My first post... I hope some SB86i guru fans can help me out. (crying...)
I had my SB86i few months ago, and I've been suffering since then.
The problem:
From time to time (from couple of hours to few days), the harddisk suddently light keeping on and stops read/write, everything stops then after few seconds the whole system crash into blue crash error screen, telling me something like "if there's new hardware installed, try to remove... .... turn off BIOS/Video shadow..." and the harddisk light is still on... and I have to keep press power off to shut it down.
After reboot, sometime it turns to normal, but sometime it telling me harddisk error/no harddisk. then I have to shut it down again and wait, or sometime to unplug the SATA cord from HD then re-plug in. turn on, and it can work for another cycle. then after few days, same things happen again....
it can't be predicted, so I can't repeat the situation. It just happens.
I've done everything I can... changing RAM, HD, Graphic Card, upgrading BIOS, turn off all shadow setting in BIOS.... but still don't work. I called support line, and they even replaced me with a new mainboard. but it still happen. I'm dead!
The configuration:
SB86i Barebone
HD: Seagate 250G, SATA2 x1 (No raid)
RAM: DDR 400 1G (1 slot)
CPU: Intel P4 3.0
Graphic: PCI-E XFX 7600GT
CD: Pioneer DVD RW 16X
OS: Windows XP Pro SP2
It looks like a HD problem, and my strong feeling is it is because of the Raid chipset problem. (Intel ICH6R raid chip set)
Anybody has the same problem? what's your HD model and size??
HELP!!!