BSOD when nothing happening

I've been getting BSODs for about the past month now. I'm not entirely sure whats causing it as it happens randomly (sometimes I'm watching a video, playing a game, or even when its idle at desktop). I've reverted back to stock settings in the BIOS and I still got the BSOD so it's not because of system instability. I've also ran memtest86+ for about 12 hours with no errors and the Western Digital Lifeguard diagnostic says that my hard drive passes the S.M.A.R.T test.

Anyhow here are some of the stop codes I've gotten:

0x000000D1
0x0000008E
0x00000077

I haven't reformatted yet but I'd rather not have to do that if possible.

It might help to know which OS you're running. But regardless, all three of those STOP errors have one thing in common... faulty RAM / incorrect timings / insufficient Vdimm, etc. I know you mentioned having tested your RAM w/ Memtest, and I'm assuming you have 2x512MB sticks of RAM installed... but remove all but one stick of RAM and test each individually (not by using Memtest, but rather the MS Memory Diagnostic tool).

Windows Memory Diagnostic
http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp

May be overheating.

Sorry I forgot to mention it, I'm using XP. I don't think its overheating because its been fine for the past 2 years and I have pretty good airflow.

I agree with redduc. It can take a bit of time, but the memory shuffle is where I would be. Take your time; be methodical and thorough.

How often does this problem occur? I know you said randomly but usually once per day or does it occur more often? I would be leaning towards RAM also but would not be counting out your PSU. Was also wondering do you have ACPI enabled? I have the same mobo with X2 - 3800 and if I do not enable ACPI it gives me all kinds of troubles........if it even boots.

It happens multiple times a day (about 3 or 4). I think I do have ACPI enabled. I'm fairly sure that this is a software issue of some sort since everything has been peachy until about a month or so.

crash013 said:

It happens multiple times a day (about 3 or 4). I think I do have ACPI enabled. I'm fairly sure that this is a software issue of some sort since everything has been peachy until about a month or so.

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Crash,

Dirtydawg has a point, and I'm not saying it's your problem, but you may want to take a look at your power supply capacitors while your at it. Look to see if they are bulged or leaking. It's easy to do and you perhaps can eliminate two potential problems at once while checking your RAMs as recommended above.

http://www.capacitorlab.com/visible-failures/pic002.htm

There is sometimes a file being referenced with a "Stop Error" somewhere in the screen text. If there is one, list it.

Well I ran the memory diagnostic and it didn't come up with anything after about 10 passes of the extended tests on each stick. And I don't see anything wrong with the capacitors.

crash013 said:

Well I ran the memory diagnostic and it didn't come up with anything after about 10 passes of the extended tests on each stick. And I don't see anything wrong with the capacitors.

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Crash,

Try this site for a few suggestions:

http://aumha.org/a/stop.htm

Since you have checked and tested some of the obvious, I looked at some of the errors you have and most refer back to drivers. "Stop Errors" many times reference a specific file causing the problem but not always, which makes it more difficult to assess. Have you changed or installed anything recently in your rig that could be driver related?

All connections tight and clean, including any SATA hd connectors?

In addition, open Event Viewer (Start | Run | Type eventvwr.msc in the Run box) and right click--> "Properties" the latest critical errors you've received related to the 0xD1, 0x8E, and 0x77 errors (critical errors are in Red). Copy and paste (use the "Copy to Clipboard" button under the arrow buttons in the "Event Properties" window) the latest critical error message(s) as they appear under the "Description" field, and post them in this thread.

After you hit the "Copy to Clipboard" button in the "Event Properties" dialog, the contents in the Description field will be copied to the ClipBook Viewer (ClipBoard). You can then just paste the contents into your post, as there is no Edit-->Select All-->Copy function in ClipBook. In addition you could type clipbrd in the Run box, which will open the ClipBook Viewer containing the copied text from the Event Properties dialog... then perform a File-->Save As, and save the file with a *.txt extension. You could then perform a Edit-->Select All, then do a copy/paste of the text in your new post... so you have a couple different options.

Also, open the System Information tool by typing msinfo32 in the Run box | Expand "Components" | Highlight "Problem Devices", and look for any problems that might be listed there. You might also want to check out the sticky at the top of this forum...

Windows32: The Whys and Hows of Stop Errors
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=420646

Made sure everything was properly connected. I see 2 critical errors under the System heading.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7026
Date: 23/12/2007
Time: 5:15:35 PM
User: N/A
Computer: GREENMILE
Description:
The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:
nod32drv
NPPTNT2

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.



Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7000
Date: 23/12/2007
Time: 5:15:35 PM
User: N/A
Computer: GREENMILE
Description:
The AMON service failed to start due to the following error:
The system cannot find the file specified.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

You might want to try completely uninstalling NOD32, and either reinstall using the latest version 3.0, or try a different scanner like Avast or AntiVir (both of which are free). Also run and post a log file from HijackThis, which you can download here...

