<update006>
Problem fixed?
i took out everything and just went one by one until it errored on IDE ribben cable. I took it out and put in a "new" one. seems fine now. Only got one "end point format is invalid" error. however that was after i ran regedit. turned it off and back on it was fine. restored the back up from regcleaner. have rebooted 3 times since then and not one problem since then. I have everything installed like normal and not a problem now.
i still get error event ID 7001 - which i think is down below somewhere. just do a find...->"7001"
i'm crossing my fingures ... i hope that was the problem. stupid ribben cable! The ribben cable was tied to the zip drive and dvd-rom. NOT the hard drives. However - it could be possible those are bad too??? SOunds like i need to buy a rack of new ribbon cables.
//update 005 is at anandtech.com
</update006>
<update005>
trying anandtech forum. tomshardware's peeps doesn't seem to have any idea what is wrong. This is long but this is also a confusing mess. If your up for a challenge get a pen and paper and read the following closely. lol.
I really have no idea what is wrong with it. I'm a 10 year veteran with computers and i've never had this problem before. I'm pretty sure the 4 updates below will answer your questions. for system information my sig should be a link to my system rig. i'm sure someone out there has experienced this before and figured out what the problem was. it's all below...
thanks!
</update005>
<Update004>
Ugh it just doesn't make any sense!!! I went and played around with it and eventually the USB devices kicked out my network card didn't work and my santa cruz sound card coiuldn't be started. everytime i fix it and reboot (the sound and network card wouldn't work) it would just kick out again.
When i transfer over to my other windows xp hard drive everything is fine!!!!
I have 2 hard drives on RAID ok. they are the 2 80GB WD SE drives. I have one 60GB maxtor drive. Both of these setups have windows xp installed. the RAID setup took a [-peep-] and the maxtor is still working. It's NOT the RAID because i tried with just a single drive and got the SAME errors. it's NOT the hard drives because i've been having these SAME exact problems with my other maxtor drives too. Just for SOME reason THIS maxtor setup works. I've done nothing different to the drives though.
I'm tempted to run drive copy but then i have to back up the drive again and that takes forever. I guess it's worth a try.
what do you guys think!? what would you do!? do you even understand whats going on? can you fill me in! cos i have no idea!
thanks!
</update004>
<update003>
weird - i turned on my computer this moring - it wouldn't post? first time it has ever done that. i turn it off and back on and it posted.
i booted up and i got "end point format is invalid". i rebooted and went into safe mode and used system restore. it worked. it booted up fine and i created another system restore point.
</update003>
<update002>
Holy crap it booted up!
I was in safe mode and then i just did little things. I updated the highpoint drivers and disabled "Write cache" for the zip drive.
here are the common errors i get now. i cleared the event viewer and just rebooted. These events are fresh.
"The Sentinel service depends on the Parport service which failed to start because of the following error:
The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp."
Source: Service Control Manager; Category: none; event: 7001; user: N/A
"An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk1\D during a paging operation.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp."
Source: disk; Category: none; event: 51; user: N/A
This one pops up a lot. it's just a warning but it is there a lot.
</update002>
<update001>
so i'm in safe mode now and these are from the event viewer. Maybe someone here can decipher them.
"Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine CoCreateInstance. hr = 0x80040206.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp."
Source: VSS; Category: none; event: 8193; user: N/A
"The COM+ Event System detected a bad return code during its internal processing. HRESULT was 8007043C from line 44 of d:\nt\com\com1x\src\events\tier1\eventsystemobj.cpp. Please contact Microsoft Product Support Services to report this error.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp."
Source: Event System; Category: (50); event: 4609; user: N/A
these appear often at the sametime.
I just noticed this;
"The driver detected that the device \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 has its write cache enabled. Data corruption may occur.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp."
how do i disable write cache? i can't find it anywhere.
Now this seems to be appearing a lot. Whats funny is that this windows install didn't have a drive D. I just made the hard drive just one big drive with NTFS.
"An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk1\D during a paging operation.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp."
This looks seiorus though!
"The driver detected a controller error on \Device\CdRom1.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp."
</update001>
I've been asking this same question all the time because i keep getting the same errors. Errors that crash my system and i gotta reinstall or use system restore.
I keep getting "Delayed write fail" errors. says something about some hardware not working. But evyerthing is working fine. sound is fine, hard drives are brand new and fine, cpu is brand new and fine, video card is new and fine. The only thing that seems ppossible - would be MAYBE the sound card or the motherboard. But, how do you know if it's the motherboard thats bad or the sound card or what?
another error i get is "endpoint format is invalid" - this just crashes my system completely. I have to go in safe mode and run system restore. There is no work around.
anyone got a clue? at all? anything? i don't care if you think it's stupid!
thanks!
