thewarder68
Junior Member
All,
I've been struggling the last few days with disk errors on my brand new rig, as you may have been able to tell from some of my posts in the forum.
My specs are:
- ASUS p4c800 deluxe
- 1024MB RAM DDr400
- ATI 9800PRO 128MB
- Seagate SATA 160GB
I found that as soon as I enables System Cache in XP I got write errors on bootup and afterwards constant chkdsk requests. I fear I may have disk corruption also (but will, without a doubt find out soon).
After a lot of frustration and extensive internet searching I found the following thread:
delayed write failure
I'd recommend reading through this to anyone having a large HD, lot's of RAM and hefty video cards in XP. Halfway on page 2 it describes exactly my problem:
<<Start quote from Ed R:>>
Found a fix:
Data corruption may occur if the Large System Cache feature is enabled in Windows XP. This symptom does not
occur on all systems. The key ingredients that lead to this symptom may include
System Memory greater than 512 Meg. (1 gigabyte of RAM is common)
- Large NTFS disk volumes. And multiple large volumes. (60-100 gigabyte hard drives possibly in RAID arrays)
- AGP graphics with large AGP resource requirements (AGP aperture greater than default)
- Large file transfers
This problem occurs when the computer runs out of system page table entries. Windows determines (at boot time) the default number of page table entries to assign, based on the amount of system memory available. The items mentioned above all contribute to increasing the number of page table entires that Windows XP must maintain and in extreme cases the page table entries may be exhausted.
To avoid this symptom ensure the System Cache option is NOT selected for Memory usage. Use the Programs option.
<<End Quote>>
This followed by some information on how to possibly solve this problem with a registry hack.
Looks like a little MS problem....
Hopefully this will save someone some time now or in the future....
Greetings!
Johan
I've been struggling the last few days with disk errors on my brand new rig, as you may have been able to tell from some of my posts in the forum.
My specs are:
- ASUS p4c800 deluxe
- 1024MB RAM DDr400
- ATI 9800PRO 128MB
- Seagate SATA 160GB
I found that as soon as I enables System Cache in XP I got write errors on bootup and afterwards constant chkdsk requests. I fear I may have disk corruption also (but will, without a doubt find out soon).
After a lot of frustration and extensive internet searching I found the following thread:
delayed write failure
I'd recommend reading through this to anyone having a large HD, lot's of RAM and hefty video cards in XP. Halfway on page 2 it describes exactly my problem:
<<Start quote from Ed R:>>
Found a fix:
Data corruption may occur if the Large System Cache feature is enabled in Windows XP. This symptom does not
occur on all systems. The key ingredients that lead to this symptom may include
System Memory greater than 512 Meg. (1 gigabyte of RAM is common)
- Large NTFS disk volumes. And multiple large volumes. (60-100 gigabyte hard drives possibly in RAID arrays)
- AGP graphics with large AGP resource requirements (AGP aperture greater than default)
- Large file transfers
This problem occurs when the computer runs out of system page table entries. Windows determines (at boot time) the default number of page table entries to assign, based on the amount of system memory available. The items mentioned above all contribute to increasing the number of page table entires that Windows XP must maintain and in extreme cases the page table entries may be exhausted.
To avoid this symptom ensure the System Cache option is NOT selected for Memory usage. Use the Programs option.
<<End Quote>>
This followed by some information on how to possibly solve this problem with a registry hack.
Looks like a little MS problem....
Hopefully this will save someone some time now or in the future....
Greetings!
Johan
