KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR BSOD when waking from sleep mode

[Winslow730]

Hello. I have Dell XPS 8500 PC with Windows 8.1. Overall, the system works fine, but about half the time when I wake it up from sleep mode, the screen remains black as the hard drive makes repeated revving noises, eventually displaying a BSOD (KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR). When it doesn't bluescreen, it wakes up from sleep mode after a few seconds with no problem, or makes the revving noise a few times but resumes activity normally. I'm a bit concerned, since I was going to update the BIOS to A12 from A09 to prepare for a new GPU (GTX 970) and 600w PSU. I wanted to resolve this issue first before I got into that, just to make sure my system was in optimal condition before I started to upgrade it. Thanks ahead of time for any help! I could really use it!

 

[johnbl]

a kernel data inpage error indicates that the system was unable to read from storage.
on a older system this is most likely a hard drive that is in the process of failing.

windows 8 will try to fix these problems by relocation of your data to sectors that are not failing but in the end it only extends the life of your drive. There are failure conditions where the drive does not spin up after going to sleep. you can disable the sleep but you need to plan for your drive failing. I would make sure I have a good backup of my data from the system while you can still get data from your drive. You might consider getting a new boot drive.

 

[Winslow730]

a kernel data inpage error indicates that the system was unable to read from storage.
on a older system this is most likely a hard drive that is in the process of failing.

windows 8 will try to fix these problems by relocation of your data to sectors that are not failing but in the end it only extends the life of your drive. There are failure conditions where the drive does not spin up after going to sleep. you can disable the sleep but you need to plan for your drive failing. I would make sure I have a good backup of my data from the system while you can still get data from your drive. You might consider getting a new boot drive.

I did a chkdsk, and after a few hours it booted normally, and the computer is actually starting to only take about 10 seconds to boot from sleep mode. My computer is also running significantly faster than usual. Do you think that I should be worrying about this now? It doesn't seem that serious at the moment.

 

[johnbl]

depends on the age of the hard drive. Hard drive failure rates accumulate over the years.
it is something like 20% failure the first year, then 16% each year after that until the drive totally fails.
windows 8 helps by moving data from sectors that begin to fail. With a spinning disk the failure will result in not being able to read your data. With solid state drives you still have a chance to read the data. you still have the option of backing your data to the cloud for free while your system is still working. you can also go into event viewer and look at the critical events and see what it thinks your problem is.

you can download crystaldiskinfo.exe and it can read the errors reported by your disk drive and it will tell you what it thinks the condition of your drive is. http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html

the chkdsk can repair file system corruption but you really want to know why it was getting corrupted.
ie, driver did not wake up correctly, provided bad data to a process that resulted in a bugcheck, the system reboots without a clean shutdown and the file system gets corrupted as a side effect of the first bugcheck.

I think you also had 2 USB charger drivers installed. These often corrupt system memory and you might want to remove them if you are not charging apple devices via USB on your system.

a kernel data inpage error indicates that the system was unable to read from storage.
on a older system this is most likely a hard drive that is in the process of failing.

windows 8 will try to fix these problems by relocation of your data to sectors that are not failing but in the end it only extends the life of your drive. There are failure conditions where the drive does not spin up after going to sleep. you can disable the sleep but you need to plan for your drive failing. I would make sure I have a good backup of my data from the system while you can still get data from your drive. You might consider getting a new boot drive.

I did a chkdsk, and after a few hours it booted normally, and the computer is actually starting to only take about 10 seconds to boot from sleep mode. My computer is also running significantly faster than usual. Do you think that I should be worrying about this now? It doesn't seem that serious at the moment.