Fatal System Error in Battlefield 1942 and Battlefield 2

[Muerta de Poly]

I've recently encountered fatal system error 0x0000008E when attempting to play bf1942/2 online only and I have no idea what is causing the problem. All drivers are current; seemed to worsen after PunkBuster updated. My system specs are listed below. Any suggestions/ideas on what is causing this problem and a way to possibly fix it?
-Muerta

 

[LiLithTecH]

You need to post the FULL error from the EVENT log as
the possiblities are numerous with that particular error.

 

[Muerta de Poly]

Error code 1000008e, parameter1 c0000005, parameter2 f792e01b, parameter3 edb655dc, parameter4 00000000.

That's all it says.

 

[LiLithTecH]

Running Norton AV?

If so, disable and then see if you get the error.

 

[Muerta de Poly]

No,
Not running Norton AV. I've noticed that I get a
"DCOM got error "The service database is locked. " attempting to start the service netman with arguments "" in order to run the server:
{BA126AE5-2166-11D1-B1D0-00805FC1270E}"
in the event log right before I get the BSOD.

Also, when trying to boot in Safe Mode, I get this BSOD:

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
STOP: 0x000000A (0xf7D51354, 0x000000FF, 0x00000001, 0x804E2E41)

and the DCOM error described above as well as this:
DCOM got error "The service database is locked. " attempting to start the service winmgmt with arguments "" in order to run the server:
{8BC3F05E-D86B-11D0-A075-00C04FB68820}

appear in the event log.

I don't know what happened; everything was working perfectly until a few days ago and I haven't changed anything in the BIOS or updated drivers.

-Muerta

 

[Muerta de Poly]

I got it to work; just decided to try WinXP 64bit beta. Haven't had the problem since. I think the copy of WinXP I got was tweaked. I had trouble installing it; the 64bit version was a breeze. I'll likely pay for the full WinXP64 since this has worked so well. Thanks for the help though .