Gavin Carr wrote:
No raid, just plain 'old disks. The disks are Seagate Barracuda 7200s, 250G.
Maxtor had a hard drive firmware update to work with an nforce4 motherboard that I had to do on another computer. I had to contact them for the firmware update, it is not online as far as I know, but this was the Knowledgebase article about it: http://maxtor.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/maxtor.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqi d=2685&p_created=1136595488&p_sid=ZRNfkT3i&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X 2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9MSZwX3Byb2RzPTAmcF9jYXRzPTAmcF9wdj0mcF9jd j0mcF9zZWFyY2hfdHlwZT1hbnN3ZXJzLnNlYXJjaF9ubCZwX3BhZ2U9MSZwX3NlYXJjaF90ZXh0P W52aWRpYQ**&p_li=&p_topview=1
Google for 'seagate nforce', and you'll find quite a few results. Like this one suggesting you contact Seagate for a firmware update: http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=10755&st=0&p=77035&...
I've also had to jumper SATA2 drives down to SATA1 to be stable - not Seagate, but probably the same applies.
Good luck,
Greg