Raid 5 Array (S:) Dropped disk 4

12-14-2014 The raid array dropped what I think is the bottom drive again.
1-9-2015 The raid array dropped disks 2&3 citing SMART errors

Balthazar Lock-up 4 days 18 hours

Balthazar Lock-up 4 days 18 hours, Was running copy of singularity and firestorm, with 3 VM's running, and google canary as well as pale moon(firefox) broswer.

Balthazar Drives attached to Marvell controller dissconnected

Balthazar 4 days 17 hours uptime. Dirves 1 and 3 (P: Swap drive and ? ) listed as disconnected and then reconnected.

Balthazar BSOD Bad pool header

Bad pool header 18 hours uptime, skype and multiple copies of radegast running.

Cyborg RATT MMO7 mouse beeping when moved.

My new Cyborg RATT MMO7 mouse seems to start beeping and not working after 2 days, 1 hour or so uptime, and will just beep with every movement and button press. I cannot interact with the GUI at all.

Balthazar nvlddmkm.sys BSOD 8 hours uptime.

I got a BSOD involving nvlddmkm.sys while on skype, with manycam, and watching a movie with VLC, after installing the new MMO7 mouse an having a previous BSOD.

Balthazar Restart, Radegast

Balthazar Uptime 6 Days. I have had trouble opening new copies of the Radegast second life text Client and getting them to run without crashing after having 9 or so already open, even after closing all of them and running 9 copies again. This also seems to cause either or both explorer.exe and display fusion to freeze up. This only seemed to start happening after 4-5 days uptime.

Taskbar not Responding

Balthazar uptime 5 days 8 hours. Taskbar is frozen as well as clock.

Balthazar Swiftech Maelstrom LCD for Cpu loop junk display?

Balthazar Swiftech Maelstrom LCD for Cpu loop is displaying gibberish. uptime 3 days 22 hours. Upon shutdown and start up. LCD is displaying the temperature correctly.

Nvidia OpenGl Driver Error

Nvidia OpenGl Driver Error. Balthazar uptime 6 days 1 hour. had 3 Sl clients running along with VLC in fullscreen. Display froze, sound on video looped. Everything except for SL clients and VLC fine a minute or so later.

Balthazar Successful Reboot!

After the BSOD cause by the Logitech 500 webcam's audio driver, and to re-install the APC UPS' drivers, I tried rebooting Balthazar, and it worked! No BSOD!

Balthazar BSOD lvr64.sys, less than 1hr uptime, while using Firestorm SL viewer and voice chat.

Balthazar Uptime: 26 Days

Balthazar Uptime: 26 Days. Shut down for Video card upgrade.

Screeching Siren-noise at 4am

I woke up to a screeching siren-like noise around 4am, coming from back by the external hard drives. I tested them all with seagate's dashboard program, and they all seem fine. The NAS also reports all drives as Good.

Balthazar Uptime 18 Days Frozen

I discovered Balthazar had frozen at 1:05pm on 5-16-2014, with utorrent and peerblock running, and several teracopy file transfers from network computers, which all completed. utorrent seems to be fine, how ever the S: raid 5 array is being verified because I was downloading onto it.

Solomon Laptop uptime 81 days

Solomon got to 81 days before I had to restart due to sluggish performance.

Balthazar Uptime 6 days 14 hours

Balthazar Uptime 6 days 14 hours. Planned shutdown to install tripp lite 24 outlet surge strip. Balthazar seems to freeze/lockup if the 24 port switch goes offline.

Balthazar Unexpected Shutdown

Balthazar shut down sometime between 1-2am on 4-182014. I can't find a BSOD dump file or anything in the logs. Uptime was 39-40 hours. Roadkill's Unstoppable Copier was set to power down after copy! >.<

Balthazar Raid 5 array bad clusters

After running Chkdsk S: /f  about five times over two days on Balthazar's Raid 5 array, I decided to run Chkdsk S: /r, and it has apparently found many bad clusters, starting in the NERV backups folder.

Gaspar Slow down

Gaspar slowed down today for several minutes while backing up with acronis while watching a high-res movie. The cooling fan was not on.

Balthazar Uptime 27 Days 18 hours Memory usage

Something related to svchost.exe seems to be eating 1-2GB more of ram everyday. Ram usage is at 26GB today.

Update 1: Uptime 30 Days 5 hours. Ram usage increased to 30GB and is now back down to 26.6.

Balthazar Raid 5 Array Verify

Balthazar Raid 5 Array Verify. The top drive seems to have dropped out of the array again while I was transferring a few movies.. Write-cache is enabled thou, so it shouldn't take as long to rebuild.

