re: BSOD, win32k.sys
Saturday, August 21, 2004 at 8:08 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Paul
(5 messages posted)
Let me add some information to this problem, since I've been experiencing it for
around a year. I will vouch to say that it is not overheating unless you somehow
have a LOT of heat issues to begin with. I am running a liquid-cooled system and
the problem has not gone away. I have very stable and predictable temperatures.
I've replaced just about every part in my computer minus the motherboard and video
card (I'm switching to a non-Nvidia chipset shortly - currently I'm on a GeForce
5600) I have a Gigabyte 8KNXP mb (Intel chipset) - so I'm not even dealing with
the AMD issue.
I did come across some interesting information after getting a 0x000000c5 stop screen.
Check out the following on Microsoft's site:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=291810
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;188831
This gives me more insight that what I knew before. Isn't this wonderful how we
can learn the underlying technical aspects of Windows because of a problem? It's
a great way to learn things you never wanted to...
Paul
On Friday, August 20, 2004 at 9:10 pm, Jeff in New Orleans wrote:
>It's definitely an overheating problem. I was getting multiple BSOD's per day. Page
>Faults, IRQS_NOT_EQUAL, win32k.sys, STOP! 0x0000000A... I had upgraded to a new
CPU
>but kept the old fan and didn't apply new CPU grease - and I bet the lack of grease,
>combined with the heat of a new second drive made overheating probs for the CPU.
>The BSOD's showed memory areas that a test with SANDRA Diagnostic Freeware confirmed
>were the same ones the CPU. They range from 00000000-0000FFFF through 000A rnage
>upawrd to 00FFFFF.
>
>I went out and bought two fans. One a copper based one spec'd out for my AMD Athlon
>XP CPU (http://64.26.27.31/products/techietoyz/cpuvgacooling.asp), and another that
>sits over a PCI slot, which I put next to my nVidia FX5700 256 card.
>
>I stopped getting the BSOD's and after checking the much lower temp in my BIOS under
>PC Health, I overclocked my CPU and it's all running faster and fine.
>
>Maybe the RAM could be overheating, but it's all about overheating as far as I was
>concerned. Oh, I applied the XPSP2 and all has been fine.
>
>- Jeff in New Orleans,
>NetComputerGuy.com
>
>
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- re: BSOD, win32k.sys (Jeff in New Orleans: Friday, August 20, 2004 at 9:10 pm)
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