BSOD STOP 0x000000F4

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From: soccertl (soccertl_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/10/04 

Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 22:29:38 -0700

After installing SP2, I have received quite a few BSODs. I get them about 1
to 5 times or more a day. I have no idea what is causing them. I NEVER had
one the entire time I have had XP on this machine, which has been a few years
now. Since SP2, I get them all the time. I never changed any hardware. The
only thing I noticed is the hard drive starts going wacky before it occurs,
like it is locating from the first track to the last a few times, and
sometimes it won't recognize the drive on the reboot after the failure. I
then put in the XP boot disk and back out after the first disk boots. This
seems to fix the boot problem for some reason.

Not knowing what the problem was, I thought maybe the hard drive or MB
circuitry was going bad, so I changed the motherboard/processor and repaired
the XP installation. I then installed SP2 again. The problem went away for a
couple days but now it is back again. I am not so sure now that the hard
drive is the problem.

Here is the latest BSOD information:

A process or thread crucial to system operation has unexpectedly exited or
been terminated.

BLAH, BLAH, BLAH

STOP: 0x000000F4 (0x00000003, 0x81FF7708, 0x81FF787C, 0x805FA7A8)

The BSOD is not always the same. Here is another I received:

kernel_data_inpage_error

STOP: 0x0000007A (0xC0384DD0, 0xC000000E, 0xE13741D8, 0x1368F880)

Am I barking up the wrong tree that this could be a hard drive problem? It
seems more like a software thing, but I am no good at decipering XP
exceptions. Thanks for any help.

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