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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Actually, I do recall a Seagate/Nvidia issue with NCQ.... so perhaps that is a good move!</p><p>Although the only reference I could find was with a Maxtor issue...</p><p><a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=29570">http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=29570</a></p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[lightsout]]></name>
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			<updated>2006-06-21T11:33:52Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>I tried turning the NCQ off and the event 51 disappears, i&#039;ll run it for a few more days and see what happens.</p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[hmaster10]]></name>
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			<updated>2006-06-21T08:56:27Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Could be my hard disk be nearing its end?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>hmaster10 wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>i tried googling but didn&#039;t understand what i found... you can say that i&#039;m a little moob w/ these new stuff... heheh sorry <img src="http://forum.driverpacks.net/img/smilies/sad.png" width="15" height="15" alt="sad" /></p></blockquote></div><p>I&#039;m not so expert either when it comes to the absolute latest, I just remember reading something someplace about NCQ compatibility issues a couple of months ago.&nbsp; I would suggest starting with the websites of your motherboard manufacturer and of Seagate to see if there is anything regarding the issue.</p><p>I don&#039;t know if you can even do this, and if you can - how to do it.&nbsp; But if you could disable NCQ and let drive operate in an &quot;old fashioned&quot; mode for a little while, then check for those error messages.&nbsp; The description of your error message is what got me on the whole NCQ issue, but I could be totally off.</p>]]></content>
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			<updated>2006-06-20T23:53:49Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>hmaster10 wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>one thing that i get is that Seagate File System checker says that my file system have errors and i should run scandisk w/ /f , but after doing that, it still reports that my file system have errors</p></blockquote></div><p>Don&#039;t you love when Microsoft has/knows about typos and doesn&#039;t correct them?! I know I do...<br />instead of &quot;Scandisk /F&quot; the command that it actually means is &quot;CHKDSK /R&quot; ( /F switch doesn&#039;t exist <img src="http://forum.driverpacks.net/img/smilies/wink.png" width="15" height="15" alt="wink" /> )</p>]]></content>
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			<updated>2006-06-20T18:41:55Z</updated>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: Could be my hard disk be nearing its end?]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>RogueSpear wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>It could be that the hard drive is just fine but something isn&#039;t working properly between the controller (on the motherboard) and the NCQ on the drive.&nbsp; You may want to see if there are BIOS updates for the motherboard or firmware updates for the drive.&nbsp; All of these new technologies coming out these days seem half baked at best with each vendor implementing things however they see fit.</p><p>Perhaps some googling may reveal others are having similar difficulties.</p></blockquote></div><p>i tried googling but didn&#039;t understand what i found... you can say that i&#039;m a little moob w/ these new stuff... heheh sorry <img src="http://forum.driverpacks.net/img/smilies/sad.png" width="15" height="15" alt="sad" /></p>]]></content>
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			<updated>2006-06-20T14:33:25Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>It could be that the hard drive is just fine but something isn&#039;t working properly between the controller (on the motherboard) and the NCQ on the drive.&nbsp; You may want to see if there are BIOS updates for the motherboard or firmware updates for the drive.&nbsp; All of these new technologies coming out these days seem half baked at best with each vendor implementing things however they see fit.</p><p>Perhaps some googling may reveal others are having similar difficulties.</p>]]></content>
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			<updated>2006-06-20T14:28:42Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>cHarOn wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>best way to test your hardware is prime95 install the prog and start toturetest take the third test this will heat up your memory let this test run for 2h or longer when the memory has an problem then an fault message stops the test, then start the first test to check cpu heat. If this runs without Problems then it can be the mainboard sometimes nf4 has controller errors in ide or sata. Also sometimes but not offen the cpu is the problem because the memorycontoller is in it.</p><p>cHarOn</p></blockquote></div><p>nearly in my 2H of testing and prime95 still not showing any errors... i think i&#039;ll keep it going for a few more hours then try the cpu test</p><p>thanks for your help guys, i hope i get this event 51 fix <img src="http://forum.driverpacks.net/img/smilies/sad.png" width="15" height="15" alt="sad" /></p>]]></content>
