A New Computer Issue(s)...

[Xenomic]

So here is a new issue that's popped up outside of the RAM issue that I know that I have (I wouldn't think this is the cause of this though). This is the second time I've had this happen to me.

So while booting up the computer 3 days ago, I go take care of my usual business, come back, and I noticed that the screen is frozen despite me being able to move my mouse. I remember this from the first time this happened, and tried to open Task Manager (Cntrl + Alt + Delete). However, the screen goes black and refuses to move at all, so I reboot the computer, and it tries to load the Windows files. Says it cannot (I think there was something about I/O error or another on this screen, and it was talking about possibly faulty hardware or something, like external USB or CD-Rom). However, I turned the computer completely off, turn it back on, and it loads just fine. During this time, I noticed that my CD-Rom's light was green, but when I turned it off and turned it back on, the light never came on.

After rebooting, the next day it happened again, but after rebooting the computer it never did the "Windows cannot load files" issue and worked fine. Today, it did the same thing, freezing up after booting up the first time that day. However, I decided to look at the EventViewer, since this is the 3rd day in a row that I had to restart my computer after the initial bootup (it's loading the Windows files now, but it freezes up after a couple minutes of booting up. Even trying to bring up Task Manager won't work, and nothing responds). In the Event Viewer, it states this:

"The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort1"

And not just once, but many, MANY times. And around the same times too, only seconds apart. I believe for today alone there was about 50-100 of this error. What does this mean? Upon looking for this, I tried to find the port this is, but I don't see which one it could be??



So yeah, what could be the issue? Is it the HDD dying? Is the CD-Rom actually starting to make the computer freak out? I don't know @_@;
     Posted: May 20, 2015, 09:29:38 PM
So now this computer is having massive problems that I have no idea what's causing it. Dunno if any of ya'll can help out with figuring what's wrong (I'm not tech-savvy in this regards so...), but this is everything that I've gathered so far on the issues:


1) After booting up the computer, after a few minutes, the system will hang and nothing will respond. Using Cntrl + Alt + Del will result in the screen going black. Mouse is still movable at this time. After a while, computer bluescreens with either "Kernel_InPage_Data_Error" or with a message saying a vital thread or process stopped working.

2) When booting up, sometimes it will boot up the secondary harddrive instead of the primary one.

3) When booting up, sometimes it will be a black screen with the message "Disk read error. Press Cntrl + Alt + Del to restart"

4) A new development I noticed is happening. A few days ago, when I was shutting down the computer, it was on the "Shutting down windows" screen for a good few solid minutes, but refused to actually shut down. I had to turn it off via the tower. Last night, when I shut the computer down, the monitor and power were off, but the computer was still going (I could hear the sounds it makes when on still going, and inside I could still see the blue lights going too). I could not turn the computer back on with the power button nor shut it down, and was forced to unplug the power cord from the breaker to turn it off.

5) A new development I see right now in the Event Viewer is there's a new error I've never seen before called "Disk", which happened around the time the computer was shut down last night. The error reads "The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk2\DR2.". I have no idea what this means, but I know this isn't good at all...



So that's everything. Computer still refuses to generate any minidump files for some reason when it crashes despite me setting to do so...yeah. This computer uses Windows 7, has one 2 GB RAM (had to remove the other one due to it being faulty and never got to replace it yet), and a 111 GB HDD (yeah, the HDD is super old and needs replaced). Dunno what other data may be needed in order to figure out what's really wrong or what to do