windows 2000 IDE problems

[SoopaStar]

Motherabord: Asus A78NX Deluxe
OS: Windows 2000 SP3
CPU: AMD Athlon 2800+ (barton core)
RAM: PNY PC2700 DDR, 256MB (best buy, not the value ram)
C: drive: Maxtor 120GB Special Ed. 8MB Cache
Optical DrivE: Iomega 16x8x32x CDRW

Recently, my PC has been rebooting randomly (once at 1030 am and again at 130pm). I checked the event log, and noticed quite a few errors. Here are a few:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: atapi
Event Category: None
Event ID: 5
Date: 6/16/2003
Time: 10:40:52 AM
User: N/A
Computer: GO2FAST
Description:
A parity error was detected on \Device\Ide\IdePort1.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Disk
Event Category: None
Event ID: 11
Date: 6/16/2003
Time: 10:40:52 AM
User: N/A
Computer: GO2FAST
Description:
The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk2\DR2.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Disk
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7
Date: 6/14/2003
Time: 10:34:27 AM
User: N/A
Computer: GO2FAST
Description:
The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Cdrom
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7
Date: 6/12/2003
Time: 10:19:24 PM
User: N/A
Computer: GO2FAST
Description:
The device, \Device\CdRom0, has a bad block.

Any ideas? Motherboard or harddrive issue? There are other errors that follow in the sam elines of these. Here is what my IDE Map looks like:

Disk 0: 50.0GB C: 64.49GB F: (120GB Maxtor)
Disk 1: 74.53 GB D: (80GB Western Digital)
Disk 2: 19.08GB E: (20GB Maxtor I think)
Disk 3: flash card reader
CDRom 0: G: drive

I know that the 20GB has a bad block, and is at/near capacity. The 80GB is also at/near capacity.

Paul

[vass0922]

Hmmm each error was on a different device
Are all the noted devices on the same controller?

[SoopaStar]

they all use the board's IDE controllers if that is what you mean. I assume the Harddisk0\DR0 is my C: drive and Harddisk2\DR2 is my d:. Those are both on the primary HD controller. The CD rom is slave on the secondary, which has the Maxtor 20GB as the primary. I guess I will run chkdsk /xf on the drives to see if I can fix them or get some more info. I dunno....

Paul

[meese]

Go to www.eventid.net and lookup the event ID's listed above. You may find something that can help you.

[SoopaStar]

Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't think its worth the $15 per year without know how good their service is to begin with.
Do you have a subscription there?

Paul

[meese]

You don't need one to lookup event id's. Just click the "Search Events" button in the Navigation bar at the top of the page.

[SoopaStar]

Thanks, meese.

Paul

[blubomber]

You can still search eventid.net for the events you have and get a description of the event and know solutions. The $15 is so that the links to microsofts site and other sites will work i think.

Have you looked at Asus's website for BIOS upgrades that might have to do with your issues? I had an IDE problem with an Abit board that was fixed with a BIOS upgrade. How long have you been running this configuration? Have you done any program installs or hardware installs just before the problem started to show up?

[SoopaStar]

using the most recent bios and nforce drivers from asus. i looked around on eventid and it may be a couple of things. could be the flash card reader i have installed on my usb port; or it could be some software like EZ CD Creator i installed. need to check the event view against installation dates of various softwares.

thanks

Paul

[Slow Arrow]

Have you solved the problem?

I had the same parity and controller error with an EPOX EP-3VSA2 motherboard (which seems not supporting DMA with ATA66 UDMA devices ) and my old Quantum lc10 (20 Gb) winchester just recently .

The description of the problem and the solution (of my problem, and hopefully yours ) is at the MS Support Site.

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