Hi!
Troubles began after I installed an old game on my machine : Black and White. I installed the game, then the patch v1.3. After that (half an hour later) I had a BSOD. Since the CPU was overclocked, I thought it might be a sign of instability (the machine was stable 24 hours under prime though, but you never know...).
OK, I come back to more "classic" speeds, and after some minutes BSOD again. So I reboot, uninstall B&W. Boot, playing a few games, all seems fine. I leave the computer like that;when I come back later new BSOD. Annoyed, I read the error message this time : 0x00000024. MS support says "ntfs.sys corrupted, run chkdsk /F". So I do it, and boot again. Once again all seems fine until a new BSOD : 0x00000050 this time. I google on it, find out I could be victim of a root kit spyware, check the machine, but it seems clean. I tried a system restore to a previous day, but it doesn't help.
Now the funny part : I decide to run a windows repair from the Win XP Pro CD. the repair starts, and....BSOD! this time the code is 0x000000FC (ATTEMPTED_EXECUTE_OF_NOEXECUTE_MEMORY). I restart the machine, the setup starts again..and fail again, same point (34 minutes remaining) and same BSOD message. third attempt : same thing. I tried to start in safe mode, but it comes back to the setup.
I wanted to run a disk utility on my Samsung, but I must find one that boots from a CD (I throwed away my floppy a long time ago).
I ran memtest over night (10 hours), memory seems OK.
0xFC is related to mpegport.sys file according to MS, but:
- I've been running XP SP2 for months with A64 CPU.
- I can't get into windows anyway. I fear I'll have to install a new windows on my drive if I want to get it back to life.
Does anybody know why I get this error, and how to get rid of it?
Thanks for your help,
Abend Asra
Troubles began after I installed an old game on my machine : Black and White. I installed the game, then the patch v1.3. After that (half an hour later) I had a BSOD. Since the CPU was overclocked, I thought it might be a sign of instability (the machine was stable 24 hours under prime though, but you never know...).
OK, I come back to more "classic" speeds, and after some minutes BSOD again. So I reboot, uninstall B&W. Boot, playing a few games, all seems fine. I leave the computer like that;when I come back later new BSOD. Annoyed, I read the error message this time : 0x00000024. MS support says "ntfs.sys corrupted, run chkdsk /F". So I do it, and boot again. Once again all seems fine until a new BSOD : 0x00000050 this time. I google on it, find out I could be victim of a root kit spyware, check the machine, but it seems clean. I tried a system restore to a previous day, but it doesn't help.
Now the funny part : I decide to run a windows repair from the Win XP Pro CD. the repair starts, and....BSOD! this time the code is 0x000000FC (ATTEMPTED_EXECUTE_OF_NOEXECUTE_MEMORY). I restart the machine, the setup starts again..and fail again, same point (34 minutes remaining) and same BSOD message. third attempt : same thing. I tried to start in safe mode, but it comes back to the setup.
I wanted to run a disk utility on my Samsung, but I must find one that boots from a CD (I throwed away my floppy a long time ago).
I ran memtest over night (10 hours), memory seems OK.
0xFC is related to mpegport.sys file according to MS, but:
- I've been running XP SP2 for months with A64 CPU.
- I can't get into windows anyway. I fear I'll have to install a new windows on my drive if I want to get it back to life.
Does anybody know why I get this error, and how to get rid of it?
Thanks for your help,
Abend Asra