re: BSOD, win32k.sys
Sunday, July 27, 2003 at 4:50 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Crickey
(1 messages posted)
I suspected overheating when this first started happening to me last summer. I was
still under support from Dell. They had me format my harddrive a couple times.
After about a week of dealing with me, it finally worked. I thought it was overheating
since it only happened after the PC had been on for awhile. It then would start
getting the errors, or just rebooting. I would turn it off and wait. Then it would
for fine for awhile. Of course the Dell guys wouldn't listen. After the week of
working with him, the weather cooled, and of course I had no problems. Now here
it is July again, in the 90's and I am seeing the problem again. This time I just
opened the case, but a 12 inch, 3 speed, osolating fan pointed on it. Seems to be
working fine. I supposed I should invest in a better cooling system.
On Tuesday, July 1, 2003 at 7:36 pm, David R wrote:
>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.
>
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- re: BSOD, win32k.sys (David R: Tuesday, July 1, 2003 at 7:36 pm)
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| | | | | |  | Crash (greine12: Tue, Apr 6, 2004, 4:57 pm) |
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