source: disk, event id: 51, winxp sp2 clean install sata hd errors

subject: source: disk, event id: 51, winxp sp2 clean install sata hd errors
with nvidia nforce4 based board and nvidia chipset/platform drivers

hi there,

just recently built some amd athlon64 based system (asus a8n-sli premium,
nvidia nforce4 board), 2gig (2x 1gig ddr pc400 sticks), some nvidia geforce
6600 gfx card and one sata samsung sp2504c (250 gig) drive.

http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/SpinPointPSeries/HardDiskDrive_SpinPointPSeries_SP2504C_sp.htm

i did a clean winxp sp2 install, formatted the whole drive (thorough format,
ntfs) as c: and installed all the patches on windowsupdate

then i installed the nvidia (original from nvidia.com driver downloads)
platform / nforce drivers for nforce4 AMD - winxp

(nForce4 AMD Edition (6.66) - Windows XP/2000 (32-Bit), Version: 6.66,
Release Date: July 15, 2005, WHQL Certified)

right after this step and rebooting winxp sp2 the hard disk made more noise
than usual. it seemed (during the boottime animated winxp logo with the blue
progress/activity bar) as if the drive was loading a lot of small little
files/sectors/things or jumping back and forth or running some kinda
compatiblity mode or something. it reminded me of the past like for example
booting into safe mode on win9x or on win2000, when the system would like
load and log the drivers and files in a very thorough and slow way....

so it made a lot of noise for the following few seconds, then the logon
screen was there and the harddisk speed and acitivity seemed doing fine again.

i immediately checked the system log and there i was getting these new
entries of event id 51 with the disk as the source.

i was wondering what was wrong here, and i actually have another spare disk
of the same kind (same model, same capacity, also sata)

i did another test install onto this also completely new disk, formatted the
whole again as c: and the same results appeard. as soon as i installed the
nvidia platform driver and let it install the nvidia sata drivers, during the
next bootup i got this slight little noise from the disk.

when i reboot and run windowsxp sp2 now and then most of the times its doing
just fine, also during use and testing. i dont always get these event id 51
errors, but when i get them its right after the two nvata log entries in the
system log.

i will post some examples of the system log:

---------------

Event Type: Information
Event Source: nvata
Event Category: None
Event ID: 2
Date: 09.01.2005
Time: 07:55:27
User: N/A
Computer: BOX
Description:
Device identified.
Data:
0000: 1b 00 0c 00 01 00 60 00 ......`.
0008: 00 00 00 00 02 00 de 40 ......Þ@
0010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0028: 01 01 09 00 53 00 de 10 ....S.Þ.
0030: 00 00 00 00 ....

----------------

Event Type: Information
Event Source: nvata
Event Category: None
Event ID: 2
Date: 09.01.2005
Time: 07:55:27
User: N/A
Computer: BOX
Description:
Device identified.
Data:
0000: 1b 00 0c 00 01 00 60 00 ......`.
0008: 00 00 00 00 02 00 de 40 ......Þ@
0010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0028: 00 00 06 00 55 00 de 10 ....U.Þ.
0030: 00 00 00 00 ....

-----------------

then come the event id 51 entries:

-----------------

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Disk
Event Category: None
Event ID: 51
Date: 09.01.2005
Time: 07:55:36
User: N/A
Computer: BOX
Description:
An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk0\D during a paging operation.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 03 00 68 00 01 00 b6 00 ..h...¶.
0008: 00 00 00 00 33 00 04 80 ....3..€
0010: 2d 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 -.......
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 ce d6 f2 25 00 00 00 .ÎÖò%...
0028: 80 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 €.......
0030: ff ff ff ff 03 00 00 00 ÿÿÿÿ....
0038: 40 00 00 84 02 00 00 00 @..„....
0040: 00 20 0a 12 40 03 20 40 . ..@. @
0048: 00 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 ........
0050: 00 00 00 00 80 92 77 89 ....€’w‰
0058: 00 00 00 00 70 de 63 89 ....pÞc‰
0060: 02 00 00 00 67 6b f9 12 ....gkù.
0068: 28 00 12 f9 6b 67 00 00 (..ùkg..
0070: 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 (.......
0078: f0 00 0b 00 00 00 00 0b ð.......
0080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0088: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Disk
Event Category: None
Event ID: 51
Date: 09.01.2005
Time: 07:55:36
User: N/A
Computer: BOX
Description:
An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk0\D during a paging operation.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 03 00 68 00 01 00 b6 00 ..h...¶.
0008: 00 00 00 00 33 00 04 80 ....3..€
0010: 2d 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 -.......
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 3e d7 f2 25 00 00 00 .×ò%...
0028: 86 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 †.......
0030: ff ff ff ff 03 00 00 00 ÿÿÿÿ....
0038: 40 00 00 84 02 00 00 00 @..„....
0040: 00 20 0a 12 40 03 20 40 . ..@. @
0048: 00 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 ........
0050: 00 00 00 00 88 db 63 89 ....ˆÛc‰
0058: 00 00 00 00 58 d9 63 89 ....XÙc‰
0060: 02 00 00 00 9f 6b f9 12 ....Ÿkù.
0068: 28 00 12 f9 6b 9f 00 00 (..ùkŸ..
0070: 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0078: f0 00 0b 00 00 00 00 0b ð.......
0080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0088: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

and so forth.....

i had 21 entries of these event id 51 this time during bootup, but this
varies...

now i really cant imagine that both of these samsung drives are broken, also
as these errors were introduced with the installation of the nvidia chipset
drivers.

i even found:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;244780

that describes some in depth tech details to these event id 51 errors, but i
am not that experienced in decoding all that information. it seems that the
error appears during reading from the disk i think....

anyone able to help me with this behaviour?

thanks already in advance. please reply to newsgroups.
cheers.