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Title: BSOD
Post by: TR on March 14, 2004, 20:27

Just had my 1st BSOD  :'( on this puter, tonight I was working with Paint and that died and now this shows up, is this a coincidence or is my Hard drive on its way out?

Title: Re:BSOD
Post by: Sandra on March 14, 2004, 20:52

Funnily enough I got one today about 30 mins ago.
Think its just an XP thing, have you got automatically restart unticked in system properties/advanced/startup and recovery, after system failure  ?

Title: Re:BSOD
Post by: Simon on March 14, 2004, 21:11

Isn't that what a famous blonde has been struggling with for weeks?   ::) :o ;D  I haven't had one of those yet, but just recently, I have been getting a lot of Scan Discs at start up.

Title: Re:BSOD
Post by: TR on March 14, 2004, 22:27

Should I be worried though? or is it just one of those things.

And it was within 10 mins of my paint crashing  :-\ should I try a repair or do a system restore and if I do a repair can anybody remember which disc its on (forgotten) its my age you know  ;D


Edit: another age thingy. Sandra, yes I have looked and all the boxes are ticked.

Title: Re:BSOD
Post by: Sandra on March 14, 2004, 23:20

Untick the last one Hooky, XP tends to restart after a minor hiccup so if you untick it it should help to stop it from doing that.
I wouldnt bother doing a reinstall or a repair or anything else unless it happens again  :)

Title: Re:BSOD
Post by: TR on March 14, 2004, 23:29

Ok unticked the last one, but my paint still wont work. wondering which disc its on, is it office 2000 or is it on XP Home  :-\

Title: Re:BSOD
Post by: Sandra on March 14, 2004, 23:38

Microsoft Paint will be on the XP home one Hooky, nothing to do with office.
Have you not got Paint Shop Pro  ???

Title: Re:BSOD
Post by: TR on March 14, 2004, 23:50

Yes I have Paintshop pro Sandra but I'm a bit loathe to put it on while I'm having these probs  ???

Title: Re:BSOD
Post by: Lona on March 14, 2004, 23:59

Told you XP was rubbish  :wahh: :wahh: :wahh: :wahh:

Title: Re:BSOD
Post by: Tony on March 15, 2004, 00:18

Never suffered a BSOD in 18 months of using W2K, but even XP with the odd BSOD is light years in front of ME   ;D

Title: Re:BSOD
Post by: TR on March 15, 2004, 12:33

If its ME or XP or 2000 I still have the problem  ???

Title: Re:BSOD
Post by: Adept on March 15, 2004, 12:41

This MS Knowlegdebase article (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314063&Product=winxp) may help :-\

AFAIK these errors are usually caused by rogue drivers. Have you installed any new drivers recently Hook?

Title: Re:BSOD
Post by: ketamininja on March 15, 2004, 15:15

0x0000000A: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314063


Most probably a driver issue, yes.
Believe it or not, the SUNs RADIATION can actually cause data in memory to change from a 0 to 1 or vice versa... its possible that it is a one off situation, which does happen!!

Thats the reason servers use what is known as ECC memory, coz this wont happen with that!

Title: Re:BSOD
Post by: Serenity on March 15, 2004, 16:04

Quote from: Simon on March 14, 2004, 21:11

Isn't that what a famous blonde has been struggling with for weeks?  

Yes Simon I Have struggled with this problem and continue to do so  ::)  I have at least 1-2 BSOD appear every time i turn the PC on  :'( and nobody seems to be able to resolve the problem.

Title: Re:BSOD
Post by: ketamininja on March 15, 2004, 17:11

Since it is happening that often, start the PC up in SAFE MODE a quite a few times... you will have limited functionality, but try to leave it like that and use it to generate a BSOD.

If you can't get the BSOD, then its DEFINITELY a driver that is causing the issue.

you can go to RUN then type in MSCONFIG. Then hit the STARTUP tab. Have a look through here for suspicious items.... or even better, if you hit the GENRAL TAB, and select "SELECTIVE STARTUP" and untick "LOAD STARTUP ITEMS".

Now start using your PC in normal mode -  again your functionality will be limited, but you can then see if it crashes.

If it doesn't crash (hopefully) go to that STARTUP tab again, and add ONE item. Reboot, and try again. Keep repeating this process until you crash out... The last item you ticked before the crash is your culprit!


HTH

Title: Re:BSOD
Post by: TR on March 15, 2004, 17:18

Quote from: Adept on March 15, 2004, 12:41

This MS Knowlegdebase article (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314063&Product=winxp) may help :-\

AFAIK these errors are usually caused by rogue drivers. Have you installed any new drivers recently Hook?

Adept, The only things that have been installed recently are; Autocad and as I posted last week sometime, I lost my HP scanner and had to reinstall that but I am having problems with MSPaint at the moment  :-\

Title: Re:BSOD
Post by: TR on March 15, 2004, 17:44

Have done a system restore and got me MSPaint back, so will have to wait now to see if I have any more probs  :)

Title: Re:BSOD
Post by: Serenity on March 15, 2004, 18:09

Thanks for the advice Ket  :-*

I will try that out  :)