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I'm having random reboot problems. The past two BSODs (I turned off auto-reboot to write these down):
11/6/03-649pm – had 1 IE open, went to open a video link, had option of opening within browser, clicked okay – crashed – 0x0000008E (0xC0000005, 0x80534DE3, 0xECC87B08, 0x00000000) – rebooted, Win Media Player seems to work fine
11/6/03-740pm – had 1 IE open, went to click on another link – crashed:
Win32k.sys PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
*** STOP: 0x00000050 (0xE64087B9, 0x00000000, 0xBF874470, 0x00000002)
*** win32k.sys – Address BF874470 base at BF800000, DateStamp 3f73195dBased on my research into this, I know I'm underpowered regarding my PSU - P4 2.4, 2 80gig HDs, NVidia GeForce 5600, floppy, 2 512 RAM sticks, both a DVDRW and CDRW drive, modem, 4-outlet USB card, plus 2 on motherboard and 2 on side of box for 8 total USB ports, and I've got a 300w PSU. I'm looking into getting that up to 450w ASAP. I've looked and conservatively I'm using 330w of power. My second thought is the RAM. It usually happens when clicking around online, or clicking to do something in a program (hitting "Backup" in Quicken, for instance), many times when clicking around on Windows Media Player, but occasionally just happens. Any thoughts appreciated.
Instead of using memtest86, I downloaded and loaded onto a floppy the memory diagnostic program from Microsoft. Put on a floppy, and let it pass twice. Both passes reported errors in test #4 - Stride6 - Uses a Stride6 pattern to simulate a checkerboard of 1s and 0s. The first pass had 31 failures - all but the last 4 went by too fast to read, but the expected was 00000000 and the actual was 00004000 for those last four that remained on the screen to read. On the second pass, the # of failures was up to 80 (I don't know if that added to the prior 31 and meant I had 49 errors on the second pass or not) - with the same expected 00000000 and the actual 00004000.
Again, thoughts appreciated.
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 Device manager cleanup?
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