OT - Stop 0xA on shutdown

teriba

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Specs first:
Processor: AMD Athlon XP 1600+ (@1800+)
Motherboard: Shuttle AK31 v3.1 (VIA Apollo KT266A)
Memory: 256MB Micron PC2100 DDR RAM
Video Card: ATI Radeon 64MB DDR VIVO
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy MP3+
Main Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda ATAIV 40GB 7200rpm
Second Hard Drive: Quantum Bigfoot 8GB 5400rpm
CD-RW: LG 16x/10x/40x w/Burnproof
DVD-ROM: Sony 16x/40x
Case: Antec SX-1030B SOHO Server
Monitor: NEC MultiSync XV17+
Keyboard: Microsoft Natural Pro
Mouse: Microsoft Wireless Intellimouse Explorer
OS: Microsoft Windows XP Home

I was having trouble shutting down my computer, it always reboots instead of shutting down. I found a site which recommended first stopping your computer from restarting on stop errors. I did this and now I realized that I have a stop error whenever I shut down or reboot. I just didn't notice it before because it would just reboot instead of showing it to me.

Stop 0xA (0x2D4, 0xFF, 0x0, 0x804E9D48)

That's the error that I get. I read some of the fixes on Microsoft's site and it recommended turning off Caching and Shadowing in your BIOS, neither of which helped. It has been doing this ever since I got it so I don't know what the problem is. I am pretty sure everything except for the DVD player is on the HCL, but that was just installed recently and this has been happening since I got the computer. Any ideas?
 

paf077

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Check on via's site , I think they released a fix for the chips, not sure about what errors though , but it's listed on their site.

I have a 1600+ and Epox 8KHA+ kt266a and never had a problem. So i never looked for possible causes, I just do all the updates
for my hardware regularly.

Does the cpu temp stay under 65C? If it run very hot , could cause a shutdown error as well.

You say it's o/c'ed to 1800, not just on fsb i hope? Mine at 1800 unlocked, 12x150fsb 512mb crucial pc2100.

But i have it water cooled, cpu stays a 31-32C full load with just one case fan.
What's your hsf?
 

Maggotry

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It would be a pain, but if you think it's a piece of hardware, unplug one at a time until it stops. I see you have 4 IDE devices. That would be easy to unplug one of these at a time. Try manually closing everything running before doing the shutdown. Maybe a piece of software is causing it.
 

paf077

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What Maggotry said!
also most of the time the main culprit is the video card or ram.

Try unplugging the system, reseat ram and vid card, reset bios to default and try it that way, if everythingis ok then you can readjust the bios.