Comment 18 for bug 285392

I am also getting this error out of no where. I upgraded the guts of an old computer I had, keeping only the case.

it has dual channel 2 x 2GB DDR2 OCZ ram, LiteON dvd+/-RW drive, Seagate 1.5TB SATA II hard drive, a Linksys WMP110 PCI card, and an Asus M4A78-E motherboard using the onboard HDMI for video out to TV with a Phenom II X4 3.0GB proc.

Everything started out fine, except I couldn't get get the audio out via the HDMI in 8.10 or 9.04, so I stuck XP on for the mean time. I noticed XP was locking up every now and then, and then it was locking up like crazy.

I went to put 8.10 back on, but using two different DVD drives, moving the HD to a different SATA port, and trying SATA/IDE mode, RAID (in RAID READY mode), and AHCI mode. They all are comming up "Softreset failed (device not ready)".

I'd love to figure this out, as on a semi-related note my fiancées dad's Athlon64 X2 with a SATA II HD running XP is doing the same random lock-ups, even after everything had been changed except the hard drive. I'm wondering if a flaw/bug in SATA II or NCQ is popping up