Well good old WinXP is making me grow old too fast again. I replaced a hard drive not long ago because of similar problems, starting to think it's XP or my motherboard...so here's my problem.
Been running XP fine and dandy for months, no problems since replacing my HD. Suddenly the other day, I get a lockup while unzipping a large .rar file. I figure it's the file causing it, no big deal. Well it now locks up every single time I try to unzip any .rar file that is large. I checked the event log and it told me:
Source: ultra EventID: 9
The device, \Device\Scsi\ultra1, did not respond within the timeout period.
Of course MS is about as helpful as another hole in the head, their support doesn't have any information on this error code, which begs to ask the question, if they don't know what it is, why does it have an error code? Anyway, I digress.
I had a similar problem several months ago, but then it would lock up while downloaded using one particular program...Xnews. After a few weeks of freezing, I think the HD ended up getting corrupted and I had to get a replacement. I do remember one significant event, the fist time it locked up, it told me after a while that there was an I/O problem and that my disk was possibly full.
Any help would be appreciated and possibly grow some of my hair back.
Thanks,
jester@vnet.net
Info:
WinXP Pro - SP 1
AMD Athlon Processor - 1.1Ghz
1.0 GB PC133 Ram
ASUS A7V MB
ATI Radeon 8500 video card
Maxtor 233GB harddrive (140 GB free)