re: BSOD, win32k.sys
Thursday, July 14, 2005 at 2:38 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Kev
(2 messages posted)
Thought I might just add a bit on my problem. It's sort of the same as everyone else's.
I built my machine following a guide I used in a PC mag. The PC then worked perfectly
well from December up to May, where it then decided to just go insane and create
random reboots. After the 12th random restart I reformatted and reinstalled XP Pro
which worked fine for 2 months till 1 week ago whilst I was playing San Andreas where
it just went BSOD again.
My primary BSOD is the 0x0000008e and Microsoft describes it as a Device conflict.
Due to the insane amount of times I restart the PC it has led to some very rare other
error messages including 0x00000050 blaming AVG for a Page Fault. I personally believe
it is the error set out by microsoft to do with XP Pro (As I always get the win32k.sys
error) and a device error.
Since the BSOD everything is unstable! MSN crashes, AVG crashes, ABIT EQ crashes
even MS word and when I enter My Documents (not to a BSOD but to the ....has executed
an illegal process and will be terminated screen). Memtest ran fine with not a single
error and my CPU runs at between 40-47 degrees. The GFX card is fine as well (A Radeon
9800Pro). I'm currently in the process of degrading to Home as Microsoft has told
me that the 0x0000008e error I'm experiencing is to do with XP Pro conflicting with
a driver, most likely the ATI catalyst drivers.
Oh yeah a bit further back I saw some people mentioning CPU-Z giving the manufacuterer
of RAM a 0000000000, I found this is primarily due to Generic/OEM RAM like mine.
For those of you experiencing BSOD STOP errors like 0x0000008e I suggest booting
up into MS DOS or using Linux to see if it is your Current OS which is the problem
as if you still experience crashes in other OS's it is most probably a Hardware issue.
Lucky for me nothing crashes at ALL whilst in Linux :D
- Written in response to:
- re: BSOD, win32k.sys (annoyed at windows: Friday, July 8, 2005 at 6:54 am)
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 |  |  |  |  |  |  | Confused (Adri1456: Fri, May 14, 2004, 3:29 pm) |
 |  |  |  |  |  |  | Crash (greine12: Tue, Apr 6, 2004, 4:57 pm) |
 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | re: Crash (MadMan: Sat, Apr 10, 2004, 1:19 pm) |
 |  |  |  |  | re: BSOD, win32k.sys (Kev: Thu, Jul 14, 2005, 2:38 pm) |
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