First post, by RobDos
Ok, so I've got to be missing some sort of patch or something.
This is what's going on, I copy files to the drive, install them, it goes great most of the time.
Then, randomly files that did work are now corrupt.
For instance:
1. CAB files for windows cryptography are now corrupt.
2. Doom and Doom 2 while initially installed and working now both fail, first, it was complaining about a resource file with an invalid name, now it's saying 'DOOM2.EXE' is not a wattom program.
3. Some text files that used to be readable, are now garbage.
4. It took 3 times to install creative Awe64 drives, the first two the folder C:\program files\creative\drv became corrupt after the installer crashed.
I did use a random Win98 SE image, the drive is newish.
I used the unofficial SP3 (can't install direct X 9 at all.. no matter how many different copies i try).
1. Memory test is fine, 512MB PC3200
2. Board is a P4 2.8Northwood, 845 chipset
3. Video ATI X800 XT - This took driver reinstalls to get stable and the 512MB patch
4. PSU tests good
5. ATA 100 with a SATA to IDE adapter <-generic from China.
I suspect it may be something to do with the SSD / trim support and I'm tempted to wipe the drive and start over but... I don't know the root of the corruption.
So I'm going to have to rebuild, not sure what I should do. Swap the on-board for a SATA 3114 with drivers or should I be looking at something else.
It's very stable, except when installing software (writing to disk).
P3 Slot 1 - 512MB PC100 - 128GB SSD - RADEON 9200 SE , SB Awe64 ISA - GOTEK MOD