There certainly is a known issue with Nvidia and drive corruption, but I can pretty well guarantee that that was not what destroyed his drive. That would not be a BIOS issue, but a physical driver problem, which is not in evidence. It is much more likely that the author did something careless on his umpteenth install of the drive, causing physical damage to the MB or connections or the drive itself. Corruption can normally be cleared by a reformat or by using something more heavy duty like SpinRite. This is what I would call piling on.

Drashek is the funniest man alive. 

I find it hard to believe that anyone takes him seriously.

I wish someone would ban that Drashek. I've never seen so much drivvel in my entire life, its on every friggin story aswell.

Ban the retard, or GTFO

Asus controllers cetainly do not have predictable way of recognizing Sata harddrives. it could end up anywhere with just about any letter assigned.

You mentioned moving it from main to main. mainbees you gave it couple of good Snaps too.?hummmm. well thats more ide. how about overheating it lots.?hummmm. Maybe particle of dirt, like metal fragment or piece even sweat.
Maybe Ultie cann't take stress like you where used to.If 790 goes out, it stays dead forever.
Drashek

Give it a low level format, I'm sure your drive will work again :-)

I look at nvidia video cards overheating during gameplay, and see triangles flying all over the screen; severe graphics corruption...

It freaks me out that the cards *continue* to run even with this massive corruption! Of course visuals are a non-critical condition, a bad frame here or there matters little. But hard drive I/O? EEEEP.

If these chips are getting so hot that the bits and bytes are corrupting themselves, thats a pretty big worry :-(

Be very wary of ASUS BIOS flashing. The ASUS update tool "bricked" my Striker II Extreme. Apparently there is no QA testing going on with these BIOS updates and the developers are using a mixture of AWARDbios flash and ASUS update flash tools inconsistently. I recommend that whatever BIOS version you want to attempt to flash that you go read about it first on the (lame) ASUS forums and see what tools other have had success with first.

Wasnt nforce 590 also known for destorying SATA drives?