My computer randomly crashs generaly when under high usage such as playing battlefeild. The error signature is as follows: BCCode 1000008e, BCP1:c0000005, BCP2: 00000000, BCP3:BAACSE54, BCP4:00000000, OSver5_1_2600, SP:0_0, Product 256_1 I am running an AMD Athalon XP 2400, ASUS AN78X motherboard, 350 Watt power supply, western digital 40 gig HD with 8 MB buffer, LG burner, Asus 128MB V9520 magic Geforce FX 5200 video card and 512 MB of 3200 RAM. The FSB is runing at 400Mhz but the problem was the same when it was at 333Mhz. I have a progam that monitors temperatures and CPU dose not rise above 45 degrees so i don't think temperature is a problem. The bios has been updated to version 1004. any assistance would be most appreciated.

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45C seems awfully good. Are you sure you have good thermal contact with your temperature 
sensor?
I did find quite a few articles on Google by searching this "BCCode 1000008e"
Did not see if any had anything useful. But you ought to read through them.






On Monday, June 23, 2003 at 8:15 pm, Scott Coxon wrote:
>My computer randomly crashs generaly when under high usage such as playing battlefeild. 
>The error signature is as follows:
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>BCCode 1000008e,  BCP1:c0000005,  BCP2: 00000000, BCP3:BAACSE54, BCP4:00000000, 
OSver5_1_2600, 
>SP:0_0, Product 256_1
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>I am running an AMD Athalon XP 2400, ASUS AN78X motherboard, 350 Watt power supply, 
>western digital 40 gig HD with 8 MB buffer, LG burner, Asus 128MB V9520 magic Geforce 
>FX 5200 video card and 512 MB of 3200 RAM. The FSB is runing at 400Mhz but the problem 
>was the same when it was at 333Mhz. 
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>I have a progam that monitors temperatures and CPU dose not rise above 45 degrees 
>so i don't think temperature is a problem. The bios has been updated to version 
1004. 
>any assistance would be most appreciated.     
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Hi I'm wondering whether your problem got solved because I have the same problem !! MB is ASUS AN7 8X deluxe bios vers 1005 for vers 2.0 CPU Amd 2700 RAM 1 GB @ 3200 (2 rows 512 dual channel = 1&3) HD 120 GB 133 ATA with 8 Mb(WD) & external on USB 2.0 120 GB (Seagate) 100 ATA Video is MSI 5600 G-force 256 DDRam SB Audigy Soundcard If you have an answer please let me know @ : worldnet.fiber@pi.be THX


On Monday, June 23, 2003 at 8:15 pm, Scott Coxon wrote:
>My computer randomly crashs generaly when under high usage such as playing battlefeild.
>The error signature is as follows:
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>BCCode 1000008e, BCP1:c0000005, BCP2: 00000000, BCP3:BAACSE54, BCP4:00000000, OSver5_1_2600,
>SP:0_0, Product 256_1
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>I am running an AMD Athalon XP 2400, ASUS AN78X motherboard, 350 Watt power supply,
>western digital 40 gig HD with 8 MB buffer, LG burner, Asus 128MB V9520 magic Geforce
>FX 5200 video card and 512 MB of 3200 RAM. The FSB is runing at 400Mhz but the problem
>was the same when it was at 333Mhz.
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>I have a progam that monitors temperatures and CPU dose not rise above 45 degrees
>so i don't think temperature is a problem. The bios has been updated to version 1004.
>any assistance would be most appreciated.
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Yeah ppl. I have the same problem here. Will try to solve it. Here's what I guess. This is a driver problem. Generally a video adapter problem may cause this under Windows XP. When I check the history of my installations, I only tried to make my vga adapter driver a bit better. And also added a scanner driver that does not support windows xp pro. Unfortunately there's no explanation about these kinda problems and most probably this is a hardware with a wrong driver problem


On Tuesday, August 19, 2003 at 5:58 am, Belgawizz wrote:
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>Hi
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>I'm wondering whether your problem got solved because I have the same problem !!
>MB is ASUS AN7 8X deluxe bios vers 1005 for vers 2.0
>CPU Amd 2700
>RAM 1 GB @ 3200 (2 rows 512 dual channel = 1&3)
>HD 120 GB 133 ATA with 8 Mb(WD) & external on USB 2.0 120 GB (Seagate) 100 ATA
>Video is MSI 5600 G-force 256 DDRam
>SB Audigy Soundcard
>
>If you have an answer please let me know @ :
>worldnet.fiber@pi.be
>
>THX
>

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I had the same problems with a gigabyte 8knxp, 2.8GHz, geforce 5200 128MB Graphics card. Looking on some of the other discussion boards, I downloaded a small program called memtest. This little program tests the system ram. Since I replaced mine, I have had no problems


On Monday, June 23, 2003 at 8:15 pm, Scott Coxon wrote:
>My computer randomly crashs generaly when under high usage such as playing battlefeild.
>The error signature is as follows:
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>BCCode 1000008e, BCP1:c0000005, BCP2: 00000000, BCP3:BAACSE54, BCP4:00000000, OSver5_1_2600,
>SP:0_0, Product 256_1
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>I am running an AMD Athalon XP 2400, ASUS AN78X motherboard, 350 Watt power supply,
>western digital 40 gig HD with 8 MB buffer, LG burner, Asus 128MB V9520 magic Geforce
>FX 5200 video card and 512 MB of 3200 RAM. The FSB is runing at 400Mhz but the problem
>was the same when it was at 333Mhz.
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>I have a progam that monitors temperatures and CPU dose not rise above 45 degrees
>so i don't think temperature is a problem. The bios has been updated to version 1004.
>any assistance would be most appreciated.
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Just currious , have you recently been using a joystick,? did this start after installing a flight simm (fs9_2004)?


On Monday, June 23, 2003 at 8:15 pm, Scott Coxon wrote:
>My computer randomly crashs generaly when under high usage such as playing battlefeild.
>The error signature is as follows:
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>BCCode 1000008e, BCP1:c0000005, BCP2: 00000000, BCP3:BAACSE54, BCP4:00000000, OSver5_1_2600,
>SP:0_0, Product 256_1
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>I am running an AMD Athalon XP 2400, ASUS AN78X motherboard, 350 Watt power supply,
>western digital 40 gig HD with 8 MB buffer, LG burner, Asus 128MB V9520 magic Geforce
>FX 5200 video card and 512 MB of 3200 RAM. The FSB is runing at 400Mhz but the problem
>was the same when it was at 333Mhz.
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>I have a progam that monitors temperatures and CPU dose not rise above 45 degrees
>so i don't think temperature is a problem. The bios has been updated to version 1004.
>any assistance would be most appreciated.
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Seems like everybody here is using a GeForce FX, like me... and I'm also fighting against the same problem... Windows crashes after a few minutes, keybord doesn't work, and monitor goes to "Power Save Mode" (I have disabled all Power Management options under Windows & BIOS, but it still happens). ASUS A7M266-D, Dual Duron 1.3 GHz, 256 MB RAM, Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition. This machine works great when I replace the GeForce FX with an "old" Voodoo 3 3000 AGP... A. Ponti

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Scott, Did you ever find the cause of this? I'm now having the same problem. Start to play Battlefield and ...bang. System crashes and I can't catch what the screen message is. It just started happening after months of playing fine. BCCode : 9c BCP1 : 00000000 BCP2 : 805366F0 BCP3 : B2000000 BCP4 : 1020080F OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 1_0 Product : 768_1


On Monday, June 23, 2003 at 8:15 pm, Scott Coxon wrote:
>My computer randomly crashs generaly when under high usage such as playing battlefeild.
>The error signature is as follows:
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>BCCode 1000008e, BCP1:c0000005, BCP2: 00000000, BCP3:BAACSE54, BCP4:00000000, OSver5_1_2600,
>SP:0_0, Product 256_1
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>I am running an AMD Athalon XP 2400, ASUS AN78X motherboard, 350 Watt power supply,
>western digital 40 gig HD with 8 MB buffer, LG burner, Asus 128MB V9520 magic Geforce
>FX 5200 video card and 512 MB of 3200 RAM. The FSB is runing at 400Mhz but the problem
>was the same when it was at 333Mhz.
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>I have a progam that monitors temperatures and CPU dose not rise above 45 degrees
>so i don't think temperature is a problem. The bios has been updated to version 1004.
>any assistance would be most appreciated.
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Yeah! After I installed Genius MaxFire G-09D my life went into a hell. I had a simple joystick and bought this one to play GTA Vice City... after that, welcome to ramdom crashes under high usage. I still have the problem. Th Joy uas not cheap and I dont want to throw it away.. ahy hist pls help.


