Can anyone help explain this logfile?!

[dbates]

I've been having real problems with my AMD 3800+ X2 system (XP SP2). I've stopped overclocking, but the problem persists.

My PC often gets to a state where it pauses for about 6-10 seconds. Sometime this happens as often as every 30-60 seconds. Eventually, it locks un completely and requires a reboot.

I've tried all sorts of thing, and eventually looked in the event viewer, and found the following:

I think that seems to be the problem - the pattern seems to match what I'm experiencing. Can anyone suggest what's causing it, and how I can fix it?!

 

[macgamesrule]

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=154690

Apparently it's a disk access issue; since it lists both disk and atapi (HD and CD) it's likely not the drives themselves... maybe something to do with the chipset

 

[Toxcity]

I have had this problem before.

I found that my harddrives where set to PIO mode instead of DMA?

I don't know if this is your problem but it sure looks like it.

Maybe the data cable is damage.

PIO = SLOW and uses alot of the CPU.

DMA = SPEED and I think the bios controls it..

Good Luck!

 

[Raven]

if windows detects alot of errors it automaticly lowers the speed as lower speed gives more room to work in.

if you use w98 then go into device manager and double click on cd/hd

in xp you control the speed in the specific ide channel.

have had the problem once myself, noticed it first when i ran hdtach so have no idea for how long i had it as it was on a low use storage harddrive, i deleted the ide channel the harddrive was in in device manager and rebooted.

windows reinstalled the ide channel and the harddrive went from pio4(16mbyte/s) to ata100 speeds.

also check the ide cable and change if neeeded, its important its a new 80wire and not one of those older 40wires.

 

[Sticky Mick]

If you double click each one of those it gives a brief description of why the error occured.

The atapi ones that I've got say:

The device. \Device\Ide\IdePort0. did not respond within the timeout period.

Not sure why it happens yet, but there's a link to the M$ troubleshooter page explaining it.

I've got a few cd-rom ones as well, but I think they come from my Far Cry DVD, which is in a hell of a state. It's actually got a crack in the disk that goes from the center but stops short of the data layer

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