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Event 11, constant freezes and slow downs
Hi, in the last few days I've started to encounter really terrible slow-down and freezes on my Win 7 Premium PC.
Basically a thread or more will stall (I suppose the 'more' is when one process then stalls something else until nothing is working) for maybe a minute or more. Then will resume.
Normally everything continues smoothly (until the next occurrence in maybe another few minutes). This can be whilst browsing a web page, using windows explorer, playing a game (WoW). Though looking at event viewer I can see a lot of other things failing and timing out on the pauses.
I thought this might have something to do with recent windows updates (as I haven't installed anything manually) - tried searching forums but not much luck.
Today I went into event viewer and found that I have thousands of error 11's (in bursts of seconds every few minutes)
Log Name: System
Source: atapi
Date: 11/03/2010 09:48:51
Event ID: 11
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: Bill-PC-Win7
Description:
The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort2.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="atapi" />
<EventID Qualifiers="49156">11</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2010-03-11T09:48:51.133714600Z" />
<EventRecordID>65766</EventRecordID>
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>Bill-PC-Win7</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>\Device\Ide\IdePort2</Data>
<Binary>0000100001000000000000000B0004C004000000850100C000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000005100000</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>
Log Name: System
Source: atapi
Date: 11/03/2010 09:48:50
Event ID: 11
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: Bill-PC-Win7
Description:
The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort2.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="atapi" />
<EventID Qualifiers="49156">11</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2010-03-11T09:48:50.589683500Z" />
<EventRecordID>65765</EventRecordID>
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>Bill-PC-Win7</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>\Device\Ide\IdePort2</Data>
<Binary>0000100001000000000000000B0004C004000000850100C000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000005100000</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>
These started on the 07/03/10 - so about the same time as I started getting problems.
I'm not sure if it is related, but last night I also was checking network performance - copy a 2.5Gb file from my PC to my NAS (over what should be gigabit though I'm worried seems to be stuck at 100Mb - anyway - leave that for another time!)
The network throughput was abysmal, running into 10Kbps - then every now and then (every 5 minutes or so) I'd get a whopping increase up to 50Mbps etc - this fell off within seconds. Anyway - I don't know HOW it is related to the atapi errors - but its another example of slowdowns.
I'm not sure how to best hunt down the cause of the atapi error - I've forgotten how to easily map Ide2 error to the drives in the box - I've got 5 hard drives all on SATA on my Asus P5Q. Plus a DVD write on another SATA.
I'm not running the extra RAID controller - just the basic support via the ICH10R.
Any advice really appreciated as this is driving me nuts (and getting in the way of work and play!)
Bill
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