win2000 computer hang

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Hi,
my computer always hang. In the event log i see this. Any idea what could be wrong?


Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Disk
Event Category: None
Event ID: 51
Date: 11/15/2005
Time: 6:14:20 PM
User: N/A
Computer:
Description:
An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 during a paging operation.
Data:
0000: 03 00 22 00 01 00 72 00 .."...r.
0008: 00 00 00 00 33 00 04 80 ....3..€
0010: 2d 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 -.......
0040: 28 00 03 10 0d a7 00 00 (....§..
0048: 08 00 ..



Event Type: Error
Event Source: IdeChnDr
Event Category: None
Event ID: 5
Date: 11/15/2005
Time: 6:14:20 PM
User: N/A
Computer:
Description:
A parity error was detected on \Device\Ide\IdeChnDr0.
Data:
0000: 0f 00 04 00 01 00 5e 00 ......^.
0008: 00 00 00 00 05 00 04 c0 .......À
0028: 00 00 00 00 ....

kryyst

That means that you are getting read/write errors on your harddrive. What it's saying is that the information it thinks it's written isn't matching what it's trying to read back.

So there are several possible causes.

1st. Your mobo may be dying

2nd. Your harddrive may be dying

3rd. Your ide ribbon may be dying

4th. Your harddrive is just in bad shape.

So what do we do.

1st. Check to make sure that your ide ribbon is attached to your harddrive and your mobo correctly and also double check to ensure that there aren't any bad kinks in the ribbon.

2nd. Do a full scandisk (including surface) of your harddrive that will check for data corruption and and physical damage of the drive.

3rd. Defrag the harddrive, regardless if windows thinks it needs it or not. It will put like blocks of data together and can do amazing things for these sorts of problems.

Assuming that you don't have any physical errors and this problem is persisting delete and recreate your page file. There are a few steps to this but here's the gist. Go into system settings and memory set the virtual memory to manual and size 0. Then reboot your system this will clean the page file and set it to 0. Next go to dos and do attrib -h pagefile.sys. Then reboot with your XP cd in the drive and go into recovery console. From recovery console delete pagefile.sys. Then reboot normally into windows, go back into your system settings and turn virtual memory back to auto and let windows do it's thing.

Assuming the damage isn't physical these steps will solve the problem.