Vista freezes often

[Guest]

Hello,

I have the following Prblem: My Notebook with Windows Vista freezes
regularly. After 10-20 seconds all is running fine again till it freezes
again.

In the Failureprotocoll of Windows the following errormessage is generated
when such a freeze occurs:

Source: atapi
Event ID: 11
Description: Driver founds a controllerfailure at \Device\IDE\IDEPort0
(translated from german)

Originally my Notebook is an Acer Extensa 4101WLMI (Pentium M730, ATI
Mobility Radeon x700, 1 GB Ram)

I am using a new harddisk (160GB) and Windows Vista instead of XP.

Thx for helping me in advance.

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Check to see if there is an updated driver for the controller cable from the
manufacturer of the device. Normally I would also tell you to reseat or
replace the controller cable as well, but as it is a notebook this may not
be practical for you. You may need to bring it to a shop for this, check to
see if it's under warranty and if so, get a work order created. Otherwise,
find a reputable local pc repair shop (meaning not your local equivalent of
an office superstore, but a real repair shop) and have them do it for you.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com