Error Caused by a Device Driver

cpc2004, you the man (or woman... uh oh, go tmyself into a political correctness dilemma )

I got rid of ZonaAlarm and the thing worked like wonders. However, out of curiosity, I recall that it is only in the 5th minidump that there was a ZA driver mentioned. How did you get to the correct conclusion that the four others were caused by the same app?

In any case, thank you so much, now I can sleep :bounce:

got the same problem here

-win xp pro sp2
-mobo gigabyte GA-7N400SL (onboard LAN and sound)
-athlon XP 2000+
-2 x 512MB RAM corsair value
-pixelview GF4 MX 4000 with 7189 driver (no the 6177 driver doesn't support my video card)

I got the same problems since about 2 months ago, my machine crashed after i used it to play games (all range of games, from call of duty, battle of middle earth, to ragnarok online, which shouldn't take too much resources), usually in about an hour or so into the game (but sometimes as early as 5 minutes into the game), sometimes the game just showed me an error message and went back to windows, sometimes the machine just went blank and restarted, and then after the reboot, there is an error message "ur machine has recovered from a serious error" and after i submitted the error to microsoft, there was the "error caused by a device driver". i've searched extensively in microsoft's website and followed their instruction, trying drivers from the oldest to the latest, to no avail.

I've tried to reformat windows a few times now, the last time i only installed the drivers from the mobo's cd and nvidia driver right after i installed windows, and then play some games, and the same error happened.
I've replaced my PSU, tried to use a single stick of RAM, a single stick of borrowed Kingston RAM, and the same error still happened, so i'm pretty sure it's not my RAM or PSU.

I first thought it may be because of overheating (my CPU temperature reached 62 Celcius in the heat of the game), but after i opened the casing and placed a room fan right in front of it, the same error still happened although the temperature was 56 Celcius (my other AMD machine worked fine at 58 - 59 Celcius)

I've turned off the auto restart but haven't got the BSOD yet, and i haven't run memtest because i can't find a diskette (can i run memtest from a CD? and how?). This problem is really getting into my nerve so any help is deeply appreciated.

In event viewer, with every crash there is an error saying :
Event Type: Error
Event Source: System Error
Event Category: (102)
Event ID: 1003
Date: 8/18/2005
Time: 2:02:41 AM
User: N/A
Computer: BIGZ
Description:
Error code 10000050, parameter1 87603858, parameter2 00000000, parameter3 805644ba, parameter4 00000000.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 53 79 73 74 65 6d 20 45 System E
0008: 72 72 6f 72 20 20 45 72 rror Er
0010: 72 6f 72 20 63 6f 64 65 ror code
0018: 20 31 30 30 30 30 30 35 1000005
0020: 30 20 20 50 61 72 61 6d 0 Param
0028: 65 74 65 72 73 20 38 37 eters 87
0030: 36 30 33 38 35 38 2c 20 603858,
0038: 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 00000000
0040: 2c 20 38 30 35 36 34 34 , 805644
0048: 62 61 2c 20 30 30 30 30 ba, 0000
0050: 30 30 30 30 0000

But i noticed with every crash, the error code and the parameter can be different, the other error is:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: System Error
Event Category: (102)
Event ID: 1003
Date: 8/17/2005
Time: 5:44:43 PM
User: N/A
Computer: BIGZ
Description:
Error code 1000000a, parameter1 6f9373d0, parameter2 0000001c, parameter3 00000001, parameter4 806ecaa0.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 53 79 73 74 65 6d 20 45 System E
0008: 72 72 6f 72 20 20 45 72 rror Er
0010: 72 6f 72 20 63 6f 64 65 ror code
0018: 20 31 30 30 30 30 30 30 1000000
0020: 61 20 20 50 61 72 61 6d a Param
0028: 65 74 65 72 73 20 36 66 eters 6f
0030: 39 33 37 33 64 30 2c 20 9373d0,
0038: 30 30 30 30 30 30 31 63 0000001c
0040: 2c 20 30 30 30 30 30 30 , 000000
0048: 30 31 2c 20 38 30 36 65 01, 806e
0050: 63 61 61 30 caa0

oh, i forgot, i've tried to swap my video card with another one from my old machine (which works fine for years now), and the same problem still happened. this machine is about half a year old, but i only used it as internet server before and everything worked well, so i only noticed this problem from maybe 2 months ago after i start to use this machine for gaming.

Hi Okmakus,

If you refer my previous post, this thread does not accept new problem as it has over 12 pages. Open a new post and I will reply to you.

hi cpc! ty for replying!! :bounce: um is there any possible solution in fixing this?will putting the RAM on another slot fix it?

Same problem

Hi,
Ive got exactly the same problem. The only difference is that i was getting blue screens with no messages on them but once ive updated drivers for the realtek 97 audio card, a message appeared on the bs but i didnt manage to read it as my computer has restarted itself. Still it might be a hint.

My hardware config is:

AMD athlon 939 winchester 3000
AN8 Ultra Abit motherboard (1.6 bios)
Geil Ultra 1 gb dual channel ram
Sapphire Radeon x800 video
Realtek Audio 97

And here's some dumps:

If you refer my previous post, this thread does not accept new problem as it has over 12 pages. Open a new post and I will reply to you.

I did open a new one. Ty in advance for your help. (Thread's title: "Error Caused by a Device Driver continued").

Do you have any update of the problem? Your smptom is hardware error.

Hi,

I have the same problem, I quite frequently get BSOD's mostly once or twice a day. When I submit them to microsoft, I get the 'Error Caused By A Device Driver' response. About 75% of the time I get this BSOD while shutting down my computer. It also says that NDIS.sys is causing the problem or something. I have attatched 3 Minidumps that hopefully you could look at for me. I have ran tests on both of my sticks of RAM and they arent faulty.

Thanks,

icedark

Hi icedark,

If you refer my previous post, this thread does not accept new problem as it has over 12 pages. Open a new post and I will reply to you.

cpc

You may reseat the ram to another memory slot. If it still crashes, you have to replace the ram.

what kind of motherboard do you have? Is the RAM compatible with the motherboard? What does the manual say?

I had that problem too. I removed my sound card, installed the drivers, put the sound card back on (it's a usb ine) and no more problems

Bsod Problem

hi iv been facin da same problem since couple of weeks, i cant get thru da problem, wud appreciate if some one cud help me out. I am attaching few minidumps.

Compaq armada E500
800 Mhz
256 MB ram
40 GB
Windows XP SP 2

If you refer my previous post, I will not reply new problem of this thread as it has over 12 pages. If you want to me to hep you, open a new post and I will reply to you.

cpc

I'd throw another 256MB in your computer. You really don't have enough to run well under XP.

Hey same problem with BSOD here. I get the page_in_nonpaged_area thing too.

I have a Dell Demension 2350.
Here are my minidump files.



Ok, nevermind I can't figure out how to attach the files, even after I changed them to .txt files

But here are my events, if anyone knows what they mean.

The event ID is 7023 is that the part you need to know? I couldn't copy and paste the whole thing here.

Many error messages

XP home sp2
AMD Athlon(tm)processor
256MB Ram

Computer BSOD many times in a day, PFN list corrupt, Memory Management, IRQL not less or equal, Device driver attempting to corrupt the system has been caught, Bad pool caller.

Yesterday the screen darkened and the went black. Changed video card from 3d Rage Pro Turbo to SIS 5598/6326 (Old one from past computer) worked for approx 1 hour then same symptons...BSOD and loss of screen.

Attached last 5 mini dumps, please help a damsel in distress!