re: BSOD, win32k.sys
Sunday, December 30, 2007 at 4:17 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by faeriedragon
(1 messages posted)
I've been having similiar problems as a lot of you have described here for the past
month AT LEAST. I cannot, for the life of me, figure out what is going on. I've had
the same set up for the past 5 plus years, with a few upgrades here and there. I
use a Dell 4400 with Intel P4, Nvidia graphics card, and I've updated the latest
drivers. I've even reinstalled XP from scratch around the same time the BSOD's started.
Sometimes the computer just hangs and there is no response from the mouse and keyboard,
which are both USB. I read up on this and found out it could be a PS/2 issue, although
I don't use PS/2 for the mouse and keyboard. I even tried a new'ish mouse and still
have this issue. I've read that you can turn off the PS/2 to stop this from happening
(but I haven't tried this yet.....)
HOWEVER, I also get the BSOD. Today, I started to keep track. So far, it has happened
three times. Once with the win32.sys error; once with an afd.sys error and once with
no direct file error. I'm wondering if the BSOD errors are due to XP.....
So my challenge for you all out there is: Has anyone tried installing Linux to see
if MAYBE it's a Win incompatibility issue and not just simply a hardware or software
issue?
I'm seriously considering loading Linux just out of curiosity of this hypothesis.
But if anyone else has tried this with success and you no longer have these BSOD
issues, please please post here and let us know!
On Tuesday, December 18, 2007 at 10:30 am, tommmy wrote:
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>Go to C:\WINDOWS\System32 and rename the Win32k.sys file to Win32k.old and then
>close the window. Now go back to the system32 folder and you will have a
>new and non-corrupt Win32k.sys file. Try that, good luck
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- re: BSOD, win32k.sys (tommmy: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 at 10:30 am)
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