Hi there.
My PC is more than 3 years old and it never gave me much problem. A month ago I started experiencing random application crashes to desktop and BSODs while using Windows XP Home. Most of the BSODs were the infamous PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA, IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL and DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, but I also found some
KERNEL_MODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED, some SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED and even a MULTIPLE_IRP_COMPLETE_REQUESTS. Since most of the crashes happened while I was playing games, I first blamed my video card. I updated its driver (Omega 5.10) but nothing changed. Crashes, BSODs, crashed, BSODs. Then I tried almost everything: I updates every driver on my system, I checked my RAM with MemTest86 (for 9 hours!), I made a surface scan of my hard disks, I ran every diagnostic and benchmarking tool existing on Earth, I removed components which could have caused problems (like a very old CD-ROM player), I even reinstalled Windows. Nothing. Always games crashing to desktop, always BSODs in the most unpredictable circumstances (even while I was writing this post). I made some (very) rough analysis through WinDbg and I tried to narrow my search for the cause of the instability to:
- faulty video card
- faulty mobo
- faulty RAM (strange, since MemTest didn't show any error, but possible)
I've attached some minidumps so (hopefully!) some of you can have a look at them and help me solving this situation.
My configuration:
Athlon XP 1900
80GB Hitachi HD (primary)
160GB Seagate HD (secondary)
1GB PC2100 RAM (2x512MB)
Ati Radeon 8500
Terratec SixPack 5.1+ audio card
Epox EP-8KHA+ motherboard (VIA KT266A chipset)
Sony DRU-700A DVD recorder
Thanks in advance!
My PC is more than 3 years old and it never gave me much problem. A month ago I started experiencing random application crashes to desktop and BSODs while using Windows XP Home. Most of the BSODs were the infamous PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA, IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL and DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, but I also found some
KERNEL_MODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED, some SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED and even a MULTIPLE_IRP_COMPLETE_REQUESTS. Since most of the crashes happened while I was playing games, I first blamed my video card. I updated its driver (Omega 5.10) but nothing changed. Crashes, BSODs, crashed, BSODs. Then I tried almost everything: I updates every driver on my system, I checked my RAM with MemTest86 (for 9 hours!), I made a surface scan of my hard disks, I ran every diagnostic and benchmarking tool existing on Earth, I removed components which could have caused problems (like a very old CD-ROM player), I even reinstalled Windows. Nothing. Always games crashing to desktop, always BSODs in the most unpredictable circumstances (even while I was writing this post). I made some (very) rough analysis through WinDbg and I tried to narrow my search for the cause of the instability to:
- faulty video card
- faulty mobo
- faulty RAM (strange, since MemTest didn't show any error, but possible)
I've attached some minidumps so (hopefully!) some of you can have a look at them and help me solving this situation.
My configuration:
Athlon XP 1900
80GB Hitachi HD (primary)
160GB Seagate HD (secondary)
1GB PC2100 RAM (2x512MB)
Ati Radeon 8500
Terratec SixPack 5.1+ audio card
Epox EP-8KHA+ motherboard (VIA KT266A chipset)
Sony DRU-700A DVD recorder
Thanks in advance!