Event ID 51 - anything to worry about? 1

[stduc]

This week contained update Tuesday. I permitted the updates this morning & got the obligatory re-boot notification.

On re-boot my screen res was set to 640x480. I logged in as admin and took a look at the event log and device manager.
Nothing in the event log, but the nvidia screen driver was reported as failing to start by device manager. I decided to re-boot and strangely everything seemed back to normal. This time screen res was as per usual and no issues reported.
I took a closer look at the event log.
Around the time of the first re-boot (the one where the screen driver failed to start) there are a whole bunch of Event ID 51 errors that look like this

Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Disk
Event Category: None
Event ID: 51
Date: 16/08/2007
Time: 08:58:39
User: N/A
Computer: ATHLON
Description:
An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk0\D during a paging operation.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Data:
0000: 03 00 68 00 01 00 b6 00 ..h...¶.
0008: 00 00 00 00 33 00 04 80 ....3..?
0010: 2d 01 00 00 9a 00 00 c0 -...?..À
0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0028: 2d 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 -.......
0030: ff ff ff ff 01 00 00 00 ÿÿÿÿ....
0038: 40 00 00 30 ff 00 00 00 @..0ÿ...
0040: 5e 20 0a 12 42 03 00 40 ^ ..B..@
0048: 00 c0 00 00 0a 00 00 00 .À......
0050: 00 00 01 00 d8 e2 f2 f8 ....Øâòø
0058: 00 00 00 00 08 d0 f2 f8 .....Ðòø
0060: c0 98 a8 f6 9a 00 00 c0 À?¨ö?..À
0068: 28 00 02 2d fb 4f 00 00 (..-ûO..
0070: 60 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 `.......
0078: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
0088: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

I took at look here

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/244780

but can't decode the message I got.

Question is, do I worry about this or not? Is this an early warning of HDD failure? I think I shall run Spinrite overnight tonight.

[navy]When I married "Miss Right" I didn't realise her first name was 'always'. LOL[/navy]

 

[linney]

Don't read too much in to it unless you get repeated errors.
The fact that Nvidia failed to load its driver is just one of those things too.

Your hard drive manufacturer will have free diagnostic software to thoroughly check the condition of your hard drive.

As a safety net have you backed up your valuable data?

All I can really say is too keep an eye on things and see how they develop, you'll know soon enough if you have serious problems.