Machine check while reading and writing DVD

[Terry Lemons]

Hi

I'm running Windows XP Home Edition with SP1 installed on a emachines T2865,
which has a NEC ND-1300A DVD drive. I've been using this system for only
two days, so am still trying new things. Today, I started using Dantz
Retrospect Professional v6.5 to backup several systems to DVD-R media in the
NEC drive. After watching this backup run successfully for over 3 hours, I
left the system and did other things. When I returned, the system was
powered off. I booted the system, and ran a Retrospect job to read the
media; again I left, and again I returned some time later to find the system
powered off.

In the system log event viewer, I find this events, which (from the log file
times) are apparently written when I boot the system:

Event Type: Information
Event Source: Application Popup
Event Category: None
Event ID: 26
Date: 1/4/2004
Time: 9:48:40 PM
User: N/A
Computer: JD
Description:
Application popup: : Machine Check:

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 00 00 38 00 03 00 9c 00 ..8...œ.
0008: 00 00 00 00 1a 00 00 40 .......@
0010: 02 00 00 00 1a 00 00 40 .......@
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0028: 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 ........
0030: 38 10 b3 6c 36 d3 c3 01 8.³l6ÓÃ.
0038: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0040: 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0048: 52 01 02 00 00 00 00 a6 R......¦
0050: 4f d6 fd f7 03 00 00 00 OÖý÷....
0058: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........


Event Type: Information
Event Source: Application Popup
Event Category: None
Event ID: 26
Date: 1/4/2004
Time: 9:48:40 PM
User: N/A
Computer: JD
Description:
Application popup: : Machine Check: Regs

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 00 00 08 00 03 00 6c 00 ......l.
0008: 00 00 00 00 1a 00 00 40 .......@
0010: 00 00 00 00 1a 00 00 40 .......@
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 ........


What's happening? Do I have some kind of corruption? Is the system
'blue-screening'?

Guidance, please!

Thanks
tl

 

[Terry Lemons]

And another thing: I've noticed over a hundred of these events today:

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Cdrom
Event Category: None
Event ID: 51
Date: 1/4/2004
Time: 10:46:40 PM
User: N/A
Computer: JD
Description:
An error was detected on device \Device\CdRom1 during a paging operation.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 03 00 68 00 01 00 b8 00 ..h...¸.
0008: 00 00 00 00 33 00 04 80 ....3..€
0010: 2d 01 00 00 10 00 00 c0 -......À
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0028: 64 ba 00 00 00 00 00 00 dº......
0030: ff ff ff ff 01 00 00 00 ÿÿÿÿ....
0038: 40 00 00 c4 02 00 01 00 @..Ä....
0040: 00 20 0a 12 48 02 00 40 . ..H..@
0048: 00 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 ........
0050: 00 40 98 17 68 46 f7 83 .@˜.hF÷ƒ
0058: 00 00 00 00 f0 5a f7 83 ....ðZ÷ƒ
0060: 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0068: 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 (.......
0070: 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0078: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0a p.......
0080: 00 00 00 00 64 00 00 00 ....d...
0088: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

What would a CDROM device be involved in a paging operation? I hope the
system isn't trying to use a CDROM as a paging device, even though it is
writeable!

Thanks
tl