Hello, for all... I have this irritating problem which I couldn't cope with for 2 months, now. Everything worked just fine, and BSOD appeared for no reason... (it showed usual stop screen and said that certain "win32k.sys" driver was corrupt - actually there was none under "WINDOWS/system32/drivers") And after that, when I have rebooted the PC, before the boot-screen logo of WinXP BSOD appeared again showing that I should disable ACPI due to its incompatibility with BIOS version, and that I should visit somethng like following url: http://www.hardware-updates.com. Not so long time ago, I managed to flash BIOS (ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe ACPI BIOS Rev 1011 ---> ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe ACPI BIOS Rev 1013) The cool thing is that they announced the changelog of BIOS revision on ASUS site... "Certain problems with SAMSUNG DDR400 modules were detected)... Now everything was fine... but not forever... two days further the same sh*t happened again... and again... I tried substituting memory module's DIMMs (2x512 takeMS 512MB DDR400 CL2.5 BD512TEC500 09/2005D S/N: 38705536) and that thing didn't work for too long... Now I have to use only one memory module and now it works just fine (but two times slower). I don't have enough experience to determine the cause of the BSODs... is it due to PSU, CPU, MB or Memory Controller (because for some reason it does not work fine with DC mode) Wierd thing is that if I put modules in 1. and 3. DIMM it acts the same way if I put it into 2. and 3. DIMM (which means that both times POST screen "says" it works in Dual Channel)... OK I think, but I'm not so sure that User's Manual said that 1. and 3. DIMMs are DC Only Rest of the PC... AMD Athlon 2500+ (barton) ~1.83Ghz Radeon 9600 256M (ST Labs) 300W PSU I would be glad if anyone had the similar problem to help me ... I would really appriciate P.S. If You Need Some More Info On My SysConfig Feel Free To Post A Question
Download [google]Memtest[/google] for floppy or CD and boot off of that. Let it run for a few hours to see if your RAM is bringing up errors. Next thing I'd check is the CPU temps in BIOS. If they're hitting 60*C or higher, take a look at your CPU cooling to make sure it securely and properly attached. Lastly, what, specifically, is your PSU brand and model? Wattage, unfortunately, doesn't mean a whole lot.
Not any particular manufacturer... It "says" only the following : SWITCHING POWER SUPPLY MODEL: ATX - 300W P4
Yes, I did. None of those CRAPWARE were detected... I use ESET NOD 32, Spybot, Ad-Aware, SpywareBlaster... etc. I should check if one of the memory modules are damaged... to check it on another PC... or whatever... Anybody else gotta clever suggestion on what might the solution for this problem be...
Did you run Memtest? As for the PSU, it probably wouldn't hurt to replace it. Get a 300-350W unit from Antec, Sparkle/Fortron/FSP Group (same company, different brands), Tagan, or Enermax...all of which should be fairly easy to find around the world (not to say there aren't other good brands). While I'm not totally convinced (yet) that it is the problem, being a very generic unit does send up some red flags.
Thankfully, I managed to deal with it... It wasn't due to the PSU... one of the 512MB TakeMS SDRAMs was totally screwed up... That's a pitty, 512 isn't ammount of memory to throw away just like that... but I had to... Now, I have certain problems with Nero 7.5.1.1... It won't accept to burn certain games (NFS_MW, NFS_CARBON) and afer I have updated Nero's AV scanner it started to crash from time-to-time... (only, nero Xpress works fine) What is more, I saved the log, the first time it failed and at the end of file, where i've found the following registry key: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon which actually helped to burn a DVD backup of MOST WANTED... (i've changed REG_SZ from 0 to 1) (Microsoft Corporation) I still cannot burn CARBON... is there any trick to burn it...
