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doveman

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  1. It's just a normal SATA connection and I'm running Win7, although it's running in Test Mode so driver signing shouldn't be an issue. The Porttalk.sys driver is supplied with Victoria and in the same folder. I think I've got a working XP partition on this system so I'll try booting to that. I still need to know which option to select on the Test page though.
  2. That makes sense as I was doing the Verify test in HDDScan, which I presume reads, writes then reads again from each block, so it could be the write that's fixing it. I'm not sure that's what's happening though (with all the blocks anyway) as I just took the Xbox 250GB HDD which I did a Verify scan on yesterday and when first starting it, it showed block 0 as dodgy, as it did yesterday, so if writing to it had fixed it I wouldn't have expected it to show as dodgy again today. I then restarted the test a few times and each time it identified block 0 as OK (<5ms a few times but on the last few runs <50ms), so it seems likely that block 0 identifying as <500ms is related to spin-up time (which seems to be borne out by the fact that if I leave it for a while (I mean only several minutes) before starting the test again, it's more likely to show as orange). I'll have to see if I've got an app to check and change the spindown time. As you can see from the third image in my OP, many blocks identify as <20ms so that seems fairly normal, whilst under <50ms is considerably more rare but I presume the fact it's coloured grey rather than orange or red indicates that it's still within acceptable limits. The first run also identified block 1024 as dodgy, which it also failed to do on subsequent runs until about the fifth and sixth time when it flagged it up again but it was OK again on the seventh, eighth, ninth. Anyway, I'll run it through Victoria 4.46b, which has loaded albeit with "unknown error or driver not exist" followed by "PORTTALK error. Invalid Driver Handle" followed by "Porttalk driver not installed. Available only API Access" (v43 does the same) but I tested the Get SMART function and that worked so hopefully the other functions will. I'm not sure which settings I need to use though. On the Test page it has four options, Ignore, Remap, Erase or Restore. Clearly I don't want to use Erase but which should I use? It has an option to do a Buttrefly scan as well but I don't like the sound of that
  3. Ah, thanks. I thought I'd found an official site and 34 was the last version jaclaz Well I'd be rather unlucky if I did, as I've got an image of the HDD now as well as backups of much of the data on another HDD By the way, I'm not sure how dependable HDDScan is now, as I have another 2.5" 500GB drive which I use for PC stuff, which I've had in an e-SATA enclosure which it turns out has been causing problems. So I scanned that with HDDScan and it showed there were 6 less than perfect blocks, so I reformatted it to get those blocks marked and re-scanned it and it showed an orange block within seconds. So I stopped it and re-started the scan and repeated this a few times and it didn't show that block as being problematic after the first scan.
  4. Err, OK. If I wanted to be on my own, I wouldn't be asking for help booting Victoria, would I! Yeah, I do know what I want to do. Mark the dodgy blocks as unusable as I said in my first post. I'm not trying to recover any data as I haven't lost any.
  5. Hmm. I can't get the Victoria floppy image to load via grub4dos (0.4.6a) with the following: map /iso/Victoria34.IMG (fd0) map --hook chainloader (fd0) it says: Fat12 BPB found with 0xEB (jmp) leading the boot sector probed C/H/S = 80/2/18, probed total sectors = 2000 chainloader (fd0) Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format I can boot the MHDD ISO OK but then that doesn't seem to recognise any of my drives. It presents three interfaces (not the correct ones) and whichever one I select, when I press F2 to scan it says drive not ready.
  6. And AGAIN, I never talked of imaging, I said "tested clone". This means cloning to another hard disk AND TEST the destination hard disk on the XBOX BEFORE anything else. If you have NOT another suitable hard disk, start saving money, buy one, clone you current one, test the clone BEFORE doing anything. Yeah, that isn't going to happen I'll just have to take my chances with an image. Like I say, I've got copies of most of the games already anyway. I'll see if I can extract files from the image once it's finished, which might work a lot quicker than extracting them directly from the drive but I'll probably just restore the entire image once I've fixed the drive. That's cool then. Thanks for explaining that.
