The dreaded shutdown hdd corruption that effects the 8237 southbridge

[Masterk_abx]

Hi i just built the rig in sig, everything is at stock, clock speeds and drivers (except for floppy driver disk i downloaded, v3.10).

I happily installed Xp yesterday using the two drives in RAID0, rebooted several times installing software.

scored 11k 3d03marks.

I then turned the computer off, came back later, turned it on, greeted by "File Windows/Config/System 32 is damaged or corrupted" (All i could remember). Installed again, it happened again.

So i tried using a single drive, that wouldnt even install windows? (possibly as i used the viamraid.sys for the SATA drives and i wasnt using RAID?)

I am now having trouble even getting into windows install, can format etc, comes back, tells me 39 minutes to go, and then it reboots and i get the corruption message

How can i sort this out???

Any help would be great.

Comp spec:

A64 3500+ | 1gb OCZ PC3500 EB | Asus A8V Deluxe | AOpen 6800GT | Antec Truepower 430W | Audigy 2 ZS | 2 x Hitachi SATA Deskstar 7k250 80gb.

[merlin9]

I don't know the answer but I am at this forum to find the answer to this very same question. I will tell you what I know. Have a MSI board with two twin SATA Seatgate 120GB hard drives in RAID 0 (mirrored) configuration. The MSI board has an onboard VIA chipset raid controller. About every 8 weeks it will, out of the blue, pick up my entire operating system and throw it off a cliff! I get among other things a stack error similiar to yours and or a frozen windows screen. In the process the SATA drive registry is corrupted and Windows XP pro will no longer load. Interchanged the physical drives-no help. Cleaned all viruses no help. One expert told me that RAID arrays cause all kinds of problems but he can not say why or how. My anticipated solution was to get an ASUS board with a different RAID controller but listening to you....