Gaspar: Bluestacks caused BSOD

Gaspar: Bluestacks caused BSOD. Bluestacks is a program that lets you run android apps. Well I tryed to install for that purpose, and well, it caused a BSOD. I had a similar problem with it and Windows 8, if I recall. When I tried to run it with Windows 7 and by selecting the Nvidia card, BSOD.

Gaspapr BSOD cause by igdkmd64.sys?

Gaspapr BSOD cause by igdkmd64.sys? Over 1 day uptime, over 9GB of ram in use, was watching a youtube video and transfering 15 GB of MP3's

Gaspar Froze for a few minutes at 3 days 3 hours uptime

Gaspar Froze for a few minutes at 3 days 3 hours uptime. Ram use was above 10GB. It seems there was also a CPU usage spike around the same time, after the system became responsive again. The mouse cursor still worked, but seemed to move slower across/around the screen. I had just opened a youtube video when it happened.

Gaspar Uptime 5 days 2 hours.

Gaspar Uptime 5 days 2 hours. Restarted due to occasional audio cutout. Ndis.sys (wi-fi network drivers? ) seems to be causing the worst DPC latency. Also ram usage was above 8GB with chrome and skype closed.

Balthazar uptime 14 Days 4 Hours 26 Minutes.

Balthazar uptime 14 Days 4 Hours 26 Minutes. Shut down due to high ram usage from many, many instances of setup.exe and dllhost. Uptime counter widget has also frozen at 13 days 20 hours. H: drive has also dissapeared.

Windows startup screen took several minutes (5?) to load into the log in page, but everything seems fine. APC agent works, Horlanger clock is working, since it was shut down several days ago.

Gaspar Uptime 5 days 1 hour

Gaspar Uptime 5 days 1 hour. Restarted due to frequent red DPC spikes, crackly/strange audio occasionally.

Gaspar Uptime 2 Days

Gaspar uptime is 2 days before restart. No Issues.

Gaspar Uptime 1 Day 23 Hours

Gaspar Uptime 1 Day 23 Hours. Everything seems good.

Gaspar Froze

Gaspar froze while I was transferring a file on the NAS, talking on skype, and had just loaded up a flash game, with about 7-8 youtube videos loaded in chrome. Uptime is less than a day because I had just restarted this morning. I've disabled Aero to see if that helps the system stability.

Balthazar: Brown gunk along moving water line again.

After having Balthazar shut down for the day because of storms, I noticed the brown gunk from before along the moving water line, where it would be if the pump were running. I think I'm going to add water and biocide.
I'm also going to see if the water line drops again after topping the reservoir off. I haven't found any leaks yet.

Balthazar Uptime 3 days 14/16 hours Shutdown BSOD Iastors.sys

Balthazar Uptime 3 days 14/16 hours. A few minutes after shutting down. Balthazar gave me a BSOD citing Iastors.sys. I re-installed the Intel RST enterprise software (and also with it the drivers?). I also updated VLC to 2.13 and finished replacing all the SATA cables for the Raid 5 array.

Also, after re-installing the system shut down without incidence.

Balthazar Uptime 5 Days 0 Hours

Balthazar hung on shutdown at 5 days 0 hours uptime. Power up was fine, however.

Gaspar uptime 1 day 20 hours.

Gaspar uptime 1 day 20 hours.

Gaspar BSOD, Uptime 1 day 9 hours

Gaspar BSOD'd upon moving the laptop with the external backup attached.

Balthazar uptime 6 days 2 hours. BSOD on shutdown

Balthazar uptime 6 days 2 hours. BSOD on shutdown after running C: backup to NAS, Driver_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, IASTOR.sys stop 0x0000-01

Gaspar Uptime 1 day 18 hours 36 mins.

Gaspar Uptime 1 day 18 hours 36 mins. occasional audio glitches and DPC is all over the place.

Balthazar 5 days 6 hours uptime

Well I disabled the port probing detection on avast and have had over 90% green on the DPC latency checker.

Balthazar 2 days 22 hours Uptime

Balthazar 2 days 22 hours Uptime, DPC is all green.

Gaspar uptime 1 day 7 hours

I plugged in the Logitech 500 webcam and the system froze. No BSOD.

Balthazar BSOD almost 7 days uptime

Balthazar bluescreened at over 6 days and 20 hours of uptime, with a Kernal_data_inpage_error, caused by ataport.sys.

Gaspar uptime 2 days 21 hours

Chrome and explorer both stopped responding after an uptime of 2 days 21 hours and I had to hard reboot.

Balthazar Uptime: 6 Days 11 hours

Balthazar Uptime 6 Days 11 hours. Rare high red spikes, with occasional yellow spikes.

Balthazar DPC Spikes Chrome

Severe spiking upon opening chrome, which leveled out after a few minutes.

Balthazar 4 Days 9 Hours uptime

Balthazar 4 Days 9 Hours uptime. Frequent yellow DPC spikes (every 10 secs?)