I'm using an ASRock A770DE+, and at first XFast USB 3.02.21 was working fine for me with the on-board USB 2.0 ports, and my Renesas USB 3.0 PCIe add-on card. Then I started re-organizing my archived files on my external USB hard drives, and Windows 7 x86 started having a lot of BSOD's displaying IRQL_More_or_Less, or something like that, with the mini-dumps indicating XFast USB.
I tried to download from ASRock an older or newer version of XFast USB, and only could download XFast USB 3.02.30. The BSOD's didn't go away, and I noticed a new problem. If I had a USB 3.0 drive connected to a USB 2.0 port, and XFast was set to Turbo for that drive, any data copied to that drive was immediately corrupted. I couldn't delete the folder because the data associated within the folder was corrupted. I ran checkdisk, but it kept aborting repairs saying insufficient space to repair the Bitmap file. Even after deleting found files, checkdisk continued finding them again, attempting the same exact repairs, and aborting due to the same exact error. After a few tries, I realized that XFast USB in Turbo mode seemed to be trying to communicate with the drive using USB 3.0 specifications, but the drive was connected to a USB 2.0 port! As soon as I set that drive to Normal under XFast USB, checkdisk corrected the partition and data so I could delete the folder and start over again.
Long story short, I re-installed XFast USB 3.02.21, and I now know that the blue screens happen once I've gone beyond a certain number of files or Giga-Bytes of data. Just as a precaution, I updated the Renesas firmware and drivers, but no difference. I don't know if having any version of the Seagate Manager installed is causing a conflict, but I do know that something has changed with XFast. Originally Seagate Manager could not make changes to the power management in the drive when the drive was set in Turbo mode in XFast, but now it can. Uninstalling XFast USB, Seagate Manager, and the Renesas drivers, and re-installing them hasn't restored things to how they were originally. I'm depending upon the uninstaller for XFast, but I'm wondering if it isn't removing a corrupted file or registry entry. I've tried Seagate USB 3.0 2TB and 3TB GoFlex and Backup Plus drives, and size model, or age make no difference. I don't use WD MyBook's due to dedicated and factory enabled hardware encryption.
I had a BSOD last night just trying to verify 530 GB of data in read-only mode with the drive in Turbo mode with XFast USB 3.02.21. I set all USB hard drives to Normal mode, and then exited XFast today, and not only was I able to do the crc32 verification, I was also able to move all the data to another drive. So I suspect a corrupt file or setting not uninstalling. Or else, why would ASRock even provide XFast USB?
I tried to download from ASRock an older or newer version of XFast USB, and only could download XFast USB 3.02.30. The BSOD's didn't go away, and I noticed a new problem. If I had a USB 3.0 drive connected to a USB 2.0 port, and XFast was set to Turbo for that drive, any data copied to that drive was immediately corrupted. I couldn't delete the folder because the data associated within the folder was corrupted. I ran checkdisk, but it kept aborting repairs saying insufficient space to repair the Bitmap file. Even after deleting found files, checkdisk continued finding them again, attempting the same exact repairs, and aborting due to the same exact error. After a few tries, I realized that XFast USB in Turbo mode seemed to be trying to communicate with the drive using USB 3.0 specifications, but the drive was connected to a USB 2.0 port! As soon as I set that drive to Normal under XFast USB, checkdisk corrected the partition and data so I could delete the folder and start over again.
Long story short, I re-installed XFast USB 3.02.21, and I now know that the blue screens happen once I've gone beyond a certain number of files or Giga-Bytes of data. Just as a precaution, I updated the Renesas firmware and drivers, but no difference. I don't know if having any version of the Seagate Manager installed is causing a conflict, but I do know that something has changed with XFast. Originally Seagate Manager could not make changes to the power management in the drive when the drive was set in Turbo mode in XFast, but now it can. Uninstalling XFast USB, Seagate Manager, and the Renesas drivers, and re-installing them hasn't restored things to how they were originally. I'm depending upon the uninstaller for XFast, but I'm wondering if it isn't removing a corrupted file or registry entry. I've tried Seagate USB 3.0 2TB and 3TB GoFlex and Backup Plus drives, and size model, or age make no difference. I don't use WD MyBook's due to dedicated and factory enabled hardware encryption.
I had a BSOD last night just trying to verify 530 GB of data in read-only mode with the drive in Turbo mode with XFast USB 3.02.21. I set all USB hard drives to Normal mode, and then exited XFast today, and not only was I able to do the crc32 verification, I was also able to move all the data to another drive. So I suspect a corrupt file or setting not uninstalling. Or else, why would ASRock even provide XFast USB?
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