M
Mark
Guys
system has been running fine for over a year.
Recently I have been experiencing some 'locking up' problems.
Today I got a BSOD after writing a cdr
KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR
atapi.sys addr....
when I rebooted, the system would not recognise my ide drives on boot up.
Is the atapi.sys a driver for the cd / hd or all ide devices?
I have changed the hd ide cable - no difference.
I have done a few things to the system recently, could any of these have
caused the problem :
1. added a couple of cooling fans (total of 4 sucking in, 2 blowing out)
These fans draw air in from the front and blow directly over the hard
drives.
Could these have contaminated the hd at all?
2. Removed cdrom and cd rw front bezels to stealth them - surely this
couldn't cause a BSOD - could it?
3. The system PSU is a Q-TEC 550W. Plenty of power but a very cheap psu.
I have just ordered a new enermax 460 psu to improve reliability/outputs.
Could the problem be due to the current psu not being up to the job?
System specs:
gigabyte GA7vaxp motherboard
AMD XP2800+ cpu
hercules radeon 9700 Pro 128Mb
2 x WD 80Gb Caviar hd's
creative cdrom
creative cdrw
creative audigy soundcard
1Gb PC2700 DDR RAM
Windows XP Home (SP1)
System typically runs at cpu 42C / system 38C, so I don't think overheating
is an issue.
Have current Norton AV, with latest definitions, and system checks out
clean.
I have just unplugged the primary slave hd, and all appears to be OK
(fingers crossed).
Duff drive?, duff psu?, contaminated hd? contaminated Windows XP files? -
what do you guys reckon?
Thanks in advance
Mark
system has been running fine for over a year.
Recently I have been experiencing some 'locking up' problems.
Today I got a BSOD after writing a cdr
KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR
atapi.sys addr....
when I rebooted, the system would not recognise my ide drives on boot up.
Is the atapi.sys a driver for the cd / hd or all ide devices?
I have changed the hd ide cable - no difference.
I have done a few things to the system recently, could any of these have
caused the problem :
1. added a couple of cooling fans (total of 4 sucking in, 2 blowing out)
These fans draw air in from the front and blow directly over the hard
drives.
Could these have contaminated the hd at all?
2. Removed cdrom and cd rw front bezels to stealth them - surely this
couldn't cause a BSOD - could it?
3. The system PSU is a Q-TEC 550W. Plenty of power but a very cheap psu.
I have just ordered a new enermax 460 psu to improve reliability/outputs.
Could the problem be due to the current psu not being up to the job?
System specs:
gigabyte GA7vaxp motherboard
AMD XP2800+ cpu
hercules radeon 9700 Pro 128Mb
2 x WD 80Gb Caviar hd's
creative cdrom
creative cdrw
creative audigy soundcard
1Gb PC2700 DDR RAM
Windows XP Home (SP1)
System typically runs at cpu 42C / system 38C, so I don't think overheating
is an issue.
Have current Norton AV, with latest definitions, and system checks out
clean.
I have just unplugged the primary slave hd, and all appears to be OK
(fingers crossed).
Duff drive?, duff psu?, contaminated hd? contaminated Windows XP files? -
what do you guys reckon?
Thanks in advance
Mark