Yeah, that's my thought too. The disk itself is fine but something is filling it below the radar screen. When I look at it through explorer, the disk says it has 15 GB of space, when I look at it through the disk defragmenter, that says the disk has less than 1% of free space.
So how do I get to the real story? M -----Original Message----- From: Andre Turrettini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 11:23 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: W2K BSOD that or the disk is just honked in general. DRE -----Original Message----- From: cfhelp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 9:12 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: W2K BSOD The IRQ Stop error usually means hardware. If you have another video card swap them out. Then reboot and install SP3. You may also want to remove your sound card and reboot. A lot of times you just need to reseat the cards. Then run Defrag again, reboot and re-install SP3 again. Rick -----Original Message----- From: Haggerty, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 9:42 AM To: CF-Community Subject: W2K BSOD Okay, I'm having some trouble with my PC and I cannot get it going again. Looking for some advice... Win2K Pro, AMD 2800+, 1.5 GB ram, 40 GB hard drive. Last Friday I was playing Warcraft III and the machine just froze. I said, 'That's weird' and rebooted. Started the game up again and it froze again. When I rebooted again, I noticed it was taking a really long time to reboot. Started the game again, froze again, repeated process several times until the machine would suddenly just reboot after I logged in. After a while, it would not boot at all. I would get a blue screen of death, mentioning one of several stop errors: - IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL - KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED - INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE Every once in a while, the machine would actually get around to booting up. What would happen was fantastically pathetic, nothing works right and the computer freezes within one minute. I proceed to use the emergency recovery process on the W2K disk. Gets rid of the BSODs long enough that I can boot into safe mode and see the following interesting data: 1) The computer says I have 5 GB of room left 2) The disk defragmenter says I have 75% fragmentation 3) The event log has 400 entries for fatal errors occurring when the machine tries to write to the paging file. So, alright, I can take a hint: defrag the disk. I analyze the disk first, and it shows something entirely confusing. In the disk analyzer, there are no sections of free space on the disk. Everything that is not green (meaning system files) is red (meaning fragmented files). No happy white areas... I try running the defragmenter, the machine spits out a BSOD as soon as I do, I go through the ERP once again to get it to start again. I decide CYGWIN, XWINDOWS, and other nifty Linux stuff is not as important as disk space, take that off and get back about 10GB. Go to run the disk defragmenter again, and this one, thin strip of free space is all that I got. What it seems to me is happening is that g0bbamned game wrote a gigantic amount of data to the disk 'under the radar', and only the game can get rid of it. Of course, since I cannot see the files I have no way to work with them. Of course, I could be wildly off base. Anyone have any interesting advice on how to even approach this problem? M ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
