Stop 0x0000008E on Asus A8V

[Kels0]

I'm having the strangest problem with a newly built system. I get that stop error about 10 seconds after logging into a fresh WindowsXP install. No file is referenced on the bluescreen, only additional memory addresses (0xC0000005,0x8060AB13,0xB21F79A0,0x00000000)

Hardware:
-Asus A8v Deluxe
-Athlon 3500+
-ATI x800 pro video
-Promise S150 SX4 RAID controller, with 3 new 200gb Maxtor SATA drives setup as RAID-5 (latest firmware and driver)
-2x512 Corsair TwinXL 3200 sticks.
-Antec trupower 480 PS

Tried the following, with no luck:

-Updated to latest BIOS (including the beta 1.6.006)
-Latest Hyperion drivers are loaded
-4.7 and 4.9 Catalyst drivers tried
-Memtest86 run for 6 hours, no errors
-nothing in event viewer sheds any light
-all startup files stripped from startup folder and registry.
-Changed BIOS settings from "Auto" to manual, and bumped memory voltage to 2.7v.
-dropped CPU voltage to 1.5v
-Changed BIOS from AGP 8x to 4x
-Temp on Asusprobe is in the low 30's C.
-disabled Cool n Quiet and Qfan

It does boot to safe mode, but it has frozen (not bluescreened) in safe mode a couple of times.

What gets me is *when* it happens...I can literally count to 10 before it blows up after logging in. That's gotta be a clue, but I don't know what it's telling me.
(edit: I left it at the login prompt for about 15 min...then when I finally logged it, I got the stop error immediately)

I'm about to strip another system for parts to swap out, but I thought I'd ask here first, since I'm not looking forward to hours of part swapping and OS reinstalling

TIA for any thoughts...

 

[Badut78]

I had similar problems. Also with an Asus board and an Athlon.
I'd be looking at the memory. I think running memtest for 6 hours isn't enough. I've had errors come up after 12 hours.
Also, focus on test #5 and then #8 in memtest. Apparently a lot of Athlon systems have trouble with those tests.


Good luck

 

[imported_frog]

Originally posted by: Badut78
I had similar problems. Also with an Asus board and an Athlon.
I'd be looking at the memory. I think running memtest for 6 hours isn't enough. I've had errors come up after 12 hours.
Also, focus on test #5 and then #8 in memtest. Apparently a lot of Athlon systems have trouble with those tests.
Good luck

Kels0

If you are still having this issue???
I totally agree with Badut78
I messed around with my system for days
same errors during install & bootup(after running memtest86... so I THOUGHT it wasn't the memory) then decided to TRY swapping out memory... everything worked again.

FROG

 

[Kels0]

Yeah, in fact it's gotten worse. I took Badut78's advice, and ran Memtest on it again for 14 hours...still no errors.

So, in a fit of insanity, I booted it into safe mode and installed SP2. Seemed good for a few reboots, then it just refused to boot into XP, telling me I had to run a repair. So, I ran the repair, and it froze while copying files, twice.

At that point, I'm thinking that the Promise RAID-5 controller (see parts list above) is the culprit, so I yanked that, and attached a separate known good drive to the primary ATA133, and tried to do a fresh XP install. This time, the NTFS format got to 100% and froze. Reboot, try a quick format, froze at 20%.

So, it seems to me that I'm down to either the memory, or the A8V. Given that Memtest came up clean, and that this is top notch Corsair RAM, I'm about ready to RMA this board and get an MSI Neo2 Platinum and start over. I don't have any PC3200 RAM to swap in, but I think I'll yank the Corsair pair and try them in a different system. (one currently using Kingston PC2100)

Thanks for replying, I'm still open to any ideas (including C4!)

 

[dclive]

What happens if you don't install ANY third party drivers, and log in?

 

[Kels0]

See my post above....now I can't even get it to format a drive, or run a repair on the existing RAID-5 array.