STOP Error

[AmpedSilence]

Okay, So i come back from temple on Sunday and my computer is not on; it has hung. Not a big deal restart right? So, I restarted and i get a BSOD right after POST but before the Windows Splash Screen....

STOP 0x0000007E (0xC000005, ....., ....., ......)

i can get into safe mode though. So i do that i schedule a checkdisk next time the computer boots; which preforms and comes up clean (done in safe mode, since the computer still can't get running in regular mode).

I thought that i it might have something to do with the SPTID.sys driver which runs the virtual drive on my computer wasn't playing nice with the new DVD Burner that i installed the thursday before (i thought it was a bit delayed, but still probably), so i disabled the virtual drive service. Then i get another STOP Error 0x0000008E. Looking this up, most people have this to a problem with their RAM. Ran memtest, RAM failed, but i remembred that i have it OC'd so maybe it just not working in the higher speed. Drop the RAM and CPU back to specs and run MemTest; passes fine. So great, one error fixed. But the 0x7E error returns now.

So far this is what i have tried...

1) replaced old DVD Drive
2) reseeded RAM
3) replaced HDD (has windows on it; but just older - same error occurs)

So, now i am out of ideas. I dont have another video card laying around to try it out, but i think i may have to go buy one to test this out.

Other things...

1) I can no longer get into safe mode, same STOP error occurs.
2) I have tried four seperate XP disks in an effort to get into Recovery Concole; most lock up during driver load, always at a random point. This occured with both HHD's tested.

What can you guys suggest? Help please!

TIA

 

[funkbass81]

got dump files? send them to me an i can take a look

 

[AmpedSilence]

is there a way that i can get them without logging into windows? I can't get into safe mode or regular mode anymore. I do have an external HDD adaptor, so if there is a way to located them on the drive i can get them else, i can't

 

[funkbass81]

do you have another machine to hook it into? if you do, slave the drive from the busted machine into the good one, and pull the dumops off the slave drive. another possibility is ram. have you run memtest?

 

[AmpedSilence]

Yeah, passed at rated speeds; failed OC'd by 10%

Okay, let me see if i can get them; where do i find them?

 

[Smilin]

Brief rundown without really being able to see the dumps:

7E's can be driver or hardware. The 0xC0000005 first parameter is an access violation...
some driver was behaving really badly trying to do something it shouldn't or one of the addresses it was working with got a bitflip (cpu hardware error) that caused it to try to do the right thing in the wrong place.

Stop 8e is a kernel mode program that threw an error but had no error handler that knew what to do with it. Again, driver or hardware.

(when we start getting multiple and varying "driver or hardware" types of stop codes it starts stinking more like hardware than driver).

"1) I can no longer get into safe mode, same STOP error occurs." ... you swapped a drive (and therefor OS) around...be you didn't cause yourself a Stop 7B by doing this... verify it's still an 8E or 7E.

"2) I have tried four seperate XP disks in an effort to get into Recovery Concole; most lock up during driver load, always at a random point. This occured with both HHD's tested."

Ok, this alone is conclussive. It also backs up some of the earlier observations: You have a hardware problem, not driver.

If you have been overclocking you may have blown something. CPU, memory controller, memory are all usual suspects. CPU especially.

Run some memory diagnostics. See if you can isolate a bad stick, or a bad memory slot. Otherwise that CPU is looking bad.

Try to *underclock* by a large margin to see if you can boot.

Good luck.