BEWARE nForce4 and NCQ!

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Sovereign
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BEWARE nForce4 and NCQ!

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I figured out what was wrong with my Raptor. Native Command Queing was on. It was corrupting my data. It got so bad that I had to install the recovery console and CHKDSK /R from there. Now those stupid Event ID 51s (error detected during a paging operation) are gone, and boot time is lower!

The reason I posted this is because I have observed a 22 page thread at nVidia's forums about how the nForce4 storage controller is a biznitch. I'm one of the lucky ones, disabling NCQ fixed it. But for some, it's worse and NCQ is not the answer.
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I can't really remember but does the Raptor have NCQ?
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Post by Schwarz »

Yah it does.The 150 does anyways not sure about the others...
I used NCQ on my raptors on a Nforce4 board for a while and it was running fine.
The only thing is that you need to install older drivers or something cause I know the newer would not let you do it or you would have problems.
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Its sad when a user has to be a thread digger to gain extra posts for a contest...
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werty316 wrote:Its sad when a user has to be a thread digger to gain extra posts for a contest...
OFFTOPIC:
Look who's talking! in a year and and half you mad what? about 140 post, thats lame!
I'm giving advises isn't it the forums purpose?
I'm not filling posts with bla bla bla.
By the way thanks 4 the welcome :finga:

And 1 more thing, the card can't be shipped where i live, because I'm from Europe.

ONTOPIC: Try a bios update it sometimes works.
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