Alistair Posted June 16, 2005 Posted June 16, 2005 Hi My 1st post here... after reading how to setup my 1st DFI board correctly & clock it I have run into a slight problem: I setup my system with my new SATA2 250GB Hitachi drive & enabled the 3G settings using the tool no problems. However, I seem to have run in to problems sometimes when I reboot the machine it doesn't get into windows xp & goes through a continuous BSOD reboot cycle. I am able to go into xp in safe mode ok or everything is OK once I do a Ghost restore. I have had these issues at stock settings & overclocked. The only way this stops happening is if I reset the harddrive to 1.5G speed. I ran mestest, Prime95 & checked the HDD for errors & everything is OK. Just wondering if anyone else with a similar setup had encountered the same problems & had resolved them? TIA Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
century child Posted June 17, 2005 Posted June 17, 2005 You might try disabling NCQ. This has caused problems for some in the past. Also, if you installed the Nvidia IDE drivers, uninstall them and roll back to the native Windows drivers. The NVIDE drivers have also been problematic. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alistair Posted June 17, 2005 Posted June 17, 2005 thanks for the info but how do I disable NCQ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
century child Posted June 17, 2005 Posted June 17, 2005 In the device manager under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers, open the properties of the Nvidia Nforce4 ADMA controller and find the channel your hard drive is on. Just remove the checkmark from Enable command queing. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alistair Posted June 19, 2005 Posted June 19, 2005 thanks for the info. Disabling NCQ seems to have solved the problem. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindripper2000 Posted June 19, 2005 Posted June 19, 2005 Just curious, is there any advantage with NCQ being enabled? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
century child Posted June 20, 2005 Posted June 20, 2005 Some benchmarks show a minor performance increase but it's unlikely you would notice any difference in the real world. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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