Delayed Write Failed Error

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by okn0tok, Sep 19, 2009.

  1. okn0tok

    okn0tok Private E-2

    XP PRO SP3
    AMD athlon 2.76 Mg
    896 mg ram
    Compaq SR5413WM

    Two HD both Seagate Barracudas one 250g the other 500g.
    (250g is a barracuda 7200.10 ST3250310AS and the 500g is a 7200.11 ST3500320AS)

    The mismatch error occurs on the 500g drive. If and when I can actually get it to load in BIOS and boot into XP it gives me and I/O error and I cannot access the data.

    Possible causes:
    I removed 1 gig of ram and gave it my son, I swapped his smaller 512 mg of ram. I believe this was the start of my problems as it probably caused a memory parity problem. So I pulled it and still get the error.

    I had an external Maxtor (usb) but I unplugged it and plugged it in to my router instead thinking it could have been this causing it.

    I do not have ATI graphics card but I made sure the Large system cache was set to zero for all drives, it was.

    If you look on my other posts I have massive issues with RAID and drives loading at all if I pull one.

    With that said Im upgrading the firmware on the 500g because I found out there is an upgrade. I will restart and see what happens.
    If this does not work I plan on removing this 500g drive and seeing if it has the same issue on another pc.

    Will keep you posted. Any ideas aside from this would be greatly appreciated - thanks.
     
  2. okn0tok

    okn0tok Private E-2

    Well so much for firmware upgrade as the first thing is says is DO NOT update on RAID systems. I will now try moving the HD to another pc and see what happens.
     
  3. okn0tok

    okn0tok Private E-2

    Well after trying it as an external on another machine I get the same error then it crashes so I will chalk it up to drive failure. Of course it was my backup drive with everything on it. ;)
     

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