"afairjudgement@gmail.com" wrote:
>
> So...I built a computer, has an internal 320 gig Western Digital
> Caviar 320 gig just for storage. It's partitioned into 3 chunks,
> one 150 gig, a 100, and a 50; and I have Windows on a seperate
> Raptor 10k RPM SATA. When there's too much going on with the
> drive too many processing going, writing to, removing, basically
> any kind of semi-heavy hard drive traffic going on, i get
> something similar to this:
>
> Windows - Delayed Write Failure
> Windows was unable to save all the data for the file
>
> (file usually located on one of the partitions, E:, F:, G:)
> This error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware
> or network connection. Please try to save the file elsewhere
>
> So I have to reboot for everything to be fine again. Never
> experienced this problem before and I've tried several things
> like updating my nForce 590 chipset driver, played with the
> windows registry to fix the write caching stuff, but that didn't
> help at all. I see most people experiencing this problem are
> using external USB hard drive enclosures, but mine is internal.
>
> Are there any legitimate hot fixes that will take care of the
> problem?

If you don't have ECC memory I would be highly suspicious a memory
error has occurred in the past, possibly fouling some critical
file. If you have md5sums stored for all files you can at least
check for such file fouling, but it'll take a while.

Just needing to have such nebulous suspicions is reason alone to
ensure you have ECC memory. If reloading everything from the
original CDs fixes it it would tend to confirm my guess.

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