Various BSODs on a friend's computer
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He's giving them to through a forum so that's all I can give. Unless you want .txt files for each dump file, in that case I will create them and zip them.
Here are new ones:
Ok I will ask him to do that after he's done with memtest86. Asked him to test his RAM since the problem was coming from multiple places including the processor...
Ok, there are various outcomes in the first 5 dump files I've examined.
Causes
1 was from video driver
2 involved chrome
1 was from league of legends
1 was from norton software
So we have a wide variety of issues here just from the first 5 dump files. What OS is on this system? Ask if there was any new software or hardware added before the blue screens started appearing.
Causes
1 was from video driver
2 involved chrome
1 was from league of legends
1 was from norton software
So we have a wide variety of issues here just from the first 5 dump files. What OS is on this system? Ask if there was any new software or hardware added before the blue screens started appearing.
MS Windows XP Professional SP3
AMD Phenom 8600 Triple-Core Processor with 3 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce G210
He just had the shockwave plugin of chrome crash...
S.T.A.R.S.
banned
BSODs he has are all different.He is having some serious problems with his system...
Anyway:
-DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL:
This error is generated when a driver or part of Windows attempts to access pageable memory using the IRQL kernel process that is invalid.It can be bad hardware drivers,bad memory or mismatched memory or even corrupt or bad virtual memory page file.There are cases when the whole RAM is used and when the user attempts to use more resources on his/her computer and there is no free RAM left anymore that this will happen and therefore he should also enable PAGE FILE and put it on maximum.I put mine on 4096 MB and I noticed it gets used a lot since my RAM usually gets completely full when doing something heavy...
-ATTEMPTED_WRITE_TO_READONLY_MEMORY:
This would suggest a hardware problem with the first suspect being the physical RAM if you ask me...
For how long did he run MEM TEST?I always run it for at least 24 hours...
There are many programs for this purpose...I would recommend to use the one which works directly when booted from the CD disk rather than within Windows OS...
-NTFS_FILE_SYSTEM:
This type of the BSOD indicates that a problem occurred within "Ntfs.sys" file (the driver file that allows the system to read and write to NTFS drives).Corruption in the NTFS file system or in blocks (sectors) on the hard disk drive can cause this error.Corrupted SCSI and EIDE drivers can also adversely affect the systems ability to read and write to the hard disk drive and therefore cause the error.Tell your friend to start Windows in SAFE MODE WITH COMMAND PROMPT and then use the following command to fix all errors on the drive:
chkdsk.exe C: /F /R /X /V
He will probably be asked wether he wants to use the CHKDSK on the next restart.Tell him to confirm with YES.After that,write the following command to restart the computer:
shutdown.exe -R -T 0
If he has more than one C: partition then tell him to do the SAME on all other partitions such as D: , E: , F: and so on...
-IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL:
This BSOD indicates that a kernel mode process or driver attempted to access a memory address to which it did not have permission to access.The most common cause of this error is an incorrect or corrupted pointer that references an incorrect location in memory.A pointer such as INT is a variable used by a program to refer to a block of memory.If the variable has an incorrect value in it the program tries to access memory that it should not.When this occurs in a user mode application,it generates an access violation.When it occurs in kernel mode,it generates a STOP 0x0000000A message.I must admit that this happened to me quite a few times when I used improper strings and integers when I was working on a few programs lol...I guess I just stored some bad data in them...It was a long time ago anyway lol.
But anyway...this can be caused by a bad program that he has installed...
Of course...it can also be that he is having HARDWARE issues.
But let's not go that far just yet...
Cheers!
Anyway:
-DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL:
This error is generated when a driver or part of Windows attempts to access pageable memory using the IRQL kernel process that is invalid.It can be bad hardware drivers,bad memory or mismatched memory or even corrupt or bad virtual memory page file.There are cases when the whole RAM is used and when the user attempts to use more resources on his/her computer and there is no free RAM left anymore that this will happen and therefore he should also enable PAGE FILE and put it on maximum.I put mine on 4096 MB and I noticed it gets used a lot since my RAM usually gets completely full when doing something heavy...
-ATTEMPTED_WRITE_TO_READONLY_MEMORY:
This would suggest a hardware problem with the first suspect being the physical RAM if you ask me...
For how long did he run MEM TEST?I always run it for at least 24 hours...
There are many programs for this purpose...I would recommend to use the one which works directly when booted from the CD disk rather than within Windows OS...
-NTFS_FILE_SYSTEM:
This type of the BSOD indicates that a problem occurred within "Ntfs.sys" file (the driver file that allows the system to read and write to NTFS drives).Corruption in the NTFS file system or in blocks (sectors) on the hard disk drive can cause this error.Corrupted SCSI and EIDE drivers can also adversely affect the systems ability to read and write to the hard disk drive and therefore cause the error.Tell your friend to start Windows in SAFE MODE WITH COMMAND PROMPT and then use the following command to fix all errors on the drive:
chkdsk.exe C: /F /R /X /V
He will probably be asked wether he wants to use the CHKDSK on the next restart.Tell him to confirm with YES.After that,write the following command to restart the computer:
shutdown.exe -R -T 0
If he has more than one C: partition then tell him to do the SAME on all other partitions such as D: , E: , F: and so on...
-IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL:
This BSOD indicates that a kernel mode process or driver attempted to access a memory address to which it did not have permission to access.The most common cause of this error is an incorrect or corrupted pointer that references an incorrect location in memory.A pointer such as INT is a variable used by a program to refer to a block of memory.If the variable has an incorrect value in it the program tries to access memory that it should not.When this occurs in a user mode application,it generates an access violation.When it occurs in kernel mode,it generates a STOP 0x0000000A message.I must admit that this happened to me quite a few times when I used improper strings and integers when I was working on a few programs lol...I guess I just stored some bad data in them...It was a long time ago anyway lol.
But anyway...this can be caused by a bad program that he has installed...
Of course...it can also be that he is having HARDWARE issues.
But let's not go that far just yet...
Cheers!