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re: XP Home edition Wednesday, March 17, 2004 at 2:48 am Posted by triplate (20834 messages posted) Run the McAfee Stinger. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home edition Wednesday, March 17, 2004 at 7:47 am Posted by Dan Sarandrea, MCSE (130 messages posted) Here's a MS KB article that will get you started: Troubleshooting a Stop 0x0000000A Error in Windows XP This error is one of the more elusive XP problems to track down if you don't have access to know good parts to swap in and out of a system, or if you don't know how to selectively remove various devices and their drivers from a system attempting to isolate the problem. As far as the virus(?) goes, don't ask here. You should be running a top-qulaity, fully updated name-brand AV program set to maximum protection. If you are courting disaster by not doing the above, you can always go to the web sites of the major AV vendors and run their free online scans. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Home edition Friday, March 19, 2004 at 12:00 am Posted by Fishboy (3 messages posted) Two things you can check that may help. 1.) Make sure you RAM is seated properly in the DIMM slots. Pull them out and push them back in firmly. In your BIOS, make sure you are running the correct timings for your RAM or even back them off a bit. Are you overclocked at all? Have you tried loading the optimal default settings for your BIOS? 2.) What's your video card driver situation? Have you updated over the top of older drivers? Make sure you uninstall all older drivers before applying new ones. I had a similar situation when I built my first computer using a P4 2.53 with the 533MHz bus paired with PC800 Rambus. In my BIOS I had mistakenly set the FSB multiplier to 4(used for PC1066) instead of 3(PC800) and I would consistently get the same errors, you're recieving, after only a few minutes of running any applications. On Wednesday, March 17, 2004 at 1:00 am, silverandblackfan69 wrote: >I put this computer back in July and added nothing until I started having this problem. > If I try to use msword envelopes bang bsod. First thing I tried was purchasing >new ram. To no avail same thing, then messed with the slots only used my vid card >and bang same thing. I then followed steps with the bios (as posted here) and bang >same thing bsod. I cant even run disk defrag disk clean up or anything, halfway >through bsod. Mostly irql not less or equal, but also driver irql not less or equal, >page fault etc.... but sometimes no message at all. I also got atapi.sys and nfts.sys >on the bottom of bsod before but not to often. And just recently I have been getting >on startup cpudrv window with nothing in it every time I start up. Is this a virus? > If anyone could help that dont want to suck on my wallet would be of great help. >Thanks for any advice. Also is that ask the experts site worth the money? [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum