BSOD, win32k.sys, clogged fan and bad memory
Saturday, February 11, 2006 at 8:27 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ed
(1 messages posted)
Thanks to everyone on this board for your posts about BSOD and memory failures.
My problem started yesterday with a BSOD and a “STOP 0x000000EA THREAD_STUCK_IN_DEVICE_DRIVER”
error. I changed the settings for the display and reduced the hardware acceleration
to zero and disabled the write combing as instructed by the error message. I though
I was losing a hard drive or my video card. I had noticed my fan running at high
speed the last two to three weeks and didn’t think anything of it. It turns out
my fan was mostly blocked due to dust and dirt. I cleaned the dust out of the fan
and blew some of the dust out of the box. The fan speed slowed down but I was still
getting BSOD errors and win32k.sys errors with the BSOD. I ran hard drive diagnostics
on both my 160 and 200G drives with no errors. The system ran chkdsk after rebooting
on three occasions. I was also receiving “page_fault_in_non_page_area” errors with
the win32k.sys errors. My system would run for 5 to 8 minutes and then crash. I
download the memory test from memtest86.com and burned it to DVD and booted from
the DVD to test the memory. I was getting all kinds of errors from the start of
the mem test and I thought that was normal. I removed on of the 512mb sticks and
was still getting all of the errors on the memory test. I swapped the 512mb stick
and what do you know, no errors on the test. It turns out one of my 512mb sticks
was bad. I picked up a new 512 stick last night and let the system run with just
one memory stick last night and there were no errors or BSODs. I installed the new
stick this morning and everything seems to be ok. I guess the moral of the story
is, keep your machine cool and clean the dust out of the fan. My system is a dell
4700 3.4ghz P4 with 1g ram.
- Written in response to:
- re: No more bluescreens (Jim: Friday, February 10, 2006 at 6:36 am)
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 |  |  |  |  |  |  | Confused (Adri1456: Fri, May 14, 2004, 3:29 pm) |
 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | BSOD, win32k.sys, clogged fan and bad memory (Ed: Sat, Feb 11, 2006, 8:27 am) |
 |  |  |  |  |  |  | Crash (greine12: Tue, Apr 6, 2004, 4:57 pm) |
 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | re: Crash (MadMan: Sat, Apr 10, 2004, 1:19 pm) |
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