Re: BSOD on cold boots only
- From: "Rich Barry" <rbarry@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 11:48:06 -0800
Have you tried removing the Graphic Card and Ram physically and reseat.
Disconnect the PSU Connector from the Motherboard. The 8K7A is 2001-2
Vintage. I am sure it's a
hardware problem. My 8K3A finally died on me last week.
"deadpongpunk" <deadpongpunk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:9EFA9AE7-1A52-40DD-BB42-BDFDB23256EE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I am very much a novice with respect to debugging computers, but hopefully
someone can help me anyway. Here's my problem.
I have a custom built computer that is running Windows XP, SP3. However,
it
is worth noting that this problem began when I was running SP2. Here are
some
details about my computer:
Windows XP, SP3
AMD Athlon(tm) K7 chipset
Motherboard: Epox EP-8K7A
BIOS Name: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
BIOS Vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
SMBIOS Version 6.00 PG date 3/4/2002
Additional BIOS info: 4.34.20.69.00
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500
Graphics card Driver version: 6.14.11.7519
Now here is my problem. Nearly a year ago, my computer started crashing
during a cold boot (I'd get a BSOD error). Then I would try to boot the
computer up again, and it would boot into Windows, without a problem. Then
if
I rebooted my computer from Windows, it would reboot without a problem. In
other words, I only experience this problem when I boot up the computer
after
it had been sitting for a while shut off (a cold boot).
Initially, the computer would only give me a BSOD once during a cold boot
and on the second boot attempt, go right into Windows without a problem.
Over
time, it has increased to 6 or 7 boot attempts before it goes into
Windows.
The BSOD has given me various error messages. Some of them are below:
1). PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA (the most common error message)
2). STOP: c000021a
3). STOP: 0x0000007E (0xC0000005, 0xF86BBDCE, 0xF8B6DAC8, 0xF8B6D7C4)
ACPI.SYS - Address F86BBDCE base at F86A7000, date stamp 480252b1
4). STOP: 0x0000008E (0xc0000005, 0x8056243B, 0xF5CBDBB8, 0x00000000)
5). MULTIPLE_IRP_COMPLETE_REQUESTS
Also, many times the BSOD error message mentioned one of my NVIDIA
graphics
drivers as the problem. Other times it implicated the ACPI.SYS driver as
the
cause of the problem.
Regardless though, once it gets into Windows and I logon, I have no
problems
and my computer runs very well for hours at a time, until I shut it down
at
night.
I have downloaded and run as many diagnostic tools as I could find on the
Internet (registry cleaners, old driver removers, temporary file removers,
spyware/malware removers, etc.) and nothing has helped. I used Driver
Sweeper
to remove all the old NVIDIA graphics drivers and then updated to the most
up
to date driver using Safe Mode with Networking. I had seen that in a post
mentioned to someone else as a problem. It did not resolve the problem. I
also replaced the ACPI.sys driver using my XP CD in recovery mode. That
did
not resolve the problem either.
I am at my wits end here. I really want to fix this computer, but I've
tried
everthing I can think of and nothing has worked.
I am looking for as much input as I can get, and I am open to the
possibility that I either have to reformat the entire hard drive, or buy a
new computer. It would just really be a great ego booster if I could find
out
what is wrong and fix it.
Thanks!
.
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