Event ID 51

Have XP Pro SP3 on a homebuilt AMD based system. Machine has run fine for about 2 years now. I run Acronis TIH 2009 and have it set to perform a backup once a week, it starts around 11:45pm. One morning about 5am I noticed Acronis had not finished, it was only about 1/3 of the way. Normally it just takes a couple of hours. I canceled the scan and noticed comp was sluggish,usually it's lightning fast. Nothing that I would click on would come up, task manager would not come up. I had to shut down by the power button. It took several tries to boot it up, finally got it to boot in safe mode. I uninstalled Acronis on a whim. Ran Malwarebytes and Superantispyware. Both took unusually long to finish. No malware present. Ran a scan with ESET Smart Security and found nothing. Booted into windows with last known config. Comp was sluggish, but seemed to get a little better after running for 15-20 minutes. Checked event viewer and found a lot of warnings that started the same time comp got slow. Error ID 51 "An error was detected\Device\Harddisk0\D during a paging operation. Also a few, Event ID 26 "The driver has detected that device \Device\Ide\IdePort0 has old or out of date firmware. Reduced performance may result."
I'm running an Asus M4A79 Deluxe board with with the 3204 bios installed 3-25-10.
Any ideas as to what I should try ?

 

Download this and check the Smart, once you have it installed go to storage, and go to Smart, this will tell you the condition of your hard drive, let us know. ed

http://www.majorgeeks.com/EVEREST_Free_Edition_d4181.html

 

ID Attribute Description Threshold Value Worst Data Status
01 Raw Read Error Rate 51 200 200 0 OK: Value is normal
03 Spin Up Time 21 253 173 1833 OK: Value is normal
04 Start/Stop Count 0 100 100 355 OK: Always passing
05 Reallocated Sector Count 140 200 200 0 OK: Value is normal
07 Seek Error Rate 0 200 200 0 OK: Always passing
09 Power-On Time Count 0 76 76 17758 OK: Always passing
0A Spin Retry Count 0 100 100 0 OK: Always passing
0B Calibration Retry Count 0 100 100 0 OK: Always passing
0C Power Cycle Count 0 100 100 317 OK: Always passing
C0 Power-Off Retract Count 0 200 200 221 OK: Always passing
C1 Load/Unload Cycle Count 0 200 200 355 OK: Always passing
C2 Temperature 0 114 108 36 OK: Always passing
C4 Reallocation Event Count 0 200 200 0 OK: Always passing
C5 Current Pending Sector Count 0 200 200 0 OK: Always passing
C6 Off-Line Uncorrectable Sector Count 0 200 200 0 OK: Always passing
C7 Ultra ATA CRC Error Rate 0 200 200 0 OK: Always passing
C8 Write Error Rate 0 200 200 0 OK: Always passing

 

Your harddrive seems to be ok, there are a few problems that could cause this, not enough page file, a failing ide cable[ go's from motherboard to harddrive] or failing ram, heres a read,
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/244780

 

Harddrive looked good to me too. I've played with the page file, and it makes no difference.
I have not changed out the sata cable tho, it's worth a try. Don't think it's ram, I have another drive on the same comp with Win7 Ult, and it runs just fine, (I probably should have mentioned that in my first post). I did check out the microsoft article.
I was hoping that someone had run into this before and knew of a fix. My gut is telling me that my XP install is corrupt somehow. Right now, I'm transferring all my settings and files to the Win7 drive and when that's finished I will try a repair on XP. Hoping that does the trick, but, I could be way off here.

 

Once you get 7 going you will ditch xp anyway, Good Luck. ed

 

Just want to update this in case it may help someone else. The drive did fail, even tho it was checking good. So if you are getting this error make sure you have everything backed up before you even start troubleshooting.