Vista Lot of stop errors

[tornadog]

I have been running Vista Ultimate 32 bit happily for thelast 3 months. Last 2 days, I have been getting frequent bluescreen stop errors. I dont think I upgraded anything other than install googletalk IM app and the Windows Update. Windows update had an optional update for the 8800GTS Which failed. The stop errors are different each time. The bccodes are d1, c5, 100008e, a, etc. My pc wont stay on for more than 15 minutes.

Heres my specs:

AMD Opteron 165 o/ced to 250 x9 = 2250 MHz
2 GB PAtriot DDR PC3200 Ram running at 400Mhz
8800 GTS 320 MB Video
Creative Audigy 1 Sound

We were also having intermittent internet problems, with my USB adapter not able to find the wireless network. When I pulled it out and plugged it in, it said the usb port was not fast enough even though it was 2.0. One of the stop errors also said USBPort.sys something.

Another potential source is my primary IDE drive which is a Maxtor 80GB that is 5 years old. Dont know if its reaching the end of its lifecycle.

Can any of you experts tell what my next step sshould be. I was thinking of removing the IDE drive, installing XP Pro on the remaining SATA drive and trying it out for a while.

 

[loup garou]

Windows updat ehad an optional update for the 800GTS Which failed

Most likely your culprit. System restore to restore point before update. If system won't stay up to do this (even in safe mode), boot off Vista DVD and use system restore from there (repair your computer>system restore)

Make sure no more blue screens, install other updates, don't try install that one again.

I would also roll your system back to stock speeds to see if your other problems cease.

 

[tornadog]

is that the only option. I just saw that I had disabled System Restore to speed up performance.

 

[Cutthroat]

Disabling system restore does not increase the performance of Vista, and as you now see, it can be useful.

Uninstall your Nvidia drivers from the add/remove programs list. Then boot into safe mode upon reboot and run Guru3d's Driver Sweeper. Reboot normally and install the latest Vista32 drivers from Guru3D.

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: tornadog
is that the only option. I just saw that I had disabled System Restore to speed up performance.

Silly, just silly.

 

[XZeroII]

Blue screens typically mean a driver or hardware problem. Not always, but usually. Start by looking at your drivers (maybe reinstall Windows) and if it continues then start checking your RAM and other hardware. There are actually tools out there that will analyze that blue screen dump and tell you exactly what caused it, but I'm not sure what it was anymore.

 

[stash]

maybe reinstall Windows

This is very rarely the answer to Windows problems.

There are actually tools out there that will analyze that blue screen dump and tell you exactly what caused it, but I'm not sure what it was anymore.

The debugging tools for Windows are what you use to analyze memory dumps. Tools like Process Explorer and Process Monitor are great for debugging problems as well. You can get the debugging tools here: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/...debugging/default.mspx and procexp and procmon here: http://www.microsoft.com/techn...internals/default.mspx

 

[Hurricane Andrew]

Originally posted by: bsobel

Originally posted by: tornadog
is that the only option. I just saw that I had disabled System Restore to speed up performance.

Silly, just silly.

Depends on how you handle it. I've always disabled System Restore on each build since XP. I much prefer a nice, clean partition image prior to Patch Tuesday, and any significant upgrade. Store your data on a different partition, (or better yet a server) and even if you hose the OS, and have to go back 30 days, it's no big deal. Creating a partition image with an Acronis True Image boot disk, or good a trusty old bootable CD with the DOS version of Ghost takes only minutes, and is a wonderful, solid, reliable backup.

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: Hurricane Andrew

Originally posted by: bsobel

Originally posted by: tornadog
is that the only option. I just saw that I had disabled System Restore to speed up performance.

Silly, just silly.

Depends on how you handle it. I've always disabled System Restore on each build since XP. I much prefer a nice, clean partition image prior to Patch Tuesday, and any significant upgrade. Store your data on a different partition, (or better yet a server) and even if you hose the OS, and have to go back 30 days, it's no big deal. Creating a partition image with an Acronis True Image boot disk, or good a trusty old bootable CD with the DOS version of Ghost takes only minutes, and is a wonderful, solid, reliable backup.

No silly 🙂 If he was doing what you did, he'd have the equiv image to restore to. In this case he doesnt making repair that much more difficult.

 

[tornadog]

Reinstalled Windows and errors started right away. It looks like my trendnet wifi USB Adapter, because some of the errors had USBPort on the blue screen. Also whenever I plugged the adapter into any USB port, it would say "this device can perform faster if plugged into a hispeed usb 2.0 prt" even though I was plugging it into one. I exchanged the adapter for the netgear adapter on my wife's pc. I also removed the old IDE drive and installed vista to a partition on my new SATA drive. So far it has been running fine. I have installed all the apps I had before.