HELP: consistent blue screens of death

Emper0r · 03-04-2006, 09:24 AM

Hey guys, I'm having some bizzare problems with blue screens of death. First off, here's my comp specs:

OS: Windows XP Pro
Processor: Pentium 4 3.04 ghz
Video card: Radeon 9700 Pro
Sound Card: Soundblaster Audigy
Ram: 1 GB of RD 1066
Motherboard: P4T533

This issue has been happening for about four days now, and it started ever since two things happened:

1. I cleaned up my C drive (deleted a lot of files and folders because it was so cluttered). When doing this I deleted all non-folder files that were sitting in the C drive by themselves, was this bad?

2. I downloaded a large program that may have had a virus attached.

Since both have happened, anytime I try to run a game like Counter-Strike, Civilization IV, Diablo II etc I recieve a blue screen of death that always mentions one of the following somewhere near the bottom:

Win32k.sys

or

NDIS.sys

Yet I can run all messenger programs, all media players, firefox and applications like Pokerstars without the blue screens of death coming up at all!

I've removed SP2 and re-installed Windows XP pro but I'm still recieving the error. I ran a full virus scan and ran Spybot for any spyware and both found nothing. I even tried re-installing my video card driver and sound driver... yet still getting these bsod's.

If anyone can help me solve this problem I will do anything and everything I can do to help them with anything they need help with thanks guys!

spamdos · 03-04-2006, 09:35 AM

it is usually a hardware problem, did you install any NEW hardware recently

Emper0r · 03-04-2006, 09:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by spamdos

it is usually a hardware problem, did you install any NEW hardware recently

Nope none, do you think I might have accidently deleted some important drivers/files when I was cleaning up the C drive? Would you recommend re-installing ALL hardware drivers?

Thanks for your reply

jjsevdt · 03-04-2006, 11:34 AM

You may have deleted some drivers or something, but I would bac keverything up and do a fresh install and besure you don't put any files loose on the C: drive to start. A lot oof times a fresh start is the best thing to do.

lee101 · 03-04-2006, 12:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jjsevdt

You may have deleted some drivers or something, but I would bac keverything up and do a fresh install and besure you don't put any files loose on the C: drive to start. A lot oof times a fresh start is the best thing to do.

yeh, i agree with that, it sounds like something could have put a file in the C drive that was neccessary, but you thought was not required, so just backup and reinstall eveything, that could possibly speed up your pc aswell

Lee

Emper0r · 03-04-2006, 10:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lee101

yeh, i agree with that, it sounds like something could have put a file in the C drive that was neccessary, but you thought was not required, so just backup and reinstall eveything, that could possibly speed up your pc aswell

Lee

Well I kinda wanted to avoid doing that beause I don't have a second HD or a DVD burner so to back up my files I would have to burn them onto like 30x cd-r's X-(

But do you guys have any ideas from what I've told you? Let me give you a list of options and tell me which you think sounds most plausible:

1. A virus
2. A problem with drivers
3. Registry problems

Most drivers are re-installed to their default state when you re-install windows XP pro right?

meanman · 03-07-2006, 09:42 AM

try to repair windows do what you would do if you were going to install windows and the windows cd will find your operating system and ask you if you want to repair it say yes and see if that works

03-04-2006, 09:24 AM	#1 (permalink)
Emper0r Bronze Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 54	HELP: consistent blue screens of death Hey guys, I'm having some bizzare problems with blue screens of death. First off, here's my comp specs: OS: Windows XP Pro Processor: Pentium 4 3.04 ghz Video card: Radeon 9700 Pro Sound Card: Soundblaster Audigy Ram: 1 GB of RD 1066 Motherboard: P4T533 This issue has been happening for about four days now, and it started ever since two things happened: 1. I cleaned up my C drive (deleted a lot of files and folders because it was so cluttered). When doing this I deleted all non-folder files that were sitting in the C drive by themselves, was this bad? 2. I downloaded a large program that may have had a virus attached. Since both have happened, anytime I try to run a game like Counter-Strike, Civilization IV, Diablo II etc I recieve a blue screen of death that always mentions one of the following somewhere near the bottom: Win32k.sys or NDIS.sys Yet I can run all messenger programs, all media players, firefox and applications like Pokerstars without the blue screens of death coming up at all! I've removed SP2 and re-installed Windows XP pro but I'm still recieving the error. I ran a full virus scan and ran Spybot for any spyware and both found nothing. I even tried re-installing my video card driver and sound driver... yet still getting these bsod's. If anyone can help me solve this problem I will do anything and everything I can do to help them with anything they need help with thanks guys!

03-04-2006, 09:35 AM	#2 (permalink)
spamdos Diamond Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Canberra Australia Age: 19 Posts: 1,160	it is usually a hardware problem, did you install any NEW hardware recently __________________ TROGDOR the BURNINATOR

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03-07-2006, 09:42 AM	#7 (permalink)
meanman Diamond Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: england Posts: 1,808	try to repair windows do what you would do if you were going to install windows and the windows cd will find your operating system and ask you if you want to repair it say yes and see if that works