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MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION crash

[Deleted User] · 2005-02-21 02:44:00

I was formatting a floppy disk earlier on, but it seemed to be taking absolutely ages. I had headphones on so couldn't hear if the disk was just bad or not. Anyway, it started locking up my machine so I took the disk out, after which I was hit with a Stop error 0x0000009C MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION message. Fair enough, I did…

21-02-2005 3:44am

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I was formatting a floppy disk earlier on, but it seemed to be taking absolutely ages. I had headphones on so couldn't hear if the disk was just bad or not.
Anyway, it started locking up my machine so I took the disk out, after which I was hit with a Stop error 0x0000009C MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION message. Fair enough, I did something I shouldn't have. But after resetting the machine one of my hard disks was detected in the BIOS as garbage characters instead of the usual "SAMSUNG SP0411N". I turned off the PC and back on again, it was detected normally, but then Windows was moaning that my network cable was unplugged. So I shut it down, unplugged the PC from the mains, then after that it was ok.

I'm just concerned about the hard disk. The BIOS said the following:

IDE Primary Master: ST340014A
IDE Primary Slave: (long line of garbled characters)
IDE Secondary Master: LITE-ON LTR-40125S
IDE Secondary Slave: HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8161B

It all seems ok now but I'm feeling iffy. Do I have anything to worry about?

One other question. Any time I get a Stop error it always seems to be when I'm doing something, so when I reboot some files are damaged. I'm considering turning off the hard disk's write back cache in an attempt to prevent this from happening. Will this cause a significant performance drop on a modern PC? My box is an Athlon 64 3000+ with 512MB RAM.

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