On Wednesday, September 3, 2003 at 8:52 am, James Fields wrote:
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>Just currious , have you recently been using a joystick,? did this start after installing
>a flight simm (fs9_2004)?
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Try to update the DirectX to the newest one possible (I think 9.0b available on microsoft website). Put a restore point first as it is not uninstallable.

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I have now the same problem, everything has been working fine until a week ago when I got the same problem during Battlefield 1942 playing. This is really annoying, I have reinstalled Windows XP and BF1942 from scratch so that I have a really clean base. I even started with a really low patch level for my VIA chipset, Geforce 4400 TI and also my soundboard Soundblaster. I also stayed on DirectX 8.1 but I still have the same problem, the machine reboots from time to time. It does not matter if i patch all my drivers and DirectX and Windows to the latest versions the problem is still there. I have benn playing BF1942 for a really long time but now it is impossible. Maybe It has something to do with the newest BF1942 patch, well I dont know yet. Is there anyone else that might have a clue what could be the problem?


On Monday, June 23, 2003 at 8:15 pm, Scott Coxon wrote:
>My computer randomly crashs generaly when under high usage such as playing battlefeild.
>The error signature is as follows:
>
>BCCode 1000008e, BCP1:c0000005, BCP2: 00000000, BCP3:BAACSE54, BCP4:00000000, OSver5_1_2600,
>SP:0_0, Product 256_1
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>I am running an AMD Athalon XP 2400, ASUS AN78X motherboard, 350 Watt power supply,
>western digital 40 gig HD with 8 MB buffer, LG burner, Asus 128MB V9520 magic Geforce
>FX 5200 video card and 512 MB of 3200 RAM. The FSB is runing at 400Mhz but the problem
>was the same when it was at 333Mhz.
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>I have a progam that monitors temperatures and CPU dose not rise above 45 degrees
>so i don't think temperature is a problem. The bios has been updated to version 1004.
>any assistance would be most appreciated.
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I finally figured why my machine was crashing on me and hopefull this may help others. I replaced just about everything (hardware, software) and the culprit was a bad Ti 4200 video card. The thing still works fine for day to day use (e.g. web, MS apps, etc.) but when pushed by a game (almost any game) it dumps after about 1 minute of play. I replaced it with a PNY FX 5200 and all is well.


On Tuesday, September 30, 2003 at 2:07 pm, Pooyan wrote:
>I have now the same problem, everything has been working fine until a week ago when
>I got the same problem during Battlefield 1942 playing. This is really annoying,
>I have reinstalled Windows XP and BF1942 from scratch so that I have a really clean
>base. I even started with a really low patch level for my VIA chipset, Geforce 4400
>TI and also my soundboard Soundblaster. I also stayed on DirectX 8.1 but I still
>have the same problem, the machine reboots from time to time. It does not matter
>if i patch all my drivers and DirectX and Windows to the latest versions the problem
>is still there. I have benn playing BF1942 for a really long time but now it is impossible.
>Maybe It has something to do with the newest BF1942 patch, well I dont know yet.
>Is there anyone else that might have a clue what could be the problem?
>
>

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Also run the same pb. Have tried to let just one 256Mo PC3200 on the MB error oocured with Product : 256_1, when i set back the others Product : 521_1 seems to be from the memory DDR SDRAM ! (A7N8X Deluxe, 2500+, 2x256 PC3200 GeForce FX5200 128Mo) let me know : masterfrogs@free.fr Fred


On Tuesday, September 30, 2003 at 2:27 pm, James Ginsburg wrote:
>I finally figured why my machine was crashing on me and hopefull this may help others.
>I replaced just about everything (hardware, software) and the culprit was a bad Ti
>4200 video card. The thing still works fine for day to day use (e.g. web, MS apps,
>etc.) but when pushed by a game (almost any game) it dumps after about 1 minute of
>play. I replaced it with a PNY FX 5200 and all is well.
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I got the same problem. My Computer sometime reboot by itself and (more rarely) show a blue screen. At first I was thinking that was my HD (maxtor 80Go 7200 RPM) or a bad Windows XP SP1 installation. but then I started to think about my new motherboard MSI K7NV Delta-L (NVIDIA NForce2 chipset). When looking to the threads posted here, there is one constant; all (except one) are using NForce2 chipset from many manufacturer. And, by the way (it's NOT a certitude), I don't think it a video card problem because i got a ATI Radeon 9600 Pro and i crash anyway. ------Hardware : MSI K7N2 Delta-L, AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton (FSB set at 333Mhz), ATI Radeon 9600 Pro, Spectek 512Mo 2700, Maxtor 80Go 7200 RPM (quiet version), Windows XP SP1 + RU1 ---------So it might be the NForce2 chipset itself or bad drivers from NVIDIA in my opinion.


On Monday, June 23, 2003 at 8:15 pm, Scott Coxon wrote:
>My computer randomly crashs generaly when under high usage such as playing battlefeild.
>The error signature is as follows:
>
>BCCode 1000008e, BCP1:c0000005, BCP2: 00000000, BCP3:BAACSE54, BCP4:00000000, OSver5_1_2600,
>SP:0_0, Product 256_1
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>I am running an AMD Athalon XP 2400, ASUS AN78X motherboard, 350 Watt power supply,
>western digital 40 gig HD with 8 MB buffer, LG burner, Asus 128MB V9520 magic Geforce
>FX 5200 video card and 512 MB of 3200 RAM. The FSB is runing at 400Mhz but the problem
>was the same when it was at 333Mhz.
>
>I have a progam that monitors temperatures and CPU dose not rise above 45 degrees
>so i don't think temperature is a problem. The bios has been updated to version 1004.
>any assistance would be most appreciated.
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My Pc does exactly the same.... randomly on bf1942.. I have nothing nvidia about it.. asus p4p800 1 gig ddr 400 p2.6 @800 fsb tachyon 9600 pro with modded ati drivers dvd lite on writer.. xp with sp1 (so the only thing in common i can see is win xp (reboot also happen at one particular point while playing lego racers 2.. so it dont point to a bf1942 problem.. (a way to catch the error is to switch auto restart off when your machine crashes.. start-contol panel-system-advanced-startup and recovery- ( uncheck the box.. it'll catch the fault..)


On Thursday, November 13, 2003 at 9:38 am, Runabout wrote:
>I got the same problem. My Computer sometime reboot by itself and (more rarely) show
>a blue screen. At first I was thinking that was my HD (maxtor 80Go 7200 RPM) or a
>bad Windows XP SP1 installation. but then I started to think about my new motherboard
>MSI K7NV Delta-L (NVIDIA NForce2 chipset).
>
>When looking to the threads posted here, there is one constant; all (except one)
>are using NForce2 chipset from many manufacturer. And, by the way (it's NOT a certitude),
>I don't think it a video card problem because i got a ATI Radeon 9600 Pro and i crash
>anyway.
>
>------Hardware :
> MSI K7N2 Delta-L,
> AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton (FSB set at 333Mhz),
> ATI Radeon 9600 Pro,
> Spectek 512Mo 2700,
> Maxtor 80Go 7200 RPM (quiet version),
> Windows XP SP1 + RU1
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>---------So it might be the NForce2 chipset itself or bad drivers from NVIDIA in
>my opinion.
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>

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I have the same problem. Everytime I play GTA VC, as soon as I arrive at the Party Boat (2nd mission) about 5-10 mins in, the game crashes to a black screen and re-boots. I'm running a 1.8 GHz, P4, with 256 MB Ram, and a 64MB Nivida GeForce 4 MX440 graphics. I have DirectX 9.0 and installing a new Video Card is out of the question

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Try removing 1 ram to make a max of 512 MB. Win 98 has problems over 512 MB according to something I read in APC Mag or PC World. I had same problem. It worked immediately for me. Tried *everything* else.


