Blue Screen of Death on new A64 939 Winnie system

[Moosemilk]

First up, thanks to those who scan these boards to offer their services free of charge. You people don?t get enough credit for saving the public the millions of dollars every year by helping maintain productivity and cutting down on lost time (and heaps of frustration) that otherwise would have occurred. Thanks and thanks again?

I recently set up a new AMD Socket 939 system (Details on sig file, below.) Ever since I installed XP Pro (SP2) on it I've had a few crashes here and there, mostly while gaming, but sometimes by just writing something in Word.

I?ve been overclocking the system but have returned all settings to default and still have the problem.

After the crashes occur and XP boots back up the information XP wants to send to Microsoft looks like this (three separate crashes and their corresponding error messages):

1. C:\DOCUME~1\Moosemilk\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER7e7e.dir00\Mini012205-02.dmp
C:\DOCUME~1\ Moosemilk \LOCALS~1\Temp\WER7e7e.dir00\sysdata.xml

2. C:\DOCUME~1\ Moosemilk \LOCALS~1\Temp\WERa970.dir00\EReg.exe.mdmp

3. C:\DOCUME~1\ Moosemilk \LOCALS~1\Temp\WER8975.dir00\Mini013005-01.dmp
C:\DOCUME~1\ Moosemilk \LOCALS~1\Temp\WER8975.dir00\sysdata.xml

So, fairly consistent in what the errors are, but I?m in the dark as to what these error messages indicate. Anyone have a clue?

The help is appreciated..

MM

 

[Stravos]

Try pulling one stick of ram and seeing if your problem persist. I was getting similar problems with my K8N Neo2 Plat and I've heard a lot of 939 boards have problems with two sticks of ram, or maybe it's the dual channel. I pulled a stick and it's working fine now. I've heard it's a power issue so I've ordered a new PSU. I'll let you know if I'm able to use two sticks when I get the new PSU installed, but for now I'm guessing you would run fine with only one stick (though deathly slow with only 256MB 🙁)

 

[ironique]

Try relaxing your memory timings in bios. You've got Value RAM and your running it at CL2. One or both DIMMs may not like that. By the way, the error messages you posted are just paths to the location where windows saves the memory dump info (all contents in memory) when the OS crashes. Doesn't help much.

 

[Jeff7]

One thing you can try is to keep the system from resetting when it blue screens.

Right-Click My Computer
Properties
Advanced Tab
Startup and Recovery section, click Settings
Under System Failure, uncheck Automatically Restart
OK
Apply/OK

Now, when the system blue screens, it'll show a STOP 0x00000000 error. The numbers after the STOP error will vary - STOP 0x0000002A, or something like that. You can type that into the search engine at Microsoft.com for a list of possible culprits.

 

[Moosemilk]

Thanks guys. Much appreciated.

I'm going to do what jeff7 suggests and get the BOD to stay up more than .5 seconds so I can copy down the error message.

Thanks ironique for saving me future embarassment ( I should have figured that the info on the .dmp files were useless..ug)

And stravos, I'm going to try it out with one stick of RAM. I had to change the power supply initially since the Antec True Power 380w had an issue with my Abit MB...hassle hassle..but what can you do? Let me know how it works out for you.

Cheers,

MM