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High I/O causes drives to disappear, garbled displays, USB malfunctio
This past week has been a weird one. Both hardware and software has been erratic. Every time it acts up I've noticed I've either been installing software, transferring a lot of files, or even I/O operations through USB. So far it seems like it may have start ed with some IO Controller. But has since grown to many other areas,because I think, and I may be wrong, that only hardware issues could cause crashes like the ones described below.
I have 5 Drives in total. 3 Main ones and 2 for backup. Listed below with Drive letter, Model, Power on Time (days), and purpose:
C:\ 256GB Samsung 840 Evo (412) - Windows Installation
D:\ 256GB Crucial m4 (1021) - Pagefile, TEMP, and folders that C:\ Symlinks to using Link Shell Extensions.
M:\ 4.0TB HGST Desktar (250) - Media drive. Most user folders symlinked from here.
E:\ 1.0TB Samsung Spinpoint (1446) - Old Media drive. Just finished moving the last files to M so that I could use it for backup, due to the recent issues.
Z:\ 500GB Samsung Spinpont (2614d) WindowsBackup. Can restore from periods:1/30/2013-5/30/2013 and 10/17/2013-8/27/2014.
Some of the things I've found odd leading up to these events are:
1.) Some folders open up really really slowly sometimes for no reason.
2.) Sometimes when I open "My Computer" drive M: will suddenly appear, a second later it will show as full. Then windows begins to evaluate the drives usage and I can observe it slowly detecting the available free space by watching the space available bar. .
- 9/26/15. I was noticing some odd program behavior and decided I should get around to actually backing up my important files. While copying user files to E: the system began acting up. Mouse movements became jerky as if the system was entering a blocking interrupt procedure. I stopped the copy. Below is what the logs say. I also notice this same issue had happened 3 days prior and several other times since June to drive M:
What does that even mean? Could hardlink clones have something to do with this? I wasn't sure what they were so went ahead and created them once to check out what they're all about and decided I didn't like them. I'm thinking I may have not of "delinked" them properly before shuffling files around D, E, and M. Is that even possible?volsnap: The shadow copies of volume E: were deleted because the shadow copy storage could not grow in time. Consider reducing the IO load on the system or choose a shadow copy storage volume that is not being shadow copied.- 10/3/15 5:29PM. It was taking forever to open my Downloads folder. That coupled with the errors I seen earlier made me think that maybe I should move files off Hard Disks and onto SSD drive D:. From M: I tried to move Downloads and My Documents to D:. In the middle of doing this windows made that "dun-dun" sound and drive D just disappears. The system was soon restarted
volsnap: The shadow copies of volume D: were aborted because of an IO failure on volume D:
Ntfs: The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur.
Application popup: Windows - Delayed Write Failed : Exception Processing Message 0xc0000222 Parameters 0x000007FEFD25718C 0x000007FEFD25718C 0x000007FEFD25718C 0x000007FEFD25718C- 10/3/15 7:04PM. Still at it trying to duplicate my most important files across drives D, E, and M when I hear the "dun-dun" sound again. This time drive E drops offline .
volsnap: The shadow copies of volume E: were aborted because volume E:, which contains shadow copy storage for this shadow copy, was force dismounted.- 10/4/15 7:38PM. I don't remember what was going on here. I'm pretty sure this is the "My Computer" issue I talked about earlier where drive M will just appear and then initialize.
Microsoft-Windows-UserPnp: Driver Management has concluded the process to add Service volsnap for Device Instance ID STORAGE\VOLUME\{2D21F9A7-A425-11E4-8962-806E6F6E6963}#000002A914400000 with the following status: 0.
Microsoft-Windows-UserPnp: Driver Management concluded the process to install driver FileRepository\volume.inf_amd64_neutral_df8bea40ac96ca21\volume.inf for Device Instance ID STORAGE\VOLUME\{2D21F9A7-A425-11E4-8962-806E6F6E6963}#000002A914400000 with the following status: 0x0.
VSS:Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Error calling a routine on a Shadow Copy Provider {b5946137-7b9f-4925-af80-51abd60b20d5}. Routine details IVssSnapshotProvider::IsVolumeSupported() failed with 0x8000ffff [hr = 0x8000ffff, Catastrophic failure].- 10/5/15 7:50AM. Was working on a CSCE project using Altera Quartus II 12sp2 and NIOS II EDA for Eclipse Helios developing on a Cyclone II FPGA. I Was in the middle of flashing the board I believe when this happened out of the blue. The logs don't tell me anything. There isn't anything logged from 7:31:02AM to 7:50:48.
