VIA VT8237 RAID Controller

[Cartel]

Hi there.
I installed your lastest 4in1 513a
It installed VIA RAID Controller - 3149??
I have had nothing but problems and the write cache was disabled and said "this driver does not allow cache adjustment"

Please Via, I just ditched Nvidia to buy a new mobo and cpu, I have had it with non functioning drivers.
Please tell me what is the story on this chipset, K8T800Pro

I also hear my drives spinning up, what are they shutting off for?

The driver detected that the device \Device\Harddisk1\DR1 has its write cache enabled. Data corruption may occur.

The driver disabled the write cache on device \Device\Harddisk1\DR1.

The driver detected that the device \Device\Harddisk1\DR1 has its write cache enabled. Data corruption may occur.

[Cartel]

VIA Bus Master IDE Controller - 0571

Is that right?
Whats with the numbers?

Also I cant get SMART info from my SATA drive......yes I enabled it in bios

[Cartel]

Ok I solved the drives spinning up, it is the advanced power options.

Control Panel\Power Options\Edit Plan Settings: change advanced: hard disk: turn off disk after: NEVER.
While your at it set USB to never too, otherwise you cant resume after sleep, at least not with the mouse.

[Cartel]

Well I switched back to the Vista VT8237 driver and all is good, I hope.

Now I get this error on cold starts.
Machine Check Event reported is a fatal Bus or Interconnect error.

EventData

TransactionType 0
Participation 3
RequestType 10
MemorIO 3
MemHierarchyLvl 1
Address 0
Length 744
RawData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

[John Gatt]

Cartel I had to change you icon.

Re your error it only happens on COLD starts? IE first boot of the day? Not on a restart or a shutdown/turn on?

I will point Fiona to this thread to see what she can find out.

[Cartel]

What about the VIA RAID Controller - 3149 ?
I cant enable write cache and its not a good driver, the 514a contains the same driver...I guess I should stick with the VIA VT8237 RAID Controller

[tcsenter]

Those are not hard disk errors. You have something more serious going on there with the processor or RAM.

[Cartel]

Ok, I don't know about the errors, but if I use the 513, 514 driver, it installs VIA 3149.
The Vista driver says VIA VT8237.
Then I get crappy performance and I cant select drive cache, it says "this device don't allow changes".
So I switched back to the Vista 8237 driver.
I looked and it says my chipset is supported, why is the driver lame?
Are you trying to tell me my setup is too old and I should fork out for am2 and ddr2?
I mean if something works very well, why change it?
Why would a newer driver not work properly?
I don't mean to be rude but I just bought this board and cpu because the driver arena says it is fully supported, along with everything back to KT400.
I also switched from Nvidia because they no longer supported nf3, nf2 and thats kinda silly.
I waited for you guys to get your dual channel after kt600, I only bought my Nf2 board because it had dual channel.
Now I finally get to afford a X2 and this 939 board and the newest drivers aren't the greatest, and Vista has been out 2 years.
If I wait any longer for good drivers, I might as well buy a new computer, at which time I gonna wash my hands of this whole business.

Is there any particular reason why the new driver is not satisfactory?

[tcsenter]

Originally posted by: Cartel
Ok, I don't know about the errors, but if I use the 513, 514 driver, it installs VIA 3149. The Vista driver says VIA VT8237. Then I get crappy performance and I cant select drive cache, it says "this device don't allow changes". So I switched back to the Vista 8237 driver.

OK, I'm having some difficulty understanding what the problem is. In other topics, you claim your new hardware is running well with Vista, even posting an excellent WEI disk transfer score of 5.5, the highest score among all your components. What happened between then and now? When changing back and forth between the in-box Vista drivers and the VIA drivers, did you use the removal utility in Add/Remove programs to uninstall the VIA drivers?

Some additional answers that might be helpful:

What hard drives do you have, how are they configured?
Did you clean install Vista?
Have you tried other troubleshooting measures, such as removing the Sound Blaster Live! 5.1, which has no Vista driver support?
Why are you running a BETA BIOS instead of the last stable release BIOS (1017)?
Have you tried relaxing the timing parameters of your RAM?

BTW, VIA RAID Controller - 3149 is the same as VT8237 RAID Controller, just different names. 3149 is the PCI DEV_ID for VT8237.

Are you trying to tell me my setup is too old and I should fork out for am2 and ddr2?

What part of the following statement would lead a rational person to believe I was suggesting that their CPU and RAM were too old:

"Those are not hard disk errors. You have something more serious going on there with the processor or RAM."

Out-dated CPU or RAM would not cause critical CPU and RAM related errors like those you posted but have since edited out of the post to which I was replying.

However, now that you have brought it up, one must wonder how you would "just recently" purchase an old discontinued S939 motherboard that has not been available on the market for at least one year now, except for used and refurbished units.

Now I finally get to afford a X2 and this 939 board and the newest drivers aren't the greatest, and Vista has been out 2 years.

Vista was released 13 months ago.

[Cartel]

Well there was rc1 and rc2......
Like I said the caching selection dont work with 3149 driver.
I got 5.5 when I was using the vista driver that comes with vista.
The "new" 3149 has a issue with the write caching, and performance thing.
I try to select them and it says the hardware doesn't allow changes.
Well it does allow changes, and does work with the driver that comes with vista.
so i dunno, i guess thats the way new drivers work?
I dont mean to be rude but I've been getting a bit frustrated with this and other drivers that dont work properly.
I still have ATI drivers that dont work, I have to use 7.7 and they are at 7.11 now, thats 4 releases that sucked for agp cards.