My solution
Friday, December 17, 2004 at 2:20 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Mogens
(1 messages posted)
Having been haunted by the same BSoD as described so many times in this thread I
once again tried searching the web for a solution.
And reading this thread payed off.
I have tried everything imaginable. Updating Bios, drivers, WinXP-sp0,1 and 2. (SP1
seems to be much worse than the other two) etc etc
The right combo of using a certain driver and sp0 actually made it posible to run
for hours without BSoD so I gave it a rest even though the pc still crashed now and
then.
But then I had to reinstall the pc for other reasons. I tried installing the pc without
my ATI 9000 all-in-wonder, just using the onboard graphics chip. I was very sure
the error was caused by the graphics board because before installing it the pc ran
smooth.
I installed WinXP-SP2 and everything was sweet, so I made a restore point and went
for it and installed the ATI card again.
BSoD again!
Allmost ready to give up the ATI card I tried the web again and found this thread.
All this talk about RAM. I have ported my current RAM from an older machine and in
that I also experiensed randon BSoD. I did all kinds of memtest then and the memory
was ok and it turned out that it wasn't RAM-related. So with my current pc it didn't
occur to me that RAM was the problem (still I have done some mem-testing without
errors on it with this pc) since the error was related to the ATI Board.
Anyway the short of it is that I tried wiping the connecters of my two RAM-sticks
with a tissue with ethanol and I haven't had a single BSoD for two days now.
Thanks to all for this thread and I hope my story can help someone.
- Written in response to:
- re: Resolution!! (Reynaert: Monday, November 22, 2004 at 12:27 pm)
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