BSOD.....

[magnox]

Sorry, I added this post to my thread about 'new ram not recognised' , but the thread might be considedered old now. So I've reposted it in this new thread........................


Hey all,



with the 2 sticks of 512mb, I got the BSOD quite a bit so I'm running with just one at the moment.

Now, I get the BSOD regular too. Mostly, 0x0000008e type. The strange thing is, I get it if I try to run an Adaware scan and Spybot SD was that bad for crashing and hanging, I had to remove it.

I tried reseating ram and video and have even updated video driver, but that just gave a different type of code in the BSOD, so I rolled it back.

I have WinDb in and look at the crash dumps, but I'm no expert and they say probably caused by Ntosknl.exe

I thought it was a ram/video/driver issue, but the way that antispyware apps. hang and fail, I'm wondering if there's something I can't find inside. I use AVG and have looked at HJThis logs and have used antirootkit procedures/info. from Symantec but all to no avail.

I think I'm stuck!

Pete

[j79zlr]

It sounds hardware related. What is the different stop error with the updated driver? Random BSOD are almost always RAM related, but if its the same error, that could signify a specific problem. You could possibly have a bad video card?

I'm no expert in crash dumps either, but I would think that ntosknl.exe would always be there since that is the operating system kernel. Kernel dumps are going to be related to the kernel.

[magnox]

Hi,

I can't recall exactly the other error and a cleaner tool has removed the old crash dumps, but 0x0000007a rings a bell with me, with the BSOD mentioning driver irql not less or equal.

Memtest runs fine with no fails. I too suspected the video card at one point, but I don't have a spare card to swap-in and try.

My other thought was maybe a mobo fault, but ime will tell, meanwhile If I can get a video card to try and rule this out I will.



Pete

[j79zlr]

If memtest complete then I would say with confidence it is not the RAM. Do you have the latest BIOS for your motherboard?

[magnox]

I think there is a bios update available, but I'd read many things about ppl having problems with them, so it was easier to forget about it, I suppose I don't have much to lose. ( except my data, which I back up !)


Thanks for your help,


Pete

[j79zlr]

I would do the BIOS update. They used to be kinda rough, but the newer PC's have easy to use BIOS tools.