.I'm putting together a much needed new pc for myself and I'm experiencing a weird issue. Here are is my hardware first:
case:Antec P182
mobo: GIGABYTE GA-EP35-DS3P
GPU: EVGA 512-P3-N862-AR GeForce 9600GT
PSU: SeaSonic S12 Energy Plus SS-550HT
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 Conroe
RAM: G.SKILL 4GB(2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model F2-6400CL5D-4GBPQ
2 HDD's: Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD3200AAKS 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
optical drive: SAMSUNG 20X DVD±R DVD Burner Black SATA Model SH-S203B
heatsink: thermalright ultra-120 extreme
heatsink fan: Scythe S-FLEX SFF21E 120mm
gpu heatsink: ARCTIC COOLING Accelero S2 VGA Cooler
NOTE: I am not overclocking. I'm currently running everything stock to get it up and running first. My system is also not overheating as I checked all the temps and they are very cool.
Alrighty then. So my mobo comes with 2 sata controllers, intel and gigabyte. I disabled the gigabyte and decided to go with the intel controller.
So I setup my 2 brand new WD drives as a RAID 0 in the controller utility during post. That all went fine.
I boot off my geniune windows XP pro sp2 cd, do the f6 stuff with the floppy drive, load the driver fine, create a 100GB partition and do a non-quick format. That all went great and smooth. During the windows component install the expected warning "Has not passed windows logo testing" popped up twice. I clicked yes on both.
Windows finished installing very very quick.
Now once I got into windows I noticed that my system was pretty much "freezing up" every 10-15 seconds for about a 0.5 seconds at a time. It was very random but consistent. Any animation on the monitor, including cursor movement, would lag for a second and then come back. I knew that this couldn't be good.
I proceeded to install all of my hardware's updated drivers. I don't have any of my external components connected or installed yet. driver installs all went great, rebooted multiple times with no issues; but the lagging every few seconds was still there.
I decided to create 2 more partitions on my RAID 0. I create the partitions and begin full formatting with windows XP pro sp2 32bit disk manager. They begin to format fine and I went to bed.
This morning my PC was rebooted and sitting idle in windows. I checked the event log and noticed this entry posted about 10-15 times after I went to bed (most likely while the 2 partitions were still formatting).
"An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk0\D during a paging operation"
My PC was also still lagging.
After doing some research it looks like this could be a number of things. I can't seem to find anyone who has had this problem of their system lagging every few seconds while in windows. I also can't find anyone who has had this problem specifically with a RAID.
Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions?
When I get home I will be re-seating all my connections on the hard drives/motherboard and trying different SATA cables/ports on the Intel controller. If this doesn't work I will be deleting the RAID array and attempt to install XP on 1 individual drive to see if one of the drives is bad.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thank you!