Hello, first post. Was driven to seek some help because lately my computer seems to be nosing into a death spiral, and I'm not so happy about it.
To start:
-AMD 64 3200
-ASUS A8N SLI
-Maxtor 250 gb + Maxtor 320 gb HDDs, both SATA
-1024mb DDR-400 RAM in two sticks (Corsair)
-NEC DVD-RW and Liteon DVD-R
-450 Watt generic PSU
-2 PCI cards.
Basically, this started about a month ago when my old 250gb HD started clicking from time to time. I was a little freaked out because I've heard of the "click of death" and decided to investigate. In the Event Viewer I got an error (event ID: 51) which says that "An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk0\D during a paging operation." I went online, tried most of the solutions (mess with paging file, chkdsk, swap RAM slots, swap cables and ports, etc) and it didn't help. I figured I would go and get a new HDD just in case my old one decided to crap out because I have a lot of data on it and it would really stink to lose it all. So now I have a brand new 320 gig SATA.
I installed this, hooked it up and copied all my data files to it. I also decided to just make it my primary and installed XP on it as well, changed drive letters, but kept it on the secondary SATA slot. The problem was that I was still receiving the same clicking and the same paging errors with the new drive. Then a little later I began getting Event ID: 11 "The driver detected a controller error on \Device\CdRom0." and my cdrom would make noises from time to time when a disk was inside. Both the paging errors and the controller errors would lead to a short freeze, after which my computer would keep on going as if nothing had happened.
Then it started getting worse. In addition to these errors I started getting event ID: 51 for my cdrom: "An error was detected on device \Device\CdRom0 during a paging operation." And now every once in a while my HD would click, my computer would freeze and then stay that way. OR the freakier alternative where my HD would click and then my screen would suddenly turn into a moving vertical interference pattern and stay that way until I manually restarted.
At this point I started to suspect that it had little to do with my software (after cruising threads on Event Id:51 and trying some solutions) and decided to unhook my TV tuner card and my old HD altogether. I also swapped my 320 gig HD to the primary SATA slot.
This seemed to kill the problems for about a day, but then it came right back, albeit with decreased frequency, and only on my HD. Today I got the full program again though, with cdrom errors, HDD paging errors, freezing that I couldn't recover from, etc. Additionally, now I have Event ID: 7036 "The IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service service entered the running (replaced with "stopped" in some of the messages) state.", and Event ID: 7035 "The IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service service was successfully sent a start control." showing up all over the place in my event viewer, which is a new development.
All in all I suspect some sort of hardware error, but I'm not really sure. I've heard of mobo SATA or IDE controllers causing trouble, I've heard of PSUs causing trouble, CPUs as well, and I can't rule out some sort of XP BS as well. I'm pretty sure it isn't my drives because they all check out fine, and the HD is brand new.
Anyone have any clues? Would really appreciate some opinions on what's going on, since I need this thing for work. :/
btw, Hijack this and my virus programs come up clean.
To start:
-AMD 64 3200
-ASUS A8N SLI
-Maxtor 250 gb + Maxtor 320 gb HDDs, both SATA
-1024mb DDR-400 RAM in two sticks (Corsair)
-NEC DVD-RW and Liteon DVD-R
-450 Watt generic PSU
-2 PCI cards.
Basically, this started about a month ago when my old 250gb HD started clicking from time to time. I was a little freaked out because I've heard of the "click of death" and decided to investigate. In the Event Viewer I got an error (event ID: 51) which says that "An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk0\D during a paging operation." I went online, tried most of the solutions (mess with paging file, chkdsk, swap RAM slots, swap cables and ports, etc) and it didn't help. I figured I would go and get a new HDD just in case my old one decided to crap out because I have a lot of data on it and it would really stink to lose it all. So now I have a brand new 320 gig SATA.
I installed this, hooked it up and copied all my data files to it. I also decided to just make it my primary and installed XP on it as well, changed drive letters, but kept it on the secondary SATA slot. The problem was that I was still receiving the same clicking and the same paging errors with the new drive. Then a little later I began getting Event ID: 11 "The driver detected a controller error on \Device\CdRom0." and my cdrom would make noises from time to time when a disk was inside. Both the paging errors and the controller errors would lead to a short freeze, after which my computer would keep on going as if nothing had happened.
Then it started getting worse. In addition to these errors I started getting event ID: 51 for my cdrom: "An error was detected on device \Device\CdRom0 during a paging operation." And now every once in a while my HD would click, my computer would freeze and then stay that way. OR the freakier alternative where my HD would click and then my screen would suddenly turn into a moving vertical interference pattern and stay that way until I manually restarted.
At this point I started to suspect that it had little to do with my software (after cruising threads on Event Id:51 and trying some solutions) and decided to unhook my TV tuner card and my old HD altogether. I also swapped my 320 gig HD to the primary SATA slot.
This seemed to kill the problems for about a day, but then it came right back, albeit with decreased frequency, and only on my HD. Today I got the full program again though, with cdrom errors, HDD paging errors, freezing that I couldn't recover from, etc. Additionally, now I have Event ID: 7036 "The IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service service entered the running (replaced with "stopped" in some of the messages) state.", and Event ID: 7035 "The IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service service was successfully sent a start control." showing up all over the place in my event viewer, which is a new development.
All in all I suspect some sort of hardware error, but I'm not really sure. I've heard of mobo SATA or IDE controllers causing trouble, I've heard of PSUs causing trouble, CPUs as well, and I can't rule out some sort of XP BS as well. I'm pretty sure it isn't my drives because they all check out fine, and the HD is brand new.
Anyone have any clues? Would really appreciate some opinions on what's going on, since I need this thing for work. :/
btw, Hijack this and my virus programs come up clean.