Problem fixed?
i took out everything and just went one by one until it errored on IDE ribben cable. I took it out and put in a "new" one. seems fine now. Only got one "end point format is invalid" error. however that was after i ran regedit. turned it off and back on it was fine. restored the back up from regcleaner. have rebooted 3 times since then and not one problem since then. I have everything installed like normal and not a problem now.
i still get error event ID 7001 - which i think is down below somewhere. just do a find...->"7001"
i'm crossing my fingures ... i hope that was the problem. stupid ribben cable! The ribben cable was tied to the zip drive and dvd-rom. NOT the hard drives. However - it could be possible those are bad too??? SOunds like i need to buy a rack of new ribbon cables.
//update 005 is at anandtech.com
</update006>
<update005>
trying anandtech forum. tomshardware's peeps doesn't seem to have any idea what is wrong. This is long but this is also a confusing mess. If your up for a challenge get a pen and paper and read the following closely. lol.
I really have no idea what is wrong with it. I'm a 10 year veteran with computers and i've never had this problem before. I'm pretty sure the 4 updates below will answer your questions. for system information my sig should be a link to my system rig. i'm sure someone out there has experienced this before and figured out what the problem was. it's all below...
thanks!
</update005>
<Update004>
Ugh it just doesn't make any sense!!! I went and played around with it and eventually the USB devices kicked out my network card didn't work and my santa cruz sound card coiuldn't be started. everytime i fix it and reboot (the sound and network card wouldn't work) it would just kick out again.
When i transfer over to my other windows xp hard drive everything is fine!!!!
I have 2 hard drives on RAID ok. they are the 2 80GB WD SE drives. I have one 60GB maxtor drive. Both of these setups have windows xp installed. the RAID setup took a [-peep-] and the maxtor is still working. It's NOT the RAID because i tried with just a single drive and got the SAME errors. it's NOT the hard drives because i've been having these SAME exact problems with my other maxtor drives too. Just for SOME reason THIS maxtor setup works. I've done nothing different to the drives though.
I'm tempted to run drive copy but then i have to back up the drive again and that takes forever. I guess it's worth a try.
what do you guys think!? what would you do!? do you even understand whats going on? can you fill me in! cos i have no idea!
thanks!
</update004>
<update003>
weird - i turned on my computer this moring - it wouldn't post? first time it has ever done that. i turn it off and back on and it posted.
i booted up and i got "end point format is invalid". i rebooted and went into safe mode and used system restore. it worked. it booted up fine and i created another system restore point.
</update003>
<update002>
Holy crap it booted up!
I was in safe mode and then i just did little things. I updated the highpoint drivers and disabled "Write cache" for the zip drive.
here are the common errors i get now. i cleared the event viewer and just rebooted. These events are fresh.
"The Sentinel service depends on the Parport service which failed to start because of the following error:
The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp."
Source: Service Control Manager; Category: none; event: 7001; user: N/A
"An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk1\D during a paging operation.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp."
Source: disk; Category: none; event: 51; user: N/A
This one pops up a lot. it's just a warning but it is there a lot.
</update002>
<update001>
so i'm in safe mode now and these are from the event viewer. Maybe someone here can decipher them.
"Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine CoCreateInstance. hr = 0x80040206.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp."
Source: VSS; Category: none; event: 8193; user: N/A
"The COM+ Event System detected a bad return code during its internal processing. HRESULT was 8007043C from line 44 of d:\nt\com\com1x\src\events\tier1\eventsystemobj.cpp. Please contact Microsoft Product Support Services to report this error.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp."
Source: Event System; Category: (50); event: 4609; user: N/A
these appear often at the sametime.
I just noticed this;
"The driver detected that the device \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 has its write cache enabled. Data corruption may occur.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp."
how do i disable write cache? i can't find it anywhere.
Now this seems to be appearing a lot. Whats funny is that this windows install didn't have a drive D. I just made the hard drive just one big drive with NTFS.
"An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk1\D during a paging operation.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp."
This looks seiorus though!
"The driver detected a controller error on \Device\CdRom1.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp."
</update001>
I've been asking this same question all the time because i keep getting the same errors. Errors that crash my system and i gotta reinstall or use system restore.
I keep getting "Delayed write fail" errors. says something about some hardware not working. But evyerthing is working fine. sound is fine, hard drives are brand new and fine, cpu is brand new and fine, video card is new and fine. The only thing that seems ppossible - would be MAYBE the sound card or the motherboard. But, how do you know if it's the motherboard thats bad or the sound card or what?
another error i get is "endpoint format is invalid" - this just crashes my system completely. I have to go in safe mode and run system restore. There is no work around.
anyone got a clue? at all? anything? i don't care if you think it's stupid!
thanks!
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