  7. Really? Guess WHY exactly I suggested : : jaclaz Yeah, it looks like I might have to, even though that's not really what I want to do. The thing that concerns me is that if I make a clone image and then mark the dodgy blocks as unusable with Victoria, when I go to restore the image won't it want to write to the same dodgy blocks or will it be forced to write somewhere else? I've never made and restored a Xbox HDD image either, so obviously I'm a bit concerned in case it doesn't work as expected. At least if I had the individual files on my PC HDD I could restore them easily. In fact, it might have been better to copy the files over SMB whilst the HDD was still connected to the Xbox but now I've dismantled the casing to connect it to the PC I can't be bothered to put it all back together, copy the files, then dismantle it again to connect to the PC and fix the dodgy blocks
  8. Thanks guys. I'll try Victoria or MHDD. @Jaclaz, It's rather tricky making backups of the Xbox HDD as it uses XFAT, so I have to use special apps to access it, all of which seems to have bugs and keep locking up (e.g. Xplorer360 locks up when trying to delete a folder, which USBXTAFGUI doesn't have any trouble with but did lock up when trying to copy/extract some folders to my PC HDD). I could probably make an IMG of the HDD but I'd rather have the individual files backed up so I can choose what to put back on the HDD. I've probably got most of it backed up already anyway, so it's not that important. Because it uses XFAT I also have to use special apps to erase/format it and I'm not sure whether those apps would remap the bad sectors, unless that's something that's done at the drive-level irrespective of which app is used. Anyway, better if I can fix it without erasing/formatiing it
  9. I've found my Xbox360 HDD (250GB Hitachi) has six dodgy blocks (not actually bad, they just take longer to read than they should), including block 0. I've been having problems with my Xbox recently, which are probably related, so I want to mark these blocks as bad/unusable so that they won't be used anymore and see if that fixes my problems. Does anyone know how to do this? I scanned the HDD with HDDScan and I've attached screenshots of the results below. http://imageshack.us/a/img14/7440/xboxhdgraphdirect.png http://imageshack.us/a/img132/84/xboxhdreportdirect.png http://imageshack.us/a/img801/1489/xboxhdmapdirect.png
  10. Seems it is the PSU. With my Antec PSU, the CPU fan stays on, even without any RAM in the board, so it seems the OCZ PSU managed to die in between moving the system from the bench into the case. I'll have to double-check whether the original MB is actually faulty or not but I don't think the CPU fan was coming on even briefly with that, so it probably is.
  11. It's a OCZ StealthXStream 400W. Was working fine with the same system until the original board died. I did actually have it open recently as I needed to replace the fan which had started making annoying noises intermittently (probably the bearings were going) so I cleaned it out then and didn't notice any bulging caps. I just tested it by shorting PS_ON to GND and it stays on like that but as you say, it may have a fault that's causing it to trip out when it's under load. I think I'll have to try my Antec PSU from my main system and see if that works with this board.
  12. No, the PSU and CPU fans are stopping completely after a couple of seconds, so it's powering off.
  13. OK, so I got the Asrock 880GMH/U3S3. I've just tested it with only the CPU and RAM and when pressing the power button (connected to the header, there's no on-board buttons) the PSU and CPU fans spin up for a couple of seconds but then spin down again. It seems like it's tripping out for some reason. I don't think there's any problem with the CPU or RAM as I've been using them on another board, so I wonder if there's an issue with the PSU but I tested that with another board a few weeks ago and that was fine, so I don't really know what's up.
  14. OK, thanks for checking it anyway. Obviously whatever's causing the delay isn't caught by the trace.
  15. OK, I finally got round to doing this. The delay is still about 1m10s before the boot animation shows and then another 30s until the desktop shows. This is with the NoGuiBoot and Bootlog options disabled. http://www.mediafire.com/?kj1tts5jdumdd7b
  16. Hey thanks, I'm not having any problems at the moment but I didn't even realise my USB3 driver was out-of-date. I'm not sure which USB3 chip you have (I can't see a firmware v3.0.2.1 on that page) but I managed to update my uPD720200 ports to 4.0.2.0 by taking the commandline utility from an earlier package and following the advice here http://pete.akeo.ie/2011/10/flashing-necrenesas-usb-30.html The GUI utility doesn't work as it says there's more than one port and quits, which seems rather daft!
