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Plagued by delayed write errors?

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Socio

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Hello all,

For a long time have been plagued by "delayed write errors? to the eventual point where I have to re-install XP Pro.

I will install OS and everything will be fine for the first week or two then I will start getting the errors maybe one or two then after a scan disk it will go away for a few days then happen again and get more frequent. I will eventually have to use the "repair" feature on the WinXP Pro disk and that will keep me going a while longer, but sooner or later my system will not boot at all no matter what and I will be forced to do another re-format and full re-install.


Anyone have any clue as to what causes the "Delayed write errors?? Is it a hardware or a software issue or what?

Thanks for any help
 
Check your hard drive and see if it randomly sounds like its stoping and restarting. This was happening to the hard drive in my home server so I replaced the hard drive and no more delayed write errors.
 
Thanks I will check it out, but I hope it is not the harddrive because its a SCSI and expensive to replace but if has to be done it has to be done..
 
It could be anything from the drive to cabling to memory. Memory is the least probable though since you would also be seeing other problems from bad memory.
 
It could also be the SCSI controller. Odds are it's the drive, but like Nothingman said it could be somthing else along the way.
 
It could also be the SCSI controller
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That's extremely unlikely, other than the fact that I've never seen a SCSI controller die, I would guess that if the controller did die there would be worse symptoms.
 
Looks like it was the SCSI cable, swaped out the cable and everything is running normal at least no delayed write errors yet any way.

Thanks for the help!
 
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