Microcrap does it again....

[-=<Night Wolf>=-]

Alright, I&#39;m getting fed up with this.

Long story short, I first started getting bluescreen 0xA5 (ACPI_BIOS_ERROR), so I flashed the BIOS on my system. Thinking everything was back to normal, I continued my normal activities. About an hour later, I get a series of different bluescreens.

0x01 (IRQL_NOT LESS OR EQUAL)
0x8E (KERNEL_MODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED)
0x05 (INVALID_PROCESS_ATTACH_ATTEMPT)

I tried attaching the memory.dmp file, but Windows bluescreens every time I try to read the darn file, even in safe mode, with IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL! Now it won&#39;t boot anything because of a corrupt \SYSTEM32\SYSTEM file. Reinstalling only produces stop 0x8E when initializing windows setup.

It&#39;s definitely not the system RAM, the RAM chips are new, and I have tried removing them both (one at a time, of course), and it&#39;s definitely not the videocard, since it bluescreens even with a different card in there. Searching came up with another possibility - the L2 cache on my CPU. How do I check that for errors? And is there anything else I may have missed?

[genesis]

If you can run the computer long enough, run SiSoft sandra benchmark utility, see if that software produces any errors. From the sounds of it, it&#39;s probablly something on the motherboard.

[RickDev]

You flashed to a new version of your BIOS? Have you added any new devices?

[-=<Night Wolf>=-]

Guys after hammering away at this last night, I&#39;ve partially fixed this problem. It appears to me that something is producing a fairly large amount of heat. Thanks for your suggestions.

Here&#39;s what I did.

1. Reformat the computer
2. Reinstall Windows 98 on a clean harddrive (XP was producing bluescreens like mad at this point)
3. Upgrade to XP

I was still receiving bluescreen errors. Reaching inside the computer, I noticed an unusual amount of heat. I put a large floor-based fan in front of the computer, and it rarely bluescreens now. For now, I&#39;ve decided to keep my desktop powered down, and marked this as a possible CPU or power supply overheating problem.

[genesis]

Oh boy, it&#39;s potentially either the CPU or the motherboard chipset that&#39;s over heating....

[RickDev]

ahh the over heating problems in the new stuff I would look and make sure all fans on the inside of the case are moving. Had a graphic card who&#39;s fan stopped moving and drove me nutz until I found the problem. Take a big can of air and clean any and all vents in the case.

[genesis]

lol so it wasn&#39;t microcrap after all :lol:

[-=<Night Wolf>=-]

Nope, it was *very* bad hardware. I believe I was running on borrowed time at that point. It wasn&#39;t until recently that I found two teeth missing on my PSU fan. How the heck it got like that, I don&#39;t know. At least now I know what the problem is. I wanted to go 64bit anyways.

[0duvijek4]

I'd suggest to simply reinstall your windows It might not be a hardware problem - it might be a software problem