The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk1\D

Hope someone can help, yesterday in the event viewer I encountered the following error
"The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk1\D
....I have added no new hardware for months, I checked this out on the microsoft website but they recommend changing the cable!
I ran diagnostics on the hard drives and they found no errors at all ....I got a feeling it the motherboard, frustrating as this is the second board Ive had!
Can anyone advise  on this error?
My setup is as follows
P4 3.2GHZ
1GB Transcend Memory
1 NEC 2510 DVD Wrtier
1 IDE 120GB Maxtor Diamond Max
2 X SATA HDD
450 watt Thermaltake Butterfly PSU

This seems to be a common problem between ICH5 chipsets and SATA NCQ drives. Apparantly a BIOS update will be able to fixed the problem but I'm not sure which BIOS you should use. I suggest that you check MSI's website to look into your mobo's BIOS release notes to find out more first.
Please also note that there's an amount of risk to flashing your mobo's BIOS as and improper flash will caused the mobo to die immediately or having multiple errors due to bad flash. I would recommend that you flash through a floppy bootdisk which seems to be the best method till date.

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