Hi all,

I just thought that I would share some knowledge.

A while back I purchased a MSI A6000 from firstin.co.nz, it kept stalling for 10-90 seconds at a time, with no error reports or event logs.

After trying a reinstall of windows - same issue.

After much searching on the net I finally found a solution! 

The ATA controller driver from nvidia is the culprit. Rolling back the driver to the generic microsoft version worked.

Thanks pigmoose from http://archive.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?t=1680584&page=25

Hope this helps anyone who also purchased a MSI.