Re: Reboot several times a day

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Hi,

Thanks for responding.

I don't know why that first drive has no temp. reading. I noticed that too.
It and the one listed after it are both 120gb WD drives which I purchased
the same day.

The last two are 250gb WD also purchased the same day as each other.

I buy drives in pairs because I use one to back up the other so I always get
2 at the same time.

Regarding memory - no. It's not ECC. Don't know how XP detects corruption...

Interestingly, I went through the device manager list and did an 'update
driver' on EVERY device or pseudo device on the system. One device showed a
driver problem - my HP PSC750XI - and I let XP update the driver from MS.
Then I went to HP and asked it to check and see if I had the latest driver
and it said I do.

Since that driver was installed, I have not had a crash (knocking on the
nearest piece of wood). I have gone as much as a week or 10 days without a
crash before only to have them return so I'm not rejoicing yet. Cautiously
optimistic is the phrase that comes to mind... It's been 6 or 7 days now, I
think...

I will go get the memory test you mentioned. I'm not really too concerned
about the memory. I got the error with the original memory and swapped it
for a new batch and still got the error. The MS diagnostic says it is
usually hardware; not always. I'm guessing that this whole thing has been
software. The only pieces of hardware that haven't been changed are the MB
and the CPU...

Thanks for your thoughts.

--
Leland


"cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)" wrote:

> On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 22:31:02 -0800, Leland Sheppard
>
>
> >Here are the HD Tune Health reports on the 4 HDs that are on all the time
> >(the USB units are rarely powered on):
>
> Being powered off and on regularly can be worse than running all the
> time, so I wouldn't be surprised to see the USBs fail first.
>
> >HD Tune: WDC WD1200JB-75CRA0 Health
>
> >ID Current Worst ThresholdData Status
> >(05) Reallocated Sector Count 199 199 140 10 Ok
> >(C4) Reallocated Event Count 198 198 0 2 Ok
>
> Those aren't so good - looks like the HD has already started to "fix"
> bad sectors on the fly...
>
> >(C5) Current Pending Sector 200 200 0 0 Ok
> >(C6) Offline Uncorrectable 200 200 0 0 Ok
>
> ....though so far it's succeeded in doing so. I don't see a
> temperature reading; is this an old HD, say 10G or smaller?
>
> >HD Tune: WDC WD1200JB-32FUA0 Health
>
> >ID Current Worst ThresholdData Status
> >(C2) Temperature 106 253 0 44 Ok
>
> 44C is too hot for comfort - fan that HD so it stays under 40C, would
> be my instinct here.
>
> >HD Tune: WDC WD2500JB-00GVA0 Health
>
> >HD Tune: WDC WD2500JB-00GVA0 Health
> >(C2) Temperature 106 91 0 44 Ok
>
> Another hottie... (and not in a good way)
>
> >There seem to be two errors and from looking at the event log, 2 stop codes.
> > One is for a device driver and the other is for random access memory.
>
> Do you have ECC RAM?
> Wondering how a RAM error could be trapped, otherwise.
>
> >Can't remember if I mentioned but I have downloaded the MS memory exercise
> >utility and it shows no failures. I know I did mention that I swapped memory.
>
> Overnight, or even over-weekend, in MemTest86...
>
> www.memtest.org - OK
>
> www.memtest86.com - OK
>
> www.memtest . com - domain-squatter with pop-ups, avoid
>
>
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