Subject:Blue Screens

Posted by: Lostdog

Date:1/28/2006 9:02:52 AM

Hi - apologies if this isn't the right place to post this query, but it's stopping me from recording and I don't know where else to go! Here goes:

I've recently started getting 'blue screen' crashes, sometimes when recording in Acid and also sometimes when starting up windows.

It says 'problem detected & windows shut down to prevent damage to computer' with technical details 'STOP: 0x0000008E (0xc0000005, 0x82D31010, 0xf12370B8, 0x00000000)' and then it says 'beginning dump of physical memory'.
Other messages say 'Checking file system on D: FAT32. One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency'. It then goes on to check & tells me 'no problems found'.
One thought I had - my C drive (running program files) is file system NTFS, D drive (for audio) is FAT32. Does anyone know if this could be the problem? Should they both be the same file system?
Any advice welcome. Apologies again if this is posted in the wrong place.
Thanks
LD

Subject:RE: Blue Screens

Reply by: nutrapuppy

Date:1/28/2006 2:39:27 PM

Put your systems specs in your profile please?

Subject:RE: Blue Screens

Reply by: Lostdog

Date:1/30/2006 3:20:58 AM

Thanks for the response Nutrapuppy - I've now updated my specs.
Also, the last 2 days I've started getting another blue screen message on start-up:
'STOP: c000021a (fatal system error)
The windows logon system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc0000005 (0x00000000 0x00000000)
The system has been shut down'.
After a few goes it eventually starts up windows - all a bit worrying though.
Thanks
LD

Subject:RE: Blue Screens

Reply by: busterkeaton

Date:1/30/2006 4:00:45 AM

Backup your system as soon as you can.
Then start trying tech sites to see if you can find others with your problem.

Subject:RE: Blue Screens

Reply by: busterkeaton

Date:1/30/2006 4:06:46 AM

Google results
Seems like your memory may be going bad. I only looked at the Microsoft page.

Subject:RE: Blue Screens

Reply by: jumbuk

Date:1/30/2006 4:38:15 PM

Having C on NTFS and D on FAT32 should not be a problem - I have run this way for years.

What other software are you running on your machine?

When did it start happening, and how? Was it right after installing something new, or did you turn off the machine without shutting down (or something like that)?

I assume you have run full disk scans on both C and D already. There are various free RAM scan utilities you could try (I once had a RAM problem do this to me).

Subject:RE: Blue Screens

Reply by: thenoizzbox

Date:2/1/2006 11:17:38 AM

It sounds like you have bad RAM. Go to the following site and download the MemTest86 testing utility. Burn the CD image you downloaded then pop the CD into a bootable CDRom Drive and reboot. MemTest86 will start automatically.

http://www.memtest86.com/

It may take a while for the program to perform all the test levels (it writes and reads back increasingly complex data to and from your RAM and compares the results) but if your RAM has turned bad you'll see errors popping up very quickly. I had to change the RAM in my machine a few months ago and when I ran MemTest, it reported over 1000 errors within like 2 minutes. When I run it now I get no errors whatsoever.

HTH!

Subject:RE: Blue Screens

Reply by: Douglas Clark

Date:2/11/2006 1:01:17 PM

Heat maybe? Try opening your PC and brushing/blowing all the dust off the RAM and CPU cooler.