re: BSOD, win32k.sys
Thursday, February 10, 2005 at 4:35 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Matthew D. Healy
(1255 messages posted)
Any time you have random errors, the first thing
you should do is go to www.memtest.org/ and
download the memtest tool.
You make a bootable floppy or CD, with which you
boot the computer and run a RAM test. Let it run
for at least an hour, and preferably overnight.
On Thursday, February 10, 2005 at 2:58 am, callum wrote:
>Firstly, this page has helped alot - maybe I can add some more... My setup: A7N8X-E
>Deluxe, 2x 512MB 3200 DDR Crucial RAM (certified and tested for this board), AMD
>XP3200 Barton and XP Professional SP1 I too was suffering all the same types of
problems:
>- Random Reboots and BSOD often indicating win32k.sys - Pagefile errors - Errors
>after clean installs I tried a number of ways to solve this such as: - updated drivers,
>- memtest (no errors found) - flashing bios, - changing around my PCI cards - clean
>installs etc... After reading this page, I tried the following things that worked:
>- I reduced the CPU freq setting from 200 MHz to 166 MHz. (PC was then stable as
>a rock but performance was slower) - So then I reset my motherboard (jumpers and
>battery out etc) - With default settings of motherboard and freq back to 200 MHz
>it continued to crash. - So then I played around with the stick combinations...
and
>came to the following conclusion: Either of my 512 sticks would work fine alone
in
>any of the slots at default MoBo settings (400 MHz FSB), but as soon as there are
>2 in there, my system becomes unstable. Does anyone have any ideas on this one?
I
>am assuming its a slightly faulty MoBo... so I will call the supplier today... but
>it still seems very strange to me.
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- re: BSOD, win32k.sys (callum: Thursday, February 10, 2005 at 2:58 am)
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 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | re: BSOD, win32k.sys (Matthew D. Healy: Thu, Feb 10, 2005, 4:35 am) |
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