I recently format my custom built pc with windows xp pro service pack 2 and have been experiencing random errors/restarts that give me the BSOD. The BSOD do not correspond to any games or videos that I am using they usually occur while web surfing. I have been unable to find a solution to this problem. Any help would be appreciated.

I tried to look at my minidumps but wasn't able to open/make any sense out of them. I attached the 4 of them that were in \windows\minidump


Event Type: Error
Event Source: System Error
Event Category: (102)
Event ID: 1003
Date: 7/10/2006
Time: 11:01:29 PM
User: N/A
Computer: RAVEN64
Description:
Error code 1000000a, parameter1 b90c24a4, parameter2 00000002, parameter3 00000000, parameter4 805134cb.

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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 62 39 eters b9
0030: 30 63 32 34 61 34 2c 20 0c24a4,
0038: 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 32 00000002
0040: 2c 20 30 30 30 30 30 30 , 000000
0048: 30 30 2c 20 38 30 35 31 00, 8051
0050: 33 34 63 62 34cb


Home Built PC:
AMD 64 3000
1GB OCZ PC3200 (2x512)
Abit AN8 nForce 4 MoBo
Leadtek Nvidia 6600 PCI express 256MB
Western Digital HD 80GB Boot Drive
160GB Data/Backup Drive
Plextor DVDR PX-712A
LITEON CDROM LTN-529s

Attached Files

Minidumps.zip (69.9 KB, 2 views)

Your crashes are caused by various bugchecks, including memory corruption, bad pool caller and one crash by "afd.sys", which is part of Windows Winsock driver. First follow the instructions in this post: http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic51365.html, and post back here.

I went through the instructions in the post you gave me and nothing so far as solved the problem. I doubled checked that it could not be overheating ...dust on heatsinks/power supply failure or ram problem. I have not added any new hardware and as I said in my first post I just formatted and installed a clean install of windows XP PRO service pack 2. Just the other night I was about to shut down and closed out all of my explorer windows/firefox tabs and it did a restart. Is there anyway to update/replace the Windows Winsock drive (afd.sys) Any help/suggestions would be appreciated. I attached a zip with my updated minidumps(including the one that was created from the other night).

Attached Files

Minidump.zip (68.3 KB, 1 views)

one crash caused by pool corruption, one by "afd.sys", one by memory corruption, and one by "ntkrnlpa.exe."

The Winsock Fixer is available here:http://www.snapfiles.com/get/winsockxpfix.html. Did you try running your pc with only one stick of ram, and did any of the crashes happen while running Half Life 2 and Avant Browser??

I thought I had the problem solved and I didn't get any reboots for 5 days or so and then tonight I got another one with the same error. Yes the reboots have occured while running avant browser and Half Life 2 (counterstrike). What is the significance of that?