Hey guys;

I was playing NHL 2005 and in the middle computer halted and blue screen error popped up. It said the computer needs to be turned off to prevent further damage to the computer.
The error was following:
***STOP: 0X00000008E(0XC0000090, 0X004B4BD8, 0XEE25885C, 0X00000000)

Beginning dump of physical memory.
Physical memory dump complete.............contact system adminstrator, etc.

What does it mean? How can I prevent it? Is it a dangerous error?

Any suggestions will be helpful.

Thanks in advance.

You should bookmark this page with all the STOP-errors:
http://aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm

You have an NVidia driver issue. see also:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=325730&sd=RMVP

I updated my ATI display driver and have all the latest drivers. However, I don't have nvidia card, I have ATI card 8500 64MB and I have Athlon XP 2100+, 512 DDR (Samsung, 2x256DDR) ram, Soltek mobo. I have tried Omega drivers, but nothing seems to work. I checked the site with all the "stop" errors, but I couldn't find the exact errors as I am getting, they are following:

STOP: 0x0000008E(0xC0000090,0x00795B62,0xF143485C,0x00000000)
STOP: 0x0000008E(0xC0000090,0x004B4BB7,0xF05BB85C,0x00000000)
STOP: 0x0000008E(0xC000008F,0x7C036449,0xF0B5485C,0x00000000)

it also says at bottom: Beginning dump of physical memory. Physical memory dump complete.

I started getting these after I played "Call of Duty". As u guys know "Call of Duty" has a problem of crashing, so I tried different versions of display drivers by ATI.

If you need anymore information I can provide it.

Any other suggestions will be appreciated.

If they happen outside of games you may have a physical memory problem.

Those look like errors caused by another application intruding into windows memory space. If it happens just in one or two games you may want to uninstall as many applications as possible, trying the offending application after each uninstall. Also try reinstalling the offending app.

Hope this helps.

They don't happen outside of games. I only play NHL 2005 and BF1942 online. Sometimes I don't get blue screen error, but the games freeze. So I have to shut my computer and start again. I have installed new memory slot (samsung 256MB DDR) about 6-7 months ago and it has been working fine. Do you think it is a Display Driver problem? I have been trying different versions of ATI Catalyst drivers. Now, I have v3.6.

Thanks

It could be. You may want to install the latest drivers and directx if they are dx games.

I still think it may be an install problem. I would think some app is intruding in windows memory space to cause those blue screens. I could be wrong.

I have had latest drivers and I do also have latest directx. I have so many applications installed on my computer like Norton internet security 2005, Adobe photoshop CS, Microsoft streets and trips, Nero, and so on............Do you know any particular application which may cause this problem? Also, Do you think getting Windows XP Service Pack 2 will help? I have checked for viruses and adwares...........no improvement.

Thanks for your help

While service pack 2 has many fixes and enhancements, I've always wanted to fix a problem before installing a service pack. There are of course exceptions. If there is documentation saying that a service pack, or patch will fix a specific problem then I go ahead with it. I just don't assume that a service pack will fix the problem. I think of them as more prevention.

Anyway, it's generally not a bad idea to update to service pack 2. Just don't expect it will fix the problem. If it does...you'll be pleasantly surprised.

Again, I would uninstall any unnecessary apps one by one and run the offending app after each try. This is of course after you've already uninstalled and reinstall one of the apps that consistantly cause the issue. I understand that there are more than one app that causes the lockup, but I'd just try to get one working and hope the others get fixed as well. This is a slow and painfull method of elimination, but it's controlled.

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hey thats really strange cause i was having the same problem. I too also play bf2 and nhl hockey 2005...
I figured out that i use omega drivers for video drivers and i was useing forceware 6.66 drivers for my platform ( ie ethernet... smbuss ext..) that i just updated from 6.53.... I didnt think that that would be a problem but i guess it was...they must not have gotten along...lol....... its all running smooth now.... try updateing your platform drivers as well not just your video drivers... find out what make and chipset you motherboard is and search for updated drivers.. istall them and voila.. i will bet anything that thats your problem.........

ok the "blue screen of death" as i call it happens when windows suffers a serious error. if you see it once or twice it should not affect you. if it happens often, you should reformat your harddrive. Again, The blue screen usually never will bather you again.