On Tuesday, August 19, 2003 at 5:58 am, Belgawizz wrote:
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>Hi
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>I'm wondering whether your problem got solved because I have the same problem !!
>MB is ASUS AN7 8X deluxe bios vers 1005 for vers 2.0
>CPU Amd 2700
>RAM 1 GB @ 3200 (2 rows 512 dual channel = 1&3)
>HD 120 GB 133 ATA with 8 Mb(WD) & external on USB 2.0 120 GB (Seagate) 100 ATA
>Video is MSI 5600 G-force 256 DDRam
>SB Audigy Soundcard
>
>If you have an answer please let me know @ :
>worldnet.fiber@pi.be
>
>THX
>

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I got the same problem as above randon restarts. It seems to happen on my machine when im accesing the net and using an application like ie6. The system im using was built 3 days ago by myself and includes: P4 2.8 800fsb, 512mb ram(1 stick), ati 9600 pro, firewire, network card, msi ms-6728, 2 hdd, cdr/rw & a DVD burner. Windows xp pro is the os and i have loaded this software many a times without having this problem.


On Sunday, November 30, 2003 at 10:21 am, PowerMad wrote:
>I have the same problem. Everytime I play GTA VC, as soon as I arrive at the Party
>Boat (2nd mission) about 5-10 mins in, the game crashes to a black screen and re-boots.
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>I'm running a 1.8 GHz, P4, with 256 MB Ram, and a 64MB Nivida GeForce 4 MX440 graphics.
>I have DirectX 9.0 and installing a new Video Card is out of the question

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I was told on that specific motherboard if you remove the 2nd chip of ram and only run the first and last slot it will work. Let me know if it will fix your problem.


On Tuesday, September 30, 2003 at 2:07 pm, Pooyan wrote:
>I have now the same problem, everything has been working fine until a week ago when
>I got the same problem during Battlefield 1942 playing. This is really annoying,
>I have reinstalled Windows XP and BF1942 from scratch so that I have a really clean
>base. I even started with a really low patch level for my VIA chipset, Geforce 4400
>TI and also my soundboard Soundblaster. I also stayed on DirectX 8.1 but I still
>have the same problem, the machine reboots from time to time. It does not matter
>if i patch all my drivers and DirectX and Windows to the latest versions the problem
>is still there. I have benn playing BF1942 for a really long time but now it is impossible.
>Maybe It has something to do with the newest BF1942 patch, well I dont know yet.
>Is there anyone else that might have a clue what could be the problem?
>
>

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I have a ati 9800 pro and i still get the same problem I think it is due to the ram I am using.


On Thursday, November 13, 2003 at 9:38 am, Runabout wrote:
>I got the same problem. My Computer sometime reboot by itself and (more rarely) show
>a blue screen. At first I was thinking that was my HD (maxtor 80Go 7200 RPM) or a
>bad Windows XP SP1 installation. but then I started to think about my new motherboard
>MSI K7NV Delta-L (NVIDIA NForce2 chipset).
>
>When looking to the threads posted here, there is one constant; all (except one)
>are using NForce2 chipset from many manufacturer. And, by the way (it's NOT a certitude),
>I don't think it a video card problem because i got a ATI Radeon 9600 Pro and i crash
>anyway.
>
>------Hardware :
> MSI K7N2 Delta-L,
> AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton (FSB set at 333Mhz),
> ATI Radeon 9600 Pro,
> Spectek 512Mo 2700,
> Maxtor 80Go 7200 RPM (quiet version),
> Windows XP SP1 + RU1
>
>---------So it might be the NForce2 chipset itself or bad drivers from NVIDIA in
>my opinion.
>
>

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Hi, Thanks for the tip. I have now solved the problem, I have run some various tests with Prime95 and I got some information back that there was some memory problem. I have now removed the 512Mb SIMM that was inserted in my second slot and after that everything works fine again. BR /// Pooyan


On Friday, January 9, 2004 at 8:53 pm, =+H+=Shorty wrote:
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>I was told on that specific motherboard if you remove the 2nd chip of ram and only
>run the first and last slot it will work. Let me know if it will fix your problem.
>
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This may sound kind of strange, but I got that problem also. My solution was to turn off my computer for 12 hours or so. I booted it back up and it worked fine.

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i have an ECS K7VTA3 with a AMD 1800+ , 128 DDr 2100, WD 60 gig HDD and ran both "ati 7500 and PNY FX 5200 AGP " with Win XP Pro and i get random reboots and these errors BCCode : 1000008e BCP1 : C0000005 BCP2 : 8058A740 BCP3 : F9658BBC BCP4 : 00000000 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 1_0 Product : 256_1 ....... I ran Linux SuSE Pro never one problem so i have to say WIndows is ptrobly the main problem i have a H.P OEM comp with a AMD 2400+ FIC mbo WD 120 gig HDD 512 DDR 2100 200 wat power and it dose all the same with or with out a AGP gfx card "the mbo has built in gfx's" i added an Antec true blue 350 wat and still didnt help but i dont get erros form the H.P it just shuts down and the power light stays on but noting else works i have to hit the power button to shut it off all the way


On Monday, February 16, 2004 at 4:10 pm, Zspacejc wrote:
>This may sound kind of strange, but I got that problem also. My solution was to turn
>off my computer for 12 hours or so. I booted it back up and it worked fine.

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Same issue here guys. Anyone find a fix? I just built a brand new AMD 64 3000+ Gigabyte GAkt8vt800 Pro MoBo with 800 FSB, 1 GB DDR400, Ultra 320 SCSI HDs, and a GeForce 5200 FX AND Radeon 9800 Pro. It crashes with either graphix card installed after 2-10 minutes in Black Hawk Down Team Sabre, and hangs the display so that I can't do a thing other than hard boot. Sometimes I get the blue screen error too, but it doesnt provide any info on fixing the issue. I tried every single Catalyst driver from ATI, several drivers from nVidia, as well as re-imaging from scratch, and the machine still crashes any time I try and run a game. Anyone have a fix?


On Saturday, April 10, 2004 at 7:26 pm, superfly wrote:
>i have an ECS K7VTA3 with a AMD 1800+ , 128 DDr 2100, WD 60 gig HDD and ran both
>"ati 7500 and PNY FX 5200 AGP " with Win XP Pro and i get random reboots and these
>errors BCCode : 1000008e BCP1 : C0000005 BCP2 : 8058A740 BCP3 : F9658BBC
>BCP4 : 00000000 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 1_0 Product : 256_1 .......
>I ran Linux SuSE Pro never one problem so i have to say WIndows is ptrobly the main
>problem i have a H.P OEM comp with a AMD 2400+ FIC mbo WD 120 gig HDD 512 DDR 2100
>200 wat power and it dose all the same with or with out a AGP gfx card "the mbo
>has built in gfx's" i added an Antec true blue 350 wat and still didnt help but i
>dont get erros form the H.P it just shuts down and the power light stays on but noting
>else works i have to hit the power button to shut it off all the way
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Guys, I can squash all your fears, although you're NOT going to want to hear it. This IS a RAM issue, guaranteed. Looking on any of the Microsoft KB articles for any of the stop error codes mentioned, it related to specific RAM address errors. 99% of the time, Windows is not utilizing all of the RAM in your systemfor 'daily' activities. When certain programs are started (usually ones that require more than 256MB of RAM) these stop codes happen, and your computer will re-boot. This also will give you a 0x0blah blah stop code. The BEST way to find out which RAM chip is culprit is to run a 3rd party memory test, or a high end benchmarking program that will STRESS test your RAM. Testing with one RAM chip is preferable (and much faster) Another thing to note- Many of the NVidia chipsets use Dual Channel for their RAM (check on the mfgr's webiste or your owners manual). This can make it VERY tricky to guage RAM problems, as they share responsibilities in RAM usage, *IF* you have 2 sticks of RAM in your system. oh, btw... if you followed the recomendation to turn off auto reboot of your system, be sure to write down the 0x stop code. then visit: http://support.microsoft.com/ to check on the stop codes.


