouts are just not noticeable in linux. I don't think it can possibly be a problem with windows because the hard drive lockups actually occurred once during the windows installer.
Has anyone else had any similar issues with the purple sata ports?
Cheers