Please Help! Stop message: 0x00000050 and Stop message: 0x0000008E

I've recently upgraded to a 1TB HDD in my custom built computer and had to reinstall all of the drivers. Most of the parts in my computer are approx. 2 years old and I used the drivers that came with the Asus M2N-E motherboard support CD and the EVGA video card support CD. Everything seemed to go fine until I started stressing the comp with high graphics video games.. I'm a World of Warcraft player For no reason at all it seemed I started getting application errors during use of the game and then most of the time those errors would lead to blue screens. I don't have these problems during typical use of the computer, i.e. using a web browser, playing music, etc.

So, being the low income vide-ette that I am, I set out to try and find the cause of the problem in the endless vastness of google. Well thanks to the "guide to stop error messages" sticky on this thread, I found a page that I think let me know what my problem was. Before I found this site though I had read numerous pages about how to determine what the stop message codes were and how to read them but, of course, nothing that told me explicitly and I'm still not 100% sure and am in need of some advice.

So.. with the aumha.org/a/stop.htm website, I determined that the stop message 0x00000050 usually references defective memory or imcompatible software (i.e. device drivers, right?) and the stop message 0x0000008E usually references hardware compatibility and sometimes driver issues... if I'm understanding the above website correctly. Well I had been using these computer parts for months w/o fault before I reformatted onto the new HDD so I find it hard to believe it's a hardware compatibility issue.. this leads me to believe it's either a video card RAM issue, a main RAM issue or a device driver issue. I'm leaning towards the drivers being either corrupted or out of date and I'm wondering if anyone can tell me if that's a safe assumption.

I'm setting out to update everything and it would also be much appreciated if someone can tell me if there's anything I'm missing (or shouldn't mess with) on this list...

1. nvidia nforce 570 ultra chipset drivers
2. EVGA geforce 8800 GT 512 MB video card driver
3. SoundMax audio driver
4. AMD athlon 64 x2 processor driver
5. I've also made sure I've downloaded all windows updates for win xp 2000 32-bit

I'll update with any changes once I've done this and whether or not the issues continue... if updating the drivers doesn't help, then I'm thinking I have to replace either the video card or the computer RAM.. any opinions on that assumption?

For clarification, what is XP 2000?

0x8E errors are almost always caused by hardware, are a strong indicator of corrupted memory, though sometimes they can be caused by drivers.

We need your minidump files.

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My Computer > C Drive > Windows Folder > Minidump Folder > Minidump Files.

It is these files that we need (not the folder). Attach to your next post the five most recent dumps. Notice the Manage Attachments button at the bottom when you go to post the next time. You can Zip up to five files per Zip; if you only have one or two you don’t need to zip them, just attach as is. Please do us a favor and don’t Zip each one individually.

Windows XP 2000 is the version of windows I'm running, sorry about that.

As for the minidump files, I thought you may need those, I only have 2 at the moment seeing as I only just reformatted last night and have only attempted to run the game that results in blue screens twice since then. I'm going to attempt to attach those, but I don't seem to be able to open them myself as ".dmp files", when I try I get the following message:


Windows cannot open this file:

File: ".dmp file name here"

To open this file, Windows needs to know what program created it. etc.


Hopefully you will be able to read it because I certainly can't
~and ty for the speedy reply