On Tuesday, July 6, 2004 at 8:06 pm, Ray wrote:
>Same issue here guys. Anyone find a fix? I just built a brand new AMD 64 3000+ Gigabyte
>GAkt8vt800 Pro MoBo with 800 FSB, 1 GB DDR400, Ultra 320 SCSI HDs, and a GeForce
>5200 FX AND Radeon 9800 Pro. It crashes with either graphix card installed after
>2-10 minutes in Black Hawk Down Team Sabre, and hangs the display so that I can't
>do a thing other than hard boot. Sometimes I get the blue screen error too, but it
>doesnt provide any info on fixing the issue. I tried every single Catalyst driver
>from ATI, several drivers from nVidia, as well as re-imaging from scratch, and the
>machine still crashes any time I try and run a game. Anyone have a fix?
>
>
>

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Mediocrateez is 100% correct. I replaced the RAM on my system yesterday, and the issue went away immediately. Thanks to everyone who posted about it, and especially to those who followed up. By the way... I used prime95 to find the error. It's a free download that can be used to test your RAM, and when it's bad, it usually says so in 5 minutes flat. Just download it and run "Torture Test", and within a few minutes, it will sa FATAL ERROR if the RAM is faulty. It took only 80 seconds to find mine faulty. Thanks again guys!


On Thursday, July 8, 2004 at 10:19 am, Mediocrateez wrote:
>Guys,
>
> I can squash all your fears, although you're NOT going to want to hear it. This
>IS a RAM issue, guaranteed. Looking on any of the Microsoft KB articles for any
>of the stop error codes mentioned, it related to specific RAM address errors.
>
> 99% of the time, Windows is not utilizing all of the RAM in your systemfor 'daily'
>activities. When certain programs are started (usually ones that require more than
>256MB of RAM) these stop codes happen, and your computer will re-boot. This also
>will give you a 0x0blah blah stop code.
>
> The BEST way to find out which RAM chip is culprit is to run a 3rd party memory
>test, or a high end benchmarking program that will STRESS test your RAM. Testing
>with one RAM chip is preferable (and much faster)
>
> Another thing to note- Many of the NVidia chipsets use Dual Channel for their
>RAM (check on the mfgr's webiste or your owners manual). This can make it VERY tricky
>to guage RAM problems, as they share responsibilities in RAM usage, *IF* you have
>2 sticks of RAM in your system.
>
>
>
> oh, btw... if you followed the recomendation to turn off auto reboot of your
>system, be sure to write down the 0x stop code. then visit: http://support.microsoft.com/
>to check on the stop codes.
>
>

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I don't know if any of you are still having problems, but Windows 2000 is a bit retarded with memory allocation and agp video cards if you have an thlon processor. If you're getting random crashes, freezing or reboots, try visiting this link for a quick fix: http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/798/ Let me know if it works for you

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I have exactly the same hardware as yours, and exactly the same problem on not one but two computers ... I tried Xp pro and home, directX 0.9b and the minimum drivers to run a game. Bios upgraded from 5.1 to 5.7, power supply changed. Nvidia or ATI makes no difference as a videocard. K7N2 mobo seems to be the problem. Did you find the solution ?


On Friday, January 9, 2004 at 8:58 pm, =+H+=Shorty wrote:
>I have a ati 9800 pro and i still get the same problem I think it is due to the ram
>I am using.
>
>
>

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I have been searching everywhere for a fix 2 this problem and as i stumbled upon this forum i realised there is thousands of us ppl tht just dont have obediant PC's!!! and finding this forum was EXTREMELY DEPRESSING 2 no that no-one knows how 2 fix it!!! is it just me or does anybody else feel like going RRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRR!!! and putting a brick through their computer!?!?!?!?!

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My system does the same thing too and I have the same motherboard A7N8X-E Deluxe. I thought the power supply could be over heating but then I saw your problem. Could it be a coincidence? A7N8X- Deluxe 2 256 3200 DDR Rambus 9700 Pro 3200 AMD 400 Front bus 420 Enermax TV Wonder VE PCI Card 1 IDE 80gig WD 1 DVD+RW 5 case fans 2 power supply fans Vantec tornado CPU Fan 947 SKL heatsink Termaltake Xaser III Case This system is not over clocked. The motherboard gets very instable when even trying mildly to OC. This error code only happens after a while of playing video games. My error code is BCCode : 9c BCP1 : 00000000 BCP2 : 8053F0F0 BCP3 : C4104000 BCP4 : 00000136 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 1_0 Product : 256_1


On Sunday, September 7, 2003 at 6:53 am, James Ginsburg wrote:
>Scott,
>
>Did you ever find the cause of this? I'm now having the same problem. Start to play
>Battlefield and ...bang. System crashes and I can't catch what the screen message
>is. It just started happening after months of playing fine.
>
>BCCode : 9c BCP1 : 00000000 BCP2 : 805366F0 BCP3 : B2000000
>BCP4 : 1020080F OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 1_0 Product : 768_1
>

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The problem might be the source. If you find what the problem is, or if my hint helps you, let my know!!!


On Thursday, November 13, 2003 at 9:38 am, Runabout wrote:
>I got the same problem. My Computer sometime reboot by itself and (more rarely) show
>a blue screen. At first I was thinking that was my HD (maxtor 80Go 7200 RPM) or a
>bad Windows XP SP1 installation. but then I started to think about my new motherboard
>MSI K7NV Delta-L (NVIDIA NForce2 chipset).
>
>When looking to the threads posted here, there is one constant; all (except one)
>are using NForce2 chipset from many manufacturer. And, by the way (it's NOT a certitude),
>I don't think it a video card problem because i got a ATI Radeon 9600 Pro and i crash
>anyway.
>
>------Hardware :
> MSI K7N2 Delta-L,
> AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton (FSB set at 333Mhz),
> ATI Radeon 9600 Pro,
> Spectek 512Mo 2700,
> Maxtor 80Go 7200 RPM (quiet version),
> Windows XP SP1 + RU1
>
>---------So it might be the NForce2 chipset itself or bad drivers from NVIDIA in
>my opinion.
>
>

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hey, ive exxactly same problem here.. it started few weeks ago,, & am so much tierd of searching the web for a solution!... i havent installed recently any hardware; i *once* tried to use my IR port device, and didnt know how... i followed some steps in win xp help(device manage...) but nothing happened.......... later i installed WinDVD from a cd provided by the manufaturer, & on the next day the blue screen ~fatal-STOP- error~ started to appear i uninstalled the programme but the problem presists... i dont play games but it usually happens after/or while using adobe photoshop, & some times after standby, and other unexpected times that i cant recall i feel so desperate, nothing on the wweb is helping i always get error messages at start-up & the msg : ur system has recorved from a serious error (...) i used system diagnosis provided by the manufaturer & it said that ive got system memory errors(7!!) i have the errors #z ... that seems they make no help to me... ------------------------------- ps: plz dont tell me to format.


On Sunday, October 31, 2004 at 3:02 am, padrone wrote:
>The problem might be the source. If you find what the problem is, or if my hint helps
>you, let my know!!!
>
>
>

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I believe you are right with the RAM issue as I have had major problems with fatal crashes whenever I try to use my printer. I checked drivers etc, all fine. I did the Prime 95 Torture Test for 13 minutes, no problems there. The last thing I did was went into Bios and reset RAM as had been told to over-clock as I am no computer expert! This is in layman's terms but after re-booting, the printer and PC are working fine. Hope this helps. Thanks.


On Thursday, July 8, 2004 at 10:19 am, Mediocrateez wrote:
>Guys,
>
> I can squash all your fears, although you're NOT going to want to hear it. This
>IS a RAM issue, guaranteed. Looking on any of the Microsoft KB articles for any
>of the stop error codes mentioned, it related to specific RAM address errors.
>
> 99% of the time, Windows is not utilizing all of the RAM in your systemfor 'daily'
>activities. When certain programs are started (usually ones that require more than
>256MB of RAM) these stop codes happen, and your computer will re-boot. This also
>will give you a 0x0blah blah stop code.
>
> The BEST way to find out which RAM chip is culprit is to run a 3rd party memory
>test, or a high end benchmarking program that will STRESS test your RAM. Testing
>with one RAM chip is preferable (and much faster)
>
> Another thing to note- Many of the NVidia chipsets use Dual Channel for their
>RAM (check on the mfgr's webiste or your owners manual). This can make it VERY tricky
>to guage RAM problems, as they share responsibilities in RAM usage, *IF* you have
>2 sticks of RAM in your system.
>
>
>
> oh, btw... if you followed the recomendation to turn off auto reboot of your
>system, be sure to write down the 0x stop code. then visit: http://support.microsoft.com/
>to check on the stop codes.
>
>

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so is the fix to replace the ram?


