This has been an ongoing problem and perhaps I'm not the only one. I have posted various other similar problems with my setup/hard drives and whenever I think I got one problem down, another or the same one crops right back up. I'm going to use this thread to keep track of what I did and perhaps it'll help out someone else with similar problems or someone will help me. And yes I have used the search function.
Here's the hardware setup:
EPoX 4g4a+ (BIOS v???)
P4 1.6@2.1GHz
512MB PC2700 DDR RAM
PSU Antec TruPower 330 Watt
ATI R8500
Santa Cruz
Primary IDE: 1 Seagate Cuda IV 80GB
Secondary IDE: 1 Liteon CDRW drive
Integrated Highpoint IDE RAID controller (BIOS v2.351): 4 Seagate Cuda V 200GB
System stress tested under Prime95 for a couple of hours with no errors. +12V rails aren't too bad (avg +11.86 off MBM, trying to get hold of multimeter)
File system on all drives is NTFS.
The "Delayed Write Failed" has ONLY occured while eMule is running. I run eMule for weeks at a time mainly because the foreign television shows I am trying to get are rare and takes quite a while to get a single episode (US satellite/cable doesn't carry the programs last time I checked). There are about 80 queued files at any single point in time and about 10-20 of them are downloading onto the drive with problems.
The only program writing to the particular drive is eMule, and the files that are not being successfully written to are eMule files. I am not transferring large files when the error occurs. Plus, the error only occurs when I'm not at the computer, say early in the morning or so during no user activity.
The error is not a common occurance. Today is the second time it has happened in just under a month. What bothers me is that, why should it occur "sometimes" when I have the damn program running all of the time? Not to mention explorer.exe takes a dump on me every few days or so. That I can take, I'm used to it. But if this were a faulty hard drive, I should have more acute problems. If it were a faulty controller or bad cable, the problem should be chronic. I can't even turn off write caching because it's greyed out.
The error has not been observed on any of the other drives, but then again, I don't run eMule or any active disk use programs on the others.
No strange metallic clanging, grinding sounds either while running the system. SMART doesn't report anything.
OLD UPDATE: I just got the error while using the computer with eMule running in the background. Several times in one day is not good. I turned eMule off, but perhaps I should try transferring large files and see if that can reproduce the problem. Oh boy, I just saw a balloon saying something like: Error writing to E:\$MFt. Not good.
CURRENT UPDATE: I installed my PROMISE 133TX2 controller and while there haven't been any error messages relating to "Delayed Write Failed" I have other problems.
1) An error is logged in Event viewer:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7026
Date: 11/03/04
Time: 9:23:51 PM
User: N/A
Computer:
Description:
The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:
hptpro
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
How do I get rid of this?
Also, the after the installation of the PROMISE card, I get stuttering during playback of mp3s. I didn't move around any PCI cards....
Here's what I have done already:
1) Windows XP with SP2 reformat (I got the error (several times) before on a SP1 install)
2) Highpoint Controller BIOS update
3) Ran Seagate SeaTools quick diagnostics and no errors (on any of my drives)
4) Ran CDHKDSK /f /r, checked in the windows XP log and 0 (zero) bad sectors. Didn't pick up anything unusual.
Here's the hardware setup:
EPoX 4g4a+ (BIOS v???)
P4 1.6@2.1GHz
512MB PC2700 DDR RAM
PSU Antec TruPower 330 Watt
ATI R8500
Santa Cruz
Primary IDE: 1 Seagate Cuda IV 80GB
Secondary IDE: 1 Liteon CDRW drive
Integrated Highpoint IDE RAID controller (BIOS v2.351): 4 Seagate Cuda V 200GB
System stress tested under Prime95 for a couple of hours with no errors. +12V rails aren't too bad (avg +11.86 off MBM, trying to get hold of multimeter)
File system on all drives is NTFS.
The "Delayed Write Failed" has ONLY occured while eMule is running. I run eMule for weeks at a time mainly because the foreign television shows I am trying to get are rare and takes quite a while to get a single episode (US satellite/cable doesn't carry the programs last time I checked). There are about 80 queued files at any single point in time and about 10-20 of them are downloading onto the drive with problems.
The only program writing to the particular drive is eMule, and the files that are not being successfully written to are eMule files. I am not transferring large files when the error occurs. Plus, the error only occurs when I'm not at the computer, say early in the morning or so during no user activity.
The error is not a common occurance. Today is the second time it has happened in just under a month. What bothers me is that, why should it occur "sometimes" when I have the damn program running all of the time? Not to mention explorer.exe takes a dump on me every few days or so. That I can take, I'm used to it. But if this were a faulty hard drive, I should have more acute problems. If it were a faulty controller or bad cable, the problem should be chronic. I can't even turn off write caching because it's greyed out.
The error has not been observed on any of the other drives, but then again, I don't run eMule or any active disk use programs on the others.
No strange metallic clanging, grinding sounds either while running the system. SMART doesn't report anything.
OLD UPDATE: I just got the error while using the computer with eMule running in the background. Several times in one day is not good. I turned eMule off, but perhaps I should try transferring large files and see if that can reproduce the problem. Oh boy, I just saw a balloon saying something like: Error writing to E:\$MFt. Not good.
CURRENT UPDATE: I installed my PROMISE 133TX2 controller and while there haven't been any error messages relating to "Delayed Write Failed" I have other problems.
1) An error is logged in Event viewer:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7026
Date: 11/03/04
Time: 9:23:51 PM
User: N/A
Computer:
Description:
The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:
hptpro
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
How do I get rid of this?
Also, the after the installation of the PROMISE card, I get stuttering during playback of mp3s. I didn't move around any PCI cards....
Here's what I have done already:
1) Windows XP with SP2 reformat (I got the error (several times) before on a SP1 install)
2) Highpoint Controller BIOS update
3) Ran Seagate SeaTools quick diagnostics and no errors (on any of my drives)
4) Ran CDHKDSK /f /r, checked in the windows XP log and 0 (zero) bad sectors. Didn't pick up anything unusual.
