What are You doing right now?

[odeon]

Try melatonin. Potentially you can get better, if not more, sleep.

[Christopher McCandless]

Try melatonin. Potentially you can get better, if not more, sleep.

I am reluctant to drug myself anymore atm, the problem is that I tend to be doing something until that time anyway...

[DirtDawg]

Try melatonin. Potentially you can get better, if not more, sleep.

You say "potentially"  and I think of the voltage that was almost visible at every nerve ending in my body ...

OMFG - it's been about one year, already.
It would be great if my system did not fight off every potentially beneficial substance with such vigor.

[DirtDawg]

Right now, I am double checking to make sure that everything I care about is backed up from this harddrive.

I took Odeon's advice and I intend to replace the problem-prone ATI graphics card with an nVidia card.

This install of Windows XP is only about three months old, but something is seriously wrong and it's not just the corrupt drivers for the vid card. I am also getting occasional, "Disk 0/Master not detected"  or "Disk 0/Master failed to respond to paging operation"  (my system disk designation) and "NTFS not readable"  (WTF?!?) error logs.

I bought a 500GB internal yesterday, also.

[odeon]

Try melatonin. Potentially you can get better, if not more, sleep.

You say "potentially"  and I think of the voltage that was almost visible at every nerve ending in my body ...

OMFG - it's been about one year, already.
It would be great if my system did not fight off every potentially beneficial substance with such vigor.

Strange, what happened to you. I've not heard of anyone having that reaction to it. It can help more or less (in my case, less, usually), but it doesn't fuck anything up, from what others told me.

[odeon]

Right now, I am double checking to make sure that everything I care about is backed up from this harddrive.

I took Odeon's advice and I intend to replace the problem-prone ATI graphics card with an nVidia card.

Get a 9xxx card. I'm running a 9600GT now and it's terrific. I didn't dare to go for a 9800 since the Linux drivers just updated to include the 9600. 98 would have been dodgy.

This install of Windows XP is only about three months old, but something is seriously wrong and it's not just the corrupt drivers for the vid card. I am also getting occasional, "Disk 0/Master not detected"  or "Disk 0/Master failed to respond to paging operation"  (my system disk designation) and "NTFS not readable"  (WTF?!?) error logs.

I bought a 500GB internal yesterday, also.

Was the drive new when you installed Windows XP? Did you format it? It sounds like an older NTFS was on it, and the MBR wasn't updated properly.

[DirtDawg]

Right now, I am double checking to make sure that everything I care about is backed up from this harddrive.

I took Odeon's advice and I intend to replace the problem-prone ATI graphics card with an nVidia card.

Get a 9xxx card. I'm running a 9600GT now and it's terrific. I didn't dare to go for a 9800 since the Linux drivers just updated to include the 9600. 98 would have been dodgy.

This install of Windows XP is only about three months old, but something is seriously wrong and it's not just the corrupt drivers for the vid card. I am also getting occasional, "Disk 0/Master not detected"  or "Disk 0/Master failed to respond to paging operation"  (my system disk designation) and "NTFS not readable"  (WTF?!?) error logs.

I bought a 500GB internal yesterday, also.

Was the drive new when you installed Windows XP? Did you format it? It sounds like an older NTFS was on it, and the MBR wasn't updated properly.

It wasn't a new drive, but I did format it. The first time I installed WinXP on this particular Maxtor drive, there was a tiny ten or twelve KB partition on it from the factory and I removed it before I formatted the drive for the first time. No problems with that install - it worked OK for over a year. I am fairly sure that this drive is beginning to fail.










Oh, I forgot to mention ...


I have already bought the nVidia GeForce 8800 GS. I looked around and it seemed a good "bang for the buck" alternative to "The Best" at sixty four bucks for a 512MB model.

I'll let those with fat pockets buy the "best" while I slink around with a compromise. This box is just for the net. If I bought the crossfire, quad processor models, I would put it on my graphics box, anyway and the kewliisssh operating system to make it dance would have to be scammed somehow. (I have one but I don't have a box to put it in)

[odeon]

Well, that's the other option. Did you run chkdsk on it?

[DirtDawg]

Well, that's the other option. Did you run chkdsk on it?

I was just on WIKI last night, two-ish, compiling a CD for work and I suffered two session ending crashes. Thankk the fuck gawds that my start-up routine at that moment included chkdsk.

I probably would not be posting, otherwise.

Not sure what happened, but I heard my HDD seeker re-perch and all went vertical stripes and quasi-Sierpinski looking mouse cursor. I suspected the card again, but the cursor was a give-away that it was not that this time.



I shut it all down, fourish, and ran a ""complete"" chkdsk on start up. It took six-plus hours! It was not quite done when I got home from the "meeting"

[ozymandias]

Try melatonin. Potentially you can get better, if not more, sleep.

Keep me posted as to when you need more!

[odeon]

Well, that's the other option. Did you run chkdsk on it?

I was just on WIKI last night, two-ish, compiling a CD for work and I suffered two session ending crashes. Thankk the fuck gawds that my start-up routine at that moment included chkdsk.

I probably would not be posting, otherwise.

Not sure what happened, but I heard my HDD seeker re-perch and all went vertical stripes and quasi-Sierpinski looking mouse cursor. I suspected the card again, but the cursor was a give-away that it was not that this time.



I shut it all down, fourish, and ran a ""complete"" chkdsk on start up. It took six-plus hours! It was not quite done when I got home from the "meeting"

You will probably need to do a low-level format on that disk. An ordinary format won't help you with the MBR.

[odeon]

Try melatonin. Potentially you can get better, if not more, sleep.

Keep me posted as to when you need more!

Will do. 

[Parts]

Posting and watching a show called Connecticut Haunting and trying to figure out where it is

[ozymandias]

Posting and watching a show called Connecticut Haunting and trying to figure out where it is

Some gasoline and a match will lay that haunting to rest!

[DirtDawg]

Well, that's the other option. Did you run chkdsk on it?

I was just on WIKI last night, two-ish, compiling a CD for work and I suffered two session ending crashes. Thankk the fuck gawds that my start-up routine at that moment included chkdsk.

I probably would not be posting, otherwise.

Not sure what happened, but I heard my HDD seeker re-perch and all went vertical stripes and quasi-Sierpinski looking mouse cursor. I suspected the card again, but the cursor was a give-away that it was not that this time.



I shut it all down, fourish, and ran a ""complete"" chkdsk on start up. It took six-plus hours! It was not quite done when I got home from the "meeting"

You will probably need to do a low-level format on that disk. An ordinary format won't help you with the MBR.

Are you talking about a "zero-fill" type of format, where the drive writes over and reads every address, sector, etc? If I can recall, there is a command switch in DOS that does this, too, but I haven't used DOS in so long I would need to freshen my memory of which command switches to use.

I know there are troubleshooting utilities available that perform this type of formatting and initiation. I may still have the one that came with this drive, somewhere. MaxBlaster or something like that, I think it's called.


... or are you talking about a way to flash the ROM where the drive's construction and "bad sector" error record info is kept inside the hardware. I don't know how to do that.