Warning : Possible data corruption on nForce 4 motherboards.

[CougTek]

NVIDIA forums[/url]]Several of us have reported data corruption with nForce 4 based motherboards. I'd like to share my experiences with you. I hope nVidia's experts read this forum and finally offer us the right solution.

In short: some random data data corruption happens if a motherboard is stressed with DMA transfers (about 2 or 3 bytes altered out of ~5 GBytes). The operating system does not log any error.

You copy a file of some GBytes, you compare them e.g. with the "comp" command in a DOS window, and the two files wont be the same. You repeat comparing them: you may see different errors at different file offsets each time. It seems to be a random error.

You can reproduce this error under Linux, too, e.g. SuSE 9.3.

Great. I can already hear Mercutio laugh. I'm happy not to have bought a motherboard based on this chipset. I hope previous nForce chipsets aren't affected as I own and sold quite a few nForce 2-based systems.

 

[Gilbo]

Great. My two home fileservers currently use NForce4 motherboards, ~300GB of my music and a medium amount of video. I hope this is an isolated issue. I don't have md5sums or any other way of checking the integrity of the files short of untarring a quazillion backup CD-R's...

I have to say I haven't noticed problems, but FLAC is tolerant of errors and the data could be going and I might not know for a while.

My girlfriends Dell just got fried in a power outage. What a great day for data integrity.

 

[Gilbo]

There's more ammunition for Merc in these threads, which I nipped from an SR thread:

http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9496&page=1&pp=15
http://www.amdgamer.com/read.php?rid=136&type=1
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=8171&st=20

I haven't read them yet, because I'm busy being cranky at Dell and their 'act of God' bullshit. I don't want to hear about how my fileservers are going to turn my music collection into random bits & bytes.

 

[CityK]

I didn't read the links, but I saw something about this last week or so -- wasn't it related to Maxtor drives, and wasn't it Maxtor that admitted a defect in their products (that's what some Nvidia reps were claiming).

 

[Tannin]

No question of where the fault lies. 100% responsibility. I blame Creative Technology.

 

[CougTek]

You're in the bush. It's Sony.

 

[time]

Re: Warning : Possible data corruption on nForce 4 motherboa

Jerry Springer forums[/url]]Several of us have reported data corruption with blue-eyed people. I'd like to share my experiences with you. I hope optometrists read this forum and finally offer us the right solution.

In short: some random data data corruption happens if a person is stressed with news media transfers (about 2 or 3 bytes altered out of ~5 GBytes). The brain does not log any error.

You copy a file of some GBytes, you compare them e.g. with the "curtain" command in a boss window, and the two files wont be the same. You repeat comparing them: you may see different colors at different file offsets each time. It seems to be a random color.

You can reproduce this error under Eunuchs, too, e.g. Susan 9.3.

 

[Mercutio]

 

[P5-133XL]

I don't know but I think Time did a funny by simply pointing out an obvious true-ism. I liked it.




Alot

 

[Will Rickards]

I happen to have a maxtor drive to store all my data but a Fujitsu SCSI drive for booting. But I don't use the nvidia IDE drivers, just stock windows drivers.
Wonder if I'm affected?