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			<updated>2006-06-20T13:22:26Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>best way to test your hardware is prime95 install the prog and start toturetest take the third test this will heat up your memory let this test run for 2h or longer when the memory has an problem then an fault message stops the test, then start the first test to check cpu heat. If this runs without Problems then it can be the mainboard sometimes nf4 has controller errors in ide or sata. Also sometimes but not offen the cpu is the problem because the memorycontoller is in it.</p><p>cHarOn</p>]]></content>
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			<updated>2006-06-20T12:04:42Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>lightsout wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Try running HD Health from here:</p><p><a href="http://www.panterasoft.com/">http://www.panterasoft.com/</a></p><p>It&#039;ll monitor the SMART stats for your HD, and can warn you if it is about to fail. I&#039;ve run it for months, useful program.</p></blockquote></div><p>thanks, i&#039;ll try that one and post the result</p><p>EDIT:</p><p>Weird, my&nbsp; HD says that it supports NCQ, but this app says that NCQ is not supported</p>]]></content>
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			<updated>2006-06-20T11:59:20Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Try running HD Health from here:</p><p><a href="http://www.panterasoft.com/">http://www.panterasoft.com/</a></p><p>It&#039;ll monitor the SMART stats for your HD, and can warn you if it is about to fail. I&#039;ve run it for months, useful program.</p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[lightsout]]></name>
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			<updated>2006-06-20T11:36:21Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>already check my memory w/ memtest, no errors found.</p><p>also tried defragmenting.</p><p>one thing that i get is that Seagate File System checker says that my file system have errors and i should run scandisk w/ /f , but after doing that, it still reports that my file system have errors</p>]]></content>
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			<updated>2006-06-20T10:49:06Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>check your ram with memtest (http://www.memtest.org/)<br />did you make defragmentation ? ( @command prompt &quot;defrag -f c:&quot; <img src="http://forum.driverpacks.net/img/smilies/smile.png" width="15" height="15" alt="smile" /> or you could try some third part&#039;s software of defragmentation)</p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[laura]]></name>
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			<updated>2006-06-20T10:43:31Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>i have a:</p><p>Motherboard = EP-9NPA3 Ultra (NForce4)<br />RAM&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;= 512 MB DDR400<br />HD&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;= Seagate 80GB SATA II (ST3808110AS)<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;= single partition</p>]]></content>
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			<updated>2006-06-20T09:46:00Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Hello hmaster10 please can you tell me wich mainboard, ram and HD you have and how big is your partition then i can help you hopefully ;-)</p>]]></content>
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			<updated>2006-06-20T09:42:16Z</updated>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>I sometimes recieve ans Event 51 in my event log and only happens rarely (when xp stops loading and i need to restart my comp)</p><div class="quotebox"><blockquote><p>Event Type: Warning<br />Event Source: Disk<br />Event Category: None<br />Event ID: 51<br />Date: 6/20/2006<br />Time: 2:27:37 PM<br />User: N/A<br />Computer: -<br />Description:<br />An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk0\D during a paging operation.</p><p>Data:<br />0000: 03 00 68 00 01 00 b6 00 ..h...Â¶.<br />0008: 00 00 00 00 33 00 04 80 ....3..â‚¬<br />0010: 2d 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 -.......<br />0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........<br />0020: 00 2e 48 0e 0a 00 00 00 ..H.....<br />0028: 44 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 D.......<br />0030: ff ff ff ff 03 00 00 00 Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿Ã¿....<br />0038: 40 00 00 84 02 00 00 00 @..â€ž....<br />0040: 00 20 0a 12 40 03 20 40 . ..@. @<br />0048: 00 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 ........<br />0050: 00 00 00 00 68 e5 f4 81 ....hÃ¥Ã´ <br />0058: 00 00 00 00 70 be 02 82 ....pÂ¾.â€š<br />0060: 02 00 00 00 17 24 07 05 .....$..<br />0068: 28 00 05 07 24 17 00 00 (...$...<br />0070: 0a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........<br />0078: f0 00 0b 00 00 00 00 0b Ã°.......<br />0080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........<br />0088: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........</p></blockquote></div><p>I tried using Seagate&#039;s Diagnostic Tools for my Seagate HD but it returned no errors for all its test.</p><p>anyone can give me additional advise what to do?</p>]]></content>
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			<updated>2006-06-20T09:35:52Z</updated>
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