Please help: Windows XP Blue screen of death!

[yaputzis]

Hello,

My system:

MSI 6380 (K7T266 Pro-R) bios v1.6
Athlon T-bird 1.4ghz
512mb Ram PC2100
Western Digital WD300BB 30gb
Asus CD-S500/A
Yamaha CRW8424E
Hercules 3d Prophet 4500
SouldBlaster Live! Player 1024
Zoom V92 PCI Voive Faxmodem
IEEE 1394
Philips 150B
Hewlett Packard Deskjet 690C
AcerScan Prisa 320P

The problem:

I often get either in rebooting or in idle, the following "blue screen of death" with this message:

"STOP: 0X000000C5 (0X00000000, 0X00000002, 0X00000001, OX8053676D)"

Could anyone advise how to solve this?

Thanks in advance,

Antonis

[Mntsnow]

That motherboard is based on the Via chipset for the IDE controller correct? (I havent gone to the manufactures website to check). Many people are posting about problems with XP when the IDE controller is a via chipset. The same people are saying that when they put their harddrives on a "secondary" ide controller such as a "promise" Fastrack controller they end up having a rock solid machine. At this time going thru all my machines the one's that I have XP on or have installed XP on do infact use NON via chipsetted IDE controllers and they have been rock solid for me. You might want to check over at Via's website or viaarena's forums for additional information on this.

[jadison]

Check HERE (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q291810&ID=KB;EN-US;Q291810) for a fix...it's meant for Win2K, but it should work for XP also.

Let me know if that helps...BTW, Mntsnow's on the right track...try his advice if mine doesn't work :)

-=jd=-

[flinder]

Might check the Sound Blaster Driver.
Having probs with the Via boards.
Go to Via not Creative Labs.
HTH

[yaputzis]

Thank you for all your inputs everyone.

Mntsnow: I have installed the latest 4in1 4.35 via driver as well as the IDE miniport driver v3.0.14. I will test my system for a couple of days and reply again then.

Thanks again.

Antonis

[SalaTar]

Logitech mouse by chance?

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q302971

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q291810

[yaputzis]

Thank you for your reply Sala Tar.

No I do not have a logitech mouse but a microsoft one.

Anyway in the past few hours I had a couple of the same annoying stop screens. I think I will stick with Win2k SP2, more stable in my machine.

Thanks again.

[SalaTar]

Over the last few hours I have been looking at MS support for the prob you have(me too btw but with ndis.sys. mine has to do with via for sure)
I found referance to Verifier.exe
Its a check tool for drivers..but cant seem to get into what it does..
looking

[gmgq]

SalaTar, I had that ndis.sys BSOD in WinXP too. But my mobo doesn't use the VIA chipset.

Never found out what the cause of that BSOD was. It was such a pain (at least 1 BSOD a day with XP), so I reverted back to Win2k :\


Originally posted by SalaTar
Over the last few hours I have been looking at MS support for the prob you have(me too btw but with ndis.sys. mine has to do with via for sure)
I found referance to Verifier.exe
Its a check tool for drivers..but cant seem to get into what it does..
looking

[jadison]

Did you do an up-grade or a clean install?

Have you updated all the drivers or installed the drivers and used the Compatibility Mode Wizard?

If you up-graded, did you remove ALL the incompatible hardware and software first? (That may include removing cards or disconnecting periphreals).

I did notice some things that are considered "not compatible", that's why I asked.

-=jd=-

[NDC]

I wonder if that's really the problem though, VIA chipset...

I have XP running on an IDE hard drive on an ABIT VP6, Soltek EV-1, and Abit KT7A and 3 other systems at work running XP on a mainboard using VIA chipsets and have no problems. Maybe I'm just lucky? ;)

[madfish]

Hmmm, I'm running XP pro on this mobo (http://www.gateway.com/support/techdocs/references/motherboard/4w4sb0x0/4w4sb0x0.shtml) {without intergrated sound} with a SIS 6326 AGP 2x 8mb video card and 10/100 netgear nic, a 13 gig 2 year old WD Hdd, and 256 mb PC100 sdram.. I have not a BSOD and no problems at all. I did a clean install of 98fe, installed the drivers for the nic, went online and grabed updated w2k drivers for the video card. installed XP pro and away I went..

Edit, I screwed up the link