Hey all,
I recently built a new system built around a Gigabyte H77N-WiFi motherboard and installed Win7 Pro SP1 on it.
Since day one I've had regular system lock-ups in Windows (some where periodic, others permanent requiring a hard reboot). These are not complete lock ups but the hard disk drives seem to freeze and the HDD Led on the PC case is stuck as always "ON" and bright (like there's 100% disk activity).
After restart, sometimes windows fail to boot again (the HDDs get stuck on boot) and I have to restart a few times.
Whenever there is such a lock up, event log in windows reports numerous iaStoreA freeze errors in position Raid0.
["Event 129. Reset to device, \Device\RaidPort0, was issued."]
I have no RAID setup, its just that the AHCI controller reports my drives like that.
Changing the drive positions around, I still get the same errors in position Raid0 so it shouldn't be an HD related issue.
Not sure what the problem could be.
I tried installing the latest Intel RST storage drivers in Windows.
I tried updating the SSD's firmware (Plextor PX-128M5Pro).
Tried tweaking various BIOS settings (e.g. setting drives as hot swap).
Nothing worked.
Interestingly, disabling the "High Precision Event Timer" in Power Management (@BIOS), does help by making the issue appear less often, but it doesn't go away completely.
The motherboard's BIOS is F2, which as far as I can tell is the latest official release. Would it help to try the F3c Beta bios?
This is a new computer that took me a while to load with all the applications I need and now I'm a bit disappointed I cannot use it properly.
Looking forward to any help.
Kind regards,
SP
