SATA HDD randomly freeze for ~60" on arch32/64 kernels

On arch32/kernel2.6.19 & arch64/kernel2.6.18 with SataII HDD plugged to SataII connector, the HDD fully freeze then is remounted read only.
A few freezes occured this month that I first thought were X related.
But if I wait long enough, ~1 minute, everything goes back to normal.
You'll find system specs below.
When this occurs, as there is _no disk I/O_ I can do just nothing (anything from shifting to next graphical desktop to login etc.). Torrent UP/DL go to 0 (then restart when freeze stop), and disk I/O stops (like a dd if=dvd of=image.iso), then restart !
Most of the time when I get these errors the system will recover after
~2 to 4 minutes of unresponsiveness (no disk I/O),
On arch64 / kernel 2.6.18, logs are quite readable bout this issue:
# cat /var/log/kernel.log |grep frozen
Dec 3 22:59:24 llewellyn ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x3f SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
Dec 4 02:25:58 llewellyn ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1f SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
Dec 4 09:06:56 llewellyn ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1ffff SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
Dec 4 09:09:37 llewellyn ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x7fffffff SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
Dec 4 09:35:24 llewellyn ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x3ff SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
Dec 5 12:56:13 llewellyn ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
Dec 5 12:56:44 llewellyn ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1fff SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
Dec 5 13:09:40 llewellyn ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x3fffff SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
Dec 5 16:27:12 llewellyn ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x7fffffff SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
Dec 5 18:12:09 llewellyn ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x7fff SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
Dec 10 22:32:51 llewellyn ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x7ff SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
Dec 10 22:33:36 llewellyn ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x7fff SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
Dec 10 22:34:56 llewellyn ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0xfffffff SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
Dec 10 22:38:57 llewellyn ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0xffff SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
Dec 10 22:58:07 llewellyn ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x3fc SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
Dec 10 22:58:39 llewellyn ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x7ff SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
Dec 10 22:59:24 llewellyn ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x3 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
Dec 10 23:34:34 llewellyn ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x7fffffff SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
Dec 10 23:36:41 llewellyn ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x7fffffff SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
Dec 10 23:37:17 llewellyn ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x7fffffff SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
Dec 10 23:37:48 llewellyn ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x7fffffff SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
Dec 10 23:38:18 llewellyn ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x7fffffff SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
Dec 10 23:38:49 llewellyn ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x7fffffff SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
Dec 10 23:39:19 llewellyn ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x7fffffff SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
Dec 10 23:39:50 llewellyn ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x7fffffff SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
Dec 10 23:40:20 llewellyn ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x7fffffff SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
Dec 11 21:26:44 llewellyn ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x7f SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
So this occured before as well as after I switched my system's HDD (Hitachi SataII) to the SataII connector with "Sata mode".
Research tell this might be libata related :
Andrew Paprocki wrote:
[PATCH] Added S.M.A.R.T. command decoding to libata error reporting.
* Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 01:09:20 -0500
Added S.M.A.R.T. command decoding to libata error reporting.
This is useful because if a user program attempts to send an
invalid smart command, the standard reporting only indicates
that cmd 0xb0 (now ATA_CMD_SMART) failed. This code prints out
a readable string indicating which smart cmd was attempted as
encoded in tf.feature per the ATAPI spec.
Example with patch applied:
ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
ata1.00: tag 0 cmd 0xb0 Emask 0x2 stat 0x50 err 0x0 (HSM violation)
ata1.00: smart cmd 0xd2 (enable/disable attribute autosave)
source : http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ide/msg05458.html
Here are the system specs
Linux llewellyn 2.6.18-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Dec 1 15:35:16 UTC 2006 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
# hwdetect --show-sata
SATA : libata
# hwdetect --show-scsi
SCSI : ahci sd_mod
# hwdetect --show-ide
IDE : ide-cd ide-core ide-disk alim15x3 generic
Any idea about where to start or look for (logs, modules to load or look for, other (custom) kernel to test) ?
HDD also freeze on arch32 w/ kernel 2.6.19-ARCH but haven't seen anything in the logs then (please see below)