EventLog: The previous system shutdown at 7:46:44 AM on 10/5/2015 was unexpected.- 10/5/15 11:33:28AM. Eventually I thought maybe I'd try a later version of Quartus, version 15. It's not compatible with my FPGA but I wanted to see if the newer NIOS II EDA for Eclipse component would work with my older chipset. Right after the system created a restore point before installing the software suite, below happened. While this was going on I tried to launch procexp64 but it crashed. After that I was just trying to get things saved and the computer restarted.
Information: 11:33:23AM Successfully created restore point (Process = D:\HARDLI~1\C\altera\15.0\VCREDI~2.EXE /q /norestart; Description = Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable (x64) - 12.0.21005).
Ntfs: 11:33:28AM The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur.
volsnap: 11:33:28AM The shadow copies of volume D: were aborted because of an IO failure on volume D:.
Application Error: 11:34:04AM Faulting application name: notepad++.exe, version: 6.8.3.0, time stamp: 0x55e8c674, Exception code: 0xc0000006,Fault offset: 0x000fb87c, There is a problem with: the disk that the file is stored on, the storage drivers installed on this computer; or the disk is missing.
Application Error: 11:36:28AM Faulting application name: procexp64.exe, version: 16.5.0.0, time stamp: 0x55503597, Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.1.7601.18933, time stamp: 0x55a6a196, The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000006)
Application Popup: 11:37:25AM Application popup: Windows - Delayed Write Failed : Exception Processing Message 0xc0000222 Parameters 0x000007FEFCB4718C 0x000007FEFCB4718C 0x000007FEFCB4718C 0x000007FEFCB4718C, \Device\HarddiskVolume7\HardLinks\C\altera\13 .. 86_1.1.300.v20150602-1417\META-INF\MANIFEST.MF
USER32: 11:38:22AM The attempt by user to restart/shutdown computer failed
And then for the big finale! DISPLAY CORRUPTION and crash
Kernel-Power: 11:41:17AM The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly.
volsnap: 11:41:47AM The shadow copies of volume D: were aborted during detection because a critical control file could not be opened.- 10/6/15 Today the system logs are polluted with the following errors, literally thousands of these same messages, but so far no hard crashes today. Also I've never actually gotten an error popup like the logs say I have. The errors don't seem to change even though there are so many. In order:
atapi: The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort1.
Disk: The device, \Device\Harddisk1\DR1, is not ready for access yet.
volsnap: The shadow copies of volume D: were aborted because of an IO failure on volume D:.
Disk: An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk1\DR1 during a paging operation.
Ntfs: The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur.
Application Popup: Windows - Delayed Write Failed : Exception Processing Message 0xc0000222 Parameters 0x000007FEFCE2718C 0x000007FEFCE2718C 0x000007FEFCE2718C 0x000007FEFCE2718C
Ntfs: The description for Event ID 50 from source Ntfs cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted.
VDS Basic Provider: Unexpected failure. Error code: 2@01050005
When trying to use Windows Backup. I now get this message.
So yea, whats going on? My hard disks keep disconnecting and there seems to be an issue with Shadow Volumes. It just dropped drive D again a bit ago but it wasn't in use so I was able to go into device manager and press "refresh devices", and then it redetected and mounted drive D.[Main Instruction]
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Windows Backup failed while trying to read from the shadow copy on one of the volumes being backed up. Please check in the event logs for any relevant errors.
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Backup time: 8/27/2014 4:33 PM
Backup location: WindowsBackup (Z:)
Error code: 0x81000037
Also I believe there is a connection between these events and having the Cyclone II FPGA development board plugged in through USB. For instance, if the board ****s up, sometimes it will also take another USB peripheral with it. Like the other day my keyboard stopped working and I had to completely disconnect the computer from power to get it working again. Since then, the USB port that that dev board was plugged into no longer works properly. Any device I plug into it, the Dev Board, a USB drive, my Phone, windows will try to detect it and then say failed to install device driver. If I then use a different USB port the drivers install fine.
The Motherboard and chipset for this PC is ASRock z77 Xtreme4
EDIT: HERES ANOTHER ONE IM POSTING IN REAL TIME!
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Last edited by Circle; 17 Oct 2015 at 01:35.