re: Erunt and DriveImage backups suddenly taking 10 times longer!
Monday, May 11, 2009 at 2:52 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by raminder singh
(92 messages posted)
As stated in my final report, I had decided to live with the Event 11 disk errors
I was getting in the Event viewer. But their number slowly increased and I also started
getting STOP errors, regularly. At that point I invoked the warranty and called the
IBM service engineer.
The service engineer was initially not convinced that Event 11 disk errors meant
a damaged hard disk. He wanted to clean install XP with a genuine CD first. I let
him do this since I had images of the whole drive stored in an external drive. Event
11 errors appeared in the fresh installation right away, but he wanted me also to
check for STOP errors. These also appeared the next day! I was then provided with
a temporary replacement HDD on which a clean install of XP was done. No event 11
or STOP errors appeared on this installation, at which point he accepted that the
original disk was indeed damaged in some subtle way. It will be replaced in a few
days.
Interestingly, a couple of days ago the BIOS failed, and it turns out that the mother
board also needs to be replaced! A swollen capacitor was found on the mother board.
This too will be replaced.
I have been a bit unlucky with this machine.
Raminder Singh
On Wednesday, April 8, 2009 at 12:25 am, raminder singh wrote:
>Final report:
>
>The Lenovo system toolbox had required me to download and install .NET Framework
>2.0. Doing so cleared all System Restore points, it appears. I was able to use the
>toolbox (as I reported) but found later that the computer froze (with a STOP error)
> when it tried to run a screen saver. Guessing that .NET was responsible, I uninstalled
>it and installed Framework 2.0 sp1 instead. No problems with the version sp1 so
far.
>Anyway, the System Restore entries, which you had suggested clearing, have got thoroughly
>cleared!
>
>I tried the screen experiments you advised. No error appeared.
>
>Today I obtained and replaced the SATA cable. Unfortunately, occasional Event 11
>errors continue to turn up.
>
>So far there are two observations that have a bearing on the appearance of these
>errors. On one occasion I noticed that HDD light activity ceased quickly after the
>welcome screen came up. And when I clicked on the user icon, the light again quietened
>down quickly after the desktop and its icons appeared. I started a program immediately.
>Event viewer showed no error. So I switched users and again found that the HDD light
>went off quickly. And I used a program on this profile also. Again no errors showed.
>However, usually the HDD light continues to show activity, and if one clicks on
a
>user icon without waiting for the light to go still, one or more errors show up.
>Also, no matter how long I wait, one error does show up when the first user profile
>icon is clicked, except on the rare occasions like the one described earlier in
this
>paragraph. However no further errors appear, no matter how the session of use, unless
>I switch users (which I seldom do).
>
>Finally, the computer is working as well as it ever did. It occurs to me that these
>errors may always have been present in this machine! I never used to look at the
>activity of the HDD light, or at the Event viewer logs (except Winlogon after a
chkdsk).
>I started looking at the System log only after the UPS crashed, a user profile got
>corrupted and I started getting STOP errors. Unless I run into more trouble of some
>kind, I will pretend that the machine, at this point, is as good as new!
>
>Thank you for your help.
>
>Raminder Singh
>
>
>
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