Same thing occurs on arch32 w/kernel 2.6.19 right after succesfull boot : ~2' then remounted ro then no command is accessible & I have to use magick keys to reboot.
But there are no "frozen" string on kernel.log !? (on opposite it has on arch64, kernel 2.6.18-ARCH):
# lspci
00:12.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c7)
00:12.1 IDE interface: ALi Corporation ULi 5289 SATA (rev 10)
03:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI Controller
# lshwd -cc
IDE interface
alim15x3 : Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi]|M5229 IDE
sata_uli : ALi Corporation|ALi M5289 Serial ATA / RAID Host Controller
SATA controller
unknown : ALi Corporation|ALi M5289 Serial ATA / RAID Host Controller
# lsmod
jfs 168656 1
vfat 12672 1
fat 48432 1 vfat
ext2 61968 2
ide_disk 14464 2
sata_uli 6660 0
ide_cd 39584 0
cdrom 37160 1 ide_cd
ext3 130832 3
mbcache 8584 2 ext2,ext3
jbd 61680 1 ext3
ahci 16004 7
libata 93088 2 sata_uli,ahci
generic 6660 0 [permanent]
alim15x3 11544 0 [permanent]
ide_core 134784 5 usb_storage,ide_disk,ide_cd,generic,alim15x3
sd_mod 18176 8
mkinitcio.conf:
MODULES="sd_mod alim15x3 generic uli526x ahci libata jbd ext3"
HOOKS="base keymap
I wanted to compile a custom kernel with abs then try kernel 2.6.19 on arch64 but every kernel26 I tried to compile (from standard to morph & beyond) quickly stops with this error:
HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep
/bin/sh: scripts/basic/fixdep: Permission denied
make[2]: *** [scripts/basic/fixdep] Error 1
make[1]: *** [scripts_basic] Error 2
make: *** No rule to make target `include/config/auto.conf', needed by `include/config/kernel.release'. Stop
That's a lot for the free time I have this week. So will stay with arch64/kernel 2.6.18 'til I get more sparse time (haven't find anything relative on the bbs here or googling)

