Hi -
Your 3 GB RAM configuration = 1x1 + 1x2
Are the sticks matched?
Event Viewer recorded 2,046 entries identical to this one that started during Windows installation 2 days ago on 10 December -
[CODE]Event[4180]:
Log Name: System
Source: Disk
Date: 2012-12-10T03:06:53.040
Event ID: 11
Level: Error
Description:
[COLOR=#ff0000]The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk0\DR0[/COLOR].[/CODE]
Last HDD controller error entry - yesterday afternoon -
[CODE] Date: [B]2012-12-11[/B]T[COLOR=#ff0000]14:32[/COLOR]:23.623[/CODE]
Disk0 is your Hitachi HDS721010CLA HDD -
[HIDE] [CODE][COLOR=#000000][FONT=lucida console]Description Disk drive
Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
Model [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#0000ff][FONT=lucida console][B]Hitachi HDS721010CLA SCSI Disk Device[/B][/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=lucida console]
Bytes/Sector 512
Media Loaded Yes
Media Type Fixed hard disk
Partitions 2
SCSI Bus 0
SCSI Logical Unit 0
SCSI Port 0
SCSI Target ID 0
Sectors/Track 63
Size 931.51 GB (1,000,202,273,280 bytes)
Total Cylinders 121,601
Total Sectors 1,953,520,065
Total Tracks 31,008,255
Tracks/Cylinder 255
Partition [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#ff0000][FONT=lucida console]Disk #0[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=lucida console], Partition #0
Partition Size 100.00 MB (104,857,600 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 1,048,576 bytes
Partition [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#ff0000][FONT=lucida console]Disk #0[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=lucida console], Partition #1
Partition Size 931.41 GB (1,000,097,185,792 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 105,906,176 bytes
[/FONT][/COLOR]
[FONT=lucida console][B]Description Disk drive[/B][/FONT][COLOR=#000000][FONT=lucida console]
Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
Model [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#0000ff][FONT=lucida console]Generic- Multi-Card USB Device[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=lucida console]
Bytes/Sector Not Available
Media Loaded Yes
Media Type Not Available
Partitions 0
SCSI Bus Not Available
SCSI Logical Unit Not Available
SCSI Port Not Available
SCSI Target ID Not Available
Sectors/Track Not Available
Size Not Available
Total Cylinders Not Available
Total Sectors Not Available
Total Tracks Not Available
Tracks/Cylinder Not Available
[/FONT][/COLOR]
[FONT=lucida console][B]Description Disk drive[/B][/FONT][COLOR=#000000][FONT=lucida console]
Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
Model [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#0000ff][FONT=lucida console]WDC WD10 EARS-00Y5B1 USB Device[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=lucida console]
Bytes/Sector 512
Media Loaded Yes
Media Type External hard disk media
Partitions 3
SCSI Bus Not Available
SCSI Logical Unit Not Available
SCSI Port Not Available
SCSI Target ID Not Available
Sectors/Track 63
Size 931.51 GB (1,000,202,273,280 bytes)
Total Cylinders 121,601
Total Sectors 1,953,520,065
Total Tracks 31,008,255
Tracks/Cylinder 255
Partition Disk #1, Partition #0
Partition Size 195.31 GB (209,714,151,424 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 1,048,576 bytes
Partition Disk #1, Partition #1
Partition Size 634.77 GB (681,574,400,000 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 209,716,248,576 bytes
Partition Disk #1, Partition #2
Partition Size 101.43 GB (108,911,394,816 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 891,290,648,576 bytes
[/FONT] [/COLOR][/CODE] [/HIDE]
chkdsk results -
[HIDE][CODE][FONT=Lucida Console][COLOR="#000000"]Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk.
CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 5)...
104192 file records processed.
File verification completed.
121 large file records processed.
0 bad file records processed.
0 EA records processed.
44 reparse records processed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 5)...
139304 index entries processed.
Index verification completed.
0 unindexed files scanned.
0 unindexed files recovered.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 5)...
104192 file SDs/SIDs processed.
Cleaning up 164 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 164 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 164 unused security descriptors.
Security descriptor verification completed.
17557 data files processed.
CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
37233480 USN bytes processed.
Usn Journal verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
104176 files processed.
File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
238152027 free clusters processed.
Free space verification is complete.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the
master file table (MFT) bitmap.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the volume bitmap.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.
976657407 KB total disk space.
23750884 KB in 86477 files.
61640 KB in 17558 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
236771 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
952608112 KB available on disk.
4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
244164351 total allocation units on disk.
238152028 allocation units available on disk.
Internal Info:
00 97 01 00 6f 96 01 00 10 34 03 00 00 00 00 00 ....o....4......
99 00 00 00 2c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ....,...........
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.[/COLOR][/FONT][/CODE][/HIDE]
There seems to be something not right with that drive. I'll ask someone more familiar than I am with controller errors to reply.
This is like the entry after re-start from the freeze - occurred ~2 hours after Windows instal began -
[CODE]Event[847]:
Log Name: System
Source: EventLog
Date: 2012-12-10T14:50:09.000
Event ID: 6008
Level: Error
Description:
[COLOR=#ff0000]The previous system shutdown at 4:50:14 AM on ?12/?10/?2012 was unexpected.
[/COLOR]
[/CODE]
Thank you for the files.
Regards. . .
jcgriff2