On Thursday, November 18, 2004 at 11:08 am, blade900 wrote:
>I believe you are right with the RAM issue as I have had major problems with fatal
>crashes whenever I try to use my printer. I checked drivers etc, all fine. I did
>the Prime 95 Torture Test for 13 minutes, no problems there. The last thing I did
>was went into Bios and reset RAM as had been told to over-clock as I am no computer
>expert! This is in layman's terms but after re-booting, the printer and PC are working
>fine. Hope this helps. Thanks.
>
>
>

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I got this problem too, did any of you do a defrag and stop it half-way odds just before you started getting this problem?


On Monday, June 23, 2003 at 8:15 pm, Scott Coxon wrote:
>My computer randomly crashs generaly when under high usage such as playing battlefeild.
>The error signature is as follows:
>
>BCCode 1000008e, BCP1:c0000005, BCP2: 00000000, BCP3:BAACSE54, BCP4:00000000, OSver5_1_2600,
>SP:0_0, Product 256_1
>
>I am running an AMD Athalon XP 2400, ASUS AN78X motherboard, 350 Watt power supply,
>western digital 40 gig HD with 8 MB buffer, LG burner, Asus 128MB V9520 magic Geforce
>FX 5200 video card and 512 MB of 3200 RAM. The FSB is runing at 400Mhz but the problem
>was the same when it was at 333Mhz.
>
>I have a progam that monitors temperatures and CPU dose not rise above 45 degrees
>so i don't think temperature is a problem. The bios has been updated to version 1004.
>any assistance would be most appreciated.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

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Hi all, when I tried to run pacfic assult, it caused windows to reboot, and I got the following error message after restart BCCode : 1000008e BCP1 : C0000005 BCP2 : 000002BD BCP3 : F4D35CC8 BCP4 : 00000000 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 0_0 Product : 256_1 I can't explain it, but this issue has been resolved by turning off zonealarm (at the suggestion of EA technical service). so give that a go

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[RANDOM CRASHES ERRORS 0xe5, 0x100005, 0xa8] ... finally, i have solved this horrible problem by changing one of my RAMs.. this is the only solution that could EVER work... don't bother searching other solutions, i did already, till i got depressed & no satisfying solutions AT ALL on the net...!

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I, too, have had a potpourri of blue-screen-of-death errors since purchasing my new system. I will try the RAM test, as at one point I did take out one stick of RAM and it didn't crash during the time I had that RAM out. My system specs are: MSI K7N2 Delta2 Platinum AthlonXP Barton 2600+ 2 sticks of Kingston DDR400 RAM, 256MB each. I have them installed in the correct configuration - one in the green slot and one in the purple slot, according to the MSI manual, for optimum performance. No overclocking - not even the auto-overclock that MSI builds into the board. Radeon 9600 (non-pro, non-SE) with 128MB video ram. 120GB Seagate SATA hard drive (boot drive) 80GB Seagate IDE hard drive LG CDRW Sony DRU510A DVD-RW Windows XP Pro All this is in a new Lian-Li case so the idle temperature is only 29 degrees C - sometimes even less. 1000008e is the most commonly received error but there have been others, over the less than 2 months this machine has been running. I hope the RAM is all that's wrong - as its Kingston, its lifetime warranty and I'll just get myself another stick. Ian


On Tuesday, December 21, 2004 at 2:48 am, ayoom wrote:
>[RANDOM CRASHES ERRORS 0xe5, 0x100005, 0xa8] ... finally, i have solved this horrible
>problem by changing one of my RAMs.. this is the only solution that could EVER work...
>don't bother searching other solutions, i did already, till i got depressed & no
>satisfying solutions AT ALL on the net...!

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Check this out! http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;820767

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I had a similar problem and found it to be the RAM, as previsouly mentioned use prime95 to test the ram in various configurations (memory, freqency, slot setup, channel setup). I brought my memory down to 166 from 200 and its all good for me.

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hey ppo been getting the following error signature ever since i installed and started playing GTA VC: BC Code: 50 BCP1:E10D8CE8 BCP2:00000000 BCP3 00000000 BCP4:00000001 SP:0_0 product 256_1. no articles on the net about the problem, so anyone out there who can help me out? Specs for my comp are:256 MB RAM, Onboard 64MB graphics card, 2.1ghz Intel celeron on an ASRock motherboard, with win xp version 5.1 having directX 9.0.


On Sunday, November 30, 2003 at 10:21 am, PowerMad wrote:
>I have the same problem. Everytime I play GTA VC, as soon as I arrive at the Party
>Boat (2nd mission) about 5-10 mins in, the game crashes to a black screen and re-boots.
>
>I'm running a 1.8 GHz, P4, with 256 MB Ram, and a 64MB Nivida GeForce 4 MX440 graphics.
>I have DirectX 9.0 and installing a new Video Card is out of the question

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Had exactly the same problem. It doesn't like running some RAM at it's full 200 FSB. Reduced to 166 and runs fine, but obviously not a fast as it should!!!!! Anyone know of any RAM (make/model) that is running at full 200 FSB on an A7N8X Deluxe 2.0?


On Saturday, January 29, 2005 at 10:16 am, Joe wrote:
>I had a similar problem and found it to be the RAM, as previsouly mentioned use prime95
>to test the ram in various configurations (memory, freqency, slot setup, channel
>setup). I brought my memory down to 166 from 200 and its all good for me.

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I have been surfing for about 72 hour straight now. I have a brand new Sony Vaio, I am not a gamer, but we chose this computer for all of the video, burning, media powerhouse assets it has. Unfortunately, I have the same issues as the gamers only my system crashes as soon as I try to play certain types of videos. I have the now notorious Nvidia GeForce Gx5200. Although many of us have this, but not all, I think the common denominator if I have followed that thread (in my Friday night, totally frustrated, haven't slept in 2 days because of this, stuper) that perhaps it is the just the win XP with the totally conflicting media center and the add-ons that actually came with the computer (Sonic) that conflict with the (*&^@#& Media Center, as well as everything else under the sun.......er.......eh "Window". That might explain why this vaio was sold not sold in Europe and just the US and some other place, and why they virtually discontinued it and any support or updates. I am starting to feel like I just bought a hidden governmental (or microsoftal) epidemic; that they keep trying to sweep under the carpet. So far, I have not found a single solution to my problem. Totatally bummed.


On Monday, June 23, 2003 at 8:15 pm, Scott Coxon wrote:
>My computer randomly crashs generaly when under high usage such as playing battlefeild.
>The error signature is as follows:
>
>BCCode 1000008e, BCP1:c0000005, BCP2: 00000000, BCP3:BAACSE54, BCP4:00000000, OSver5_1_2600,
>SP:0_0, Product 256_1
>
>I am running an AMD Athalon XP 2400, ASUS AN78X motherboard, 350 Watt power supply,
>western digital 40 gig HD with 8 MB buffer, LG burner, Asus 128MB V9520 magic Geforce
>FX 5200 video card and 512 MB of 3200 RAM. The FSB is runing at 400Mhz but the problem
>was the same when it was at 333Mhz.
>
>I have a progam that monitors temperatures and CPU dose not rise above 45 degrees
>so i don't think temperature is a problem. The bios has been updated to version 1004.
>any assistance would be most appreciated.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

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> This IS a RAM issue, guaranteed.

If you are so cathegorical, consider this:

I recently experienced the "BCCode: 1000008E ..." multiple times. This is an Intel-based system (overclocking almost impossible) with 1 G RAM that was extensively stress-tested about a month ago, a SATA hard disk and Radeon 9600 SE.

