Hello,

My system has been randomly hanging and giving me the following error in Event Viewer:
Event ID: 129
Source: nvstor64
Details: Reset to device, \Device\RaidPort0, was issued

This problem is intermittent, for example it didn't happen at all yesterday but today when I started up my machine it started after a couple of minutes and my system was hung up for 2 hours. I actually forgot about it until trying to use it again and then seeing the Event 129 repeated in the Event Viewer.

There is no consistency in what I am doing when this happens. It was idle as it did it today, two days ago it started while I was playing a game, and the day before that while I was just web surfing. 

It has worked fine for up to 2 weeks at a time and also been unusable for long periods of time, sometimes it is every other day.

The first time I saw this happening was in December. I actually stopped using this computer because I just assumed the motherboard was bad after trying to fix it then. Recently I decided to try and troubleshoot it again and searching google for the event id and details as shown me that many people have this issue, I was not able to find a solution though. This made me think it is less likely a hardware issue.

Here is my System Information:

Manufacturer: Alienware
OS: Windows 7 Professional 64 bit
Motherboard: Nvidia nForce 680i SLI (Revision A2)
CPU: Intel Core 2 Extreme CPU Q6850 @ 3.00GHz
Memory x4: PDP Systems, PEP21G6400LL, 1024 MBytes, DDR2, 400MHz (DDR2 800), Supported Frequencies: 200, 266.7, 400 MHz
Video x2: Nvidia GeForce GTX 260 896 MBytes
Sound: Integrated Realtek
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7500 ST3500630AS 500 GB
DVD Writer: Sony Optiarc DVD RW AD-7170A
Cooling: Liquid

Things I have tried:

Reinstalling Windows: (4-5 times at this point)
Switching Hard Drives: I had upgraded to a velociraptor, I put my old Seagate HD back in and have the same problem with both drives.
Ran HD Utility from Manufacturer: I ran the HD check from Seagate and Western Digital, both drives came up ok. I 0'ed out both drives before installing Windows
Ran Memtest: Memory checked out ok
Updated Firmware on Seagate Drive
Updated Bios: I had to upgrade from Alienware's site since they change the ID of the MB, upgraded to version P32
Not Updating Drivers: Turned off Windows Update and did not install any drivers on fresh windows install, problem still occurred
Updated all Drivers: I am currently running all the latest drivers available from evga.com and nvidia and alienware
Check all Connections: I opened up my machine and checked all connections inside

Currently all my drivers are the latest I could download and my bios is in the default settings. 

I am really at the end of my rope. This machine is a couple of years old but was a big investment when I bought it and is still a great computer. I really want to be sure what the issue is before replacing any hardware.

Thanks for reading this wall of text and please let me know if you need any additional information,
Bre

Hello and thanks :)

I am not sure where to find this setting.

I see that RAID Config is disabled. And I see no mention of ACHI anywhere. I see IDE Function Setup under Integrated Peripherals.

If there is somewhere else I should be looking let me know.

Thanks again,
Bre

ahci is not supported on the 680 boards. Try uninstalling the nvida storage drivers and use the default windows ones. also some have reported that a dying PSU, optical or hard drive can cause this error. it is a general storage error that will be related to either the drivers or failing hardware. unfortunately microsoft does not diagnose it much further than a general fault
here is a link to eventid.net that kinda covers it some. http://www.eventid.net/display.asp?eventid=129&eventno=9354&source=nvstor64&phase=1
if i had to make a wild guess i would say it's the HD going bad, but try the drivers first. to use the default windows drivers just uninstall the nforce drivers and clean with driver sweeper, then reboot and let windows install the windows drivers. let us know if that helps

XrayMan

Thanks Quadlatte! One more suggestion is to try that hard drive in another computer so you can rule that out. (Troubleshooting ain't easy sometimes, I know)  :/

thats the truth, i spent 8hrs one time trouble shooting only to find out i had a bad ide ribbon cable.

We all can understand your frustration. You have done so many things to try and solve it. I still have faith that you'll figure out the problem. I have to go for the night. Take care, and good luck with everything.

try using your brothers PSU and try the disk in his machine, install windows to your disk in his machine if he will let you and then you can tell if the errors start there also, if they do then it's the drive. If you can do that and all checks out good and it does it on all the SATA ports then i would lean to the board going bad.

Brelaine

Thanks everyone for the replies. I am going to bug my brother this weekend to help me out trying all of these things.

I installed CPU-Z as well:
Core Speed: 2000MHz
Multiplier: x6.0

I will let you know how it goes,
Bre

Alright! Post back here again, and give us an update.

SOLVED!!!!!

I know this thread is wicked old but this issue has plagued me for a very long time and I have

finally fixed it across all platforms and for all Hardware!!!

I am posting this fix because there is absolutely no legitimate fix on the entire web that is a

true fix and to help anyone else having this annoying issue; especially gamers and NVIDIA MOBO and

Graphic Card owners, so here it is (FINALLY!!!):

EventID - 129
Source nvstor, nvstor32, nvstor64
Reset to device, \Device\RaidPort2, was issued (this is one of many messages you may receive)

If for any reason the Registry entries below for the fix don't match your system, search the

registry for nvstor and the "like" keys on your own system

The fix is in 3 places on my system so navigate to each one, one at a time

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_037F&SUBSYS_C55E10DE&REV_A2\3&2411e6fe&1&70

You will see a Sub Key named "Properties" which should throw an inaccessible permissions error,

take Ownership of it and give your account FULL ACCESS only for that key but uncheck subcontainers

and objects

Do the same for the following 2 locations (you may want to search to see if you have additional,

similar keys but I only had 3 total):

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet003\Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_037F&SUBSYS_C55E10DE&REV_A2\3&2411e6fe&1&70

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet004\Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_037F&SUBSYS_C55E10DE&REV_A2\3&2411e6fe&1&70

You may or may not have to reboot

After you do this and recheck the keys you will see that they have populated the subkeys with LOTS

and LOTS of New Data!!!!!

That's it, FIXED! You will not have access permissions to any of those keys but that is fine.

I have also found that in the nvraid.inf config file it there is an explicit permission for

"Administrator" (; allow access from system and administrator only); whether or not you have

access to the "Properties" key under the Administrator Account is irrelevant, the issue will not

be fixed unless you follow my steps above.

I really hope this helps a lot of other people because this issue was a doozy!!!!!

Best of luck!