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Reading minidumps
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Posted by: 2101dawn
I have reoccurring BSoD at first boot of the day, but not always the same stop error. I am looking for anyone that can look at the minidumps attached and give me clue as to what is the problem.
To deal with the problem I did a clean install of XP Pro with no progress. I thought it might be DIMM’S so I tested them with memtest86 and all pass with no errors. The machine posts with no hardware errors including with quickboot turned off. Once machine boots, it is stable. Any reboots during the day occur with no problems.
General spec on the machine that is a year old: MB ASUS A8V-Deluxe; CPU AMD Athlon 64; RAM 1GB; SATA Raid 1 NTFS
All drivers are up to date, all XP hotfixes installed.
Posted by: goranpaa
I would be bettter if you provided the stop error codes. Cuz this minidumps are unreadable, unless you can read binary.
Posted by: pdnielsen
If the codes change then you have more than one problem usually, but what brand is your RAM? Certain "off" brands are precisely that - off! I bought some memory for 1 of my previous rigs and it would do the BSOD once when I first turned on the PC and then behave the rest of the day. I returned it and got Kingston memory in its place and then didn't have any more problems until the PC became obsolete (and died anyway.)
Posted by: 2101dawn
The DIMM's are Corsair CMX512-3200C2 DDR-SDRAM PC3200 (200 MHz) - [DDR-400] which I believe is quality RAM.
Posted by: 2101dawn
I can look at the minidumps with MS's Debugging tool WinDbg, but I don't understand exactly what it is telling me. I was hoping someone here knows how to interpret WinDbg results. Nevertheless here are a sample of the stop errors not any order, but IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL is most frequent:
0x0000001a MEMORY_MANAGEMENT
0x1000000a IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
0x10000050 PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
0x1000007e SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED_M
0x1000007f UNEXPECTED_KERNEL_MODE_TRAP_M
0x1000008e KERNEL_MODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED_M
0x100000d1 DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Posted by: goranpaa
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Originally Posted by 2101dawn
I can look at the minidumps with MS's Debugging tool WinDbg, but I don't understand exactly what it is telling me. I was hoping someone here knows how to interpret WinDbg results. Nevertheless here are a sample of the stop errors not any order, but IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL is most frequent:
0x0000001a MEMORY_MANAGEMENT
0x1000000a IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
0x10000050 PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
0x1000007e SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED_M
0x1000007f UNEXPECTED_KERNEL_MODE_TRAP_M
0x1000008e KERNEL_MODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED_M
0x100000d1 DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
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IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, is often a conflict between 2 PCI cards or between the on board videochip, or videocard and a PCI card. Try to move the sound card for ex. to another slot. That is if it is'nt onboard?
Have you recently got a new videocard, and did'nt disable the onboard videochip in bios?
0x0000001a MEMORY_MANAGEMENT
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=282504
0x10000050, is a hardware driver problem.
0x1000007e, is a firewall problem. You dont happend to have a Norton or Zone Alarm firewall? Those 2 fw get this problem now and then. Get another, free one like Comodo for ex.
http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/
0x1000007f, is probably a memory failure.
0x1000008e, driver problem.
0x100000d1, possible driver problem.
So update all your drivers, including the chipset driver for the motherboards chipset. If you dont know, what chipset you have? then download "Everest Home" from here:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4181.html
You have to reinstall the chipset driver, every time you reinstall Windows.
And look under "Motherboard" and "Chipset".
Then go to the chipset manufacturers home for the driver (Nforce is Nvidia home. If that is the chipset you have?).
Also, as a saftey precausion, scan with your Antivirus and a couple of on line ones.
This could eventually be a worm like the Sasser for ex.
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan8/ie.html
Try a repair installation of windows xp. Guide here:
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
This wont affect your installed pogrammes and games. Just Windows, the service pacs and Windows updates.
Also wanna add, that you may wanna do a health check on your harddrive. Download a hd diagnostic software from your hd manufacturers home.
If nothing of this helps? Then I would say it could be the motherboard beginning to fail.
Posted by: pdnielsen
Corsair is quality memory, but since you came up with possible memory failure you might want to check any overclocking settings you have. If they are too high they might cause a miriad of problems - especially memory failure. Another thing you might want to take a look at is the memory frequency jumper settings on the board if it has them. If they are set incorrectly that can cause problems. Some mobos even come with all sorts of notices marked "caution," "attention" and so on in their owner's manuals about this.
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