Re: Event Viewer Error Messages

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From: Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\) (user_at_#notme.com)
Date: 06/22/04 

Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 16:06:03 -0700

Not necessary to crosspost to so many groups, hardware related and
maintenance should be enough for this type of error.

The first error appears to be related to a SCSI device on your system and
some users do have SCSI hard drives as opposed to ATA IDE hard drives. Do
you have such a hard drive, usually a user would know this as SCSI drives
are not usually standard on consumer systems. Some external devices which
are not SCSI devices use a special driver that emulates SCSI and that can be
the source of such errors as well. Iomega Zip drives fall into that
category, at least the NON-USB versions.

I can't say if these two errors suggest a hard drive, failure. Usually such
a failure will be preceded by some blue screen crashing during saves or
reading from the drive as well as system error messages that the drive could
not be read or the drive could not be written to and this would be errors
outside the event log.

The best way to test is to go to the hard drive manufacturer's website, look
for their diagnostic disk (Unless you have the one that came with your
drive), download the tools, make note of the instructions for creating the
tools floppy and running their diagnostics and then run their disk
diagnostic as these are pretty good at determining if a disk is about to
fail. 

-- 
Michael Solomon MS-MVP
Windows Shell/User
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"thmcg" <thmcg2003@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:7c68cdf1.0406221446.78b451c3@posting.google.com...
> Hello,
>
> I am frequently getting an error message in the "System" Event Log.
> The source is "ultra" and the Event ID is "9."  The Description reads
> "The device, \Device\Scsi\ultra1, did not respond within the timeout
> period."  At the exact same time a warning message is being logged.
> The warning source is "disk" and the Event ID is "51."  The
> Description for this warning reads "An error was detected on device
> \Device\Harddisk0\D during a paging operation."  These exact two
> events are then logged-in once again 15 seconds later.
>
> I clicked on the Help & Support link and for the Error "ultra 9" there
> was no additional info available.  However, for the Warning "disk 51"
> an explanation was given "An input/output (I/O) request to a
> memory-mapped file failed and the operation was retried."  Further,
> there was the following statement for User Action:  "If these events
> are logged regularly on a primary system drive, replace the device.
> Otherwise, no user action is required."
>
> Am I looking at a "hard drive in the process of failing"????
>
> Any help would be appreciated!
>
> Thanks!
>
> Tom.

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