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    Getting atapi 11 errors.. How to tell if it's the HDD or the chip?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by X2Eliah, Apr 17, 2011.

  1. X2Eliah

    X2Eliah Notebook Guru

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    Hey folks, I think I might have a problem with my Clevo W870CU.
    Lately, there's been quite noticeable issues with the system - for instance, opening an i-net browser is fast, loading any page for first time takes a ton of time (Chrome, for example, shows 'waiting for cache'), after that, it's plain sailing. During these hangouts, the system's nearly unusable, and any user activity will likely crash the process/prolong it.

    The event log shows that coinciding with these times, there are bursts of atapi errors (error code 11; "The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort0."). That's the location of my C: drive. Usually these bursts are with 4-5 errors in row, in the same time-stamp. Sometimes, more, and a warning "Ntfs; The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur."

    According to MS, this error can be thrown both when the hard drive is failing, or when there is a hardware problem with the controller itself - but there's no way to determine which one without disassembling the system.

    So, er, is there a sure-fire way to determine which of those two is at fault? If it's the HDD, then I could just get an SSD instead; if it's the controller, I'd rather not waste money on a new drive.
    I ran the chkdsk, that found no issues; hdtune finds two bad sectors (224MB size / block) reliably, so they are there..
    The kicker is, I got two disks in the system - identical - and the second one is not showing any problems or errors at all, it's only the system disk that does this.
     
    X2Eliah, Apr 17, 2011
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  2. sarge_

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    It's probably the HDD. Easy check: switch them places. :)
     
    sarge_, Apr 17, 2011
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  3. X2Eliah

    X2Eliah Notebook Guru

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    Hmm.. The boot order won't be ruined by that? Might be worth a shot..
     
    X2Eliah, Apr 17, 2011
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    TechnoWhore, Apr 17, 2011
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  5. X2Eliah

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    Well.. I did say this in the OP, you know. I appreciate the intention, at least.
     
    X2Eliah, Apr 17, 2011
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    Sorry, missed that last part.
     
    TechnoWhore, Apr 17, 2011
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