[Nottingham] data transfers causing hard hangs

[Michael Erskine]

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Jim Moore
<jmthelostpacket at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Sounds like an ATA controller problem. Have the drives checked. I've
> sometimes found RAM problems as well can cause such behaviour, so it'd be
> worth doing a burnin test on that (not the usual Memtest86 one, try the
> Microsoft Memory checker; it's much more thorough, or QuickTech Pro if you
> can lay your hands on a copy (QTP also does drive testing so that's a good
> all-round solution)). Incidentally, what cooling do you have in place for
> the drives?

Be aware that Microsoft Memory Diagnostic is reportedly unreliable on
some chipsets/motherboards
(http://forums.kustompcs.co.uk/archive/index.php/t-23626.html).
memtest86+ now includes support for nforce2 dual channel.

Regards,
Michael Erskine.