Unable to run CHKDSK

[Chrius B]

CHKDSK always aborts. Doesn't matter whether I run it from
within Windows (XP Pro) or from the cmd line, or after
hitting F8 upon reboot. The last time I tried it, I did it
from cmd, but without /F parameter. The difference was
that it no longer metioned anything about TBCSPUD.sys when
it aborted, instead I got "IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" and
under `TECHNICAL INFORMATION" it read: *** STOP: 0X000000A
(0XC0002AD4, 0X00000002, 0X00000000, 0X804DC19F) .
I followed Sharon's advice, and downloaded the latest
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz driver, but it made no difference.
I want to defrag my badly fragmented disk - is it
safe to do this, or should I endenver to resolve this
problem 1st? My system is a Dell Dimension 4400; 512MB DDR
SDRAM Advanced Performance; 40GB Ultra ATA/100 Hard
Drive ; 64MB NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 4X AGP Graphics Card
with TV-Out; 40x/10x/40x CD-RW Drive with Roxio's Easy CD
Creator; Turtle Beach Santa Cruz DSP Sound Card.
Please help!
-Chris

 

[Sharon F]

CHKDSK always aborts. Doesn't matter whether I run it from
within Windows (XP Pro) or from the cmd line, or after
hitting F8 upon reboot. The last time I tried it, I did it
from cmd, but without /F parameter. The difference was
that it no longer metioned anything about TBCSPUD.sys when
it aborted, instead I got "IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" and
under `TECHNICAL INFORMATION" it read: *** STOP: 0X000000A
(0XC0002AD4, 0X00000002, 0X00000000, 0X804DC19F) .
I followed Sharon's advice, and downloaded the latest
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz driver, but it made no difference.
I want to defrag my badly fragmented disk - is it
safe to do this, or should I endenver to resolve this
problem 1st? My system is a Dell Dimension 4400; 512MB DDR
SDRAM Advanced Performance; 40GB Ultra ATA/100 Hard
Drive ; 64MB NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 4X AGP Graphics Card
with TV-Out; 40x/10x/40x CD-RW Drive with Roxio's Easy CD
Creator; Turtle Beach Santa Cruz DSP Sound Card.
Please help!
-Chris

The good news is that you've stopped the error caused by the Turtle Beach
drivers. That's progress in the right direction. The bad news is that
you're still having trouble.

This particular error message that you're getting now usually indicaties a
driver problem, the presence of incompatible or faulty hardware. On rare
occasions it is caused by software.

The following site has a section about XP stop errors. Review the general
troubleshooting information and the specific information about the OA error
noted here: http://www.aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm

 

[Chris B]

-----Original Message-----


The good news is that you've stopped the error caused by the Turtle Beach
drivers. That's progress in the right direction. The bad news is that
you're still having trouble.

This particular error message that you're getting now usually indicaties a
driver problem, the presence of incompatible or faulty hardware. On rare
occasions it is caused by software.

The following site has a section about XP stop errors. Review the general
troubleshooting information and the specific information about the OA error
noted here: http://www.aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm

-Actually, the verdict is still out as to whether Turtle
Beach is at fault, because when I run chkdsk WITH the /F
parameter, I still get the same stop message that mentions
TCSPUD.sys in spite of the fact that I have updated the
sound card's software. Think that one's a blind alley.
I'll check out that `stop errors' site. Do you concur that
it is not safe at this point to attemp to defrag this
disk? What little I do know about hard drives suggests to
me that if there's (possibly) something screwed up in the
FAT (or whatever it's called in the NTFS file system) that
defrag (which must use that table to help keep track of
the data its rearranging) might get `lost' and really
screw things up.

 

[Sharon F]

-Actually, the verdict is still out as to whether Turtle
Beach is at fault, because when I run chkdsk WITH the /F
parameter, I still get the same stop message that mentions
TCSPUD.sys in spite of the fact that I have updated the
sound card's software. Think that one's a blind alley.
I'll check out that `stop errors' site. Do you concur that
it is not safe at this point to attemp to defrag this
disk? What little I do know about hard drives suggests to
me that if there's (possibly) something screwed up in the
FAT (or whatever it's called in the NTFS file system) that
defrag (which must use that table to help keep track of
the data its rearranging) might get `lost' and really
screw things up.

The defrag tool should refuse to run if there is an error on the disk that
it can't work around.