Hello,

This is my first post to this newsgroup. I am getting quite desperate with
delayed write failures in my hard drives. I am using Windows 2000
Professional (SP4) on an Athlon XP 2600+ running on AOpen motherboard. I
have 512Mb DDR-RAM. I have a collection of hard disks, 2 IBM Deskstars 80
and 120GB repsectivelly, a Maxtor 250GB and 2 western digitals of 100 and
60GB. The 100GB WD, the maxtor and the two IBMs are connected to a SIS PCI
IDE controller.

I have this problem for a long time and have lost a huge amount of data
because of it. I have tried solutions from the microsoft website, other
various forums and many other places but still continue to get th esame
problem. The thing that most people suggest is basically to disable write
cashe on the disks. However when I go through the device manager to change
that it gets unchecked but when I apply the changes and reset the pc and
open device manager again the option are still checked. Is there any way
that I can actually get this problem fixed?

If anyone has had this problem before and managed to fix it can they give me
any help at all... I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks for your time guys!

Nikos

"Nikolaos Papapanagiotou" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
news:0ayAb.5542$(E-Mail Removed):

> Hello,
>
> This is my first post to this newsgroup. I am getting quite desperate
> with delayed write failures in my hard drives. I am using Windows
> 2000 Professional (SP4) on an Athlon XP 2600+ running on AOpen
> motherboard. I have 512Mb DDR-RAM. I have a collection of hard
> disks, 2 IBM Deskstars 80 and 120GB repsectivelly, a Maxtor 250GB and
> 2 western digitals of 100 and 60GB. The 100GB WD, the maxtor and the
> two IBMs are connected to a SIS PCI IDE controller.
>
> I have this problem for a long time and have lost a huge amount of
> data because of it. I have tried solutions from the microsoft
> website, other various forums and many other places but still continue
> to get th esame problem. The thing that most people suggest is
> basically to disable write cashe on the disks. However when I go
> through the device manager to change that it gets unchecked but when I
> apply the changes and reset the pc and open device manager again the
> option are still checked. Is there any way that I can actually get
> this problem fixed?
>
> If anyone has had this problem before and managed to fix it can they
> give me any help at all... I would greatly appreciate it.
>
> Thanks for your time guys!
>
> Nikos
>
>
>

Well there are 2 major causes of delayed write faulures, drivers and
hardware. The drivers can be mass storage drivers or filter drivers
(examples are AV and backup). So some questions.

Do the delayed write failures occur across all drives?
What have you tried so far?
Do you get events 7, 9, 11 or 13 with the source of a disk subsystem
component?

There is not a single fix for the problem and turning off write caching
will not fix the root cause.

Leonard Severt

Windows 2000 Server Setup Team

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This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.

Your AOPEN is it via based? If the chipset is via based, you could try
installed the hyperian 4 in 1 drivers located here.

http://viaarena.com

Thanks.
"Nikolaos Papapanagiotou" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:0ayAb.5542$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello,
>
> This is my first post to this newsgroup. I am getting quite desperate
with
> delayed write failures in my hard drives. I am using Windows 2000
> Professional (SP4) on an Athlon XP 2600+ running on AOpen motherboard. I
> have 512Mb DDR-RAM. I have a collection of hard disks, 2 IBM Deskstars 80
> and 120GB repsectivelly, a Maxtor 250GB and 2 western digitals of 100 and
> 60GB. The 100GB WD, the maxtor and the two IBMs are connected to a SIS
PCI
> IDE controller.
>
> I have this problem for a long time and have lost a huge amount of data
> because of it. I have tried solutions from the microsoft website, other
> various forums and many other places but still continue to get th esame
> problem. The thing that most people suggest is basically to disable write
> cashe on the disks. However when I go through the device manager to
change
> that it gets unchecked but when I apply the changes and reset the pc and
> open device manager again the option are still checked. Is there any way
> that I can actually get this problem fixed?
>
> If anyone has had this problem before and managed to fix it can they give
me
> any help at all... I would greatly appreciate it.
>
> Thanks for your time guys!
>
> Nikos
>
>