My six year old K9A2 Platinum Mobo (Is it failing?)

Hey All, I'm a long time MSI customer. I've owned at least three MSI mobo's. On my day-to-day rig, I've maintained a K9A2 Platinum. Which, is rather old (6 years). I've attempted to keep it in good working order, but over the past year. I have been encountering a persistent problem with the on-board Sata ports. Sata ports 1-4 have trouble reading my HD, during the boot sequence it fails to read the drive. The AMIBios will not recognize the HD if, I have it connected to port 1. 2-4 it works, however once booted and in windows. The system is unstable. I experience freezes and delays in HD processing. Essentially, I abandoned the on-board Sata ports and bought a HDD Controller, it's a Rosewill Sata II/ATA PCIe card. It runs and works, but lately I have been experiencing disk read errors upon boot, after my PC has been shut-down for 6+ hours. I have to restart, enter bios and "trick" it to boot. Basically just restarting a few times.
I've attempted multiple troubleshooting techniques, ranging from Memory test diagnostics all the way to Hijackthis and looking for any malicious programs on my system. It's clean, I use Nod32 and the HD is defragged and optimized on a weekly basis. I've flashed the BIOS, running the latest version.  Upgraded the CPU from dual-core to quad-core (more so because, I wanted a faster processor). I've pretty much exhausted, what options I can think of to combat the issue. I'm running windows xp pro sp3. I know this mobo is 64bit compatible and windows 7/8 ready. However, I just haven't made the leap yet.
Wondering, if anyone could provide information on how to properly diagnose Sata II port problems. Thank you in advance.
Apologies forgot to include system specs:
Board: MSI K9A2 Platinum AMD 790FX based chipset.
Bios: Version 1.B0
VGA:  GeForce 450 GTS 2gig
PSU:   Raidmax ATX 500w (+3.3v +5v +12v) (Stock case PSU)
AMD Core Phenom II Quad core 960T 3.0GHz (oc capable)
MEM: Kingston DDR 2 PC-6400 4gigs (3.25 in use)
HDD: Seagate 1TB HD 
COOLER:  4 Stock fans + stock CPU heatsink/cooling fan
OS: Windows XP professional sp 3

Quote from: spectralnubi on 18-November-13, 06:09:27
Thank you again, for the replies. I unhooked the 24pin ATX main power connector, eyeballed the pins and cleaned the caps. I reseated the connector, and I haven't encountered an error yet. However, I'm not convinced and ordering a new PSU. I'm better off with a new one anyway, even though this stock PSU has served me well over the years. I would test, but I don't have another 500w PSU on hand. I do have a digital voltage reader. I'm going to test it. (mostly for science) I was beginning to suspect the PSU, since this has been an on-going issue. You guys, have been much more helpful than the MSI techi-support. The tech immediately assumed it was the HD, in their reply to my concerns. Anyway, long story short. I know it's not the HD. I'll check the bios, voltage reading just for comparison. Thank you once more for the help and advice. :-)
Wanted to reply because I had that board for years and liked it a lot...  Yea, I think you can get it running....!  Upgrading the PSU is solid advice like the other posters have pointed out.  It surely can't hurt *anything*.  (Great thing about the PC is upgrading individual components when it suits you, right?)  Best of luck in getting it running to your satisfaction!
--About tech support in general...one of the most difficult jobs there is in "PC-dom" is long-distance tech support.  Sight unseen, the best technician is still only guessing when he offers suggestions, but the best advice you are likely to get is from people who have long years of experience and who have tackled  and solved many a problem themselves--people like the ones in this forum, as you point out.  The best anyone can do, though, in this situation is offer advice and opinions based on that experience.  As you noticed, people who inhabit a company's "official tech support" are often salaried, scripted employees who can read a problem checklist wonderfully but often have little to no understanding of how the various concepts the checklists cover actually work...  So, yea, often you are better off seeking out a forum for its advice--only going back to the company as a last resort if you've tried everything the people advising you come up with--it's probably time for an RMA at that point (if the product is under warranty) or else purchasing new components (as in your particular case.)  Again, good luck--I loved that board!!!!

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