I've been having sporadic, random blue screen crashes and thought you all might be able to help. This is with my ASUS p4B266 running a 1.6A @ 2.4 (I have since returned the clocking to normal, and loaded MB setup defaults). I have a Geforce TI4600 in the AGP slot, an SB Audigy in Slot 2, and a NIC card in slot 4. I have a 120 GB WD as primary master, a DVD-Rom as secondary master and a CDRW in secondary slave.
It started about a month ago - Several times a day IE would crash on me, with either with an error related to flash.ocx, mshtml.dll or iexplore.exe. Varied and random, but no blue screens -just IE crashing. I read through all of MS technet and MS knowledgebase, but nothing I did helped the trouble -I was still crashing 2-3 times a night.
Screw it, I thought -maybe XPSP2 will fix what ails me, and I held out for as long as I could. I didn't make it to XPSP2 release, but decided I'd attempt to "repair" the XP install (NOT via the recovery console). After attempting a repair of the install, I couldn't even boot into windows (either regularly or safe mode). The reinstall borked something. I reimaged the drive back to my year+ old image (known good, stable, and ready to rock).
The next day I was back to the same old same old. IE crashing.
About a week later the BSOD's started happening.
0x0000000A - IRQ not less or equal , 0x000000C2 - bad pool caller , 0x00000050 - fault in non paged area , 0x00000046 deref unknown logon session , various 0x0000008E win32k.sys errors. You name it, I've probably seen it.
I installed XPSP2, hoping it might sure the troubles -no change.
Again, I read through a ton of stuff -the majority suggesting system RAM or hardware RAM (motherboard cache, video RAM, hard drive cache). In an attempt to narrow the field, I ran 17 loops of Memtest86, and 8+ passes of DocMemory - NO ERRORS were found.
I tested out the WD 120GB drive through their utils using both the quick and the thorough tests to see if the drive was bad. Again, no errors found. I read more and more information about whichever stop error my system had most recently spit out, and came to the conclusion that my ASUS P4B266 motherboard was fading fast. I found a replacement P4B266-c and threw it in (it was a direct replacement as all the onboard extras of the P4B266 had never been enabled). No change. Money poorly spent.
I've updated everything I can, and generated a CAB. I'm still working up a few more minidump files.
It started about a month ago - Several times a day IE would crash on me, with either with an error related to flash.ocx, mshtml.dll or iexplore.exe. Varied and random, but no blue screens -just IE crashing. I read through all of MS technet and MS knowledgebase, but nothing I did helped the trouble -I was still crashing 2-3 times a night.
Screw it, I thought -maybe XPSP2 will fix what ails me, and I held out for as long as I could. I didn't make it to XPSP2 release, but decided I'd attempt to "repair" the XP install (NOT via the recovery console). After attempting a repair of the install, I couldn't even boot into windows (either regularly or safe mode). The reinstall borked something. I reimaged the drive back to my year+ old image (known good, stable, and ready to rock).
The next day I was back to the same old same old. IE crashing.
About a week later the BSOD's started happening.
0x0000000A - IRQ not less or equal , 0x000000C2 - bad pool caller , 0x00000050 - fault in non paged area , 0x00000046 deref unknown logon session , various 0x0000008E win32k.sys errors. You name it, I've probably seen it.
I installed XPSP2, hoping it might sure the troubles -no change.
Again, I read through a ton of stuff -the majority suggesting system RAM or hardware RAM (motherboard cache, video RAM, hard drive cache). In an attempt to narrow the field, I ran 17 loops of Memtest86, and 8+ passes of DocMemory - NO ERRORS were found.
I tested out the WD 120GB drive through their utils using both the quick and the thorough tests to see if the drive was bad. Again, no errors found. I read more and more information about whichever stop error my system had most recently spit out, and came to the conclusion that my ASUS P4B266 motherboard was fading fast. I found a replacement P4B266-c and threw it in (it was a direct replacement as all the onboard extras of the P4B266 had never been enabled). No change. Money poorly spent.
I've updated everything I can, and generated a CAB. I'm still working up a few more minidump files.