Pc Constantly Crashes , BSOD

You need to go into your motherboard BIOS and make your optical drive your first boot device. The ISO creates a bootable CD, so you don't have to worry about that.

Hm I have a problem there, My BIOS has a password, nooooo idea what so ever as to what that password could be, is there ways to reset the bios password ?

Maybe taking the battery out of the motherboard for a short period of time ?

Yes, taking the cmos battery out for a few minutes, should clear the bios password.

Regards Howard

then I'll get right on that

Ty

I'll get back as soon as I can with the results =]

I don't know if Jacksonp06 has a boot sequence option on boot up. Many newer motherboards do. I forgot about the Memtest86 ISO being bootable. I still use the floppy method

I got it

I took out my 512 card and scooted my 1 gig over into th primary slot, i ran 3 passes didn't find an error gonna run my 512 card and see how that comes up.

Good going,
try running at least 7 passes and see what happens. Memtest isn't 100% reliable but it's the best we have right now

well I had a problem, I stuck in the 512, hooked the power back up, powered on just getting a long beep from the computer and it doesn't boot.

Scooted it over and still the same result =/

Are you talking about the same 512MB stick or the other 512MB stick?

Looks like a dead ram stick then.

Regards Howard

well i have a 1 gig and a 512 in , right now i just have my 1 gig in , but it just crashed by itself a little while ago.

You really need to run memtest on the 1gig stick for at least seven passes.

You might also try moving it to another dimm slot, just in case it`s a faulty dimm.

Regards Howard

alright


I'll do 7 passes

Well It had completed 8 by the time I'd gotten home, found no errors.

Did get a crash while I was restarting though


MULTIPLE_IRP_COMPLETE_REQUESTS

Stop:0x00000044 (0x86640f40, 0x00001BBF, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)




Oh I'll go ahead and move it over to the other dimm while I'm at it

MULTIPLE_IRP_COMPLETE_REQUESTS

Stop:0x00000044

Is normally caused by a driver.

See HERE.

Regards Howard

Hmm , first time I've encountered that problem.

Not Exactly sure what I should be doing now?

You should be trying to update you drivers, or at least reinstalling updated drivers. I'd start with your chipset drivers. I'd install all your chipset drivers with the original manufacturers version. What I mean by that is if you have a Gigabyte motherboard based on an Intel chipset I'd install Intel's version of the drivers. The only exception I'd make would be for the IDE ATA/ATAPI drivers. I would make sure that the IDE driver was provided by Microsoft. Then I'd reinstall DirectX 9 or 10 whichever you need. Windows XP uses DirectX9 while Windows Vista uses DirectX10. I would then install my video card and sound card driver from the original chip manufacture.

I'll figure all that out and get back to you. Thank You

would a site like www.driveragent.com be a good site to get a membership too to help keep drivers up to date ?

I guess I didn't update all my drivers, online scans are finding quite a few that out of date.

Personally, I think you`re better of getting the updated drivers from the original manufacturers website. At least that way, you know they are from a bonafide source.

Regards Howard