Many blue screen errors (oh dear!)

[TailsNZ]

Hi,

My computer (Win XP Professional SP2) was put together not 2 months ago, and was fine until the blue screen errors began (no hardware or major software changes). I tried a fresh install of Windows using PartitionMagic to hide my usual install... but the errors came up there too.

Also often during a restart, the computer will hang at the ASUS logo before the BIOS text. I've tested it, and it does it almost every time. I turn the PC off when it hangs there, turn it back on, and it starts ok. Very weird. I checked all the hardware and cables are plugged in right.

Anyways, these are the blue screen errors that have come up, starting with the old favorite...

DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

Originally it was with nvatabus.sys (Nvidia IDE driver), which I uninstalled, letting the Windows drivers handle it (although I don't use IDE hard drives, just SATA, I'm not sure if that means much? The only IDE cable in use is for my BenQ DW1640 DVD Writer, which hasn't been in use at the time of errors), then later the blue screen of death appeared for pciidex.sys, the Microsoft IDE driver. These errors have been:

nvatabus.sys (Nvidia IDE driver) - STOP: 0x000000D1 (0x00000060, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0xBA70711A)
Address at BA70711A base at BA6F4000, Datestamp 423634c2

pciidex.sys (Microsoft) IDE driver) - STOP: 0x000000D1 (0x16732C3D, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0xBAB28D7C)
Address at BAB28D7C base at BAB28000, Datestamp 41107b4c

Then other errors that have also come up:

KERNELDATA_INPAGE_ERROR

STOP: 0x0000007A (0x00000003, 0xC0000005, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA

STOP: 0x00000050 (0xBF7F22E1, 0x00000008, 0xBF7F22E1, 0x00000000)

Lastly this isn't a blue screen error, but a normal windows one:

lsass.exe - Application Error
The instruction at "0x77e770d" (NOTE I must have missed one number when writing it down) refrenced memory at "0x00000164". The memory could not be "read". Closed Staus Code: -1073741819

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Does anyone have any thoughts at all? If so, that's fantastic, thank you!! I'm currently surfing around finding programs to check my RAM for errors. I've ran checks on all hard drive partitions, and they are ok.

Thanks for reading!

 

[amdskip]

http://www.memtest86.com for testing your memory, creates a boot disk, run if for at least an hour or two

 

[TailsNZ]

Thanks yeah, I'm gonna leave that running after I go to bed tonight..

Do you think problems with the RAM could be the cause for those blue screens of death and cause the startup hanging problem? Or should I also be looking for another problem somewhere else?

Thanks again!

 

[fixxxer0]

Def. ram isses or overclocking issues.


I would check the hard drive just to be sure theres not some bad sectors on there as well. Goto the manufacturer website and they have a bootable test utility and it will generate a code for RMA if under warranty.

 

[TailsNZ]

I ran MemTest for 9 hours and there was an error in Test 7 (the random number sequence). From 11 passes, there was 6 errors in the same spot:

Failing address: 00045f1e4b8 - 1119.8MB
Good: 5b2bda82
Bad: 7b2bda82
Err - Bits: 20000000

I've taken one of the two sticks out now, and the computer hasn't crashed yet. I'll give it a MemTest tonight, and I downloaded the Seagate and Western Digital test utilities to test both hard drives today, thanks for that suggestion. Other details of the MemTest were:

Memory: 2048M at 1763 MB/s
Cached: 2048M
RsvdMem: 276M (not sure what this one is?)
MemMap: e820-Std
Cache: On
ECC: Off
Test: Std
Testing: 112k - 2048M

L1 Cache: 128k at 18125MB/s
L2 Cache: 1024k at 4503MB/s

Thanks again for reading!

I also noticed my RAM was running (in auto mode from the BIOS) at 400mhz instead of 500 (it's PC4000 RAM). I set it to 500mhz, but now the CPU has automatically slowed down to 2ghz instead of 2.2ghz (AMD X2 4400+) with FSB 250mhz x 8 multiplier. Upping the multiplier by 1 would get it back, but I just tried it with ASUS Booster and it froze right away (temp is still fine, around 45 degrees). So naturally I'm a bit nervous to try again. Any thoughts? Thanks!