Alex_is_Axel
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Hey guys
I really need your help and expert-ness! To start ill tell you my system specs:
AMD Athlon XP 64 3500+
1GB DDR1 RAM
MSI K8n Neo2 Platinum Motherboard
Nvidia Geforce 2 MX 400 32mb
3 Hard Drives
1 CD/DVD RW
800Watt Antec iGreen PSU
Windows XP Professional 32bit
OK, so yesterday because im an "idiot" I thought if i updated my motherboard BIoS, it may speed up my system load time. I updated my BIOS using the MSI Software and it said update completed sucessfully. I rebooted my system and then i had a new hardware found (PCI Bridge) but it couldnt find and drivers for it. My system started to freeze as soon as i loaded up my desktop. Only booting into Safe-mode left me enough time to save my data on a second hard drive before it would freeze up again. With the system freezing, i couldnt unfreeze or access any programs until i press the reset button on my system.
I didnt think much of this, i just thougt it may have been an old driver problem so i decided to reformat my system completely and start a fresh. My system rebooted twice randomly during the Windows XP installation. causing a screen to come up saying "Restarting installation". Eventually it finally finished installing XP and i figured. OK, so it might be the motherboard bios firmware update. So i downgraded back to the original version. Same problem. I changed to an even lower version.. same problem
Everytime i load these settings, on the bios screen i set "load optimal settings" to ensure it would load the correct stable settings in bios
I figured it might have been my graphics card (Ati radeon 9600 Pro) as it causes me issues (with games only) which is why im currently on the MX400. But the same problem occurs. The Event viewer doesnt give me any information as to why it reboots, it doesnt even show it is rebooting. Im really stuck as its so unstable when i update from Windows update, it reboots in the middle. Im sure eventually if it keeps rebooting, something willl get corrupted again
Does anyone have any idea what it could be? Or something i could try to find out what is the problem
Im so lost!
I managed to make it create blue screens (by the system properties, advanced, startup and recovery and unticking the automaticlly restart) and it has of course since crashed again. I noted down the error code generated on the blue screen:
Stop: 0x0000008e (0xc0000005, 0x804A2B72, 0xF2C00c5c, 0x00000000)
After a quick google search, the first 2 blocks of code come up with RAM faults. However ive had this Ram for years and it hasnt come up with this error before to my knowledge. Could it just start happening now? If i type in the whole error however, google doesnt come up with anything
Could it be anything else other than Bad Ram? Im going to perform a memtest on the ram now to see what it comes back with. Could it be Bios settings that have been changed? Im unsure which parts of the bios i need to look at to change them back. They are however set on Auto
EDIT: I ran Memtest 2/3times and it came back with zero errors Now im really puzzled!
Thank you so much for your time and help!
Alex
I really need your help and expert-ness! To start ill tell you my system specs:
AMD Athlon XP 64 3500+
1GB DDR1 RAM
MSI K8n Neo2 Platinum Motherboard
Nvidia Geforce 2 MX 400 32mb
3 Hard Drives
1 CD/DVD RW
800Watt Antec iGreen PSU
Windows XP Professional 32bit
OK, so yesterday because im an "idiot" I thought if i updated my motherboard BIoS, it may speed up my system load time. I updated my BIOS using the MSI Software and it said update completed sucessfully. I rebooted my system and then i had a new hardware found (PCI Bridge) but it couldnt find and drivers for it. My system started to freeze as soon as i loaded up my desktop. Only booting into Safe-mode left me enough time to save my data on a second hard drive before it would freeze up again. With the system freezing, i couldnt unfreeze or access any programs until i press the reset button on my system.
I didnt think much of this, i just thougt it may have been an old driver problem so i decided to reformat my system completely and start a fresh. My system rebooted twice randomly during the Windows XP installation. causing a screen to come up saying "Restarting installation". Eventually it finally finished installing XP and i figured. OK, so it might be the motherboard bios firmware update. So i downgraded back to the original version. Same problem. I changed to an even lower version.. same problem
I figured it might have been my graphics card (Ati radeon 9600 Pro) as it causes me issues (with games only) which is why im currently on the MX400. But the same problem occurs. The Event viewer doesnt give me any information as to why it reboots, it doesnt even show it is rebooting. Im really stuck as its so unstable when i update from Windows update, it reboots in the middle. Im sure eventually if it keeps rebooting, something willl get corrupted again
Does anyone have any idea what it could be? Or something i could try to find out what is the problem
I managed to make it create blue screens (by the system properties, advanced, startup and recovery and unticking the automaticlly restart) and it has of course since crashed again. I noted down the error code generated on the blue screen:
Stop: 0x0000008e (0xc0000005, 0x804A2B72, 0xF2C00c5c, 0x00000000)
After a quick google search, the first 2 blocks of code come up with RAM faults. However ive had this Ram for years and it hasnt come up with this error before to my knowledge. Could it just start happening now? If i type in the whole error however, google doesnt come up with anything
Could it be anything else other than Bad Ram? Im going to perform a memtest on the ram now to see what it comes back with. Could it be Bios settings that have been changed? Im unsure which parts of the bios i need to look at to change them back. They are however set on Auto
EDIT: I ran Memtest 2/3times and it came back with zero errors Now im really puzzled!
Thank you so much for your time and help!
Alex