Hello Everyone!
I must say i have visited this site many times before,but never really bothered to register.Great job you guys are doing here
Now to my problem.I don't really know if this is a Winxp problem or just my box acting weird,or something else altogether.BSOD's
Specs:
AMD Athlon 4000+ x2
ASUS M2A-MX board
1.00 gb of RAM
160 gb SATA (Hitachi)
DVDRW
NVIDIA 7200 GS GPU
WInXP SP2 with updates installed
The machine is all but 6 months old.It worked fine until a couple of weeks ago.Then out of the blue I started getting BSOD's and random dump reboots.First thing i did was uncheck 'auto shutdown on failure' to see what the stop screens were.I found that they were mostly IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL or PAGE_FAULT_IN_NON_PAGED_AREA .
sometimes names of some files were mentioned,others were plain dumps.Frequency of these blue screens went on increasing and within hours even on reboots i'd get a BSOD.Frustrated, i looked to the Internet for help and found that ZoneAlarm free was the supposed culprit.I uninstalled it using the /clean/rmlicense option,but to no avail,the screens still continued
Thinking that it must be a hardware problem,i contacted my dealer (who happens to be a distant relative) He was kind enough to replace the RAM,the mobo,the processor AND the gpu.I reached back home,reinstalled XP and within 10 minutes,bam,there's a blue screen.I really got frustrated and tried following combinations:
1.removed GPU,drivers reboot and reinstall XP,problem persisted
2. Inserted RAM to slot #2,proble, persisted
3.removed all peripheral hardware,reboot,problem persisted..
Even more frustrated,i decided to debug the stop screens looking for some pattern,and took action accordingly.However,each time windbg (windebugger) came up with a different file as the culprit,sometimes it was RtkHDaud.sys (audio drivers) sometimes it was antivirus,sometimes NDIS.sys and a couple of times ATAPI.sys
Also i looked into the cpu temperature angle,it turned out my cpu was at a solid 34 and 37 degrees at the core,and GPU at 47 degrees celcius.
I'm really desperate now as my exams begin in a week.Please,any help that you can give me will be much appreciated
cheers
varun
I must say i have visited this site many times before,but never really bothered to register.Great job you guys are doing here
Now to my problem.I don't really know if this is a Winxp problem or just my box acting weird,or something else altogether.BSOD's
Specs:
AMD Athlon 4000+ x2
ASUS M2A-MX board
1.00 gb of RAM
160 gb SATA (Hitachi)
DVDRW
NVIDIA 7200 GS GPU
WInXP SP2 with updates installed
The machine is all but 6 months old.It worked fine until a couple of weeks ago.Then out of the blue I started getting BSOD's and random dump reboots.First thing i did was uncheck 'auto shutdown on failure' to see what the stop screens were.I found that they were mostly IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL or PAGE_FAULT_IN_NON_PAGED_AREA .
sometimes names of some files were mentioned,others were plain dumps.Frequency of these blue screens went on increasing and within hours even on reboots i'd get a BSOD.Frustrated, i looked to the Internet for help and found that ZoneAlarm free was the supposed culprit.I uninstalled it using the /clean/rmlicense option,but to no avail,the screens still continued
Thinking that it must be a hardware problem,i contacted my dealer (who happens to be a distant relative) He was kind enough to replace the RAM,the mobo,the processor AND the gpu.I reached back home,reinstalled XP and within 10 minutes,bam,there's a blue screen.I really got frustrated and tried following combinations:
1.removed GPU,drivers reboot and reinstall XP,problem persisted
2. Inserted RAM to slot #2,proble, persisted
3.removed all peripheral hardware,reboot,problem persisted..
Even more frustrated,i decided to debug the stop screens looking for some pattern,and took action accordingly.However,each time windbg (windebugger) came up with a different file as the culprit,sometimes it was RtkHDaud.sys (audio drivers) sometimes it was antivirus,sometimes NDIS.sys and a couple of times ATAPI.sys
Also i looked into the cpu temperature angle,it turned out my cpu was at a solid 34 and 37 degrees at the core,and GPU at 47 degrees celcius.
I'm really desperate now as my exams begin in a week.Please,any help that you can give me will be much appreciated
cheers
varun