Plagued by delayed write errors?

[Socio]

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

 

[JohnG86]

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.

 

[Thor86]

Yeah, those are signs of a dying drive.

 

[Socio]

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..

 

[Nothinman]

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.

 

[spyordie007]

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.

 

[Nothinman]

It could also be the SCSI controller

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.

 

[spyordie007]

I would guess that if the controller did die there would be worse symptoms.

probably, but that doesnt mean it should be assumed functioning

 

[Socio]

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!