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iluvatar -> Catastrophic Failure (6/13/2008 8:20:44 PM)
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My computer configuration prior to the issues:
WinXP Home
C2D E6600
2GB RAM
HD #1: 80GB (boot disk, 1 partition, C:)
HD #2: 60GB (2 partitions, D: & E:)
HD #3-4: 2x 500GB striped RAID 0 (H:)
optical drives are F: & G:
Soo... About a week ago the program I was using locked up - not particularly uncommon given the program and what I was doing with it. Like always, I restarted the computer, because this program doesn't like to relinquish my audio drivers when it crashes. However, this time, I started getting a bunch of errors as windows was shutting down - things like "cannot write such-and-such file" (I believe one of them was something like H:\$MFS).
Upon reboot, during POST, I kept getting the message "3rd Master Disk Error." Thinking this was my boot drive, I tried going into Recovery Console and running chkdsk, fixboot & fixmbr, to little avail. After futzing around reinstalling Windows a couple times I realized that the BIOS had reordered my disk drives. Instead of the 80GB drive being #1, the 60GB drive was #1 so that C: was 60GB partition 1, D: was the 80GB, and E: was 60GB partition 2. I've since fixed that and tried reinstalling Windows. Usually I can boot into windows, but the system will restart after a minute.
Additionally, my RAID array is messed up. When the problem first started, it wasn't even seeing one of the drives. The POST messages now show that the drive is seen, but detected as a "Non-RAID disk."
The only problem I'd had with my computer before was that it would occasionally just shut off w/o warning. It usually happened once every week or two, but could happen more often than that. Considering that 90% of my computer time is devoted to one program, I had attributed it to bad software, but now that the system won't always even boot up and when it does, it reboots after a few minutes, I'm thinking it's hardware.
Does this sound like a bad motherboard to anybody else?
Also, does anyone know if it's possible to get back the data on the RAID disks? I don't expect that the drives or the data are faulty, but if it's possible to hook them up to another controller (even on another of the same model mobo) and get everything back, that would be fantastic.
EDIT: I still get the "3rd Master Hard Disk error" along with the error on the same disk "S.M.A.R.T capable but Command failed." The 3rd Master & Slave drives are the RAID disks; the master is the one that was initially not seen, but is now recognized as a non-raid disk.
-Dan.
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