Sick of the crashes, please help!

[John Veteran]

try some of these:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=317326

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechn...md_stp_ottj.asp

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/....asp?frame=true

edit: try updating the drivers that were ever mentioned before with this error

[mikejd1]

try some of these:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=317326

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechn...md_stp_ottj.asp

edit: removed articles for windows 2000 :blush:

the top 2 told me nothing except install the latest SP, which i have.

The 3rd one...well, im not sure i understand what it's saying. Is it saying I may have faulty RAM, or a bad driver? And if it's a driver, why can the system not identify it?

Ive also received these:

Stop 0x0000002E or DATA_BUS_ERROR

Stop 0x0000000A or IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

[Tartan]

Its not normal for xp to do that, so I would try the following:

1. Do an up to date FULL virus check.

2. Download all the latest critical patchs from the windows update site

3. Update your drivers (printer/graphics/sound/modem/etc)

4. Failing all the above, backup your data and do a FULL CLEAN INSTALL of xp.

[mikejd1]

Its not normal for xp to do that, so I would try the following:

1. Do an up to date FULL virus check.

2. Download all the latest critical patchs from the windows update site

3. Update your drivers (printer/graphics/sound/modem/etc)

4. Failing all the above, backup your data and do a FULL CLEAN INSTALL of xp.

did, did, did, did, and did.

next...? :D

Edited November 21, 2003 by lebmike

[mikejd1]

and wait, i also saw this one a few times too...

Stop 0xC2 or BAD_POOL_CALLER

[Frank]

You have "Issues". With all of those different errors, my guess would be a failing motherboard, processor or memory. Have you ran the memory test?

[mikejd1]

no, i havent run the memory test yet, i will when i get home. so if you all read this thread, what do you think in your opinions owuld be the cause? Bad memory or an actual driver?

[nanackle]

http://www.memtest86.com/

use the tool at this website to test your memory... it worked for me two days ago.. it caught all the errors.

[mikejd1]

http://www.memtest86.com/

use the tool at this website to test your memory... it worked for me two days ago.. it caught all the errors.

thanks, ill try it tonight.

mike

[mikejd1]

http://www.memtest86.com/

use the tool at this website to test your memory... it worked for me two days ago.. it caught all the errors.

what did you do after it caught all the errors?

[Delsphynx]

Personally, I think your issue is 99.9% hardware. XP is pretty stable, at least way more so than what you are seeing with yours. I have a strong feeling you are having hardware issues. What is your mobo manufacturer and RAM manufacturer? Motherboards (especially some of the new ones) seem to have RAM compatibility issues. I actually think I have one of those now - my computer will literally just freeze in its tracks - system clock, going to the task manager and looking at the performance graphs that will never update, etc. etc. Forces me to reboot, and ****es me off. I just haven't had a chance to trace it down yet.

[Antichrist]

!WURD! you can try to disable auto-reboot on critical erro in startup and recovery options

But that can damage his hardware in long therm...

[Tartan]

Yeah seeing as it seems you have tried everything, it seems to me to be a faulty motherboard, you could try updating your motherboard drivers and bios etc, also via ones if your MB supports it, otherwise it looks like you should try buying a different MB. :/

[mikejd1]

so many scenarios :( i dont know what to do

[Antichrist]

Yeah seeing as it seems you have tried everything, it seems to me to be a  faulty motherboard, you could try updating your motherboard drivers and bios etc, also via ones if your MB supports it, otherwise it looks like you should try buying a different MB.  :/

Exactly what I was going to add. I did that with my old (5 years) motherboard and XP began to work. At that time, I couldn't even install XP, it was doing the exact same thing during the installation.

Then I updated the bios and "voil?"!

It's all a matter of how XP "speaks" with your motherboard.

[RadialFX]

This does very much sound like a problem with RAM. Over the last 21 years I've seen bad RAM drive people crazy. The problem with testing it "Live" is that it may not report as bad at this moment. Another program that's a really good piece of diagnostic software is SANDRA by SiSoft http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/ .

Personally by the looks of all the errors you're getting I wouldn't start disassembling anything or uninstalling a lot of stuff before I either replaced some RAM or ran a utility on it to help identify if it's RAM or not. Sometimes you have to just let it run with the utility also running until it encounters the error. These can be really tough ones to identify. Good luck.

[KC]

so many scenarios :( i dont know what to do

Pick one and start.

Normally I dont suggest a reformat reinstall, but aside for running all these tests, you could try that first if you still have problems you could start running tests

[Frank]

But that can damage his hardware in long therm...

How is disabling the "Auto Reboot" feature going to damage his hardware in the long term scenario? Before Windows XP, this feature was not available. It is more of a convenience issue (Especially with servers) so if your PC goes down, it can come right back up, instead of waiting for someone to cycle the power. My setting is set to auto reboot, but if I start having problems, I change it to the old fashioned manual way.

[mikejd1]

you all have been very helpful. i think before the 1st thing i am going to do is test my memory, with that, im just going to pull of of the chips i have.

i have 2 512 chips, ill pull the generic one first, if it still crashes, ill pull the Samsung one and put the generic back in.

we'll see hwat happens.

results for you all by Sunday :)

[Frank]

Good Luck!

[Spyder Veteran]

excellent choice starting with the RAM. thats where i'd start considering what I read about some of the stop errors you posted

[GR7]

hum

I had Auto-Reboot on System Error enabled before......and I had some problems with my computer rebooting at random too.....but it was a matter of CPU overheating....any chance that's your problem? I dont know if it could be, since i never saw the error codes for my reboots......i just installed a temperature monitoring software and i saw the temp was just too high (80C) and i just added some fans and bought a new fan for the CPU...

if you havent checked down, download speedfan (www.almico.com/speedfan) i think, and check what's your CPU's processor.

good luck with the tests too.

[Agent Smit]

I had two Abit motherboards BX133-RAID a while back that would reboot like your computer does. I tried all sorts of stuff and in the end I was looking closely at the power conditioning circuit on the motherboard. Guess what I found? A few capacitors where kinda bloated.

Attached is a ZIP file with a picture of my broken motherboard and also a PDF about this issue. ;)

[mikejd1]

so far so good...i took out one memory chip and i havent had a crash since, its been over an hour now. we'll see what happens over the weekend.

Mike

[mikejd1]

Day 2 of taking out the RAM:

No system crashes! wow! time to buy a new 512 stick! :)