My system is plagued with BSOD

[alexcmia]

BSOD upon BSOD, upon BSOD. My computer is just too old.


Can LCD monitor connected through DVI to video card cause errors?

Can a faulty hard drive, which runs just fine and reports no errors, could cause BSODs?

^^I'm interested in those two the most.


I have:

Athlon XP 2400+ thorobread.
Gigabyte GA-7N400-L1
3x 1GB Patriot DDR400
Crappy Chiefmax PSU


The more I work with this the more I want to build a new computer, a desire which quickly disappears when I view the prices of all the latest and greatest stuff I want to have, it's like a ying yang lol.

I highly doubt PSU could be the culprit. Memory could be the culprit, since I just bought it, ran it through memtest once, and that's it. Then there is also 3 sticks of it, perhaps 3 sticks could be causing problems, something with chipset or something. Motherboard could use capacitor change. Then there is also a sound card, which works ok, but I suspect its bad and could be doing this. :rolleyes:

This is crap, I want to get drunk and forget it all. Please check the mini dumps.

 

[HardwareAffair]

No, your LCD monitor will not be the cause of any BSOD errors.

Sure, a hard drive can cause them with corrupt data, but if it's running fine, and scans report no errors, I would first look at the other hardware.

Double check the memory. Create a boot disk with MemTest86+ and let it run. If you're receiving errors, check stick by stick until you find the culprit

Run Prime95 and check your temps, and whether or not your CPU is stable.

Don't give up yet, you still have a decent rig, I'm sure it's something relatively simple.

 

[Karanislove]

what error do u get on your BSOD??

Check in the event viewer to c the problem(RightClick MyComputer > Manage > Events) and see if you can find the error, or any error you c, use the eventID and find the answer on the net.

There could be any reason as you said...Not only hardware but BSOD comes due to the software errors too...

 

[alexcmia]

Mini dumps attached, don't know how to analyze them, if you guys can, please help me out.

This is save dump error in system error log.

The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x10000050 (0x93f08063, 0x00000001, 0xe1b6b20a, 0x00000000). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini051609-07.dmp.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at Events and Errors Message Center: Basic Search.

Search for 0x10000050 says memory.


I done memtest86 over night, 4 passes, 12 hours, no errors. In fact, I think it's pretty save to cross out memory, because I've been having this even with 1 stick of good known PC2100 256MB, and I have several of those. It's not memory.

I also removed the sound card, sound blaster live! value. There is a possibility something is wrong with it, and it could be the root of all problems here. Now I need to run the system and get it to BSOD.

Tonight I will do video memory test. 256 MB, tester says 8+ hours to test it.


Please check those mini dumps for me.

 

[alexcmia]

Problem appears to be SOLVED!!


I added voltage 1% more for RAM and now it's working fine, cross fingers. The problem was with ati2cqag.dll, address BF05C3CA. When googled they suggested adding voltage for RAM.