Hey guys, I'm having a little problem here, and I don't really know how to explain it so I'll do the best I can not to be confusing. Just recently I started having trouble with my D drive. It started giving me a hard time with writing files to it, mostly just being slow as hell and once in a while throwing up an error saying something about not being able to communicate with the device. It's been progressively getting worse, lately my downloads have been failing when downloading to the D drive, I can download to my C drive without any problems so that's what I've been doing. Lately it will sit there and act like it has to load a million things when I try to access the drive, it just sits there with the loading bar going across the top of the screen.
     Now the reason I have MOBO in the title is that in the Device Manager, under Other Devices, my Serial ATA Controller has a big yellow exclamation point next to it, and it's telling me that there is no driver for it. I've spent the last few days searching the internet for a driver or even an answer to my problem and haven't turned up much of anything. So now that I can't seem to figure it out myself I turn to my FITES Friendo's for assistance. I just want to know, is my hard drive going bad? Is my MOBO going out? Do I need to flash my BIOS? Is there a fix or am I SOL? Should I just put a bullet through the damn thing and start calling myself an Xbox fag? WTF?!?! I know you guys have more experience with this stuff than I do, so if you can't help me no one can.

What board do you got?

x2 on what motherboard do you have...

Some recent Intel chipset motherboards had an issue where the SATA controller would die slowly, this sorta sounds like this (If it is then you are in luck as they were recalled).  I would say with almost absolute certainty that this is a hardware fault, firmware and drivers are usually crappy from the get go, not months down the road.

The controller will contribute to poop performance, with the cost of hard drives due to the flooding it would be the first component I would replace.  If you want to try testing spend a few bucks on a cheap sata controller card (<$10), if the issues go away then its the onboard controller, if they persist its the drive.

yea i can't say im totally pleased with my Asus boards in the past.  I've had 2 and one died. the other is still alive:)  But then again i've had issues with abit boards too and i used to swear by those.  before they went belly up that is!

Well I tried switching channels and that didn't change anything. I was trying to delete something off the drive today and got the error message again and wrote down the code and looked it up. Windows suggestion is to run chkdsk to scan all of the packets. Just finished scanning the C drive and it came back clean, tomorrow I'll scan the D drive. It's too late tonight to start that crap up.

Quote from: {ShadowWX} on December 28, 2011, 08:57:17 PM

Well I tried switching channels and that didn't change anything.

So at least its the drive and not the board. Or if you were hoping the opposite....

Well I was kind of hoping it was the board so I could talk my way into an upgrade. LOL
Problem is if it truly is the drive that would be the second WD Caviar Black that's died on me, and this one isn't even a year old yet.

I ran the Chkdsk on the D drive today and it kept getting hung up at Verifying Usn Journal. Not sure what that means but it's really starting to piss me off. All of my movies, music, game installs, emulators etc. are on that drive. The first one that died was a WD Caviar Black 750GB and now my 1.5TB is acting stupid.

Now my C drive is a Seagate 500GB and that's where my OS, games, and apps are all installed. I'm telling you this because  I've been getting little hiccups from it from time to time ever since this whole BS started. For example some programs will just randomly freeze for a few seconds for apparently no reason. I guess the best example of this is when FF will just lock up for 5 or 6 seconds out of nowhere, I'll just be scrolling down a page, lets say a thread on this forum, and all of the sudden FF will just stop, and after a  few seconds it's back to normal. I don't know, I just thought a little more info might help clarify the situation, and this was happening both before and after switching channels.

Crystal Disk Info will tell you if the drive is failing and, if so, which part specifically.  Last drive I ran this on that was failing it told me the spin up time was very slow indicating the actual was starting to fail. 

http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html

If you run chkdsk make sure you use the /r switch.  Its a much more aggressive scan.  If you run this from windows it will ask you if you want to run it the next time you start your computer.

I thought you said you couldnt find drivers.  I dont remember after reading though the whole thread.  Drivers for your board are here:

http://support.asus.com/download.aspx?SLanguage=en&m=P5N-T%20Deluxe&p=1&s=22&os=25&hashedid=64sh5AD8oYUq7Cp3

FINALLY! Someone is taking my advice! I am vindicated!