Windows 2000 BSOD (I really need some help here guys)

[Moz]

Ok, well you can see the components in my rig from the link below. I have been running it for about 2 months without any trouble with Windows 2000 Pro.
Today after rebooting it, it first said it needed to check D: (my storage drive - fat32) for consistency, which completes with no errors and then I get the following Blue Screen Error.

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KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED

Address 8050604E base at 80400000 Datestamp 39760637 - ntoskrnl.exe

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Now I have tried the following:

* Booting in Safe Mode - same blue screen error (with and without network support, command prompt etc)

* Removed all my USB devices etc, and booted - same problem

* I upgraded to the 1006 Final Bios a couple of weeks back on my ASUS CUSL2-C and so since I had the original bios backed up I re-flashed to 1003 (which came with the board), this completed successfully - again same blue screen error.

I really am scratching my head as to what this problem is, is it that my C: drive (IBM 22GXP) is dead? With all this work I have to get done this is not a good time for my system to go belly up. I am thinking of booting with the Win2k Startup disks and doing a repair on it... other than that I have no ideas. I would really appreciate any help please.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Moz]

A bump for great justice... only because I am in a bit of a fix here.

 

[John]

I used to get that msg. when I overclocked the CPU too much.

 

[Moz]

The CPU is not overclocked, all BIOS settings are at default. I'm gonna go home and try the restore option, hopefully that should fix it.

 

[tracerbullet]

Wondered if you fixed it. I was getting this too for a while - the "check...consistency", BSOD's with the same error, etc. Supposed to mean just that - a bad hard drive, or a part of it, or possibly controllers for it (SCSI drivers, etc.).

I wasn' very far into setting up my new system (dual '98 and 2000) and gave up - repartitioned, reformatted, scandisk, etc. Sure enough, there were some disk problems. Sectioned them off and have only (last night) recently put back on '98. Will be installing 2000 this weekend.

If you fixed it - please post back how. If you haven't fixed it, I'd recommend some very serious hard drive utility usage to see if you can see a problem - I did.

 

[potz]

did u install any adaptec stuff? search in the microsoft knowledge base for "KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED" it shows some adaptec stuff that can cause bsod

 

[Kermit]

Right now I'm getting this error occasionally, and it started right after I got a new processor (Intel 1 GHz) and kept the BX mainboard- tight now my PCI bus is running at 44 MHz and this, I think, is the reason. I get the error right as I boot into W2K, and second booting is generally OK. As a workaround, I hibernate instead of just shutting down the computer and this seems to help. I agree that the hard disk controller is the most likely cause