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I have had nothing but trouble with this most recent iMac I purchased 4 months ago. It's the 24" described in my profile. AppleCare came out and recently replaced my faulty HDD, and put a 500gb Hitachi in (replacing 500gb Seagate).
Anyway, for no reason, after a fresh install and all the updates, applications will freeze for a few seconds and show the spinning beach ball- doesn't matter what application (Wow, Safari, Quicktime, Skype, Adium, etc.)- anything! I can see in activity monitor that there is a spike in the disk activity at the time, but cannot explain why. It's a brand new hard-drive! Interestingly, there is no corresponding jump in CPU or RAM access, so it's obviously some kind of data-dump issue with the HDD....the new HDD...
Looking in Activity Monitor, it appears to be the data read/sec that is spiking.
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Does anyone know of a solution, or why it's happening?
I never had ANY of these problems with my first 24" that I bought late last year, with stock everything (hdd, gfx, etc.)....I feel like this one is faulty by nature....
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Charles Minow wrote:
kendals wrote:
Hmm, I actually think it might be this new HDD that has been installed. Whenever it wakes from sleep, it takes a MUCH longer time than my previous machine, and even my previous hdd which was faulty.
And I can hear it first start to spin the HDD up in a little whir, then the clicky sorta bits where it is reading it, and then finally after the spinning ball, it gives me the PWD screen.
It has to be the HDD. Calling Apple in the morning...
Sound like that could be a HDD problem. One way to confirm it is to look at the Console application from your Utilities folder. Look at the System Log and Console Log and see if you see any lines with text like "disk0s2: I/O error." at the times when you see the freezes and hear the clicks. Note that the numbers in the disk0s2 part can change, depending on how your drives are set up.
charlie
Charles Minow wrote:
kendals wrote:
Hmm, I actually think it might be this new HDD that has been installed. Whenever it wakes from sleep, it takes a MUCH longer time than my previous machine, and even my previous hdd which was faulty.
And I can hear it first start to spin the HDD up in a little whir, then the clicky sorta bits where it is reading it, and then finally after the spinning ball, it gives me the PWD screen.
It has to be the HDD. Calling Apple in the morning...
Sound like that could be a HDD problem. One way to confirm it is to look at the Console application from your Utilities folder. Look at the System Log and Console Log and see if you see any lines with text like "disk0s2: I/O error." at the times when you see the freezes and hear the clicks. Note that the numbers in the disk0s2 part can change, depending on how your drives are set up.
charlie
Thanks, Charles.
Looking at the Console log, it doesn't seem to have any i/o errors. Since both logs are quite lengthy, and the quoting system here is a bit akward, I've linked them:
Console.log: http://www.miraclesalad.com/webtools/clip.php?clip=e04
System.log: http://www.miraclesalad.com/webtools/clip.php?clip=e06
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smartctl 6.1 2013-03-16 r3800 [i686-linux-3.9.4-1-ARCH] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10
Device Model: ST3500630A
Serial Number: 5QG1X3G1
Firmware Version: 3.AAE
User Capacity: 500,107,862,016 bytes [500 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ATA/ATAPI-7 (minor revision not indicated)
Local Time is: Fri Jun 7 11:41:09 2013 CEST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x82) Offline data collection activity
was completed without error.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: ( 430) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
No Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 163) minutes.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 112 095 006 Pre-fail Always - 43863857
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 094 092 000 Pre-fail Always - 0
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 098 098 020 Old_age Always - 2833
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 047 036 030 Pre-fail Always - 32856947045143
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 082 082 000 Old_age Always - 16160
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 097 097 020 Old_age Always - 3563
187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 016 016 000 Old_age Always - 84
189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 057 047 045 Old_age Always - 43 (Min/Max 23/43)
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 043 053 000 Old_age Always - 43 (0 16 0 0 0)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 063 054 000 Old_age Always - 32213260
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 4294967295
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 001 001 000 Old_age Offline - 4294967295
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0
202 Data_Address_Mark_Errs 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
SMART Error Log Version: 1
ATA Error Count: 118 (device log contains only the most recent five errors)
CR = Command Register [HEX]
FR = Features Register [HEX]
SC = Sector Count Register [HEX]
SN = Sector Number Register [HEX]
CL = Cylinder Low Register [HEX]
CH = Cylinder High Register [HEX]
DH = Device/Head Register [HEX]
DC = Device Command Register [HEX]
ER = Error register [HEX]
ST = Status register [HEX]
Powered_Up_Time is measured from power on, and printed as
DDd+hh:mm:SS.sss where DD=days, hh=hours, mm=minutes,
SS=sec, and sss=millisec. It "wraps" after 49.710 days.
Error 118 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 15759 hours (656 days + 15 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.
After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
84 51 00 00 00 00 e0 Error: ICRC, ABRT at LBA = 0x00000000 = 0
Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
25 20 01 00 00 00 e0 00 00:00:17.357 READ DMA EXT
c6 20 10 01 00 00 ef 00 00:00:17.357 SET MULTIPLE MODE
91 20 3f 01 00 00 ef 00 00:00:17.357 INITIALIZE DEVICE PARAMETERS [OBS-6]
10 20 01 01 00 00 e1 00 00:00:17.350 RECALIBRATE [OBS-4]
00 00 01 00 00 00 00 04 00:00:18.309 NOP [Abort queued commands]
Error 117 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 15759 hours (656 days + 15 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.
After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
84 51 00 00 00 00 e0 Error: ICRC, ABRT at LBA = 0x00000000 = 0
Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
25 20 01 00 00 00 e0 00 00:00:17.357 READ DMA EXT
c6 20 10 01 00 00 ef 00 00:00:17.357 SET MULTIPLE MODE
91 20 3f 01 00 00 ef 00 00:00:17.357 INITIALIZE DEVICE PARAMETERS [OBS-6]
10 20 01 01 00 00 e1 00 00:00:17.350 RECALIBRATE [OBS-4]
00 00 01 00 00 00 00 04 00:00:16.873 NOP [Abort queued commands]
Error 116 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 15759 hours (656 days + 15 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.
After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
84 51 00 00 00 00 e0 Error: ICRC, ABRT at LBA = 0x00000000 = 0
Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
25 20 01 00 00 00 e0 00 00:00:17.357 READ DMA EXT
c6 20 10 01 00 00 ef 00 00:00:17.357 SET MULTIPLE MODE
91 20 3f 01 00 00 ef 00 00:00:17.357 INITIALIZE DEVICE PARAMETERS [OBS-6]
10 20 01 01 00 00 e1 00 00:00:17.350 RECALIBRATE [OBS-4]
00 00 01 00 00 00 00 04 00:00:16.873 NOP [Abort queued commands]
Error 115 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 15759 hours (656 days + 15 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.
After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
84 51 00 00 00 00 e0 Error: ICRC, ABRT at LBA = 0x00000000 = 0
Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
25 20 01 00 00 00 e0 00 00:00:13.895 READ DMA EXT
c6 20 10 01 00 00 ef 00 00:00:13.895 SET MULTIPLE MODE
91 20 3f 01 00 00 ef 00 00:00:13.887 INITIALIZE DEVICE PARAMETERS [OBS-6]
10 20 01 01 00 00 e1 00 00:00:13.419 RECALIBRATE [OBS-4]
00 00 10 00 00 00 00 04 00:00:16.873 NOP [Abort queued commands]
Error 114 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 15759 hours (656 days + 15 hours)
When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.
After command completion occurred, registers were:
ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
84 51 00 00 00 00 e0 Error: ICRC, ABRT at LBA = 0x00000000 = 0
Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name
25 20 01 00 00 00 e0 00 00:00:13.895 READ DMA EXT
c6 20 10 01 00 00 ef 00 00:00:13.895 SET MULTIPLE MODE
91 20 3f 01 00 00 ef 00 00:00:13.887 INITIALIZE DEVICE PARAMETERS [OBS-6]
10 20 01 01 00 00 e1 00 00:00:13.419 RECALIBRATE [OBS-4]
00 00 01 00 00 00 00 04 00:00:13.419 NOP [Abort queued commands]
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 16160 -
# 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 15759 -
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
It would be great if someone could help me a little to prevent some major incident and point out what's happening. Thanks in advance!

