re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000'
Thursday, April 28, 2005 at 3:09 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by scriz
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This is for anyone reading this thread who is still having problems with kmixer.sys
and/or 1000008e BSODs or similar:
My computer recently started having loads of BSODs from kmixer.sys whenever I played
any audio or video (except Call of Duty for some reason). Then it started rebooting
without BSODs and the eventlog showed 1000008e system errors after rebooting. Very
frustrating. Windows Media Player (9 or 10) wouldn't play anything at all, it would
just crash. Thought it was XP SP2's kmixer.sys and searched endlessly for solutions
on the web but to no avail. I then suspected the RAM so I ran memtest86 and prime95
(not for more than a few hours though) and nothing came up. Having worked in computer
support for years I remembered the old tenet 'go back to basics' so I pulled one
of my DIMMs out and the computer wouldn't even boot. Swapped it for the other one
and it was fine, no more BSODs, not more crashes, could play audio/video perfectly.
Bought myself a replacement and everything is good.
FAULTY MEMORY MODULE was the problem!!! This can be very hard to diagnose as the
symptoms are often vague and seemingly random. Suggestion: If you're getting these
sorts of errors, random reboots, BSODs from kmixer.sys, lots of random program crashes....
try removing your memory cards, use one at a time and see if you can isolate a faulty
one then CHUCK IT OUT!!
Good luck!
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