The problem occured during defragmentation. O&O Defrag was busy with one of logical disks (the said disk is moderately partitioned). Then, at some point -- no blue screen, just an immediate reset; after logon the error codes are presented.

After that I couldn't defragment that logical disk at all -- the computer resets immediately after defragmenting begins. Because it was an important task, I switched to Windows defragmenter and it succeeded somehow, though with almost unacceptable quality.

I will omit further details; however, finally I was able to pin-point the problem. It is an ordinary file on disk, about 200 KB in size. ANY access to it yields immediate reset (read its contents with "copy" or console-based text editor, or its access rights with "cacls", etc.). Scandisk does not find any errors on the disk and I don't know any alternatives.

Most likely I will try to back the file up with NTFSDOS (contents are unique, old and precious) and then delete it. If even deleting is impossible, then, I still am able to copy the remaining files manually and reformat the volume afterwards. (*arrrgh!*)

After all this I begin to believe that a poorly written kernel-space driver can eventually invoke any error :)

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Try cleaning cpu fan and heat sink if that dont work then its proberbly a mem configeration prob. Swap mem sticks through every combination. If only 1 mem stick its that. Wednesday, February 16, 2005 at 6:49 am, Andy wrote:
>Had exactly the same problem. It doesn't like running some RAM at it's full 200 FSB.
>Reduced to 166 and runs fine, but obviously not a fast as it should!!!!!
>
>Anyone know of any RAM (make/model) that is running at full 200 FSB on an A7N8X Deluxe
>2.0?
>
>
>

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Soz bout the message cok up


On Thursday, March 10, 2005 at 6:22 pm, marko wrote:
>Try cleaning cpu fan and heat sink if that dont work then its proberbly a mem configeration
>prob. Swap mem sticks through every combination. If only 1 mem stick its that.
>
>
>
>Wednesday, February 16, 2005 at 6:49 am, Andy wrote:
>>Had exactly the same problem. It doesn't like running some RAM at it's full 200
>FSB.
>>Reduced to 166 and runs fine, but obviously not a fast as it should!!!!!
>>
>>Anyone know of any RAM (make/model) that is running at full 200 FSB on an A7N8X
>Deluxe
>>2.0?
>>
>>
>>

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Some further details:

Luckily I was able to back up that file in Safe Mode. Eventually, as it was a RAR archive, it was enough to convert it to ZIP and put it back.

However, when the original file appeared on another NTFS volume, the behaviour was a bit different. I pressed F3 in Far for that file and got "Invalid handle" error. Then I couldn't open any other file in that directory (only these have been tried) -- the same error. At some point there was immediate reset when accessing that file, and since then this behaviour was permanent. Even deleting that file was possible only in Safe Mode.

Another computer (XP Home instead of Pro) has no problems with that file. Of course, I kept the file for any experiments in the future :)

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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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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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I have now found a solution to my blue screen problem, by using one of the makes of RAM suggested by ASUS.... Corsair TwinX 1Gb XMS3200C2PT (2x512Mb) but you must adjust the latency setting to 6 - 3 - 3 - 2.5 in the bios once installed. My PC now runs like a dream with no more crashes at full 200 FSB.


On Wednesday, February 16, 2005 at 6:49 am, Andy wrote:
>Had exactly the same problem. It doesn't like running some RAM at it's full 200 FSB.
>Reduced to 166 and runs fine, but obviously not a fast as it should!!!!!
>
>Anyone know of any RAM (make/model) that is running at full 200 FSB on an A7N8X Deluxe
>2.0?
>
>
>

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Ia have that BCCode : 9c problem, I've changed almost everything, except processor. Also tried this solution, changing registry: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management] "LargePageMinimum"=dword:ffffffff But nothing realy helps. May be processor is problem? Mine is Athlon XP 2800+

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On Thursday, July 30, 2005 at 11:51 am, Ok people , I have had all the Crashes And tried Everything I could and nothing seemed to help, I even bought a new Graphics card thinking it was the video being I always got a memory dump, I have also had the crashes evertime I played BF 1942. Never Failed.. Well Last night after I installed the new card I loaded BF 1942 and low and behold It crashed again . It really started to piss me off, So I got Everest up and checked my system out and went to the INF update for the chipset of my MOBO. Well I seen that there were new updates for the INF Chipset. and Loaded them rebooted and WOW. It fixed the problem. I played BF1942 for 4 hours Stright., And BF 2 for 2 hours without any crashes, Then today I played for a couple of hours, No More Crashes.. So I suggest to find out the make of your mother board and go to the site and upgrade the INF chipset. It worked for me after a month of crashes.. So go to Everest download that, it does system diagnosis and benchmark. Heres one site for everest , http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4181.html and check your chipset. then download the newest version... And Thanks for this forum, without it I'd still be searching for problems with BF.. Thanks people

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Ok, We all have something in common, I get the same problem and have the same hardware. 
BattleField 1942 crashes when i run it in windows XP, but not in windows 98. 
My 256 MB of ram is fine, in windows xp it just reboots, but in windows 98 it runs 
sweet as.

I think it has to do with the software and drivers and hardware you can quote me 
on that, but what i mean is the way windows xp and its drivers work with the hardware 
compared to the way windows 98 works with the drivers and hardware.

It doesnt seem you could easily solve this problem, mine is specifically BF1942 related, 
all my other games work fine, although it probably has something to do with the xp 
setup dunno :o

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I didn't read all the threads for this topic...but the guys who mention memmory issues are exactly right...however don't chuck out your ram just yet. I was having these same problems and have discovered that my machine (AMD 64 3000 on a MicroATX foxconn mobo, 1gb ddr 400, 128mb pci-e x300, twin seagate 120gb sata drives, cd burner, dvd ram, and an soundblaster audigy) was unable to run at 1T memory timing. After switching to 2T (wich is a bit slower/ darn) My machine is just buzzing along.....for those of u who don't know, this option is in the advanced chipset feature of your bios and I suggest changing it manually to 1T before u go and spend more money on new ram. Most new systems will configure this automatically for u at 2T and doing the manual swap to 1T may be all your problems solved.


On Monday, June 23, 2003 at 8:15 pm, Scott Coxon wrote:
>My computer randomly crashs generaly when under high usage such as playing battlefeild.
>The error signature is as follows:
>
>BCCode 1000008e, BCP1:c0000005, BCP2: 00000000, BCP3:BAACSE54, BCP4:00000000, OSver5_1_2600,
>SP:0_0, Product 256_1
>
>I am running an AMD Athalon XP 2400, ASUS AN78X motherboard, 350 Watt power supply,
>western digital 40 gig HD with 8 MB buffer, LG burner, Asus 128MB V9520 magic Geforce
>FX 5200 video card and 512 MB of 3200 RAM. The FSB is runing at 400Mhz but the problem
>was the same when it was at 333Mhz.
>
>I have a progam that monitors temperatures and CPU dose not rise above 45 degrees
>so i don't think temperature is a problem. The bios has been updated to version 1004.
>any assistance would be most appreciated.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

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Here is another thing to check. I had a 2nd 40 gb harddrive that was starting to fail. Whenever XP accessed it the system would crash. If you think that this could be your problem you can go to the manufactuers website and download a program that will run a diagnostics on the drive. I used "Powermax" for my faulty Maxtor drive. Now....what about date recovery...

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GETMYDATABACK for FAT or NTFS works great email me for info ;)


On Friday, September 23, 2005 at 5:02 am, Alex wrote:
>
>Here is another thing to check.
>
>I had a 2nd 40 gb harddrive that was starting to fail.
>Whenever XP accessed it the system would crash.
>If you think that this could be your problem you can go to the manufactuers website
>and download a program that will run a diagnostics on the drive.
>I used "Powermax" for my faulty Maxtor drive.
>
>Now....what about date recovery...

