re: BSOD, win32k.sys
Tuesday, July 1, 2003 at 7:36 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by David R
(1 messages posted)
Success! I can echo the experiences of everyone here. The actual circumstance was
never consistent, and rarely repeatable, but included application hangs and spontaneous
reboots with references to win32k.sys, various explorer files, various dll files,
invalid page faults, PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA, DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL ...
the list goes on and on.
This has been going on since I built this machine in November 2002. I feel like
I've followed every suggestion feasible with no success. However, when people continued
to bring up overheating, I wrongly assumed they were talking about the well known
Athlon overheating issue. I installed a fan in front, one in back, the built in
fan in the power supply and a Thermaltake Volcano 7 on the processor. By the way,
my setup is: MSI KT3 Ultra-ARU, Athlon 1800+, ABIT Siluro GEForce3 Ti200, Soundblaster
Audigy, 512MB PC2700 RAM, 300w Power Supply
So, it turns out that it wasn't my processor that was overheating, it was my video
card. The card has its own cooling fan built in, so I figured it could take care
of itself. However, my sound card was in the next slot below the video card, leaving
just a few mm clearance between the two. Furthermore, I noticed the ribbon cables
were further blocking airflow over the video card. When I think back, the only common
thing about my problems was that they all happened while the video card was painting
a window.
To test if this is your problem also, take the side off your PC and use a box fan
to make sure there's plenty of circulation around your video card. My PC has been
up and running for almost a week now, and I've been beating up on it with everything
I can think of (this PC has never run for this long before). To fix it, I didn't
do anything except move my sound card down one slot. Excuse me my long-windedness,
but I feel like shouting it from the rooftops. I can't believe I finally fixed this,
the most exasperating problem of my PC-based life.
- Written in response to:
- BSOD, win32k.sys (ed: Friday, September 6, 2002 at 5:38 am)
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 |  | | | | |  | Confused (Adri1456: Fri, May 14, 2004, 3:29 pm) |
|  | re: BSOD, win32k.sys (David R: Tue, Jul 1, 2003, 7:36 pm) |
| | | | | |  | Crash (greine12: Tue, Apr 6, 2004, 4:57 pm) |
| | | | | | | | | re: Crash (MadMan: Sat, Apr 10, 2004, 1:19 pm) |
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