@pok0j
You best bet at getting the most uncorrupted data out of that disk, is to stop using it until you get a new disk that is at least twice as big as that one. The reason is that when you get a new disk, you want to try to do a full disk image in one go and get as much data out as possible before more data corruption occurs or the disk stops working at all.
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@drhill1
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I restored the pc to factory settings and updated all the drivers but still i get this annoying problem...
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Message was edited by: ralph_af

> I restored the pc to factory settings and updated all the drivers but still i get this annoying problem...
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Mozilla recently released Firefox 2.0, you may want
to give that a try.
I was thinking about that too. I might do this, if no crashes occur as long as I only use Safari (I can live with that for a week, np).
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I have And I had a lot of different versions throughout the last year
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Not theoretically but occasionally people report issues with some 7200 rpm drives and some 500 gig drives so the best advice is get a 320 gig 5400 rpm drive. I have never seen a report of problems with such a drive. There is no BIOS limit for the SATA interface unlike the ATAPI/EIDE interface.

Random freezing for 30 seconds or so...

For the last 2 days the Mac Pro has been freexing for 30seconds or so randomly throughout the day. Now its happening more than 3 times an hours!
I had a look at the system log and this was the last thing entered before I had to hold the startup buttton because this time it completely froze:
Oct 3 12:53:21 james-power-mac-g5 authexec: executing /System/Library/ScriptingAdditions/StandardAdditions.osax/Contents/MacOS/uid
Oct 3 12:54:54 james-power-mac-g5 kernel[0]: (default pager): [KERNEL]: no space in available paging segments
Oct 3 13:01:13 james-power-mac-g5 kernel[0]: (66: coreservicesd)tfp: failed on 0:
Oct 3 13:43:58 james-power-mac-g5 kernel[0]: (66: coreservicesd)tfp: failed on 0:
Oct 3 13:51:40 james-power-mac-g5 kernel[0]: (66: coreservicesd)tfp: failed on 0:
Oct 3 13:55:14 james-power-mac-g5 kernel[0]: IOAudioStream[0x3812a00]::clipIfNecessary() - Error: attempting to clip to a position more than one buffer ahead of last clip position (0,1a62)->(2,8d0).
Oct 3 13:55:14 james-power-mac-g5 kernel[0]: IOAudioStream[0x3812a00]::clipIfNecessary() - adjusting clipped position to (1,1a62)
Does anyone have any ideas as to what this means or what the problem might be?
Mac Pro 2.66 GHz Dual Core Intel Xeon Mac OS X (10.4.7) 3GB Ram, Final Cut Pro 5.1.1 + Studio

I would contact the manufacturer of the USB device and let them know you are having the problem. Some USB devices have trouble after Energy Saver goes off, and won't work until you reboot the computer. If this was an Energy Saver case, I'd also let the manufacturer know they don't conform to Apple's Energy Saver specs.

