Bsod

[kevvyb]

Hi,

This is not really a new build issue but something that people who do a lot of system building might well recognise.

After years of trouble free operation on XP Home I recently started to get regular BSOD just after start up and windows had launched. After reboot usually okay apart from the occasional random reboot thereafter but that was a definite pattern.

I had made a few changes recently,so had been inside the case,new graphics, power supply and optical drive.

I have just noticed this evening, after having checked all connections before that the power supply cable to the slave optical drive was half in and half out. I had pushed on it before but it needed a firmer push and snapped into place

Could this have been causing issues with BSOD and stop error 0x50? Could this also have been causing read errors on the master optical drive on the same IDE channel?

Had been getting both these issues amongst others and now feel very stupid but the plug did feel as if it was fully seated when I previously checked!

Have obviously seated it properly now and waiting to see if I get any more BSOD but thought I would just ask if this is a likely cause?

Thanks in advance.

[shadowpr]

What is the full stop code?

Please list all parts, make and model, including psu.

[kevvyb]

MESH NG Tower (2001)
ASUS A7n8X rev 2.0 mobo
Ahtlon XP 3200+ (2.2GHz)
2GB Crucial DDR2 in dual channel mode
Corsair 650WAtt PSU (New)
Sapphire Radeon 2600 AGP PRO (Newish) 8.7 drivers with edited installation files
NEC 2470WNX monitor
2x Seagate 500GB IDE hard drives
Pioneer 116D DVD RW
Teac W512EB
XP Home SP2 (was SP3)

Have just installed an ATi AGP hotfix 66267 which I think I may have installed before and which I forgot to reinstall this time. Running ESET scan again to see if the error replicates now.


Sorry did not get the full stop error codes from BSOD this time as I have been saving full memory dump and minidumps. Have three now. I have left my virus scanner running and every time I get a BSOD (overnight and whilst out at work). Am now using this as a test tp see if it replicates each timeI make a change.

First was Page Fault in Non-PageFile area the last two have mentioned an ati dll.

So, I know know that it was not the power connection to the slave optical device.

Drivers for this graphics card had been working on this machine for a while then started getting these spontaneous reboots, sometime with and sometimes without a BSOD) with monotonous regularity.

A clean install after zero wiping the drive has not sorted. It's not SP3 as I am now running with just SP2. Virtually nothing else has been installed on this system. Certainly nothing that I have not been using for quite some time without such problems.

These crashed are not always resulting in a system even error but the last of these 'ati errors' gave this event info which I have seen before.
Category 102 Event 1003
Error code 00000050, parameter1 e132f000, parameter2 00000001, parameter3 80581607, parameter4 00000001.

[liambl]

0x50 is a is "PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA" and from what I've seen is commonly caused by a dodgy graphics card or its drivers and/or RAM. Since you recently upgraded the GPU that seems like a good place to start. Recent AGP Radeon cards have been quite unstable when using normal ATi drivers. Try using the drivers for the card off the manufacturers site (make sure you get the AGP card ones).

[kevvyb]

Interesting comment, thanks.

This particular card I had previously learned is fussy as to drivers. Not to mention the installation files not even referencing this particular card and AGP drivers so had to edit ini file with help from internet, to even get them to install without error.

Was running okay on these drivers for quite a while so don't see why things should have changed. Only thing is as I mentioned above, have this hotfix and I cannot remember if I installed it previously. So I have now and running to try to replicate again.