Re: Continuous beeping and Machine_check_exception STOP:A 0X0000009C
- From: Paul <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 02:39:44 -0400
Terry wrote:
I installed a new cpu in my amd athlon socket 939 computer that runs xp home edition. The old chip was a amd 3200+ and the new chip is a 4400 64x2. When I couldn't get the ram to work in slots 1 and 2 due to continuous beeping, I moved to slots 3 & 4. Everything works now but I am getting the blue screen of death a couple of time a day. The error code is as follows: Machine_check_exception STOP:A 0X0000009C (0X00000004,0X8054e5f0f,0XB2000000,0X00070F0F). The event viewer shows no errors in security, system, or internet explorer, but does show 2 identical errors in application, both occuring at the same time and as follows: crypt32 event 8.Source: Crypt32. This is further identified as follows: Failed auto update retrieval of third-party root list sequence number from: http//www.download.windowsupdate.dom/msdownload/update/v3/static/trustedr/en/authrootseq.txt> with error: This specified server cannot perform the requested operation. No further info is available by going to the web site. I tried to do a windows xp repair but I can't get the system to boot from anything but the hard drive. I have tried resetting the bios and hitting f12 while booting. (this gives me the boot selection screen but I lock up and can't change anything.) I have tried to reset the COMOS and I have flashed the bios but nothing seems to help. After trying two different sets of 512 memory in slots 1 & 2, both of which caused the beeping, I just tried putting 2 256 ram sticks into slots 1 and 2 and they work. DANG! Do I need to go buy an Apple?
Could you give the motherboard make and exact model number ?
Or, if this is a Dell/HP/Acer/Gateway, the complete make and model of the computer ?
Also, the processors have "steppings", and 4400+ may not be a sufficient
identifier of the exact processor. These are two examples I can find,
and these are virtually identical (save for power consumed).
AMD Athlon X2 Dual-Core 4400+ E6 (110 watts)
http://products.amd.com/en-us/DesktopCPUDetail.aspx?id=69
AMD Athlon X2 Dual-Core 4400+ E6 (89 watts)
http://products.amd.com/en-us/DesktopCPUDetail.aspx?id=70
In this example for an Asus motherboard (A8N32-SLI Deluxe), two different
BIOS releases are the minimum versions to run the two example processors.
Any BIOS later than 0703, would handle either of them.
http://support.asus.com.tw/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&model=A8N32-SLI%20Deluxe
Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 4400+ revE6(110W Socket939) ALL 0703
Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 4400+ revE6(89W Socket939) ALL 0502
Before purchasing the new processor, did you check what processors the
BIOS supports ? Some motherboards and their BIOS, add support as time
goes by, for newer processors. But in some cases, while the socket
may be compatible, the processor still won't work. (Some companies
making S754 boards, for example, didn't add support for the last
processors AMD introduced for that socket. Too lazy...)
Before installing or using any high level OS, you should test the computer
for integrity with things like memtest86+ from memtest.org . That does
a basic test, that the memory is stable. You should not boot another OS
(at least on a hard drive, where the data can be corrupted), until
the memory is error free.
A second test for a computer which has had a major modification, is
to boot a Linux LiveCD, such as Knoppix or Ubuntu, then run a copy
of Prime95 from mersenne.org . That is a combined CPU and memory
tester, and is a more stressful test than memtest86+ is. The Linux
LiveCD cannot be corrupted, since it is read only. A LiveCD does
not need to be installed on the hard disk. For example, I boot
my Knoppix CD all the time, for maintenance purposes, and by
default, it runs all the disk mounts read-only. You have to
make an extra effort, if you need to write to a disk. So testing
with such an environment, is a more benign way, than booting
Windows only to discover your install is corrupted by your
new hardware. The working directory in that environment (where
you might download the mersenne.org test program), is a ramdisk.
Since the processor is rather old by modern standards, it
could have been abused by a previous owner. There are things
like "electromigration", where a processor, if overclocked and
overvolted, can no longer even run properly at stock speed. At
least one guy on an enthusiast site, had no qualms about
selling his damaged processors, to people on Ebay.
You should return to a "known baseline system". Put your old
processor back in the system, the old working RAM, and retest.
Is the system stable ? Does it act goofy ? Does the problem
continue to dog the system, when the new 4400+ dual is installed ?
Paul
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