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Re: I'm stumped, system crash problem
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Lynn Tracy <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 2 Apr 2003 08:31:35 -0500
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On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 20:27:12 -0600, Justin Marzello <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>Here's what has happend 3 times now.
>Install Win XP, head over to via site and install the via 4in1s, reboot, download and install DirectX 9, reboot, download and install Geforce drivers, reboot. Everything's working fine at this point. So I start installing my software/games, ect. Somewhere during this process of installing software and downloading software my monitor will just turn off. My system is still running, fans going, but no display. So I reboot. Now when it gets to the windows loading screen I get a big blue screen. Three diffrent times, three diffrent errors. They are all close though. Says something like Error booting: STOP and then some memory address. A short message saying to reboot and if that doesn't work unisntall new hardware, and a few other suggestions. One of the errors was like STOP_IRQ_BLAH_BLAH (2x0000000000 etc) so I tried changing the IRQ ports. I've tryed WinXP Win2000 and WinLonghorn. Scaned HDD with no errors, took out a stick of ram. I'm not sure what's causing this, though it always seems to happen while on the
internet. I've played online games (Dark Age of Camelot) with no problems, but while surffing guru3d.com it happend. And everytime in the end i'm forced to reinstall windows.

>-Justin Marzello
>
> ------------------------------------------------

Hey J-

I had similar sounding issues lately.  This is the first thing - be sure that your video card is properly seated.

The next is to go into your BIOS and "reset configuration data".  Once you enable this it will reset itself back to disable after the boot up.  I was having all sorts of weird things/errors popping up: IRQ conflicts, monitor shutting off, freezes, inaccurate CPU clock speed... all after the thing had been running just fine for four months.

I'm blaming an online beta game that I installed as I can pretty much pinpoint the first strange happenings to that install.  However, resetting the config data in the BIOS seems to have everything back to "normal"- whatever that is?

Lynn Tracy

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