What is a good way to test SATA Hard Drive?

[katzdvd]

This is the mobo drivers download page. I am not sure which ones you are asking me to get...

Edit - something happened to the link - it removes the search that I did for the actual mobo.

My mobo is ASUS A8V-VM SE Sorry, I cannot get that actual page to load here on the forum correctly for some reason.

Another EDIT - I am guessing this is it?

VIA ChipSet HyperionPro Driver V507 for Windows 2000/XP/XP 64bit. (WHQL)

The date is 04/14/06 a wee bit old...

EDIT - Take III

I was looking over some notes I had made when I put this pc together, & I see that I had written down to install the VIA/INF Drivers from VIA Arena


I have the K8M890 Chipset, I see they have the most recent version of 04/08 listed, which includes;

INF V3.00A
AGP V4.60A
V-RAID V5.70A and RAID Tools v5.40
VIA IDE Falcon Storage Device driver v2.50A

Don't know if I need all that extra stuff. (RAID TOOLS, Falcon Storage Device Driver)

[Chewy]

via chipset? 64 bit?

[katzdvd]

via chipset? 64 bit?

yes

[Chewy]

I thought this was windows xp home sp2?

a 32 bit OS?

[katzdvd]

I thought this was windows xp home sp2?

a 32 bit OS?

Sorry, I misunderstood you. Yes, it is Win XP home 32 bit. On the websites I do not see drivers for 32 bit, unless I overlooked them.

[Chewy]

OK I think I have a clue or two now, only seen this problem once or twice before a while back, if it was the problem?

With these onboard video it gets complicated

the driver packages are for


Version 507 2006/04/14 update



OS Win2K / WinXP / WinXP 64bit



Description VIA ChipSet HyperionPro Driver V507 for Windows 2000/XP/XP 64bit. (WHQL)

what's the driver date in device manager for the agp/cpu component in system devices

edit---you are looking for the pci-e equivalent

[katzdvd]

what's the driver date in device manager for the agp/cpu component in system devices

If you mean for the "VIA CPU to AGP Controller" - It is a Microsoft driver - date 7-1-2001/Vers. 5.1.2535.0

I know, I know...bad. I guess when I installed Linux on this box & then XP for the dual boot, I didn't bother installing the other drivers, since it "worked", & I only needed to use XP minimally at the time.

With these onboard video it gets complicated

?? Don't 90% or more of the motherboards out there today come with onboard video?

[Chewy]

let's pull the vid card

load the via chipset driver and then the onboard vid driver

maybe we can get a good northbridge chipset driver load that way

[katzdvd]

Well Chewy, I believe we may as well put a bullet in this one...

I installed a new 500 watt PS, hoping that may be my problem, but it still random rebooted. It was off all yesterday, I started it up first thing this morning after sitting cold for over 24 hrs., & the dang thing rebooted itself twice before I got to the desktop. So a agree, I may have a heat issue, but there is more going on here, it would seem. Faulty mainboard/cpu?

I guess the real way to resolve this is a new mainboard/processor. Want to make a recommendation?