Lasairfion
2007-01-28, 21:42
Recently my much beleagured PC has had a number of trials concerning hard drives, which seem to have been accompanied by grinding noises, clicks, pauses, freezing, read/write errors and of course, the Blue Screen of Death, with auto-restarts.
In the beginning I had a Western Digital WD1200 120GB IDE hard Drive and it went a bit funny, so I thought that perhaps it would be a good idea to replace it. So I bought a new Maxtor Diamondmax 10 160GB SATA II Drive would be a good replacement. It worked fine up until 11 months later when it went weird as described above, so I took it back and got a replacement. Then after a few more months I bought another one, so I had a backup drive. Then this Christmas they both went like the first and it kept rebooting with the Blue Screens of Death. So I got it to work for long enough while I went out and bought two new Western Digital 160GB SATA II Drives to replace them.
I used Norton Ghost to transfer the data across to one drive, and copied the other backup stuff on there too. I only had the one drive installed, but after just a couple of months use, the same problems. So I did a fresh windows install on the new unused drive, copied across personal stuff, and ran that.
It has barely worked 2 days before the BSOD was back. This time I managed to catch the error, which was a KERNEL STACK INPAGE ERROR. I followed the advice on various websites to check system cacheing was off, run Antivirus, run Spybot etc. and so forth. Well I've done all that, and waggled my memory sticks, and checked my leads etc. And so far things were going ok til today when I got a different blue screen of death.
hHis time I had already changed the autorestart to off, and wrote down that this was a Driver Unloaded Without Cancelling Pending Operations.
STOP: 0x000000CE
(0xF89FE36C, 0x00000000, 0xF89FE36C, 0x00000000) Partmgr.sys
With both types of bluescreens, the PC will restart, or be restarted, and wil not find the SATA drive on startup, and will look around floppies, cd drives, and even my network cable, to try and find something to boot from, then fail and sit there. If you reset or CTRL ALT DEL it does the same. You have to turn it off for a while then back on, and it usually will start up, at least until the next BSOD.
Doesn't seem to be a Hard Drive problem, despite what sites say, because it's been the same kind of problem on all of them. I know a lot of people say Maxtor drives fail young, but that's why I tried Western Digitals too, and it's the same, and I tried looking for MBR viruses, with my Avast Antivirus, and none were found.
*shrugs*
Any ideas?
In the beginning I had a Western Digital WD1200 120GB IDE hard Drive and it went a bit funny, so I thought that perhaps it would be a good idea to replace it. So I bought a new Maxtor Diamondmax 10 160GB SATA II Drive would be a good replacement. It worked fine up until 11 months later when it went weird as described above, so I took it back and got a replacement. Then after a few more months I bought another one, so I had a backup drive. Then this Christmas they both went like the first and it kept rebooting with the Blue Screens of Death. So I got it to work for long enough while I went out and bought two new Western Digital 160GB SATA II Drives to replace them.
I used Norton Ghost to transfer the data across to one drive, and copied the other backup stuff on there too. I only had the one drive installed, but after just a couple of months use, the same problems. So I did a fresh windows install on the new unused drive, copied across personal stuff, and ran that.
It has barely worked 2 days before the BSOD was back. This time I managed to catch the error, which was a KERNEL STACK INPAGE ERROR. I followed the advice on various websites to check system cacheing was off, run Antivirus, run Spybot etc. and so forth. Well I've done all that, and waggled my memory sticks, and checked my leads etc. And so far things were going ok til today when I got a different blue screen of death.
hHis time I had already changed the autorestart to off, and wrote down that this was a Driver Unloaded Without Cancelling Pending Operations.
STOP: 0x000000CE
(0xF89FE36C, 0x00000000, 0xF89FE36C, 0x00000000) Partmgr.sys
With both types of bluescreens, the PC will restart, or be restarted, and wil not find the SATA drive on startup, and will look around floppies, cd drives, and even my network cable, to try and find something to boot from, then fail and sit there. If you reset or CTRL ALT DEL it does the same. You have to turn it off for a while then back on, and it usually will start up, at least until the next BSOD.
Doesn't seem to be a Hard Drive problem, despite what sites say, because it's been the same kind of problem on all of them. I know a lot of people say Maxtor drives fail young, but that's why I tried Western Digitals too, and it's the same, and I tried looking for MBR viruses, with my Avast Antivirus, and none were found.
*shrugs*
Any ideas?