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| Thread ID: 71515 | 2006-08-08 03:50:00 | Elusive problem | cobaltburrito (10936) | Press F1 |
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| 477023 | 2006-08-08 03:50:00 | Hi. : ) I've got a problem in my XP box. Starting a few months ago, my system would hang seemingly randomly. However, I noticed a pattern when I would use a program such as Bittorent or Windows Media Player is when I would crash. Sometimes I actually got a BSOD, other times it just hung at whatever was on my screen at the time. When I did get a BSOD, the stop error was 0x0....D1, in a dll file associated with drivers of my SATA drive. I did a bit of digging around and it seemed that people getting the about the same error were helped by replacing memory. So, I got a motherboard , free from a friend, along with a new processor and also a gig of PC3200 ram. I swapped out the components, wiped the windows drive and did a fresh install. Lo and behold it did absolutely nothing, besides changing the source of the D1 stop error to a .dll for my drivers in my wireless nic. Last night, I replaced my wireless nic and i'm still hanging, although now I sometimes hang directly after the logon screen and I seem to not be able to do as much without it freezing. Strangely, I'm not getting a blue screen now. Any and all suggestions would greatly be appreciated. System specs: Microstar MS-6728 mobo P4 3.0 ghz with HT 1 gig PC3200 ram(Prosys) D-Link DWL-G520 NIC MSI ATI Radeon 9550 video card Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit sound card |
cobaltburrito (10936) | ||
| 477024 | 2006-08-08 05:02:00 | sounds like you've replaced the major components except the harddrive.....maybe you should run a manufacturers diagnostic on it ? | drcspy (146) | ||
| 477025 | 2006-08-08 05:04:00 | Well, I actually disconnected the SATA drive and there was no change. But the reason I don't think it is a HD problem is because the source of the crashes changed from the SATA drivers to a different driver and that program is not on the SATA drive. I'm definetly open to any possiblity at this point though and I'll try your suggestion. |
cobaltburrito (10936) | ||
| 477026 | 2006-08-08 05:09:00 | ummm...perhaps I've misunderstood you but how can you have a 'windows' problem with the drive disconnected... ?.... and yes the mfgs site should have diagnostic tools for download |
drcspy (146) | ||
| 477027 | 2006-08-08 05:10:00 | Windows is not on my SATA drive, it's on one of my two IDE drives. Sorry for the misunderstanding mate. |
cobaltburrito (10936) | ||
| 477028 | 2006-08-08 05:21:00 | lol no worries.........ah what make of drive are the ide ? | drcspy (146) | ||
| 477029 | 2006-08-08 17:11:00 | Both of them are Western Digital. I'm thinking that it is either a hard drive problem, or a software problem(not Windows) I've replaced every other major component besides the drives. |
cobaltburrito (10936) | ||
| 477030 | 2006-08-09 01:06:00 | Are you running the latest drivers for your motherboard chipset?, since you re-installed windows XP? | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 477031 | 2006-08-09 01:48:00 | XP version? Fully updated? | Greg (193) | ||
| 477032 | 2006-08-09 01:53:00 | Actually, today I wiped both of my IDE hard drives, moving some stuff to the SATA drive and disconnected the SATA drive. I reinstalled windows, and everything seems to be going well. I'm in the process of updating everything, but I think I may have solved the problem. The real test will be hooking the SATA drive back up and seeing if that'll jive. |
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