All,
I've been researching the multiple BSOD I've been having for the past week and found this forum to have the most comprehensive information concerning the dreaded BSOD. This is why I am posting here for the first time in hope that someone can provide me with some new insight to my problem.
Background:
About a week ago, my wifes computer started freezing up and Blue screening. I started looking into it and found nothing obvius in the logs and the Minidumps referenced the Atapi.sys and Ntoskern.exe. My wife had indicated that she did not download anything or load anything new - but who really knows.
I started looking for Spyware and viruses (this machine had no issues for almost 2 years). Nothing jumped out. The computer locked up twice while I was searching but no minidumps were generated. I started to suspect the power supply. I ran a chkdsk and -- the disk was a problem. After a reboot from the chkdsk, I could not boot. The Hard drive was FUBAR and was showing ARES C64K in bios which with a little google-fu meant I was pretty much screwed.
So great, found the problem; replaced the hard drive (and picked up an extra power supply just in case) and restored a backup from 2 months ago. Everything was great. Then I got a blue screen and another and another. Put in the new power supply. Still getting blue screens. The only common part of the error message from the blue screen was the IRQL = 0xFF.
Frustrated from not making any progress and the complaints from my wife, I virtuallized her hard drive and ran her system in Virtual PC 2004 from another machine. I felt if the OS was screwed, it would crash in the VM. My wife can now RDP into her machine and resume her life and I could take extra time with her PC.
I ran Memtest86 v3.2 for 6 hours, then ran memtest86+ 1.65 for 4 hours, then ran Windows memory diagnostics for 3 hours. All reported no errors from the memory. hhhhhhfffftttt
I reloaded her machine with a clean OS, reloaded the drivers. Downloaded critical updates and otherwise left the machine bare. I Got a few blue screens from what was identifed as a video card driver issue. Uninstalled the old video driver and reinstalled a new.
Her Vm has been running solid for 5 days now... no problems at all.... but her computer is still having problems.
At this point, I'm thinking motherboard or CPU. I've gotten 4 blue screen since then and I'm attaching them for review as I'm not very proficient at understanding the information provided in these logs.
Hopefully some experienced eyes can provide me with some direction.
The Specs:
Mini-Q 765 micro itx (Jetway)
Athlon XP 3200
1G (512x2) DDR2700 pqi ram
80 seagate IDE HD (new)
DVD-rw - Liteon
On-board Vid (GF4 mx)
On board LAN (GF MCP)
On-Board Sound (CM audio??) not sure
430w Thermaltake PS
2 printers hooked via USB
1 CF card reader hooked via USB
I've been researching the multiple BSOD I've been having for the past week and found this forum to have the most comprehensive information concerning the dreaded BSOD. This is why I am posting here for the first time in hope that someone can provide me with some new insight to my problem.
Background:
About a week ago, my wifes computer started freezing up and Blue screening. I started looking into it and found nothing obvius in the logs and the Minidumps referenced the Atapi.sys and Ntoskern.exe. My wife had indicated that she did not download anything or load anything new - but who really knows.
I started looking for Spyware and viruses (this machine had no issues for almost 2 years). Nothing jumped out. The computer locked up twice while I was searching but no minidumps were generated. I started to suspect the power supply. I ran a chkdsk and -- the disk was a problem. After a reboot from the chkdsk, I could not boot. The Hard drive was FUBAR and was showing ARES C64K in bios which with a little google-fu meant I was pretty much screwed.
So great, found the problem; replaced the hard drive (and picked up an extra power supply just in case) and restored a backup from 2 months ago. Everything was great. Then I got a blue screen and another and another. Put in the new power supply. Still getting blue screens. The only common part of the error message from the blue screen was the IRQL = 0xFF.
Frustrated from not making any progress and the complaints from my wife, I virtuallized her hard drive and ran her system in Virtual PC 2004 from another machine. I felt if the OS was screwed, it would crash in the VM. My wife can now RDP into her machine and resume her life and I could take extra time with her PC.
I ran Memtest86 v3.2 for 6 hours, then ran memtest86+ 1.65 for 4 hours, then ran Windows memory diagnostics for 3 hours. All reported no errors from the memory. hhhhhhfffftttt
I reloaded her machine with a clean OS, reloaded the drivers. Downloaded critical updates and otherwise left the machine bare. I Got a few blue screens from what was identifed as a video card driver issue. Uninstalled the old video driver and reinstalled a new.
Her Vm has been running solid for 5 days now... no problems at all.... but her computer is still having problems.
At this point, I'm thinking motherboard or CPU. I've gotten 4 blue screen since then and I'm attaching them for review as I'm not very proficient at understanding the information provided in these logs.
Hopefully some experienced eyes can provide me with some direction.
The Specs:
Mini-Q 765 micro itx (Jetway)
Athlon XP 3200
1G (512x2) DDR2700 pqi ram
80 seagate IDE HD (new)
DVD-rw - Liteon
On-board Vid (GF4 mx)
On board LAN (GF MCP)
On-Board Sound (CM audio??) not sure
430w Thermaltake PS
2 printers hooked via USB
1 CF card reader hooked via USB