Nvidia Corp., a leading designer of graphics processor and core-logic sets, is about to face criticism from enthusiasts for the problems that occur with the company’s latest premium-class chipset. Apparently, the core-logic’s I/O controller has issues with Serial ATA and RAID (redundant array of independent disks) capabilities.
Users in several forums, particularly, in EVGA and Nvidia tech support forums, report about “lock up” and “disk error” issues with Serial ATA hard disk drives and RAID capabilities of the Nvidia nForce 680i SLI core-logic that sells for $120 per two chips alone. Some end users even cannot install Windows XP operating system, whereas others could not use their systems flawlessly for long and some even report data corruption.
Even though the majority of users have stable mainboards, the number of those, who purchased mainboards based on Nvidia nForce 680i chipset and now report instabilities seems to be significant and the problem – widespread. The issues do not seem to have relation to overclocking or Serial ATA working modes. In fact, users reported problems with RAID in case of previous-generation Nvidia nForce chipsets as well, but, perhaps, earlier the problems were not faced by a significant number of users.
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News source: Xbit Labs
Users in several forums, particularly, in EVGA and Nvidia tech support forums, report about “lock up” and “disk error” issues with Serial ATA hard disk drives and RAID capabilities of the Nvidia nForce 680i SLI core-logic that sells for $120 per two chips alone. Some end users even cannot install Windows XP operating system, whereas others could not use their systems flawlessly for long and some even report data corruption.
Even though the majority of users have stable mainboards, the number of those, who purchased mainboards based on Nvidia nForce 680i chipset and now report instabilities seems to be significant and the problem – widespread. The issues do not seem to have relation to overclocking or Serial ATA working modes. In fact, users reported problems with RAID in case of previous-generation Nvidia nForce chipsets as well, but, perhaps, earlier the problems were not faced by a significant number of users.
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That was not using Raid. Just a standard Sata Install. I cant believe they havnt fixed these issues yet.
Trust me, I spent weeks on it and got not very far. Talking in a 400+ post thread on the nvidia forums
I wonder if the firewall is still broken too?
Thats a disappointment. It has alot of potential
Speed kills.
Especially in the technology industry. The faster you make your product, the faster you get it thru the assembly line...and the faster you make the quality checkpoints (and in the case of CPU's, the faster the clock cycle)...it's more then inevitable that you will run into problems.
IMHO, it's time for the technology industry to slow down, take a deep breath....and start back up with a steady stream of quality products instead of trying to out-do themselves every
"week" with a new product.
"week" with a new product.
It's a shame that Nvidia is charging a full $100-250 extra for their 680i boards compared to the p965 boards and they left this SATA problem. If I bought one of those Asus Striker 680i boards for $400 and had this happen, I would go on a shooting spree inside the Asus HQ.
There's a cheaper 650i chipset out, btw, I wonder if it has this same bug?
Still, all the first revision Core 2 Duo boards seem to have major problems with their BIOSes, the JMicron SATA-IDE controller hack, and DDR2 RAM not working at specified voltages. There's alot of buggy junk out there right now, even from companies that are supposedly considered "reliable."
I had to rma my Asus striker mobo over this very problem only to have it again and worse with the replacement.
I gave up, boxed it for now and slapped my P5B Deluxe back in.
Some people on the EVGA site have said there systems have been stable for 3+ weeks and then they check there event log and see all these Disk Errors which no doubt have caused some kind of data corruption. I hope NVIDIA fix this soon because I'm personally at the end of my rope with this motherboard.
Please don't give me advice unless you read the EVGA thread. No offence but I've been trouble shooting this for over 2 weeks now and that was done on day 1 not day 14.
I love their graphics chipsets but yeah, this stuff sucks.
edit: the issue is with just SATA in RAID mode? or even normal SATA operation is affected? Are IDE drives affected? Guess I will have to stick my SATA drives in icyboxes for the time being.
Last edited by g0wg on 15 Dec 2006 - 20:53
Sometimes the computer will even lockup installing Windows. It's a MCP error not the South bridge.
is there anything useful in the thread in EVGA's forum? like when they are gonna release a bios?
is there anything useful in the thread in EVGA's forum? like when they are gonna release a bios?
NVIDIA have said it's a "Driver Issue" perhaps they mean Software/Bios because we already know it's nothing to do with the Drivers. An EVGA support staffer told one consumer (over the phone) that there would be a fix released in the first week of January however in the support Forums a different EVGA staffer refuted this claim as incorrect.
PS: evga's forum is down for me
EVGA 680i.
The Abit NF7-S was notorious for having S-ATA 'issues'.
Admitedly it was a Silicon Image add-in chipset but it still negatively impacted nVidia's ability to produce a stable S-ATA platform due to association.
laze.
http://www.evga.com/community/messageboard...mp;whichpage=30
This patch should work on any 680i board that uses the reference design. IT WILL NOT work on the Striker or the DFI or any similar boards that are not using the NVIDIA reference board!! you have been warned!
Just remember that nvidia NEVER actually fixed the problem with nforce4 boards, they just botched a workaround.
History seems to be repeating itself with the 680i!
I think i'd go AMD/AMD/AMD now if i were building a new machine.
(CPU/Chipset/GPU)
or Intel/Intel/AMD
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