How much instability can a bad HDD cause? - Page 2

FB · 04-13-2005, 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by ATINUT

Don't feel bad about a harddrive going bad on you. I had the same thing happen to me, back in January. What happened back then, is the drive up and died right after I loaded up a saved game in Battle For Middle Earth, and I didn't even have a chance to backup any of the data that was on it.

That drive had crashed so bad that it caused a BSOD, and I couldn't boot WindowsXP until disconnected it from the IDE cable and powercable.

Backup what data you can, and transfer it to the new drive when it comes, and keep the bad drive disconnected if need be.

installing my new SATA drive tonite

i should almost reinstall XP and try out raid since i will have 2 80Gb seagates (same model) but i don't think i will do that

ATINUT · 04-13-2005, 05:26 PM

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Originally Posted by FB

installing my new SATA drive tonite

i should almost reinstall XP and try out raid since i will have 2 80Gb seagates (same model) but i don't think i will do that

Now I gotta spend $50.00 to get an Ultra 133 IDE card to replace my Ultra 100 card, which is going bad. Noticed when I have multiple directories open, or open a directory to listen to MP3's, WindowsXP will also access my optical drives, and that shouldn't be happening. I believe it to be a conflict between my dying Ultra 100 card, and the onboard Intel ATA 100 controller.

FB · 04-13-2005, 05:32 PM

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Originally Posted by ATINUT

Now I gotta spend $50.00 to get an Ultra 133 IDE card to replace my Ultra 100 card, which is going bad. Noticed when I have multiple directories open, or open a directory to listen to MP3's, WindowsXP will also access my optical drives, and that shouldn't be happening. I believe it to be a conflict between my dying Ultra 100 card, and the onboard Intel ATA 100 controller.

that sucks, i have never had enough ide devices to need a controller card, and the sata ports i now have help a lot with adding extra devices

FB · 04-13-2005, 09:14 PM

i get this error when logging off

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Windows saved user BANANA\Brandon registry while an application or service was still using the registry during log off. The memory used by the user's registry has not been freed. The registry will be unloaded when it is no longer in use.

This is often caused by services running as a user account, try configuring the services to run in either the LocalService or NetworkService account.

these are in there quite a few times

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Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine CoCreateInstance. hr = 0x80040206.

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The COM+ Event System detected a bad return code during its internal processing. HRESULT was 80070422 from line 44 of d:\qxp_slp\com\com1x\src\events\tier1\eventsystemobj.cpp. Please contact Microsoft Product Support Services to report this error.

under system this is the only warning: for MRxSmb

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The redirector failed to determine the connection type.

i think the crash was related to to high of a HTT freq with a ldt of x4, it seems pretty good at x3

ATINUT · 04-14-2005, 02:56 AM

I've got 2 SATA ports on my motherboard, and if I go all SATA I can get a controller card for an additional 2 or 4 SATA ports. I've seen SATA controllers with 4 ports on them.

Maybe I should go all SATA, except hold off on doing that until sometime this fall.

I notice if I overclock my cpu, for some reason performance actually goes down.

FB · 04-14-2005, 03:18 AM

do they make SATA optical drives, im sure they do, i probably just haven't ever looked

Tinker · 04-14-2005, 05:32 AM

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04-14-2005, 02:56 AM	#20
ATINUT Just Plain Crazy! Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 3,278	I've got 2 SATA ports on my motherboard, and if I go all SATA I can get a controller card for an additional 2 or 4 SATA ports. I've seen SATA controllers with 4 ports on them. Maybe I should go all SATA, except hold off on doing that until sometime this fall. I notice if I overclock my cpu, for some reason performance actually goes down. __________________ Intel D975XBX2 Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 8GB's of Mushkin HP2 6400 memory(DDR2 800) two Sapphire GDDR4 Radeon 3870 videocards HT Omega Claro(Cmedia 8788HD chip) 120GB&200GB&320GB Western Digital harddrives LG DVDROM & LG DVDBURNER HP Deskjet 920C Logitech X-540 speakers Viewsonic VG2030wm 20inch Widescreen LCD Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit with Service Pack 1 Who'se the fool that approved the design for this place. - The Dwarf, Sacred Underworld.
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04-14-2005, 03:18 AM	#21
FB Re-Retiring Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: MN, USA Posts: 24,834	do they make SATA optical drives, im sure they do, i probably just haven't ever looked __________________ Bye Bye ABXZone.....Rest In Peace.
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04-14-2005, 05:32 AM	#22
Tinker How did they do that??? Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Indiana USA Posts: 527	Here is one... PX-712SA DVD±RW Writer (Plextor-PX712SASW) - HotHardware - The Hottest PC Hardware Tested And Burned In http://hothardware.pricegrabber.com/...sterid=3142421 User reviews from the same site... PX-712SA DVD±RW Writer (Plextor-PX712SASW) - HotHardware - The Hottest PC Hardware Tested And Burned In http://hothardware.pricegrabber.com/...sterid=3142421 __________________
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