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I replaced ALL my ram and problem is gone!!!!!!! thanks all. eddy


On Wednesday, August 31, 2005 at 11:26 pm, Zenda wrote:
>I didn't read all the threads for this topic...but the guys who mention memmory issues
>are exactly right...however don't chuck out your ram just yet. I was having these
>same problems and have discovered that my machine (AMD 64 3000 on a MicroATX foxconn
>mobo, 1gb ddr 400, 128mb pci-e x300, twin seagate 120gb sata drives, cd burner, dvd
>ram, and an soundblaster audigy) was unable to run at 1T memory timing. After switching
>to 2T (wich is a bit slower/ darn) My machine is just buzzing along.....for those
>of u who don't know, this option is in the advanced chipset feature of your bios
>and I suggest changing it manually to 1T before u go and spend more money on new
>ram. Most new systems will configure this automatically for u at 2T and doing the
>manual swap to 1T may be all your problems solved.
>
>
>

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When I got this problem with my system “Windows XP Home Edition, SP2” I did a lot of research into the blue screens, BC Codes & STOP Codes that Windows was constantly bombarding me with. Since my computer is only 18 months old and I haven’t messed with it too much, I wasn’t going to believe that the problem lied with my hardware. So instead I continued to research the problem, and after about a month of constant searching I found 3 possible causes. 1. RAM problems. 2. Bad drivers. 3. Logitech MouseWare. Some of the errors I received were related to RAM issues. Or at least that’s what the Microsoft website said. But since that costs time and money to fix, I decided to try and fix the other possible causes first. The first thing I did was uninstall MouseWare, then download the latest version from Logitech’s website and install that. But you should only do this if you have a Logitech mouse that uses MouseWare. Then I fixed the bad drivers, but since I didn’t know what driver was the cause of the problem, the easiest and quickest way to fix them was to just roll back all of them. To do this you need to right click My Computer and click Properties. Then click on the Hardware tab and choose Device Manager. In device manager click all of the + symbols to expand everything. The double click a device and choose the Driver tab, then click Roll Back Driver. When it says restart your computer click no so you can do the same for all of the devices in one go. Then when all devices have had their driver rolled back. Restart your machine. When it restarts it may take a long time so leave it for a while. Don’t be impatient. My computer now runs perfectly, just like it used to. I’m not saying that this will defiantly work for you, because all computers are different. But it worked for me and will hopefully work for some of you. Let me know how it goes.

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***HOW TO CURE 9 out of 10 BLUE-SCREEN ISSUES with Gaming***

I'm sure from reading a number of these fixes you would think updating drivers, re-installing 
Operating sys and maybe even replacing hardware may be best. 

First things to check is the Gaming Website/manual - support links are normally available 
on the start of the game or in the manual. 
You need to make sure your pc/laptop is up to spec, has appropriate drivers/hardware 
etc. Ideally should be to work smoothly. 
If your game is working fine but Randomly crashes, 99% of the time this will be due 
to RAM being stressed.

#FIX: Reduce anything from your start up (Start--all programs--StartUp) and apps 
running in the background that you do not need running i.e MSN messenger.
All you should have running is your Internet connection, Anti-virus SW and the game.

It works... Speaking from experience, i have a brand new HP laptop which is up to 
the Compatible spec and more than enough for Guild Wars (online) - After a week or 
so it just starting randomly crashing (Blue screen of Death) - Now its a new laptop 
with the latest drivers, hardware etc. I stopped about 4 apps which started automatically 
then played the game again - NOW WORKS FINE.

TIPS; 'Start--Run--msconfig'  Select 'StartUp' Tab -this shows all Apps/SW/Exe's 
that kick off when you log onto your laptop/PC.

Peace and out
Del***************

 






On Saturday, November 26, 2005 at 1:46 pm, AJ wrote:

>When I got this problem with my system “Windows XP Home Edition, SP2” I did a lot 

>of research into the blue screens, BC Codes & STOP Codes that Windows was constantly 

>bombarding me with. Since my computer is only 18 months old and I haven’t messed 

>with it too much, I wasn’t going to believe that the problem lied with my hardware. 

>So instead I continued to research the problem, and after about a month of constant 

>searching I found 3 possible causes.

>

>1.	RAM problems.

>2.	Bad drivers.

>3.	Logitech MouseWare.

>

>Some of the errors I received were related to RAM issues. Or at least that’s what 

>the Microsoft website said.

>But since that costs time and money to fix, I decided to try and fix the other possible 

>causes first.

>

>The first thing I did was uninstall MouseWare, then download the latest version 
from 

>Logitech’s website and install that. But you should only do this if you have a Logitech 

>mouse that uses MouseWare.

>

>Then I fixed the bad drivers, but since I didn’t know what driver was the cause 
of 

>the problem, the easiest and quickest way to fix them was to just roll back all 
of 

>them. To do this you need to right click My Computer and click Properties. Then 
click 

>on the Hardware tab and choose Device Manager. In device manager click all of the 

>+ symbols to expand everything. The double click a device and choose the Driver 
tab, 

>then click Roll Back Driver. When it says restart your computer click no so you 
can 

>do the same for all of the devices in one go. Then when all devices have had their 

>driver rolled back. Restart your machine.

>

>When it restarts it may take a long time so leave it for a while. Don’t be impatient.

>My computer now runs perfectly, just like it used to. I’m not saying that this will 

>defiantly work for you, because all computers are different. But it worked for me 

>and will hopefully work for some of you. Let me know how it goes.
 

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STOP READ THIS everyone will have a different reason for this problem from simple graphics diplay driver issues to system RAM issues......here is what caused mine (and by the way i was getting the same error as everyone else here is reporting). My system:- AMD Athlon 2100+ (1.753ghz) Asus A7N8X Motherboard 1 GB 533 DDR RAM Nvidia Geforce 5600 Sound Blaster Audigy 5.1 etc etc etc. My ram was tested my graphics card drivers updated, uninstalled reinstalled..basically tried everything sugested on all forums i visited with no luck...the following worked for me..... It seemed i had issues with my system page filing causing the system to crash with ANYTHING strenuous from game playing right through to disk clean ups or sometimes virus scans....SOLUTION..... PRINT THIS AND DO NOT RUN ANY PROGRAMMES AT ALL UNTIL COMPLETED FULLY!!!!!! Start...Right Click 'My' Computer'...click the 'Advanced' tab.....Click 'Settings' (Under 'performance')...Click 'Advanced' tab....Click 'Change' (Under 'virtual Memory')....Select the option 'No paging File'...Click OK.....Restart computer and when windows logs on from restart then run a disk defrag (start....all programmes...accessories....system tools...disk defragmentor).....wait til complete and then this will rerstore page filing correctly on the hard drive.....then follow the above instructions after defrag to re enable page filing...restart and hey presto problem fixed...well for some of you including myself. i sincerely hope this works for you as it did for me as i spent days and days trying everything until this finally worked for me. GOOD LUCK :-]


On Saturday, December 31, 2005 at 10:59 am, Del-boy (El Support Guru) wrote:
>***HOW TO CURE 9 out of 10 BLUE-SCREEN ISSUES with Gaming***
>
>I'm sure from reading a number of these fixes you would think updating drivers, re-installing
>Operating sys and maybe even replacing hardware may be best.
>
>First things to check is the Gaming Website/manual - support links are normally available
>on the start of the game or in the manual.
>You need to make sure your pc/laptop is up to spec, has appropriate drivers/hardware
>etc. Ideally should be to work smoothly.
>If your game is working fine but Randomly crashes, 99% of the time this will be due
>to RAM being stressed.
>
>#FIX: Reduce anything from your start up (Start--all programs--StartUp) and apps
>running in the background that you do not need running i.e MSN messenger.
>All you should have running is your Internet connection, Anti-virus SW and the game.
>
>It works... Speaking from experience, i have a brand new HP laptop which is up to
>the Compatible spec and more than enough for Guild Wars (online) - After a week or
>so it just starting randomly crashing (Blue screen of Death) - Now its a new laptop
>with the latest drivers, hardware etc. I stopped about 4 apps which started automatically
>then played the game again - NOW WORKS FINE.
>
>TIPS; 'Start--Run--msconfig' Select 'StartUp' Tab -this shows all Apps/SW/Exe's
>that kick off when you log onto your laptop/PC.
>
>Peace and out
>Del***************
>
>
>
>

