re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000'
Monday, May 16, 2005 at 8:45 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Bob Finch
(1 messages posted)
I have the same problem with my system. Random shutdowns-crashes. I have a GForce
6800GT. I have two sticks of RAM and will try the RAM test suggested. If it's not
the RAM it's probably a video card prblem.
System Manufacturer: VIA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
System Model: P4X400-8235
BIOS: )Phoenix - Award WorkstationBIOS v6.00PG
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz
Memory: 1024MB RAM
On Thursday, April 28, 2005 at 3:09 am, scriz wrote:
>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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