Laura Duchesne
EF5
First off, I hope I posted in the right section, since it is equipment related. If not, mods feel free to move this to the appropriate spot.
This one is for the computer techies... I got a new desktop computer a couple weeks ago. Everything works great except I have one problem. It will randomly hang on me, mostly when I first boot up during the day, and there was only one day where no hang ups occurred, and the next day it hung up three times. I can move my mouse cursor but it displays as a circle instead and everything becomes unresponsive. I cannot even ctrl-alt-del and need to do a hard shut down. Doesn't matter what I am doing at the time. Now, I don't want to hear "Vista sucks" because that will not help me at all. Everything I have is Vista compatible and my computer has enough power.
My system specs:
Vista Home Premium 32-bit Service Pack 1 with Rating 5.6
4 GB ram
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8 GHz
600 GB SATA Hard Drive
SATA DVD/CD Burner/Reader
I decided to take a look in Event Viewer and noticed that every single day, I get this error:
Event ID 11 - atapi - The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort0.
Sometimes, but not as often, I also get: The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort2.
I have switched Motherboards and still get the same issues/errors. Could this be a good sign of a failing hard drive? I looked in Device Manager and everything seems fine. Thanks in advance.
This one is for the computer techies... I got a new desktop computer a couple weeks ago. Everything works great except I have one problem. It will randomly hang on me, mostly when I first boot up during the day, and there was only one day where no hang ups occurred, and the next day it hung up three times. I can move my mouse cursor but it displays as a circle instead and everything becomes unresponsive. I cannot even ctrl-alt-del and need to do a hard shut down. Doesn't matter what I am doing at the time. Now, I don't want to hear "Vista sucks" because that will not help me at all. Everything I have is Vista compatible and my computer has enough power.
My system specs:
Vista Home Premium 32-bit Service Pack 1 with Rating 5.6
4 GB ram
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8 GHz
600 GB SATA Hard Drive
SATA DVD/CD Burner/Reader
I decided to take a look in Event Viewer and noticed that every single day, I get this error:
Event ID 11 - atapi - The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort0.
Sometimes, but not as often, I also get: The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort2.
I have switched Motherboards and still get the same issues/errors. Could this be a good sign of a failing hard drive? I looked in Device Manager and everything seems fine. Thanks in advance.