512 RAM
Processor Pentium 4 2.6 GHz
Video Card ATI RADEON 120 MB
Processor's tempirature is 41-44 degrees max.

My computer restarts when i use mic/webcam during MSN conversation (all kinds of messemgers). It restarts when i use steam (Counter Strike1.6 and all kinds of valve games).
When i play World of Warcraft my computer stucks so i have to restart it my self. When it restarts by itself it shows me blue screen of death. Sometimes during valve games my sound card stops playing sound or computer restarts or it stucks. Tell me what do i have to do.

ok heres the deal..(long winded Im sorry =( )

About 2 months ago I had to replace the MB, Chip and powersupply... after doing that I reinstalled windows.. un fortunalty the disk i had was scratched pretty bad and it lost a lot of files.. however unstable it ran... I play WoW.. and the locking up finally got to me and I decided it was time to put a clean install on my puter without missing files... so i did... I wiped the drive completely and the computer runs great.. UNTIL ... I installed a new copy of WoW and when I go to download the updates it gets so far and then i get a Blue Screen and it says the following



A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down
to prevent damage to your computer.
NTFS File System
if this is the first time you've seen this screen, restart
your computer. If this error happens again, follow these
steps:

Technical information:
***STOP: 0x00000024 (0x00000000, 0x00000000x, 0xf7adc2c3)
***Crash hdd.sys - address is 0f7adc2c3

dump physical memory complete.


After that flashes its evil face at me the system reboots.. seems the ONLY time its doing this is when I try to download the updates for WoW... I thought maybe it was my RAM but I tried all of the sticks individually and it did it on all of them when I try to do that download... Any Ideas???? HELPPPPPPP!!

Hi I am a bit computer retarded so I am completely confused by the message and blue screan saying " physical memory dump" on my son's brand new computer that is 2 days old.
He just turned it on this morning and that was the message and he said he can't even boot it up in safe mode.
Any thoughts or should I just return it ASAP???
thanks!!!
Loren

Hey guys

Well i have the basic computer knowledge, but out of nowhere my computer told me it was gonna force itself to restart in _ _ seconds.

And it did. When it started, it took me directly to the screen where you can pick how to continue: safe mode and normal windows are the ones i can remember but it has like 3 more.
i tried normal more, safe mode, and last mode, and it took me to the "blue screen of death", with the message that says "Beginning dump of physical memory. Physical memory dump complete." and restarts into this loophole again. This really sucks.

how can i just back-up or make my computer normal again?

i get the physical memory dump whenever i install power iso. it asks to restart the desktop gets half way loaded then it comes up. im sick of fixing this i just want power iso to work!
i have

Dell latitude d820
win xp pro
genuine intel(R) CPU T2600 @ 2.16GHz
2.00 GB of ram
nividia quadro nvs 120m 512MBytes
anything else? i dunno what the actual error is bue if u need it to help ill get it again...
help plz!!!

I was on my computer surfing the net and the blue physical memory dump screen came up.

The error was:
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_Equal

***stop:0x0000000A (0x00000004,0x00000002,0x00000000,0x804EC29D)

It has occured before but rarely.
Now it happens all the time!
Help

OK, here's one for you. I reinstalled the operating system on an older Dell Latitude 600 laptop that had Windows XP professional with Windows XP for home, which I have been using on my newer edition Dell Inspiron 700 laptop. Now the older Dell has the XP home OS running fine, but when I go to connect to the internet, it says I am missing network hardware and it can't connect. I have looked around msconfig in Run but I can't see what I'm doing wrong, unless it is physically missing something but I don't know why that would be because it connected to the internet fine before I reinstalled the new OS. I have the drivers and devices disk but it doesn't seem to want to do anything. Any ideas? jerseyjeff

I have windows XP on my parents' PC, and I use to get the "blue screen of death" every 2-3 restarts, but it would run fine the next time it was restarted, it didnt really bother me that much. I eventually got sick of dealing with that and told my mom if it was running she shouldn't turn it off at night, so we agreed. Last week I found it turned off and when I turned it on I was getting the dumping physical memory sign every 5 minutes without starting any programs. It was very frustrating. Is there a fix for this w/out needing to reformat the harddrives because I have no idea how to do that w/out losing all our files. Thank you!

Most likely a driver issue.

L'o everyone, im new in this forum, i've had this memory dump problem for nearly 3 years.

It all started when i switched from NVIDIA to ATI, so i jumped from a NVIDIA 5200 to a SAPPHIRE 9600XT, good card, ran fine in alot of the games i had, i had barely any slowdown playing Half-Life 2. Then i started playing this one game called Knight Online, after playing it for a while i got a memory dump,i stopped playing that game, but since then everything i have been getting memory dumps.

I switched cards, to an X800GTO, i still have the same problem, the first couple of times, i formatted my harddrive to fix the problem, i keep getting the same problem, then i started changing video drivers, again, i keep getting the same problem.

The memory dumps happen randomly, it recently happend when i was just starting up windows, though i get them most often using Internet Explorer, or, of course, playing games, most notably World of Warcraft or Guild Wars., in some cases i can't even walk for a minute without it giving me a memory dump.

so i started searching for any other solutions, supposedly ATI cards (at least my 9600XT) have a conflict with VIA motherboards specifically, so i guess one solution is to switch back to NVIDIA, other than that, i dont see any other solutions, can anyone please help me?