windows xp crashes after boot

[rrcole2]

I had a buddy bring me his computer, said his wife was vacuming the speakers and his computer hasn't worked right since.

I booted it up and it loads windows most of the time. about a min or so into windows, I get the blue screen with stop codes.

stop: 0x0000008E(0xc0000005,0x8060AB13,
0xFC0CF984,0x00000000

I have attached a pic of the screen.

The system boots up most of the time, but every once in a while it comes up and says no OS. all I have to do is enter the bios and then exit and it boots up. it did boot up fine in safe mode and there was no hardware conflicts.

Now when I boot up in safe mode, it get hung up on a driver agp440.sys .

I have updated the bios to the newest, run scandisk. kinda at a loss as to what the problem is.

IBM Netvista
40 G wd Drive
Radeon 7500 video
onboard sound
IMB MB
CD Drive
128 M RAM

Thanks in advance for your help...

[wedor]

Look here, http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;324764

[rrcole2]

I went through the instructions and disabled agp440.sys. when I restarted it promted to start in safe mode as per instructions. it then attempted to boot and it got stuck at mup.sys , so I disabled that to. Now whe I go to start in safe mode it gets stuck at that screen.

What do the stop messages mean? Is there a place were I can fins out what all of them mean...the windows site doesn't seem to be much help....

[wedor]

Go to the MS KB, http://support.microsoft.com/default...sd=GN&ln=EN-US

And do a search under xp for, Troubleshooting Stop Errors

Looks like yours points to bad RAM as a possible culprit.

It is not a good idea to randomly disable files wiithout being specifically told to.

[rrcole2]

Well I know it's not the ram I went out and got another stick and it does the same thing. What a pain....Could the mother board be junked. I was thinking if it gor a shock throught the speakers from the vac...Is there a way to test it, without ripping it out and taking to a shop?

[wedor]

It does what same thing? stop at mup.sys? You may have added a new problem now that wasn't there before.

So...what exactly does it do now?

[rrcole2]

OK, Got that problem solved. I did a repair install with the windows disk installed over top of the old install. Stabalized it, works great. Not a clue what the hell was going on before. I suspect it was Viruses and spyware, there was tons of both on this machine

My new problem: if I start the machine from a cold start, in the POST, I get no OS found. I hit control alt del and it restarts and boots up fine. After it is running I can restart (from the windows shutdown) till the cows come home and it works fine, but when I shutdown and cold boot the computer I get the no os MSG. I have updated the bios and made the HDD the primary startup device in the BIOS. Still get no OS. Any ideas about htis problem?

[Panama Red]

Check the jumpering on the hard drive. I see it's a WD. May need to switch from Master to Cable Select (CS) or more probably to Neutral. Here's the WD infor on jumpers.

http://support.wdc.com/techinfo/general/jumpers.asp

[rrcole2]

Duh! don't I feel like a retard, it was the jumper, had it set to master (center jumper) switched it to neutral and it works fine. Thanks for all your help, prob would have thrown it out the back door without it