Mike M Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 Something weird just happened while surfing on this site. Lost everything then suddenly big blue screen with lots of white writing in safe mode resolution saying a serious error has occurred and XP has to restart. I rebooted and sent the error report to MS and they said it was a stop error and didn't know the cause. Then i couldn't get back onto any website except google. Very strange Panda Antivirus found 10 spyware files and disinfected them now i'm back. Any experts know what a stop error is all about? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitesupraboy2 Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 here ya go mate... knock yourself out (not literally) http://www.aumha.org/win5/kbestop.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 Is that what a BSOD is called these days? Could be lots of things, bad memory, any other hardware fault, hdd going bad is another possibility. Start worrying if it happens again. Oh, back up anything you'd hate to lose. Soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike M Posted June 29, 2006 Author Share Posted June 29, 2006 Thanks guys, feck it could be anything. Time to do a fresh back-up. My desktop icons regularly disappear then pop back one by one if i've had i folder full of pics open with thumbnails, I've heard RAM can do this don't know how tho i'm running with 768 PC3200 should be loads. Might be dodgy i suppose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grimreaper Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 i have had this happen to me, all i have done is run a clean up program and a defrag and i find it is ok after. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 Yeah, bad memory was the first thing I said in my first post. It's nowt to do with the amount of memory though. Failing RAM causes lots of weird and intermitant problems. 768MB isn't a lot really, 512 is the bare minimum for XP really. I noticed a good performance boost when I upgraded mine from one to two Gig of RAM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 had the samething happen on my new alienware laptop, hope it doesn't happen again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike M Posted June 29, 2006 Author Share Posted June 29, 2006 I think 2Gig is the most my motherboard can handle. i was running 512 but half life 2 struggled. I'll take the ram out and make sure all the contacts are clean, you never know. I've had a few probs with this pc since i built it, it was meant to run media centre edition and sit on the hifi rack but it drove me nuts with slow running and crashing, it's been good with home edition till now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaz1 Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 that same thing has happened to me lots of times, should i worry, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike M Posted June 29, 2006 Author Share Posted June 29, 2006 I would back things up just in case especially if you have lots of music files or pics all sorted and tagged just how you like them. I don't mind losing the computer and software just as long as my personal stuff is sitting safe on at least another drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shovels Posted June 30, 2006 Share Posted June 30, 2006 As said above - could be a number of things - there's sometimes a more obvious clue in the info. I've had it before being bad memory and drivers. Try this little util first... http://www.memtest.org/ It's really good for testing for bad RAM. If that comes up OK then try and post some of the details that the blue screen gives you. I've had it before caused by a motherboard driver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edd_t Posted June 30, 2006 Share Posted June 30, 2006 ok very weird! the same thing happend to me last night, the only thing i had open was this website! spooky! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike M Posted June 30, 2006 Author Share Posted June 30, 2006 Arrggg that memtest thing is too hard, i never installed a floppy drive so i thought make a bootable cd. I can't unzip the .iso file. Winzip extracts it fine but then it shows up as a Winrar file and using winrar to extract that makes an empty folder. No matter anyway i'll wait an see if it crashes again and try and save the error report. btw edd t that is a bit strange, must be aliens:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shovels Posted July 2, 2006 Share Posted July 2, 2006 Mike, you need some software to burn the ISO directly to a CD. Something like Nero will do. There are probably others - try googling 'free ISO burning software'. You don't need to unzip/extract an ISO. If you get really stuck PM me your address and I'll pop a CD in the post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike M Posted July 2, 2006 Author Share Posted July 2, 2006 Thanks for that, I managed to dowload GM test today and burn the image. The test took 40 odd minutes with 369 tests and no errors were reported. So i guess that's good but the pc did the same thing yesterday again managed to save this for the error report. BCCode : 1000000a BCP1 : 00002DA2 BCP2 : 000000FF BCP3 : 00000000 BCP4 : 8053196A OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 2_0 Product : 768_1 Means absolutely nothing to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike M Posted July 2, 2006 Author Share Posted July 2, 2006 Just repaired 464 registry problems so i'll wait and see if it still crashes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew7 Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 Maybe be relevant or not. My computer shuts down when it gets to a certain temperature, which is why I use an additional room fan pointing directly at the front air intake of the tower on hot days. have you got temp monitoring on your unit, it has been pretty hot the last couple of days. Mine is running at 56 degrees now at 2 AM in the morning!........normally at 48-49 on a "normal" day... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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