I had been getting BSODs occasionally for the past 4 days or so. Hadn't paid
much attention to them as I was playing with a new AV, etc. Finally restored
back to an early ghost of this new install (no W2K partition this time).
BSOD. Foo. Must be some update... (read *windows* update, heehee) So since I
had 2 good ghost backups of this install I instaled on top of the partition
to see what would happen. At about the 2nd install shutdown, BSOD. BANG.
"Hardware error" Same as I had been getting. Kinda final.
So I rolled the case over and took the side off and stared at the mostly 3
month old hardware (new mobo, vid card, tv card), with (more recently) new
IDE cable, that HAD been rock solid.
Only thing I could think of was to wiggle things - memory, IDE cable, vid
card, tv card, and then removed the cpu to reseat it. Pulling a cpu used to
be easy, but the edges on these 939 mounts prevent rotating it to break the
seal of the AS3 paste, which sticks exceedingly well. The mounts only allow
for about 3 degrees of rotation. So eventually, the whole thing - heatsink
and cpu comes out of the socket. Not what they intended, but this is my 3rd
pull and that's what happens. foo! Anyway, no bent pins (this time!) so
cleaned off the AS3 with alcohol and put new on and put it all back together.
Fired it up and lo and behold my BIOS tells me I have a different cpu and I'd
better check the settings (I did not clear the cmos). So there was my
problem. Nice! Restored my ghost of 2am this morning and off I am going, just
fine.
So hopefully there is some encouragement to folks having impossible BSODs!
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Kristi
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ABIT KN8 Ultra(NForce4Ultra), Ath64 3500+, 2x512MB Geil, Leadtek PX6600GT TDH 128mb, Leadtek WinFast TV2000 XP Expert TV card.
Raxco PerfectDisk8
XP Pro SP 2++++
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