What is Delayed Write Failed Error?

[Guest]

I have a Dell 410 Precision Workstation with Dual 500 katmai's and 384 MB memory. It has Windows 2000 Professional OS. The system is always sluggish (taking noticable time to draw screens at program startup)

Lately I have been getting "delayed write failed" errors through a Win2K alert pop up. What are these? I can't find the problem. I have ran every Dell diagnostic software with no hardware or hard drive failures.

Please help!

 

[Guest]

Hi
Try to free up some HD space
And delete *.tmp from the machine
All so empty x:\winnt\temp, and the temp directory in your profile
Do a scandisk and defrag

Nir

 

[mpjesse]

Write and read errors that are persistent is one sign of a failing hard drive. However, you can also get those errors with incorrect busmaster drives installed. If you say everything is installed correctly, the drive could be failing- even though diagnostic software says no.

-MP Jesse

 

[Raistlin]

you can also turn off hdd caching for testing purposes
how much free hdd do you have?
swapfiles can grow

Bored,certified Tech

ohh did you load service pack 1?
try that too