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A DRIVER HAS OVER-RUN A STACK-BASED BUFFER

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Accipiter22

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update: I decided to just reformat, as there wasn't a lot on the Hard Drive that I needed to save....so I get XP Pro installed, SP2. First I installed the drivers for my mobo's onboard ethernet port, that went fine...Then I install Hyperion's Via drivers, from via-arena...that went fine...next I installed the nVIDIA drivers for my 6800GT, and that went fine....I installed the drivers for my Samsung 730B and that was fine as well...Next I went to install the drivers and bundled software for my Creative Sound Blaster Audigy ZS2, and halfway through the install I got that error message! So after the reboot, I tried to uninstall, but got that error message part way through...so I booted in safe mode, uninstalled the drivers and software...going to try installing just the drivers now, without the bundled software, I can do the software one by one later on and hopefully it's just one of those programs, and not my sound drivers........AUGHHHHH I installed just the drivers, and I have the same problem...I uninstalled the drivers, got the latest ones from Creative, and I STILL have this problem.....I started to install other programs after I had installed the latest creative drivers and I get that blasted blue screen.....


The message is 'A DRIVER HAS OVER-RUN A STACK-BASED BUFFER"

At intermittent intervals my computer will stop, a blue screen (NOT the blue screen of death) will appear, and tell me my computer has been halted to avoid damage, that there's a stack overflow, and that I should uninstall any new hardware I've recently installed...there's more text, a pagefull, but I can't read it all cause the computer reboots too quickly.


Problem is, I haven't installed any new hardware. I got this message before I reformatted recently, and also got it afterwards too. How do I fix this?
 
Well if you got it before and after a format/reinstall it is definately hardware. I would start with memory - download and run Memtest86.
 
Originally posted by: Varun
Well if you got it before and after a format/reinstall it is definately hardware. I would start with memory - download and run Memtest86.
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I have run memtest86 before, when I first put together this comp, one single time, on a run of test 4 I believe, I got one error, but it never ever repeated again
 
Hi, Stack Overflow can be a programing error, but more likely is a memory error as alreadly stated here. Run Memtst again or try you mem one stick at the time. Jim
 
no errors in memtest........here's what i'm noticing about when this error occurs; it seems to be when i'm taking some sort of action. It doesn't happen when the cpu is just idling. Like sometimes when I click a link it'll happen. It happens a LOT when I try to install stuff on the computer too I noticed....I was installing something for my soundcard yesterday and it happened like 5 times in a row in the middle of the install....I dont' think it's the sound drivers themselves, it's just something about the proces of installing stuff..
 
I just tried installing firefox in regular mode 8 times, it crashed with that screen for all 8.....I just installed it from safe mode no problem...
 
Uninstall a bunch of drivers for (video card, sound card, printer, mouse, etc.) and reinstall them, if it's a driver. That's definitely a software error; worst case: reformat.
 
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