Need Help Interpreting "Serious" Error Report

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by zapp, Sep 8, 2011.

  1. zapp

    zapp Staff Sergeant

    Guys I'm chasing a problem and so far not solving.
    this is on a compaq evo d510 minitower, xppsp3, very clean, but one of the ide devices, or more, is causing sudden death when I physically monkey with it.
    started out as inability to write cd's cleanly [miscompares in validation], then after moving cables around, checking jumper settings, etc I had three hard drive [or something] sudden-deaths... like not blue screen but instant reboots.
    Ran drive tests, inconclusively. one failed. One resulted in a reboot cycle while running seatools SMART test, all others passed. even really long ones.

    Replaced both IDE cables and on first boot I got a windows system "serious error recovery" message and copied the data here:

    BCCode : 100000d1 BCP1 : 00000070 BCP2 : 00000005 BCP3 : 00000000
    BCP4 : F749FD23 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 3_0 Product : 256_1

    That issue left behind a mini dmp file which I will attach if I can.

    anyone help me read this stuff?
     
  2. brownizs

    brownizs MajorGeek

    Try just leaving one drive in there, then try each one for boot? You can use a Ubuntu dvd or CD to boot up with just the CD or DVD. Also, have you tried different cables on the drives? Also, have you tried a different hard drive in it, to see if same results happen? Problem is, when they get that old, there is not much you can do, but get a new machine. I had one that lasted 7 years before it died, and another that was around 11 years before it finally died. One due to IDE controller, and the other due to power supply.
     
  3. Tueur

    Tueur Sergeant Major

    Put the minidump up and ill have a look
     
  4. zapp

    zapp Staff Sergeant

    unfortunately MG doesn't permit .dmp files attached. :cry

    to the other reply - that's exactly what I did, and in limited testing I got good write on the DVD/RW - only one error and that one is common [using Imgburn]: a write speed calculation mismatch. but the burn was good.

    I have a theory not rooted in sound EE rolleyes... that a cable or pin gone bad on one of the IDE devices causes noise that affects both?? anyone know if in those older implementations we have basically one ata controller with two channels? if so, the theory might hold up. at any rate, with two fairly fresh cables swapped out, I didn't see a recurrence YET. not to say it might come with use. for now I'm letting it go with just the one DVD/RW although I have no reason to implicate the other... it just reduces the complexity of the issue.
     
  5. Tueur

    Tueur Sergeant Major

    Zip them up
     

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