W520 randomly freezes, now cannot be started and even reinstalled

I badly need your help!
I purchased my W520 (500 HDD, 8G, i7-2720) on 2011, and it has been working greatly. Since few month back, my W520 start to have a problem: it randomly freeze for no reason. The freezing can happen any time and even without use. The pointer/mouse, touchpad, keyboard and Ctrl+Alt+Del return no response at all. So everytime I have to use a hard restart. At beginning, I thought it is due to some viruses. However this still happens after I reinstall the system using recovery function. I did installed all updates after the installation. It is also unlikely related to overheating as it happens under no use and temps around 60 degrees.
Very recently the problem went worse and it was freezing very frequently. So yesterday I tried to reinstall the system again. However this time it freezes during the reinstallation process (twice). I have to use the hard restart again! After that I found the computer is totally dead. I can not start my computer or start the reinstallation process at all. It looks like the recovery disk has been damaged.
Now I have two primary questions:
1) What is the reason for the freezing? Could anybody give me your thoughts? is it likely a hardware problem or software problem?
2) Now I have to make the computer work first. Should I get a clean Win-7 or Win-8 system installed? or I should purchase a OEM CD for installation?
Thank you in advance for a feedback!

Sorry, but it could be hardware or software, but I am guessing hardware. The most likely cause is heat, but you seemed to have ruled that out. I would run a memory test first. I often use memtest86+. Then a disk test. I would look in the event log for any serious messages related to a device failure. Several months ago, I had a similar problem that turned out to be the CPU. (the only failed CPU I ever had to deal with) After trying a motherboard swap, the last remaining part was the CPU, which turned out to be the problem. I don't remember if it was a W510 or a W520. I remember it was a quad core CPU and I didn't have the right CPU in stock so I tried it with a dual-core i7. When the problem went away, I got the correct replacement, and after installing, there were no more issues.

13" Macbook pro random freezing after upgrading hard drive.

i have a 2010 mbp 13" 2.4
I upgraded the hhd from the 250 to a 320 5400 RPM drive i cleared the cache did a clean install of osx 10.6 grabbed all the updates and then rolled my time machine to restore all my files.
But now it randomly freezes for about 4-7 seconds. It's extremely annoying and i can't figure out why. Short of a clean install any ideas on what might fix this?
Thanks

The AHT does test the graphics chips. Run the extended version and see if anything shows up in the form of an error code. Also, there may be a crash log in Console. Try to run something processor intensive so the Mac freezes, and then run the AHT. Heat could be a factor.
Do you have access to an Apple Store? If so, make an appointment at the Genius Bar and bring in your Mac for evaluation. They would probably have a more comprehensive hardware test they could run. If you get any error codes, bring those along.
It sounds like you could have some sort of hardware problem here. Since you are under warranty, it might be time to let Apple diagnose and fix it. It sounds like you may have had video issues during the first week of ownership with the original hard drive, and these may actually be independent of the hard drive.
Good luck!
Good luck!

Random Freeze with { UNC } error - hard disk problems?

Hi,
My laptop randomly freezes for a couple of seconds frequently. I am running 2.6.30-ARCH in a dell inspiron. I did a check on the /var/log/errors.log and found the follwing block of errors occuring over and over again as soon as the freeze up happens.
Sep 26 17:16:04 revelation kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 33016839
Sep 26 22:49:54 revelation kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
Sep 26 22:49:54 revelation kernel: ata1.00: BMDMA stat 0x25
Sep 26 22:49:54 revelation kernel: ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:01:cc:f7/00:00:00:00:00/e1 tag 0 dma 4096 in
Sep 26 22:49:54 revelation kernel: res 51/40:02:07:cc:f7/00:00:00:00:00/e1 Emask 0x9 (media error)
Sep 26 22:49:54 revelation kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
Sep 26 22:49:54 revelation kernel: ata1.00: error: { UNC }
i did some googling and found out this may be due to damaged areas in the hard disk or the hard disk is about to fail. (is it true?)
I followed some other thread, used system rescue cd and did a fsck -f on the root partition. I still keep getting these randon freezes. is there anything i can do to fix these?
your help is appreciated.
Last edited by greylogic (2009-09-27 03:00:43)

