I don't really know where to start, all I know is I've been getting screamed at and literally shoved over this issue "I'm" having. The computer has two hard drives, the OS on the C - Drive and games on the D - Drive. The motherboard is an ASUS M4A79XTD EVO.
Recently the computer BSOD'd randomly after I exited a game and sat at the desktop. When attempting to reboot, it asked me to pick a boot device. I did a hard boot which loaded windows, I then decided to check Event Viewer, and it's got more than a few cases of the following event:
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The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort2.
- System
- Provider
[ Name] atapi
- EventID 11
[ Qualifiers] 49156
Level 2
Task 0
Keywords 0x80000000000000
- TimeCreated
[ SystemTime] 2014-03-19T12:29:19.676400500Z
EventRecordID 265639
Channel System
Computer *****-PC
Security
- EventData
\Device\Ide\IdePort2
0000100001000000000000000B0004C002000000850100C00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000004100000
Binary data:
In Words
0000: 00100000 00000001 00000000 C004000B
0008: 00000002 C0000185 00000000 00000000
0010: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
0018: 00000000 00001004
In Bytes
0000: 00 00 10 00 01 00 00 00 ........
0008: 00 00 00 00 0B 00 04 C0 .......À
0010: 02 00 00 00 85 01 00 C0 ....…..À
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0028: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0030: 00 00 00 00 04 10 00 00 ........
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I've heard a few different things while looking into this, some people say it's a hard drive issue and some say that it's the SATA port that the hard drives are plugged into that can be remedied by switching SATA ports then going into the BIOS to set a new boot drive. I've run Chkdsk and Memtest, both came back without errors.
There's a couple reasons I haven't moved on to other fixes, I wanted to check with a community that's knowledgeable about these kinds of things and my main reason is that I don't have the money to spring for a new copy of Windows 7 (even an OEM copy) in the event that switching SATA ports or replacing SATA cables would require me to buy another copy of Windows 7.
I should also mention that when the computer BSOD'd, it didn't save the dump file (I think that's what it's called). Also, the computer has a chance to BSOD lately when I put it to sleep instead of shutting it off.
If I'm leaving anything out, I apologize and will do my best to get the information required to better gauge the situation, I just want to fix this and end the nightmare.
Recently the computer BSOD'd randomly after I exited a game and sat at the desktop. When attempting to reboot, it asked me to pick a boot device. I did a hard boot which loaded windows, I then decided to check Event Viewer, and it's got more than a few cases of the following event:
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort2.
- System
- Provider
[ Name] atapi
- EventID 11
[ Qualifiers] 49156
Level 2
Task 0
Keywords 0x80000000000000
- TimeCreated
[ SystemTime] 2014-03-19T12:29:19.676400500Z
EventRecordID 265639
Channel System
Computer *****-PC
Security
- EventData
\Device\Ide\IdePort2
0000100001000000000000000B0004C002000000850100C00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000004100000
Binary data:
In Words
0000: 00100000 00000001 00000000 C004000B
0008: 00000002 C0000185 00000000 00000000
0010: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
0018: 00000000 00001004
In Bytes
0000: 00 00 10 00 01 00 00 00 ........
0008: 00 00 00 00 0B 00 04 C0 .......À
0010: 02 00 00 00 85 01 00 C0 ....…..À
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0028: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0030: 00 00 00 00 04 10 00 00 ........
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
I've heard a few different things while looking into this, some people say it's a hard drive issue and some say that it's the SATA port that the hard drives are plugged into that can be remedied by switching SATA ports then going into the BIOS to set a new boot drive. I've run Chkdsk and Memtest, both came back without errors.
There's a couple reasons I haven't moved on to other fixes, I wanted to check with a community that's knowledgeable about these kinds of things and my main reason is that I don't have the money to spring for a new copy of Windows 7 (even an OEM copy) in the event that switching SATA ports or replacing SATA cables would require me to buy another copy of Windows 7.
I should also mention that when the computer BSOD'd, it didn't save the dump file (I think that's what it's called). Also, the computer has a chance to BSOD lately when I put it to sleep instead of shutting it off.
If I'm leaving anything out, I apologize and will do my best to get the information required to better gauge the situation, I just want to fix this and end the nightmare.