Event ID 51 during Gaming

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Scorch LINUX

When gaming, especially GTAIII and Warcraft III, but also on all games
or intense optical drive activity, I get this error:

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Cdrom
Event Category: None
Event ID: 51
Date: 4/8/2004
Time: 11:09:02 PM
User: N/A
Computer: *******
Description:
An error was detected on device \Device\CdRom1 during a paging
operation.

It is most commonly seen on my generic DVD-ROM, but also happens when
I try to use my TDK-VeloCD 52x CD-RW drive for the games.

System Hardware (as of right now, it will be changing in 4 days when
my new stuff comes in... to eliminate generic and up the system so I
can enjoy a nice LINUX installation)

-Via P4PB 400 FL Mainboard motherboard, with onboard 6 channel audio
and built in ethernet 100 port.
-Radeon 7000 64 Mb AGP 4x Vid card
-TDK 52x CD-RW
-Maddog (generic) DVD-ROM to be repleced by Artec DVD-ROM
-Intel 1.8G Celeron (to be replaced by P4 3.06 hyperthreaded CPU with
533FSB, which my motherboard supports)
-Maxtor DiamonPlus 80GB ATA133 IDE 7200 Harddrive (to be supplemented
by the same, with an 8mb buffer, when it gets here, which will house a
GenToo LINUX installation)
-Centon (generic) 512MB PC2700, 1 stick (2 be replaced by two sticks
of Crucial 512 MB PC 3200)
-Antec Tru-Power 450 dual fan power supply (to show its NOT a power
issue, i actually fried a 300W power supply as i had power issues)

I had a ZIP250, removed that, and still had errors after a reformat of
the harddrive (it would not let me uninstall the zip-drive software,
so I nuked it).

I cannot fix this error! I've swapped out and replaced every
componant listed above, save the CPU, and nothing has fixed it. I
hope that non-generic and a more powerful CPU might help.

One thing that did help was making the page file static, it eliminated
a few errors, but did not eliminate the problem. I have the problem
with both write cache enabled and disabled on my harddrive.

The system config looks like this: (device address given as
IDE:DEVICE)
0:0 Harddrive
0:1 EMPTY (former location of ZIP 250, to house current harrdrive when
I transfer installation to new drive and LINUX goes on this one)
1:0 TDK
1:1 DVD

note, my designation refers to 0 = primary IDE port/master, 1 =
secondary IDE/slave.

I would appreciate any help, after a year of troubleshooting, I quit.
Maybe the new hardware will fix it, but in case not, I figured I'd see
what was going on. Perhaps some of you out there have had this issue?
I hope so, not to be mean, but so that I'm not the only one.
 
Did you perform a complete install of the game or does the game require that
it periodically read from the CD during the game?
 
It periodically reads from the CD, but this error happens as soon as I
start the game so I don't usually get that far. It lags the system
horribly. I install games as fully as I can, though most require use
of the CD.
 
It may be a long shot but have you inspected the CD's themselves to see if
they are dirty or scratched?

Joshua Smith
DirectInput and OpenGL Test Labs
Microsoft
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CDs are in mint condition, I take very good care of them, and on the
off chance they get dirty, I do clean them with a soft cloth...
 
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