Consistant trouble with motherboard of other hardware.

Darkwolven · #1 13th Mar 02, 08:32 PM

I have an Iwill KK 266 +R motherboard and I keep getting system file corruption. Rarely does anything happen to any store files, usually system files. I thought it might be the 686B southbridge bug, but I don't seem to have any trouble copying large files over from one IDE to the other channel, which that bug specifically causes. Instead, every few weeks checkdisk runs automatically and finds truncated files with "missing clusters" and indexes go bad. I started reinstalling and moving hardware around. I have the harddrives on the raid controller now, but I tried installing XP about 8 different times yesterday with about 4 different copies of the VLK. Everytime I ran checkdisk /f /r after install, it would always find files with bad clusters and the files were -always- in the DLL cache system folder. Only after running the install over time do other files such as my PIM database occasionally go bad. I have run memory tests and hard drive tests. Both are fine. A good IT friend of mine has been helping me out and he is as stumped as I am. We thought maybe it was the IDE timing, but changing that manually seemed to make it worse. Here is a post I made at AMDMB, instead of recopying the entire posts.
http://www.amdmb.com/vb/showthread.p...hreadid=109305

Any ideas? Can I be certain that it is the MB and get it RMA'd?

Crowdirt · #2 13th Mar 02, 09:08 PM

Hi Darkwolven, one thing that might be worth a try, which you did not mention, would be to use Different RAM panels. The panels that you have may work just fine on some other MOBO, but could have some time critical issues on the IWill....

Darkwolven · #3 14th Mar 02, 04:40 AM

Thanks for the reply. Just today they have updated the BIOS to solve an "install issue" for Win2000. Amazing. Solving an install problem for Win 2000 in February 2002! Last two updates were retracted within a week as they were unstable. I'll see how this one does. I hope this solves my install problem. The remainder problem was suggested by somewhere else to be a problem possibly with the indexing feature in 2000 and XP.

http://groups.google.de/groups?hl=de...com%26rnum%3D5

This may be the problem with my indexes getting screwed and files getting truncated. Seems to be exactly the same as part 2 of my problem. Interesting. I did not approach this as a two part problem.

I don't know about the other Iwill baords, but I would not suggest anybody buying one from my experience. They seem well built, but the BIOS updates are WAY too slow.

Anybody have any trouble with indexing in XP?