Shuttle XPC BSOD

[vpik01]

System specs:

Shuttle XPC SK22G2B AMD Socket AM2 barebone
AMD Sempron 64 3000+
2 gig Kingston PC2 5300
Sapphire Radeon x1300 pci-express
Hitachi 160gig hdd
Hauppauge PVR 150 TV Card

Windows Vista 32bit Home Premium

Situation:

I built and loaded the OS a week ago and have been running with no problems until tonight. The only thing I changed was plugging it into a UPS and a different coax cable for the TV card. Suddenly it froze in an attempt to reboot, then started BSOD. I've attempted to boot into the repair function of the Vista Cd but it BSOD's or just freezes. The error code I am getting at the BSOD is:

*** STOP: 0x0000008E (0x859E1Fe6, 0x85A5D684, 0x00000000)

*** fltmgr.sys - Address 859E1FE6 base at 859CF000, DateStamp 4549acc2

I've uninstalled the pci-express card and TV-card and attempted to reboot/load into the vista repair function, i've reset the bios to system default. The vid card did seem hot when I pulled it out but I don't have any actual temp readings to pass on to you.

After letting the pc sit for about 30 min I was able to boot into the Win Vista repair function of the DVD. After about 15 min of attempting to self-repair I got a failure with the following error code:

Root cause found:
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Unknown Bugcheck: Bugcheck a. Parameters = 0x80000, 0x2, 0x1, 0x8 1ba4e89.

Repair action: System files integrity check and repair
Result: Failed. Error code = 0x2
Time taken = 410060 ms

The next 'step' in the repair process gave me several choices, system restore from a restore point, complete refresh, mem system test and one other I didn't catch. When I tried to the the mem test it failed and rebooted...

Well - a very frustrating evening. Hope someone out there has a great idea!

 

[vpik01]

I completed the mem diagnostic test using the vista repair dvd, no errors reported. Then I acessed the c:/ using the same repair function and ran CHKDSK /F and returned no errors as well.

 

[vpik01]

Several more abortive attempts at installing vista later I finally tried to install WinXP w/SP2... multiple failures and in the end I gave up after about 2 more hours. Going to contact newegg about RMA - I just don't know whether to just do the shuttle xpc or send back the RAM, processor and etc as well...

 

[jameswhite1979]

its a bit out there but I had odd problems with an XPC once and it was resolved with a firmware upgrade for the BIOS might be worth a quick go before you send back.

 

[vpik01]

Thanks for the suggestion - can you do that from a USB drive? mine doesn't have a floppy though I suppose I could do a bootable CD... XPC support has gotten back to me saying it seems like a memory thing so I'm trying again with some borrowed RAM, we'll see how that works.