re: Core Problem WIN32K.SYS
Tuesday, May 1, 2007 at 12:17 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by SomeGuy
(1 messages posted)
Hi,
I've been having blue screens of all sorts & flavours for the past 2 weeks, finally
I decided to try to fix it. After over 20 hours of effort, guess what the fix actually
was? Simply cleaning the dust from inside my PC! And I didn't even have that much
dust... I mean I've seen some pretty dusty systems, mine was just a little bit dusty.
I did take my P4 CPU heatsink off & cleaned in there. I also cleaned my fans & video
card (without taking it off), and I did not really touch my RAM.
My CPU was NOT overheating beforehand (I tested that), my RAM was NOT faulty (I tested
that too), my fan speeds were fine, my voltages were fine, my RAM clock speeds &
CPU clock speed were fine...
I actually initially thought I had installed something that had corrupted parts of
Windows, I actually spent the bulk of my time trying to Repair XP PRO SP2... where
I ran into all sorts of other issues including a very common 34 minute install hang
/ loop problem (*ucking MS) that was resolved by breaking my RAID mirror... anyway,
it all came down to just dust!
How do I know, because the quickest way for me to BSOD was to play a couple of videos
simultaneously. I.e. load up 2 or 3 simultaneous Youtube videos and Poof! sometimes
I would do nothing... the system would sit idle and 3 hours later.. BSOD! After I
cleaned the dust, I rebooted & ran (no exageration) 10 simultaneous videos from .AVI,
MPG & .WMV files of my HD + 7 Youtube videos, MSN messenger, Yahoo messenger, Mcafee
antivirus, Ms Outlook & a few internet explorer & Firefox web sessions... no crash,
just the CPU pinned at 100% for about 15 minutes.
The system I have:
Gigabyte motherboard GA-8IEXP
1 GB RAM (2x 512MB)
ATI All in Wonder 2006 w/ 256MB RAM
DVD read/write
2x Maxtors Ultra ATA 16, 300 GB in RAID 1 (mirror)
1x Western Digital 80 GB HD
Onboard Intel 10/100 PRO NIC
XP Pro SP2 with all the latest updates (as of April 2007)
Good luck with your problem!
someguy
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- re: Core Problem WIN32K.SYS (sal: Thursday, February 1, 2007 at 4:16 pm)
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