I used the 80 wire cable that came with the board and ran the WD's jumperless (cable select) with the drive at one end and the blue connector on the MB. I also tried a 40 wire cable with the drive set to master. Both of these scenarios worked fine on my other computer, which I switched back and forth several times to prove to myself that the drives were fine and the cables were ok.
I did run spinrite from dos and was always able to work with the drives as long as I selected LBA access and disabled [Integrated Peripherals]->[VIA OnChip IDE Device]->[IDE DMA Transfer Access].
The MB never autodetected any of the drives correctly. Only when I used the the older WD 1200JB with access mode set to [LBA] and disabled IDE DMA Transfer Access did i get partial success. Admittedly, this is a very obscure problem and not many others are hitting. Hopefully the service guys will be able to sort it out since it is easy to reproduce.
I never used that JPWR2 connector, the manual stated that it was to supply power to the graphics card but my card has a regular 4 pin molex that i could get directly from the power supply. Wonder if the board would blow up if someone stuck the 4pin lead from their PSU in there ... maybe not such a great feature.
I did not try a single CPU or run memtest86 - things I probably should have tried. The problem to me seemed to be the integrated IDE controller was just not working correctly, so after changing ram, power supply, drives etc and seeing the exact same problem with the hard disk, I became more convinced it was just a flakey board. Plus the need to clear CMOS and reboot constantly to get the board to post added to theory.
Oh well, it is in RMA land now, so when it comes back I will let you know how it goes.

Firefox randomly freezes, uninstall will not work...

When I am on any website at all, Firefox randomly freezes for about 10 seconds. Firefox tints white and program title says (Not Responding).
I've tried scanning Firefox with anti-virus and anti-malware software but its clean. Ive restarted my computer and tried updating and reinstalling Firefox, my problem still persists.
I decided totally uninstalling Firefox then installing an offline setup should fix it but when I try to uninstall the program does nothing. I took this screenshot: http://gyazo.com/8b1986b672f4911370146cbcd3b2b288
I don't know why but that is the only entry that has anything to do with Firefox in my Programs and Features. When I press Uninstall nothing at all happens. The version of firefox I have is the latest 13.0.1 as of June 17, 2012 as shown in this screenshot: http://gyazo.com/ac401e0668a9a1a5fa632d3bd61f8dd7
I want to just delete the Firefox install directory located at C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox but I don't know if that will delete everything that has to do with Firefox and I want a total removal of the program before I reinstall to ensure my problem is fixed. I have searched all over the internet for my problem to find the answer but did not find anything which is why I'm submitting this. All help and comments are appreciated.

Sometimes an orphaned entry in Programs isn't updated or removed if Firefox updates, but a new entry is added.
If you are comfortable with using the Registry editor then you can remove that entry.
*HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Mozilla Firefox

Anyone using Windows 7 RC on an R61 ? (Random freezing issues)

My R61 will randomly freeze for 2-3 minutes during which time it becomes unusable as I cannot move the cursor. All programs stop responding for 2-3 minutes and suddenly the computer will snap out of it and become usable again. This will happen probalby twice an hour when I'm using the laptop.
I've installed both 32 bit and 64 bit versions of the Windows 7 RC and the freezing problem occurs on each. This R61 has been running Windows XP flawlessly for 2 years now otherwise.
The 64 bit version of Windows 7 RC runs flawlessly on my desktop computer with many of the same programs installed so I'm guessing it's a driver incompatability with the my R61 that is causing the issue, I just can't narrow it down.

RRC:
Take a look at this thread and see if the possibility of a missing Intel Matrix Storage Manager driver might be the cause of your problem. Here's the link to the discussion thread: T61 freezes every 15 minutes.
Also, have a look at this post, it might contain a golden nugget of information about something you may have overlooked:
Device Driver Install Order
Michael
W520 (4270 CTO), which replaced a W500 (4062-27U), which replaced a T42P, which replaced an A21P...