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download3155.html

How To Uninstall NOD32
http://antivirus.about.com/cs/tutorials/ht/nod32unin.htm

The thing is I haven't had NOD32 on the computer for a while now. I've been using Kaspersky for as long as I can remember. NOD32 isn't even installed. Here's the log:

Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 5:37:23 PM, on 23/12/2007
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16574)

Running processes:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Acronis\Schedule2\schedul2.exe
C:\Program Files\Kaspersky Lab\Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0\avp.exe
C:\Program Files\Diskeeper Corporation\Diskeeper\DkService.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\nvsvc32.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\PnkBstrA.exe
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Private Folder 1.0\PrfldSvc.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Acronis\Fomatik\TrueImageTryStartService.exe
C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE
C:\Program Files\Creative\SBAudigy2ZS\Surround Mixer\CTSysVol.exe
C:\Program Files\Kaspersky Lab\Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0\avp.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Acronis\Schedule2\schedhlp.exe
C:\Program Files\Acronis\TrueImageHome\TrueImageMonitor.exe
C:\Program Files\Acronis\TrueImageHome\TimounterMonitor.exe
C:\WINDOWS\CTHELPER.EXE
C:\Program Files\PeerGuardian2\pg2.exe
C:\Program Files\DAEMON Tools Lite\daemon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Yahoo! Widget Engine\YahooWidgetEngine.exe
C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Yahoo! Widget Engine\YahooWidgetEngine.exe
C:\Program Files\Pidgin\pidgin.exe
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
C:\Program Files\HijackThis\HijackThis.exe

