NTOSKRNL.EXE Stop error

[frozentax]

Hello,

I've been running Win2k just fine without stability problems for a long time now, but yesterday I turned on my system, and before showing the graphical boot up screen I get a blue screen error message, saying something about a stop error involving ntoskrnl.exe, with a bunch of hex. Sometimes it shows IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL and others UNEXPECTED_KMODE_TRAP, but always locks up. I have tried booting up in safe mode and last known good config but still these errors remain. The strange thing is, if I put in a new hard drive and try to do a fresh install of Win2k, I cant even get it to install because it gives the same error message(s). I have tried loading optimized defaults as well as fail safe defaults in the BIOS but that did nothing. I then took out all my add-in cards except for video and that didnt help either. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

My system config:
Epox 8K7a w/ 1.33ghz tbird
256mb corsair ddr
IBM Deskstar 60gb
Visiontek GeForce2MX 32mb
SBLive! X-Gamer, some other stuff

Thanks,
-Anthony

 

[Techwhore]

yeah, this happened to me once too... out of the blue for no reason. The only way to fix it is to use your ERD, i hope u have one.

 

[llew]

Is the error message like the one below? If so, read the page at http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q165/8/63.ASP

Stop: 0x0000000A (parameter1, parameter2, parameter3, parameter4) IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL*** Address <x> has base at <x> - <filename>

 

[frozentax]

Thanks for the replies - the article mentioned is not the same problem however. One more odd thing to mention - I have an old hard drive with a previous install of Win2k, so I took it and put it in my current system as master on ide channel 1 but still get the errors. However, when I place the old hd back on my old system it'll boot fine...

 

[Techwhore]

I don't have much experience with moving hard drives around in 2k, but i'm fairly certain you can't just take the primary disk out of one machine and put it in another. I believe you need to import the disk, but i could be wrong. If i am right, however, and u do need to import the disk, that'd require you to be in 2k 🙁. I'm afraid you need an ERD my friend...