slow start up 1

[chrisp909]

I have a Athlon 1.2GB running windows 2000. A 10MB WD primary and a 60MB IBM slave.

About a week ago when I turned it on, after a complete shut down the system took about ten minutes to start up. And it was running slowly once it was fully started. I did a restart and the system started up normally and ran normally.

Ever since then every time I shut down I have to wait for about ten minutes then restart to make the coputer work properly. restarts are always fine.

I have some disk errors in the system log. These have apparently been occurring frequently for months before the current problem.

"The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk1\DR1."

"The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk0\DR0."

I also have had this one about four times in the past four months.

"A parity error was detected on \Device\Ide\IdePort0."

Is this a hard disk prob? Are the errors related if not what the heck is causing those?

 

[SESaskDFC]

Howdy:

Sounds more like a motherboard issue as the controller is located on the motherboard. Suggest you have it checked asap.

Murray

 

[BuckeyeComputers]

There is also a controller chip on the harddrive... sounds like it could be having problems.

 

[SESaskDFC]

Good call Buckeye.. Forgot about that one !!

Murray

 

[teej505]

While searching for another problem I found Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 262448 "Disk Error 11 and ATAPI Error 5 Using DMA Transfer Mode for ATA66 Hard Disk" that listed the same symptoms you mentioned.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=262448

Good luck!

 

[chrisp909]

teej505
Looks like that was it. the MS Knowledge base was th e first place I checked but didn't find anything usefull. I hope you were able to find a solution to your problem.