John John,
Just wanted to let you know you were right on the money. It was a
bad IDE Cable.
Thanks Again, Bob
"John John" wrote:
> Hard to say. Is there any code with the error message? Personally I
> think that if your disk is repeatedly refusing to boot after a short
> time of use it is going bad, disks can fail at anytime for any reason,
> (young) age is not an indication that a disk is OK, they can fail right
> out of the box or within a few months of installation. I think you
> should run the utilities from the disk manufacturer.
>
> If I were you I would put each of these disks on a controller of its own
> instead of having them in a Master/Slave relationship, with your TX2
> controller that should be possible. Bad IDE cables could also be
> causing problems, check those out. Another possibility, maybe bad RAM?
> Bad RAM can cause all kinds of mysterious problems.
>
> John
>
> Bob L. wrote:
>
> > Upon startup I am now getting a blue screen with the "windows is shutting
> > down to protect the operating system" error . Could this have been caused by
> > a Windows Update or something?
> >
> > "Bob L." wrote:
> >
> >
> >> I ran WinDiag and it checks OK. Could it be another issue other than the
> >>hard disk. Both disks are about a year old. Bob
> >>
> >>"John John" wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Try running a chkdsk on the disk in question. Get a disk checking
> >>>utility from the HD manufacturer and run it on the disk, the disk may be
> >>>failing.
> >>>
> >>>John
> >>>
> >>>Bob L. wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> I am using a Promise Ultra 100TX2 PCI card. I have two W.D. 250gb
> >>>>hard drives (Master & Slave) on the Ultra's IDE 0 port running XP Pro SP2.
> >>>>For the past two weeks I am having trouble booting my computer. When I boot
> >>>>the master drive I get an error (cannot read boot disk). This also happens
> >>>>when I hibernate and then later start the computer. I get the same error and
> >>>>it asks me to delete Restoration Data & restart. The only way I can start the
> >>>>computer at this point is to use a boot disk and boot an operating system on
> >>>>the slave drive. After I start the slave drive, I can then restart the
> >>>>computer and it will read the boot options on the computer’s master drive and
> >>>>I can then boot the XP operating system as usual. I tried reinstalling the
> >>>>card's driver on the XP's operating system but that didn't help. What could
> >>>>be causing this problem?
> >>>
> >>>
>
>
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