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Disregard my last message. I was able to fix it. It is indeed a driver
issue. I found it searching google like I should have done, duh. Hey R.
McCarty, thanks for all the great help. I'm in Hawaii so it's my bed time,
12:52AM. Night and thanks again.
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"Nocturnal" <nocturnal@anonymous.com> wrote in message
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> Yeah, I forgot to mention all my hardware is SATA. Two SATA hard drives
> and one SATA DVDRW. Thanks for your quick replies. I'm now having
> problems with video playback. Any video I playback looks like it's being
> played in 16bit color, all washed out and ugly. Any ideas? I have a
> 6800GT with the newest drivers installed. I'm wondering what this could
> be
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> "R. McCarty" <PcEngWork-NoSpam_@mindspring.com> wrote in message
> news:uQOflIHhFHA.3480@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>> It might not be a static problem, but kind of a transient issue. I've
>> got a fairly "State-of-the-Art" PC and do a lot of music editing &
>> mastering. Occassionally, I'll see events like you've described in
>> my logs. I recently switched from a SCSI disk sub-system to the
>> newer SATA-1. Even with that the hard drive is still the biggest
>> bottleneck in a PC. That's why I use Perfect Disk 7 as my system's
>> defragmenter and keep my drives defragmented. Raxco has a
>> 30-day Free trial you might want to try out:
>>
http://www.raxco.com/products/downloadit/perfectdisk2000_download.cfm
>> Whenever the manufacturer's get "Solid State" drives perfected,
>> I'll probably be an Early Adopter on that technology.
>>
>> "Nocturnal" <nocturnal@anonymous.com> wrote in message
>> news:O0EOqCHhFHA.1248@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>>> Directly from nVidia. I just did a chkdsk and it came out perfect, no
>>> errors or anything like that. As of now I have been keeping a close eye
>>> on my event viewer log. I haven't had any problems since I last
>>> rebooted. I did kinda stress the drive by ripping a DVD to it. No
>>> errors whatsoever. I'm wondering what caused that. The main thing that
>>> worried me was when I was trying to burn something to a CD using
>>> Window's Movie Maker it errored out on me and once I checked the event
>>> viewer, I noticed that the error had been ongoing since around 9:30 pm
>>> Friday night. Let me know if you have any other suggestions.
>>>
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>>> "R. McCarty" <PcEngWork-NoSpam_@mindspring.com> wrote in message
>>> news:%23fAXW%23GhFHA.1252@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>>>> Thanks for the follow-up post. I just went over the nVidia and
>>>> checked their nForce chipset drivers are at 7.13. Are you getting
>>>> chipset drivers directly from nVidia or from Asus ?
>>>>
>>>> "Nocturnal" <nocturnal@anonymous.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:OYzrM5GhFHA.1148@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>>>>> The thing is, I was having trouble with my chipset's IDE drivers which
>>>>> are the nVidia ones for an A8N-SLI Deluxe. They aren't the stablest
>>>>> and it is recommended to just use the generic Microsoft IDE drivers.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'll go ahead and do a chkdsk on my second drive to make sure nothing
>>>>> is wrong.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you.
>>>>>
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>>>>> "R. McCarty" <PcEngWork-NoSpam_@mindspring.com> wrote in message
>>>>> news:%23vkcX1GhFHA.3692@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>>>>>> Possibly, but the message is more directed at the controller (IDE
>>>>>> or SCSI/SATA) that is serving the Harddisk #2. It could be an
>>>>>> indication of improperly jumpered devices or that the disk has had
>>>>>> it's operating mode stepped back to a slower PIO mode. First off
>>>>>> you should open a Command Prompt -
>>>>>> Click Start, Run (type) Command [Enter]
>>>>>> From within the Command Prompt box (Left click in it to give it
>>>>>> focus) Type Chkdsk X: [Enter] [Substitute your Drive Letter for X)
>>>>>> XP will do a cursory Chkdsk and report back whether error(s)
>>>>>> exist that a more comprehensive Chkdsk /F should be done. If you
>>>>>> do get that status returned, backup the data on the drive before you
>>>>>> do a Chkdsk with Repair. This could also be BIOS settings and a
>>>>>> number of other things, but I would start with the Chkdsk. If it is
>>>>>> OK (Chkdsk), I would probably download and install the latest
>>>>>> Chipset Driver package for your particular motherboard, as it
>>>>>> provides
>>>>>> the latest Mass Storage drivers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "Nocturnal" <nocturnal@anonymous.com> wrote in message
>>>>>> news:eHmNDwGhFHA.2644@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>>>>>>> What does this mean? Does it mean my hard drive is failing?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I keep getting this error in my events viewer.
>>>>>>>
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