R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = http://www.google.ca/
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Default_Page_URL = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=69157
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Default_Search_URL = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=54896
R1 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Search Page = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=54896
R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=69157
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings,ProxyOverride = *.local
O2 - BHO: Adobe PDF Reader Link Helper - {06849E9F-C8D7-4D59-B87D-784B7D6BE0B3} - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Acrobat\ActiveX\AcroIEHelper.dll
O2 - BHO: SSVHelper Class - {761497BB-D6F0-462C-B6EB-D4DAF1D92D43} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_03\bin\ssv.dll
O3 - Toolbar: (no name) - {DE9C389F-3316-41A7-809B-AA305ED9D922} - (no file)
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [CTSysVol] "C:\Program Files\Creative\SBAudigy2ZS\Surround Mixer\CTSysVol.exe" /r
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SBDrvDet] "C:\Program Files\Creative\SB Drive Det\SBDrvDet.exe" /r
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [KernelFaultCheck] %systemroot%\system32\dumprep 0 -k
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [AVP] "C:\Program Files\Kaspersky Lab\Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0\avp.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Acronis Scheduler2 Service] "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Acronis\Schedule2\schedhlp.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [TrueImageMonitor.exe] C:\Program Files\Acronis\TrueImageHome\TrueImageMonitor.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [AcronisTimounterMonitor] C:\Program Files\Acronis\TrueImageHome\TimounterMonitor.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [OSSelectorReinstall] C:\Program Files\Common Files\Acronis\Acronis Disk Director\oss_reinstall.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Adobe Reader Speed Launcher] "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 8.0\Reader\Reader_sl.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [NvCplDaemon] RUNDLL32.EXE C:\WINDOWS\system32\NvCpl.dll,NvStartup
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [RivaTunerStartupDaemon] "C:\Program Files\RivaTuner v2.06\RivaTuner.exe" /S
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [CtxfiReg] CTXFIREG.exe /FAIL2
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [CTHelper] CTHELPER.EXE
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [CTxfiHlp] CTXFIHLP.EXE
O4 - HKLM\..\RunOnce: [NCInstallQueue] rundll32 netman.dll,ProcessQueue
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [PeerGuardian] "C:\Program Files\PeerGuardian2\pg2.exe"
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [DAEMON Tools Lite] "C:\Program Files\DAEMON Tools Lite\daemon.exe"
O4 - Startup: Yahoo! Widget Engine.lnk = C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Yahoo! Widget Engine\YahooWidgetEngine.exe
O8 - Extra context menu item: Add to Anti-Banner - C:\Program Files\Kaspersky Lab\Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0\ie_banner_deny.htm
O8 - Extra context menu item: E&xport to Microsoft Excel - res://C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~4\Office12\EXCEL.EXE/3000
O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {08B0E5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAA5-00401C608501} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_03\bin\ssv.dll
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Sun Java Console - {08B0E5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAA5-00401C608501} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_03\bin\ssv.dll
O9 - Extra button: Research - {92780B25-18CC-41C8-B9BE-3C9C571A8263} - C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\Office12\REFIEBAR.DLL
O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {e2e2dd38-d088-4134-82b7-f2ba38496583} - %windir%\Network Diagnostic\xpnetdiag.exe (file missing)
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: @xpsp3res.dll,-20001 - {e2e2dd38-d088-4134-82b7-f2ba38496583} - %windir%\Network Diagnostic\xpnetdiag.exe (file missing)
O11 - Options group: [INTERNATIONAL] International*
O16 - DPF: {193C772A-87BE-4B19-A7BB-445B226FE9A1} (ewidoOnlineScan Control) - http://download.ewido.net/ewidoOnlineScan.cab
O16 - DPF: {30528230-99f7-4bb4-88d8-fa1d4f56a2ab} (Installation Support) - C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Common\Yinsthelper.dll
O16 - DPF: {6414512B-B978-451D-A0D8-FCFDF33E833C} (WUWebControl Class) - http://update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate/v6/V5Controls/en/x86/client/wuweb_site.cab?1188003362484
O16 - DPF: {6E32070A-766D-4EE6-879C-DC1FA91D2FC3} (MUWebControl Class) - http://update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate/v6/V5Controls/en/x86/client/muweb_site.cab?1188003350734
O16 - DPF: {9C024426-7859-4B2D-AB4C-B1E370AE7549} - http://us.mcafee.com/Apps/WSC/en-us/WscWlanScannerCtrl.cab
O16 - DPF: {B38870E4-7ECB-40DA-8C6A-595F0A5519FF} (MsnMessengerSetupDownloadControl Class) - http://messenger.msn.com/download/MsnMessengerSetupDownloader.cab
O16 - DPF: {D27CDB6E-AE6D-11CF-96B8-444553540000} (Shockwave Flash Object) - http://fpdownload2.macromedia.com/get/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab
O17 - HKLM\System\CS1\Services\Tcpip\..\{74AFB331-E105-4470-B3F1-D6B5143555A4}: NameServer = 192.168.0.1
O17 - HKLM\System\CS2\Services\Tcpip\..\{77A92CE4-C847-4BC0-93E2-BAEE035FBD41}: NameServer = 192.168.0.1,192.168.0.2
O17 - HKLM\System\CS3\Services\Tcpip\..\{74AFB331-E105-4470-B3F1-D6B5143555A4}: NameServer = 192.168.0.1
O18 - Protocol: livecall - {828030A1-22C1-4009-854F-8E305202313F} - C:\PROGRA~1\MSNMES~1\MSGRAP~1.DLL
O18 - Protocol: ms-help - {314111C7-A502-11D2-BBCA-00C04F8EC294} - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Help\hxds.dll
O18 - Protocol: msnim - {828030A1-22C1-4009-854F-8E305202313F} - C:\PROGRA~1\MSNMES~1\MSGRAP~1.DLL
O18 - Protocol: skype4com - {FFC8B962-9B40-4DFF-9458-1830C7DD7F5D} - C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\Skype\SKYPE4~1.DLL
O18 - Protocol: talkto - {828030A1-22C1-4009-854F-8E305202313F} - C:\PROGRA~1\MSNMES~1\MSGRAP~1.DLL
O18 - Filter hijack: text/xml - {807563E5-5146-11D5-A672-00B0D022E945} - C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\MICROS~1\OFFICE12\MSOXMLMF.DLL
O20 - AppInit_DLLs: C:\PROGRA~1\KASPER~1\KASPER~2.0\adialhk.dll
O20 - Winlogon Notify: klogon - C:\WINDOWS\system32\klogon.dll
O20 - Winlogon Notify: WRNotifier - WRLogonNTF.dll (file missing)
O21 - SSODL: IconPackager Repair - {1799460C-0BC8-4865-B9DF-4A36CD703FF0} - C:\WINDOWS\system32\iprepair.dll
O21 - SSODL: WPDShServiceObj - {AAA288BA-9A4C-45B0-95D7-94D524869DB5} - C:\WINDOWS\system32\WPDShServiceObj.dll
O23 - Service: Acronis Scheduler2 Service (AcrSch2Svc) - Acronis - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Acronis\Schedule2\schedul2.exe
O23 - Service: Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0 (AVP) - Unknown owner - C:\Program Files\Kaspersky Lab\Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0\avp.exe" -r (file missing)
O23 - Service: Diskeeper - Diskeeper Corporation - C:\Program Files\Diskeeper Corporation\Diskeeper\DkService.exe
O23 - Service: Google Updater Service (gusvc) - Google - C:\Program Files\Google\Common\Google Updater\GoogleUpdaterService.exe
O23 - Service: InstallDriver Table Manager (IDriverT) - Macrovision Corporation - C:\Program Files\Common Files\InstallShield\Driver\1050\Intel 32\IDriverT.exe
O23 - Service: iPod Service - Apple Inc. - C:\Program Files\iPod\bin\iPodService.exe
O23 - Service: NVIDIA Display Driver Service (NVSvc) - NVIDIA Corporation - C:\WINDOWS\system32\nvsvc32.exe
O23 - Service: PnkBstrA - Unknown owner - C:\WINDOWS\system32\PnkBstrA.exe
O23 - Service: Private Folder Service (prfldsvc) - Unknown owner - C:\Program Files\Microsoft Private Folder 1.0\PrfldSvc.exe
O23 - Service: ServiceLayer - Nokia. - C:\Program Files\PC Connectivity Solution\ServiceLayer.exe
O23 - Service: Acronis Try And Decide Service (TryAndDecideService) - Unknown owner - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Acronis\Fomatik\TrueImageTryStartService.exe

Got rid of those 2 critical errors by disabling the services in the device manager. Still getting the BSODs though.

I have the minidump file if that is some use to you.

could you re-up that dump file? I can't unzip it; says it's corrupted.

There you go