harddrive idle

[Guest]

I've been having a problem with my harddrive going into idle and locks up my
system.
heres a copy/paste from Event Viewer

Event Type: Error
Event Source: atapi
Event Category: None
Event ID: 9
Date: 7/9/2005
Time: 7:00:35 AM
User: N/A
Computer: PANDA
Description:
The device, \Device\Ide\IdePort0, did not respond within the timeout period.

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Data:
0000: 0f 00 50 00 01 00 a4 00 ..P...¤.
0008: 00 00 00 00 09 00 04 c0 .......À
0010: 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0028: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0030: 00 00 00 00 07 00 00 00 ........
0038: 40 00 00 0e 00 00 00 00 @.......
0040: 00 20 0a 12 40 03 20 40 . ..@. @
0048: 00 10 00 00 0a 00 00 00 ........
0050: 00 00 00 00 30 9d e8 86 ....0叠
0058: 00 00 00 00 90 a2 4f 85 ....¢O…
0060: 02 00 00 00 3f 27 60 00 ....?'`.
0068: 28 00 00 60 27 3f 00 00 (..`'?..
0070: 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Might be a h/w problem.

How to troubleshoot Event 9 and Event 11 error messages:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=154690

 

[Guest]

This has been an odd problem as I've had it before but was fixed be avoiding
specific Video card drivers. It only happens during game play and it doesn't
seem to cater towards any one in specific. For the longest time the problem
never came back (thinking that it was a problem that ATI fixed with their
drivers) but now it just started up a few days ago. No changes to drivers
were done. only thing that I do is update spyware protection, run chkdsk /f ,
defrag and windows update.
I'm wondering if winXPsp2 doesn't like the fact that it's a 250gig hard drive