Hi,
I am about at my wits end with my computer. I shall recount my tale of woe from the beginning.
I was experiencing sound issues (snap-crackle-pops) due to conflicting drivers (I assume) between my GeForce 8800 GT and my Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic card. I had read somewhere that this may be resolved by a BIOS update. I proceeded to update the BIOS of my P5K-E/WiFi MoBo from 0806 to the beta BIOS 1002. This did not resolve my sound issues so I downgraded to 0906 which was the newest release which was not a beta.
The computer seemed to work fine for a while but since yesterday I've been getting blue screens of death regularily and without any sort of rhyme or reason. They will occur when I try and scan for viruses, or sometimes while I'm rebooting, or while I'm installing something. Some of the error codes I've been getting from these are:
0x0000001A
0x0000000A
0x0000007F
STOP 0x00000024
STOP 0x0000004e
STOP 0x0000008e
irql_not_less_or_equal
PFN_LIST_CORRUPT
From my research, it seems that these errors (and there are others, I just haven't recoreded them all) are associated with hardware failures and RAM problems and I believe there was one that was related to NTFS files system problems. The most strange part is that I had absolutely zero hardware trouble (other than the aforementioned sound issue) before I updated my BIOS. So I assume it is the BIOS that is causing these problems.
I have attached all the minidumps that were available to me.
What I've done other than downgrading to 0906 is to wipe the drive containing my OS (which didn't solve anything).
Now, my current plan is to install XP rather than Vista and use an older version of AsusUpdate to try and downgrade my BIOS back to 0806 since I tried doing it with the current version of AsusUpdate and it told me it wouldn't work because of a mismatch between EEPROM something (I'm not all that learned when it comes to BIOS). I also tried putting it back to 0806 by using EZFlash 2 and AFUDOS and neither of those worked either.
Some other notes of interest which might be helpful are:
- Windows will sometimes give me a list of "solutions" to my problem and one of them involves updating the drivers for my chipset. I tried this and it didn't help either. And now, when I try to do it, I get a blue screen.
If anyone can help me solve this problem, I would eternally grateful.
Thank you.
System Specs:
ASUS P5K-E/WIFI-AP ATX LGA775 P35 DDR2 1333FSB 2PCI-E16 3PCI 2PCI-E1 SATA2 Sound WLAN Motherboard
4GB RAM (Corsair XMS2 TWIN2X2048-6400 2GB 2X1GB PC2-6400 DDR2-800 CL 5-5-5-18 240PIN DIMM Dual Channel Memory)
Galaxy GeForce 8800GT 600MHZ 512MB 1.8GHZ DDR3 PCI-E DVI-I HDCP HDTV Out OEM Video Card *IR-$20*
Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 Dual Core Processor LGA775 Conroe 2.2GHZ 800FSB 2MB Retail
Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic Sound Card
I am about at my wits end with my computer. I shall recount my tale of woe from the beginning.
I was experiencing sound issues (snap-crackle-pops) due to conflicting drivers (I assume) between my GeForce 8800 GT and my Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic card. I had read somewhere that this may be resolved by a BIOS update. I proceeded to update the BIOS of my P5K-E/WiFi MoBo from 0806 to the beta BIOS 1002. This did not resolve my sound issues so I downgraded to 0906 which was the newest release which was not a beta.
The computer seemed to work fine for a while but since yesterday I've been getting blue screens of death regularily and without any sort of rhyme or reason. They will occur when I try and scan for viruses, or sometimes while I'm rebooting, or while I'm installing something. Some of the error codes I've been getting from these are:
0x0000001A
0x0000000A
0x0000007F
STOP 0x00000024
STOP 0x0000004e
STOP 0x0000008e
irql_not_less_or_equal
PFN_LIST_CORRUPT
From my research, it seems that these errors (and there are others, I just haven't recoreded them all) are associated with hardware failures and RAM problems and I believe there was one that was related to NTFS files system problems. The most strange part is that I had absolutely zero hardware trouble (other than the aforementioned sound issue) before I updated my BIOS. So I assume it is the BIOS that is causing these problems.
I have attached all the minidumps that were available to me.
What I've done other than downgrading to 0906 is to wipe the drive containing my OS (which didn't solve anything).
Now, my current plan is to install XP rather than Vista and use an older version of AsusUpdate to try and downgrade my BIOS back to 0806 since I tried doing it with the current version of AsusUpdate and it told me it wouldn't work because of a mismatch between EEPROM something (I'm not all that learned when it comes to BIOS). I also tried putting it back to 0806 by using EZFlash 2 and AFUDOS and neither of those worked either.
Some other notes of interest which might be helpful are:
- Windows will sometimes give me a list of "solutions" to my problem and one of them involves updating the drivers for my chipset. I tried this and it didn't help either. And now, when I try to do it, I get a blue screen.
If anyone can help me solve this problem, I would eternally grateful.
Thank you.
System Specs:
ASUS P5K-E/WIFI-AP ATX LGA775 P35 DDR2 1333FSB 2PCI-E16 3PCI 2PCI-E1 SATA2 Sound WLAN Motherboard
4GB RAM (Corsair XMS2 TWIN2X2048-6400 2GB 2X1GB PC2-6400 DDR2-800 CL 5-5-5-18 240PIN DIMM Dual Channel Memory)
Galaxy GeForce 8800GT 600MHZ 512MB 1.8GHZ DDR3 PCI-E DVI-I HDCP HDTV Out OEM Video Card *IR-$20*
Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 Dual Core Processor LGA775 Conroe 2.2GHZ 800FSB 2MB Retail
Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic Sound Card
Good luck...
