WEIRD Hard Drive problem...

I've been through THREE of these drives now, on phone with Maxtor, and ASrock, I have a Maxtor 6L300S0 Sata 150 hard drive, ASrock P4v88 Motherboard specs for motherboard:

CPU - Socket 478 for Intel Pentium 4/Celeron processor
- FSB 800/533/400 MHz
- Supports Hyper-Threading Technology
- Prescott support
Chipset - Northbridge: VIA PT880
- Southebridge: VIA 8237
Hybrid Booster - CPU Frequency Stepless control
- ASRock U-COP
- Boot Failure Guard (B.F.G)
Memory - Dual Channel DDR memory technology
- Supports DDR400/333/266
- DIMM slots: 4
- Max. capacity: 4GB
Expansion Slot - 1 x AGP8X/4X slot, 1.5V
- 5 x PCI slots( PCI 2.2 compliance)
VGA N/A
Audio - CMedia CMI9761 6 channel AC'97 audio codec
LAN - VIA 6103 10/100 Ethernet LAN PHY
- 802.3u, WOL supported
Connector - 2 x SeialATA 1.5Gb/s connectors supports RAID,0,1,JBOD,
SATA HDD_Hotplug
- 2 x ATA 133/100/66 IDE connectors ( supports 4 x IDE devices)
- 1 x Floppy connector
- CPU/Chassis FAN connectors
- 20 pin ATX power connector
- IDE LED connector
- CD/AUX audio in header
- Front panel audio connector
- 2 x USB 2.0 port pin header
- 1 x Game/MIDI port pin header
Rear Panel I/O ASRock I/O Plus
- 6 x USB2.0 ports
- 1 x RJ45 LAN port
- 1 x Serial port (COM1)
- 1 x PS2 Keyboard connector
- 1 x PS2 Mouse connectors
- 1 x Parallel port (LPT1)
- 1 x Audio ports ( Line In/Out, Mic In)
BIOS Feature - 2Mb AMI BIOS with ACPI, SM BIOS 3.0, PnP
Support CD - Drivers, Utilities, Anti Virus Software, ASRock PC DIY Demo
- SATA driver and utility
Accessories - Quick Installation Guide, Support CD, I/O shield
- Floppy/ATA 100 cables
- 1 x SATA data cable
- 1 x SATA 1-to-1 power cable
Form Factor ATX, 305mm x 218mm
Certifications FCC, CE, MS WHQL


Anyways, I use my computer, everything is fine, then one day I get a blue screen error, And xp will not boot. Brought drive to Best Buy, and drive will not boot. I'm lost now. Anyone offere any help?

 

You get an error? Post the exact error.
Unlikely HDD if you have tryed three of em, What's the odds of that?

First thought Asrock bottom of the barrel MOBO, known to be problematic.
Check asrock web, any Bios update pertaining too HDD problems.
Are you Ocing? OC too far can Hose windows.
Have you tryed to boot in safe mode?
Have ya tryed to Repair or reinstall Windows?

 

Asus - what do you mean by "OCing".
He's right by thinking its probably a mobo issue (a hdd controller most likely).
The error message will be the key.
DCO

 

went and bought add-on sata card, and so far so good. We'll see what happens. I think was conflict by chipset on mobo and SATA drive