Is This The Start To My 3gb Port Failing ?

sas30uk · 18 Feb 2011 at 13:34

Hi guys

Im on the Asus P8P67 Pro motherboard. Whenever i come download something and get the option where to save the file, i select my HDD and then when trying to select the folder i want the PC looks like its hanged but it takes about 2 mins for it to actually access the folder where i want to save my file.

I know this is not normal and am beginning to think it could be the dreaded sata issue on these boards ?

Many thanks for any information.

rpstewart · 18 Feb 2011 at 13:51

Does it only happen when you're downloading and saving?

Does it still happen when you move the drive to a different SATA port?

VoG · 18 Feb 2011 at 14:00

if you know there's a design flaw effecting the 3GB ports, why are you using them & not a controller card if you've got a lot of hdd's?

PhillyDee · 18 Feb 2011 at 14:02

What ports are the hard drives in?

Surely you have the SSD in the 6gb/s (unaffected)
and the 2x1tb in ports 0&1 (also unaffected)

Participant · 18 Feb 2011 at 14:02

PhillyDee said:
What ports are the hard drives in?

Surely you have the SSD in the 6gb/s (unaffected)
and the 2x1tb in ports 0&1 (also unaffected)

I was under the impression that the problem would take years to manifest anwyay?

pv123 · 18 Feb 2011 at 14:05

Robbie G said:
I was under the impression that the problem would take years to manifest anwyay?

Hi,

This is relative since if you use it hardcore I'm sure that it will manifest itself much earlier. As said above specially for a HD you should use the 6GBPS sata ports.

PV123

MeatLoaf · 18 Feb 2011 at 14:11

Robbie G said:
I was under the impression that the problem would take years to manifest anwyay?

On mine ports 0 and 1 are the 6Gb ports and 2-5 are the 3gb ones i think, plus theres also 2 6gb marvell ports

sas30uk · 18 Feb 2011 at 14:29

Ill switch them about i have a DVD drive also plugged in so guess i could do some swapping about for the time being.

Thanks guys

Dru · 18 Feb 2011 at 15:22

Check your advanced energy saving preferences. You probably have your hard drives set to spin down when they haven't been used in a while. I notice this myself as I have a separate hard drive for downloading to which isn't used often.

G J · 19 Feb 2011 at 02:03

Just throwing this out there, I started getting something simillar to the OP when my SATA cable went faulty.

Has it blue screened/crashed at all yet?