[paxophobe]

Well I had read anecdotal reports of people fixing it by installing the Jmicron driver. Actually, I found this to be false. For me it was as simple as unplugging the IDE cable and plugging it in on the slave connector. Windows reinstalled it as UltraDMA. Unplugging it and immediately plugging it back in on master didn't work. Nor did uninstalling it windows. I also tried setting it all to AHCI or RAID and that didn't help. I first was able to get it to UltraDMA after installing the jmicron. I noticed poor performance still. I tried to uninstall the Jmicron by setting the IDE channel back to standard IDE in device manager, but it was still poor performance. I decided to try and "acronis" back to a state before any jmicron drivers were installed. I did my slave trick again, got it to UltraDMA, and then everythings worked fine. I used DVD playback as a means to figure out if everything was okay. Only once I had gotten it to ultraDMA without a jmicron install did things finally smooth out. =) Looks like my original problem had to do with RivaTuner corrupting my harddrive somehow. I guess its possible, and likely, since both times I had corruption and blue screens happened immediately after installing Riva. Not sure why this is, but I'll try a different tool to get my temps/overclock. Thanks.