  17. I wasn't doing anything with it at the time (Mediaportal was loaded but just sitting on the Home menu and I was on the other PC) so I can't really say whether it would have caused any drops or not.
  18. Hmm, I've had Latencymon running for 1hr21mins and it's just had a latency spike of 2825us! It must have happened in the last 10 minutes or so, as I don't think it had gone above 200us last time I looked and it was mostly staying in the 19-30us range. Maybe I don't need to worry about such occasional glitches?
  19. Oh I am thanks. Just seems wierd the mouse on the hub only causes problems when TVservice.exe is running. I guess as the tuner card is on the USB bus some sort of wierd conflict must be happening with the mouse on the hub when the tuner is being accessed by TVservice.exe.
  20. Thanks, that seems to have fixed it. With TV playing (obviously with TVservice.exe running) I haven't had any USBPORT.sys DPC spikes since disconnecting the mouse from my USB hub and connecting it directly to a port on the motherboard (via an extension cable as my PC is about 5m from my desk). I'll test later without TV playing just to be sure, as that was how I was testing before but I doubt it will be worse when idle. I can't pretend to understand the image you posted, nor why the mouse connected to the hub would only cause DPC spikes when TVservice.exe is running. Could you explain a bit so I can hopefully learn how to avoid similar issues in future?
  21. OK, so I started the trace with D:\>xperf -on latency -stackwalk profile -buffersize 1024 -MaxFile 256 -FileMode Circular && timeout -1 && xperf -d interrupt.etl let it run for about 30s, then started TVservice.exe, which takes about 30s to start. I'm not sure how much time gets captured in 256MB but I left it running for about 5 minutes which should hopefully have caught the USBPORT.sys spikes. It created a kernel.etl and DPC_Interrupt.etl. I think from memory you only need the latter but please let me know if you want me to upload the kernel.etl as well. http://www.mediafire.com/?7xoaddbpg99un0f
  22. EDIT: Never mind, just needed to stop LatencyMon. Thanks, will do.
  23. Hi MagicAndre I'm having some issues with one of my PCs again. I was having problems with stuttering in DCS BS2 and Arma2, so I switched to a spare Win7 x64 install on my HDD with less stuff installed. The latency hovers around the 100us mark with occasional spikes of 150-200 and sometimes I seem to be able to get it to stay more in the 20-50us range but I can't find a consistent method of doing this. One time killing nusb3mon.exe seemed to do it but another time didn't seem to have any effect. My main concern is that I keep getting USBPORT.sys showing up as the highest DPC routine execution time (sometimes the ISR as well) with very high spikes, like 1500us. I've just killed TVService.exe which is the service for Mediaportal and that seems to have stopped that but obviously I need that running to record and watch TV (and clearly when watching TV, or any video, I don't want latency problems). My TV Tuner (Hauppauge Nova-T 500) does work on the USB bus, despite being a PCI card, so that sort of makes sense but I didn't see this problem on my other Win7 x64 install. I haven't installed the AMD SB drivers yet, mainly because when I did on my other PC it would no longer boot, just BSOD, so I'm a bit nervous but can make a True Image before doing so if you think that might help. So it's just using the Microsoft AHCI drivers at the moment. EDIT: Just realised I was using an old version of LatencyMon. Updated now and the latency's showing below 25us most of the time with highest 41ms, so I guess it must be measured differently. I'll try restarting TVservice.exe and see if it's OK now. Nope, after restarting LatencyMon it soon had a DPC spike on USBPORT.sys of 1263us. There's higher spikes on the latency as well, highest 108us, some 50, 70, 90.
  24. Does it still timeout? Well the profile as I configured it is to sleep after 30mins and never turn off the display. So I can set "Specify the Unattended Sleep Timeout (plugged in)" to 30 mins and "Turn off the Display" to 0 and see if that stops it changing. The problem with that is I might want to switch from Balanced to High Performance profile (this is one of the things that Gamebooster does when switching to Gaming Mode, mainly because it disables CPU power saving so stops it changing P-States) and with the settings fixed in Group Policy like this, they won't be able to change when I switch profile.
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