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This same problem with me. Ive essentially done the same as below because it was the easiest thing to try. I defragged as below. Before any programs were running. I chose to use a program called Diskeeper. Its run on the next boot. One time and no more problems. Game I play is Counter Strike. This has been a pain in the rear grrrr system; AMD Athlon 64 processor 3200+ 2.01 GHz, 1.00GB Ram Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI MoBo Leadtech PX6200 Graphics Blah Blah


On Friday, March 17, 2006 at 1:39 pm, Andrew wrote:
>STOP READ THIS
>
>everyone will have a different reason for this problem from simple graphics diplay
>driver issues to system RAM issues......here is what caused mine (and by the way
>i was getting the same error as everyone else here is reporting).
>
>My system:-
>AMD Athlon 2100+ (1.753ghz)
>Asus A7N8X Motherboard
>1 GB 533 DDR RAM
>Nvidia Geforce 5600
>Sound Blaster Audigy 5.1
>etc etc etc.
>
>My ram was tested my graphics card drivers updated, uninstalled reinstalled..basically
>tried everything sugested on all forums i visited with no luck...the following worked
>for me.....
>
>It seemed i had issues with my system page filing causing the system to crash with
>ANYTHING strenuous from game playing right through to disk clean ups or sometimes
>virus scans....SOLUTION.....
>
>PRINT THIS AND DO NOT RUN ANY PROGRAMMES AT ALL UNTIL COMPLETED FULLY!!!!!!
>
>Start...Right Click 'My' Computer'...click the 'Advanced' tab.....Click 'Settings'
>(Under 'performance')...Click 'Advanced' tab....Click 'Change' (Under 'virtual Memory')....Select
>the option 'No paging File'...Click OK.....Restart computer and when windows logs
>on from restart then run a disk defrag (start....all programmes...accessories....system
>tools...disk defragmentor).....wait til complete and then this will rerstore page
>filing correctly on the hard drive.....then follow the above instructions after defrag
>to re enable page filing...restart and hey presto problem fixed...well for some of
>you including myself.
>
>i sincerely hope this works for you as it did for me as i spent days and days trying
>everything until this finally worked for me.
>
>
>GOOD LUCK :-]
>
>

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Hmmnnn tried the de-frag and it worked for a few days??? Back to a new plan. I think Ill do the RAM.

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I have a problem about that test.... my computer restarts about every minute. sometimes longer if go and delete all .dmp files in the minidump folder. but how do i do a test if my computer restarts that fast?


On Thursday, July 8, 2004 at 12:23 pm, Ray wrote:
>Mediocrateez is 100% correct. I replaced the RAM on my system yesterday, and the
>issue went away immediately. Thanks to everyone who posted about it, and especially
>to those who followed up.
>
>By the way... I used prime95 to find the error. It's a free download that can be
>used to test your RAM, and when it's bad, it usually says so in 5 minutes flat. Just
>download it and run "Torture Test", and within a few minutes, it will sa FATAL ERROR
>if the RAM is faulty. It took only 80 seconds to find mine faulty.
>
>Thanks again guys!
>
>
>

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Mine was a RAM problem, typed RAM TEST in google and got the microsoft diagnostic site http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp I removed each stick in turn and one of my ram sticks was fault. Left it out and computer fine. I hope this helps most of you (maybe the ram is failing on the graphics cards too)

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Scoobydoo I have a question for you ....just need to make sure this reply works first since im new....


On Tuesday, December 16, 2003 at 5:27 pm, Scoobydoo wrote:
>Try removing 1 ram to make a max of 512 MB.
>
>Win 98 has problems over 512 MB according to something I read in APC Mag or PC World.
>I had same problem. It worked immediately for me. Tried *everything* else.
>
>
>
>
>

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I had the same problem with an HP Compaq 6710b laptop running XP Pro. Inserting a CD to install software would cause the BSOD. Downloaded the newest Intel Video Driver from HP and it solved the problem


On Sunday, August 24, 2003 at 2:30 pm, TrappeD wrote:
>Yeah ppl. I have the same problem here. Will try to solve it. Here's what I guess.
>This is a driver problem. Generally a video adapter problem may cause this under
>Windows XP. When I check the history of my installations, I only tried to make my
>vga adapter driver a bit better. And also added a scanner driver that does not support
>windows xp pro. Unfortunately there's no explanation about these kinda problems and
>most probably this is a hardware with a wrong driver problem
>
>

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Well I see this thread is an old one but I've been working on a machine recently and ran into similar circumstances. The machine in question is a Shuttle-XPC SK-43G model. My problems started after installing 3 upgrades... 1st I upgraded the GPU from a GeForce MX-440 128MB DDR card to a GeForce FX-6200 256DDR2 model, 2nd I added a second 512 MB stick of PC 3200 RAM & 3rd I swapped out the Athlon XP 2000+ CPU for an Athlon XP 2600+ Barton CPU. Needless to say I made sure that the system BIOS & all drivers were upgraded to the latest versions I could find (BIOS, various VIA drivers, Realtek LAN drivers, nVidia drivers from GPU card manufacturer XFX, all MS & DirectX updates.) At first everything seemed to go smoothly... the CPU detected and increased the FSB to 166MHz, found the extra 1/2 gig of RAM & the new GPU. Wonderful, right? Not so fast kemosabe, I find myself now plagued with random system crashes. Tried all the usual stuff, then the unusual, the downright absurd, etc & was 1 step away from wiping off the cobwebs from my old Quija board. I went so far as to install MS debugging tools & finding & installing massive symbol databases to try & uncover what is causing all these crashes. Finally I got an error message I was able to track down & so far, knock on wood, my daily BSOD recovery routine seems to be a thing of the past. So how do you solve this quandry? No need to dial back BIOS settings or swap out RAM, etc. Just 2 simple steps... 1st open My Computer & on each hard disk looks at properties & disable Indexing Service checkbox then go to Start > Run & type msconfing, select the Services tab and make sure that Indexing is stopped... hopefully it'll work for anyone else with this problem and my luck continues but so far no more BSOD's (but keeping fingers & toes tightly crossed!)

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Dont know if this is the right place to post this but recently ive been getting a blue screen but only when booting. Upon start up im presented with the following;

Problem signature:

Problem Event Name: BlueScreen

OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.1

Locale ID: 2057

Additional information about the problem: BCCode: 3b

BCP1: 00000000C0000005

BCP2: FFFFF960000C8155
BCP3: FFFFF9800BCE3ED0
BCP4: 0000000000000000
OS Version: 6_0_6000
Service Pack: 0_0
Product: 256_1

Files that help describe the problem: C:\Windows\Minidump\Mini011608-01.dmp
C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-44890-0.sysdata.xml
C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp\WERFF4F.tmp.version.txt
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Personaly i cant make head nor tail of the information vista has decided to throw at me so any help would be much appriciated.

The problem started after installing my new Logitech Mx400 mouse and G11 keyboard so im assuming its some form of driver conflict.

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You'd be better starting a new post and in the Vista Forum, not the XP Forum.
Scroll down the page a bit and on the left-hand side under the heading Discussion 
Forum, click on Vista and post in there.







On Wednesday, January 16, 2008 at 4:21 am, taylor wrote:

>Dont know if this is the right place to post this but recently ive been getting 
a 

>blue screen but only when booting. Upon start up im presented with the following;

>


>Problem signature:



>

>  Problem Event Name:	BlueScreen



>

>  OS Version:	6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.1



>

>  Locale ID:	2057

>

>


>

>Additional information about the problem:

>  BCCode:	3b



>  BCP1:	00000000C0000005



>  BCP2:	FFFFF960000C8155

>  BCP3:	FFFFF9800BCE3ED0

>  BCP4:	0000000000000000

>  OS Version:	6_0_6000

>  Service Pack:	0_0

>  Product:	256_1

>

>Files that help describe the problem:

>  C:\Windows\Minidump\Mini011608-01.dmp

>  
C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-44890-0.sysdata.xml

>  
C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp\WERFF4F.tmp.version.txt

>-----------------------------------------------------------------------

>

>Personaly i cant make head nor tail of the information vista has decided to throw 

>at me so any help would be much appriciated.

>


>The problem started after installing my new Logitech Mx400 mouse and G11 keyboard 

>so im assuming its some form of driver conflict.

>

>

 

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