re: BSOD, win32k.sys
Monday, June 16, 2003 at 3:40 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Subz
(4 messages posted)
I've just started to get this problem. Five days after installing XP Pro (with SP-1
built in - grr!) I was happily playing GTA:VC when it hung. I restarted and got the
offending PAGE_FAULT bluey.
I tried the chkdsk fix and it didn't. This seems to be slippery problem.
My system is an EPoX 4SD5A+, iP4 2.4B, 512Mb Corsair XMS Platinum, Sapphire Radeon
9500 Pro, SB Live 5.1., ATA133 Maxtor 8 (40Gb).
Now what got me is that I had been using a friends spare XP Pro (he had upgrade to
Server 2003 for some reason) to "preview" it before whacking down £150+ for the OS.
His version of XP does not contain SP1. Lo & behold... It worked fine for the 20+
days I ran it before the activation came up. So "I'll have me some of that." thinks
I. Buys XP Pro (SP-1) and suffers all these PAGE_FAULT errors.
They occur randomly but most interestingly on Shutdowns! They never mention any drivers
either.
I have ran the memory through a thirty minute hardware test with no problems. I remove
the soundcard. I "flattened" the hard drive and tried FAT32 instead of NTFS. The
problem still occurs.
Tonight I'm going to stick the old copy of XP Pro one and see if it works. (After
checking my Radeon drivers to see if they are up to date - 7.88)
If this works, I proves what I am supsecting, that SP-1 is once again at fault. I
may also try 98SE and ME and see if they work but to be honest, I'm getting pretty
pee'd off with all of this.
I will report back with my findings. ;o)
Cheers,
Subz
On Friday, May 30, 2003 at 1:48 am, Moises wrote:
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>
>Well, I have found a solution to fix it. Though Microsoft told me that the only
one
>solution is format and windows xp sometimes doesn't allow me to go into recovery
>mode... I did it!! Once I could step to recovery mode and a simple chkdsk fixed
the
>problem...
>
>Bye from Spain
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- re: BSOD, win32k.sys (Moises: Friday, May 30, 2003 at 1:48 am)
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