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PC Freezing - Event 129 Error
I would desperately love someone to help me with a problem that has been ongoing for three years now. During this time I have poured time and money in to replacing drives, upgrading the OS, troubleshooting innumerable possible causes. Nothing has ever helped. I finally believe I have an idea what is actually wrong!... But none of the fixes I've seen on Google appear to be relevant, so I turn to this forum for some proper advice.
When using particular programs (virus scan through BitDefender, any internet browser activity, Picasta and many more) the system will freeze up for approximately 30-60 seconds before working normally again. Sometimes this happens every few minutes, sometimes every half hour, either way it is infuriating and sooner or later freezes up completely and the machine has to be rebooted.
Looking in the Event Log every time it freezes there is a corresponding Warning: Event 129, Source = nvstor - "Reset to device, \Device\RaidPort0, was issued".
I am not using RAID (I have just a single 1TB HD) so I thought the fixes mentioned of using Device Manager to remove Device 0 and Device 1 and disable the RAID option in Storage Controllers was a no brainer... Sadly I have no IDE ATA / ATAPI Controllers option in my Device Manager (see screenshot) nor do I see a RAID option in my Storage Controllers (again, see screenshot)!?
I thought I was so close to finally sorting this and am at my wits end as this machine would be amazing (after all the flipping upgrades!) if it wasn't for this daft issue that causes it to freeze all the time. Please can someone offer some assistance?...