Stevie
You have insufficient free disk space but I would not put the Stop
Errors
down to this. I am adding some notes regarding how you might increase
free disk space at the end of this message.
You need to post proper copies of the Stop Error Reports.
Disable automatic restart on system failure. This should help by
allowing time to write down the STOP code properly. Right click
on the My Computer icon on the Desktop and select Properties,
Advanced, Start-Up and Recovery, System Failure and uncheck
box before Automatically Restart.
Do not re-enable automatic restart on system failure until you have
resolved the problem. Check for variants of the Stop Error message.
There will also be Error Reports in Event Viewer. Look in the
System log. Please post a copy.
You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Administrative Tools,
Event Viewer. When researching the meaning of the error, information
regarding Event ID, Source and Description are important.
HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308427&Product=winxp
A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double
click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a
button resembling two pages. Double click the button and close Event
Viewer. Now start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of
the message. This will paste the info from the Event Viewer Error
Report. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from Event
Viewer.
http://aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm
Try testing your memory
Memtest86 - Memory Diagnostic Page:
http://www.memtest86.com/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d..._299217d6-98d1-4d1d-8068-883e89933845.xml.asp
if link broken try
http://snipurl.com/l6o7
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d..._299217d6-98d1-4d1d-8068-883e89933845.xml.asp
if link broken try
http://snipurl.com/l6o7
Are there any yellow question marks in Device Manager? Right
click on the My Computer icon on your Desktop and select
Properties. Hardware, Device Manager. If yes what is the
Device Error code?
You could try Start, Run, type "sfc /scannow" without quotes
and hit Enter.
Description of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 System
File Checker (Sfc.exe)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310747
To increase you free space on your C partition select Start, All
Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp, More
Options, System Restore and remove all but the latest System
Restore points? Restore points can be quite large.
You should use Disk CleanUp regularly to Empty your Recycle Bin
and Remove Temporary Internet Files. Whenever you remove
redundant files you should always run Disk Defragmenter by selecting
Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk Defragmenter.
It is likely that an allocation of 12% has been made to System Restore
on your C partition which is over generous. I would reduce it to 700 mb.
Right click your My Computer icon on the Desktop and select System
Restore.Place the cursor on your C drive select Settings but this time
find the slider and drag it to the left until it reads 700 mb and exit.
When
you get to the Settings screen click on Apply and OK and exit.
If your hard drive is formatted as NTFS another potential gain arises
with your operating system on your C drive. In the Windows Directory
of your C partition you will have some Uninstall folders in your Windows
folder typically: $NtServicePackUninstall$ and
$NtUninstallKB282010$ etc.
These files may be compressed or not compressed. If compressed the
text of the folder name appears in blue characters. If not compressed
you can compress them. Right click on each folder and select Properties,
General, Advanced and check the box before Compress contents to
save Disk Space. On the General Tab you can see the amount gained
by deducting the size on disk from the size. Folder compression is
only an option on a NTFS formatted drive / partition.
Another default setting on a large drive which could be wasteful is that
for temporary internet files especially if you do not store offline
copies
on disk. The default allocation is 3% of drive. Depending on your
attitude
to offline copies you could reduce this to 1% or 2%. In Internet
Explorer
select Tools, Internet Options, General, Temporary Internet Files,
Settings to make the change. At the same time look at the number of
days history is held.
The default allocation for the Recycle Bin is 10 % of drive. On your
drive 5% should be sufficient. In Windows Explorer place the cursor
on your Recycle Bin, right click and select Properties, Global and
move the slider from 10% to 5%.
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Hope this helps.
Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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Stevie said:
Running 160gb disc with around 10gb free space and 768mb ram
Event viewer shows:-
nothing in aplications
nothing in security
in system:- system error category (102) event 1003
The perramitors of the error very but i will post them if it will
help.
I run check disc reguly but is there any way of viewing the chkdsc log
????????
I am runnign the bare minimum background proseses
Thank for any help.
nass said:
Stevie said:
I recieve a blue screen or critical stop around twice a day with
diferent
error codes such as:-
irq-not-equal-or-somthing error code 4a
pfn list corrupt error code 4e
and some others, all at very random time although it dose seem to
be worse
when the machine is working hard
I have updated or reinstalled everthing I can think of and have run
several
debug programs, my windows seem to run realy good apart from the
blue screens.
Could defective memory cause different error codes, I would like to
pin
point the error before spending £60 on new modules ????
First of all how much Disk Space you have on your computer and how
much RAM
installed.
Then you can look in the Event Viewer for Error messages which willl
show
you applicatiins,hardwares, security crashes that happend on this
machine and
point out or shed some light on what is going on, to access the Event
Viewer
do this:
Open a run command and type in: eventvwr and click [OK] you are on
check
under these options:
Application
System
Security
Download the AutoRun tools to decide what runing in the background:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/autoruns.mspx
Download this Resource Kit for troubleshooting and read this article
for
more Info:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/reskit/c28621675.mspx
HTH.
REgards,
nass
