Win2k problem, Dumping of physical memory???

[MiniThug]

Im running Windows 2000 on my system, specs are below in my rig, and I have a really strange problem. My computer used to restart itself randomly, while I was using it. I searched the forums and found a couple of other users who had the same problem and one person suggested turning off the auto restart feature. I did that and for a while all was great. Now however, my computer just goes to a blue screen and reads "Beginning Dumping of Physical Memory, etc." Anyone ever seen this before? Do you have any idea what may be happening? It seems to happen to me a couple times a day now. Do you think the problem is software based or possibly hardware? Any ideas would be of great help. THanks in advance.

 

[BlakkIce]

are u using sp2 i think i also saw some sp3 fixes ill have to find the website again

 

[Wolfdreamer]

Here's a question do you get the bsod at all when you are not overclocked?

 

[samgau]

Yeah.. thats the first thing to check...
I had several service call here for a compaq P3 550 running Win NT4.0 getting these physical memory dumps... turned out the CPU was a bit loose... so i had to reseat all the components and reset the bios.. after that they were all gone..

 

[AnMig]

consistently get this BSOD memory dump/irq not less equal/ error on my compaq lap top p3 650mhz, only when i use my usb wireless networking kit (warplink). So it most likely a hardware/driver issue with w2k. This kit works in win 98.


Any body wants to buy 2 slightly used usb wireless networking devices? very cheap ($50)

 

[Skoalboy]

Had that same problem here at work, come to find out I had a bad stick of mem
replace it problem solved.

 

[RxL77]

Yup, we had thsi problem at work.. Turns out it the stick of RAM was bad. Dell shipped us a replacement next day and the computer's fine now.

 

[JayZe]

wow, i just had this same problem happen to me a couple hours ago and then a couple times before that. i think the problem was overclocking with me, once i set my bios setting back to normal everything seems to be fine for now... but its only been a couple hours since i changed the settings so who knows?

 

[MiniThug]

The problem has been occuring for some time now, however, I have had my computer overclocked for many months before the problem began. Maybe its a bad stick of ram. That really sucks for me, having 3 sticks in there, now I have to find out which one it is. Anyone else have any ideas?

 

[bigbenv]

I am probably one of the people who's problems came up when you searched. I thought it was ram myself. I was sure of it. But it wasn't. windows 2000 has problems with cd writer. both adaptec versions and roxio versions of it. so that's something you might want to look into first.

the link to my problem is here:
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=27&threadid=472238&highlight_key=y&keyword1=frustrating
if your problem is like mine was (a reboot every 20 minutes or so on a machine with roxio cd writer, i believe specifically the take two part) it might help. good luck, and feel free to ask me any questions.

 

[learningstill]

I had the problem before and I didn't know what was wrong. It happened after I installed the printer driver for Compaq IJ300 on my W2K advanced server desktop. The computer keep dumping physical memory, restart and the process go over and over again. As a result, I formatted my HD and go back to W98.

The second incident happened when I installed a SMC Gigabit adapter on a monster server running dual Xeon 866 processor, 1024 MB of RAM. It dumped physical memory and after the server rebooted by itself, everything turned out to be ok again. I think it was the driver issue.

 

[spanner]

I had that problem, it was an heat issue plus a bad mobo (atleast thats what tech support claims, I though it was my ram but they tested it and claim its fine, my replacement should be in on monday). Blow a desk fan right over the mobo and see if this error occurs any less(if so use a amaller fan to narrow down the problem, thats what i did and my system would stay up for an hour or two longer, but eventually the mobo stopped powering on. I just hope the replacement work without a hitch (should do considering tech support test all replacements). Try a different stick of ram or try a different ram slot.

 

[Conroy9]

it should be either hardware or drivers, as everybody's said , because it's not that easy for a non-driver application to make win2k bluescreen i think..

 

[MiniThug]

Bump

 

[virtuamike]

This BSOD wouldn't have anything to do with portcls.sys would it?

 

[chuckieland]

i have this problem with i run the cybergenies phone system softwaree
i'm pretty sure it's the software, because when i shut down the software, the problem is gone, and phone work fine

 

[virtuamike]

Only reason I ask if it's portcls.sys is because a lot of problems with BSOD are caused by drivers and apps accessing this file. It's a documented bug with Win2K, supposed to have been fixed with SP2 but it's still around.

 

[samgau]

Monday morning, and my boss's machine started memory dumps...right after his mouse right button stops working... he is usin a kvm switch to switch between his 3pc's .. anyway, swaped the mouse, no improvements... finally I bypassed the kvm and hooked both mouse/keyboard to the pc..and voila... all problems were gone.. woohoo

looks like the kvm has gone bad..

ps: he is running Win2000 server

 

[Kwad Guy]

Speaking of random reboots and bad memory...Is there a program
out there that will test/challenge your memory to make
it easy to identify bad memory?

Kwad

 

[samgau]

Dunno...
could try sisoft sandra memory benchmark...

 

[MiniThug]

Okay, over the past day the computer has had this problem and stated these addresses as the ones affected:

ntoskrnl.exe
tcpip.sys
fastfat.sys
nv4_disp.dll

Any ideas?