Controller Error: Do I need to worry?
- by Kryten
I have a HP Pavillion dv5224ea Laptop with Windows 7 on it. Recently I discovered a Error in Event Viewer:
The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort1.
(more details):
- System
- Provider
[ Name] atapi
- EventID 11
[ Qualifiers] 49156
Level 2
Task 0
Keywords 0x80000000000000
- TimeCreated
[ SystemTime] 2010-03-07T12:43:07.090197600Z
EventRecordID 30198
Channel System
Computer Alistair-Win7
Security
- EventData
\Device\Ide\IdePort1
0000100001000000000000000B0004C002000000850100C00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000004100000
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Binary data:
In Words
0000: 00100000 00000001 00000000 C004000B
0008: 00000002 C0000185 00000000 00000000
0010: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
0018: 00000000 00001004
In Bytes
0000: 00 00 10 00 01 00 00 00 ........
0008: 00 00 00 00 0B 00 04 C0 .......À
0010: 02 00 00 00 85 01 00 C0 ......À
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0028: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0030: 00 00 00 00 04 10 00 00 ........
Event Viewer is recording A LOT of these errors (sometimes 13, one after the other!). Do I need to worry? What does this error mean? What device could "\Device\Ide\IdePort1" be? What is a ATAPI Error? Do I need to re-install Windows? I generally find the occurs when I try to backup my machine (using Windows Backup) or when using a program that uses Volume Shadow Copy. I have run "sfc", no problems. There are no Device Errors in Device Manager. I have also run "vssadmin list writers", no problems. Whats going on??? Would it be a good idea to re-install Windows 7?