Mac Mini randomly freezing

My Mac Mini (late 2012) is less than two months old and has started to randomly freeze for no reason.
The sequence of events is always the same - namely as I am moving between documents, photos or web pages I get the freeze then about 10 seconds later the mouse will freeze leaving me in that unenviable position of having to switch the Mac Mini off and then back on.
I know that it has to something with the Mac Mini as I have reduced my hardware configuration to:
Mac Mini
27" LED Cinema Display
Apple USB keyboard
Apple Type A1152 Mouse
Time Capsule
Linksys WAG160N ADSL Modem/Router (configured in bridge mode to allow Time Capsule to act as main router)
Even with this minimal hardware configuration I still get random freezing.
I have already tried taking the Time Capsule out of the configuration and plug the Modem straight into the Mac Mini which worked for the better part of a day befor the freezing returned.
One other thing I have noticed is that once I reboot the Mac Mini it just carries out a normal boot up sequence in that I do not get any popup windows asking me to report a crash to Apple, although Firefox or Safari both report that this has happened.
Any help from those with far more technical ability than I would be greatly appreciated
Thanks in advance
Les

Thanks for the remind Linc - spent an hour on the phone with a support tech who in the end made an appointment for me with the Genius Bar in my local Apple Store.
I played along although I was baffled at this turn of events.
Crux was when I turned up for the appointment there was no mucking about - they took my Mac Mini and ten minutes later presented me with a brand new one with all of my software transferred. Fingers crossed it hasn't gone wrong yet.
Once again thanks to all for the suggestions - the help I received explains why this community is so good.

Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Fatal1ty - Computer randomly freezes accompanied by a single be

I just bought my X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Fatalty Pro Series and my computer randomly freezes for up to 0 seconds and I hear a single beep from my internal computer speaker after which my system goes back to normal for about 5 to 0 minutes and then it repeats the same process. I have upgraded all my drivers for my motherboard, including flashing my bios to an updated version, and I ran the creative software auto update from the website and updated the drivers and software and I'm still having the same issue. I am running a Dell XPS 400 system:?Dell DXP05 MotherboardPentium D830 Dual Core Smithfield @ 3.0Ghz2 gigs ramXFX Nvidia GeForce 7900GS 256mb Video Cardand X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Fatalty Pro Series Card?Any thoughts? I've read similar posts however none seem to be the same as my issue.

Hi,
Did this happen right out of the box or do you own the card for some time now?
Just in case, please ensure that the sound card is firmly seated on the pci slot.

Random Restarts! SATA HDD Makes a noise...going insane!

Well, for christmas (yay!) i recieved a gig of Corsair XMS memory and a new Western Digital 120 GB SATA HDD. So you know as soon as i had them in my hands, they went into the beast.
So i booted it up and everything went fine. I installed Win XP Pro. No Problems. wOOT!
So I go and install Call of Duty and it's installation went fine. Then I go in and play it. (after rebooting of course) and i hear the HDD click and slow down, then the system freezes.
I can replicate this problem with Planetside too.
So I tried another HDD, a slow 10gig 5400 rpm. Installed the basics and the game ran fine, ran through the entire tutorial level.
Sometimes, on the SATA HDD, i'll get an exception to Win32k.sys @ 0x0000008E
If im lucky.
Well, im out of ideas and out of stamina, I have gone 3 sleepless nights trying to find out the problem and im out of ideas. I have posted on the WD forums and have emailed their support staff (but they suck.)
Any Help is GREATLY appriciated. As you can see, it runs fine normally, or i wouldnt be talking to you now.

this is the problem
Question
Error Message: "GENERAL PROTECTION FAULT" in Windows.
Answer
Problem:
"GENERAL PROTECTION FAULT" error message encountered in Windows. A blue screen appears with an error message stating that a GPF (General Protection Fault) error has occurred with the name of the program or file that caused the error.
Cause:
A GPF is almost never a drive problem. A GPF typically occurs when two or more programs try to access the same region of memory within the system, or when a program attempts to write to a protected file.
Resolution:
The best solution is to contact Microsoft Support with all the proper information regarding the error.
If you believe that the drive may be the cause of this problem, running the diagnostic feature on the Data Lifeguard Tools disk will determine its error status. If the drive fails, it should be replaced. If there are no errors, the drive is not the source of the problem. Further troubleshooting will be required within the operating system and applications. The Data Lifeguard Tools are available in our Download Library.

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