Temporary: Freeze or Halt or Pause or Lockup or Stall or Stop

[Guest]

I have Windows XP on my Dell XPS T500 with three hard disk drives of
multiple GB temporarialy freezes (locks up, halts, pauses, hangs, etc.) for
several seconds at intervals of about 3 to 5 minutes.
It seems to happen less just after defragging all drives and clearing
temporary files and rebooting.
I have found the following by going to: Control Panel > Performance and
Maintenance > Administrative Tools > Event Viewer > System
I see an error pointing to SOURCE = "atapi" and CATEGORY= "None" and ERROR
="15." There are a great many of these at the times that the PC temporarily
freezes.
I double click on the error entry to see that the error description is: "The
device, \Device\Ide\IdePort1, is not ready for access yet."

So this seems to be the problem.

Can onyone tell me the solution to this problem and make this machine
continue to run -- instead of STOPPING?

This is making me crazy.

 

[Rock]

I have Windows XP on my Dell XPS T500 with three hard disk drives of
multiple GB temporarialy freezes (locks up, halts, pauses, hangs, etc.) for
several seconds at intervals of about 3 to 5 minutes.
It seems to happen less just after defragging all drives and clearing
temporary files and rebooting.
I have found the following by going to: Control Panel > Performance and
Maintenance > Administrative Tools > Event Viewer > System
I see an error pointing to SOURCE = "atapi" and CATEGORY= "None" and ERROR
="15." There are a great many of these at the times that the PC temporarily
freezes.
I double click on the error entry to see that the error description is: "The
device, \Device\Ide\IdePort1, is not ready for access yet."

So this seems to be the problem.

Can onyone tell me the solution to this problem and make this machine
continue to run -- instead of STOPPING?

This is making me crazy.

Do some reading here:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=Device+Ide+IdePort1+is+not+ready+for+access+yet&btnG=Search
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=D...ot+ready+for+access+yet&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=wg