Blue screens blaming kmixer.sys

[Guest]

Can anyone help me to isolate this problem, it is driving me mad.


OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name DENIS
System Manufacturer GBT___
System Model AWRDACPI
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 6 Model 6 Stepping 2 AuthenticAMD ~1674 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Award Software International, Inc. F6, 09/05/2003
SMBIOS Version 2.3
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United Kingdom
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.2180
(xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)"
User Name DENIS\Administrator
Time Zone GMT Standard Time
Total Physical Memory 512.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 227.47 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
Page File Space 1.22 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

 

[Vanguard]

Can anyone help me to isolate this problem, it is driving me mad.

<snip - msinfo32 output>

Reinstall the driver/software for whatever audio hardware you have in
your system. Or make sure that you downloaded the Windows XP version of
the audio driver. If the audio hardware is onboard the motherboard,
make sure you download and install the latest chipset driver package for
your mobo.

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Could you please post the Stop Code that accompanies the Blue Screen?

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[Guest]

Hi Vanguard

Sorry to have taken so long, but having taken your advice, I had to wait
several days to ensure the success of your wisdom which has indeed solved the
situation.

Thank you very much, however, I am now working my way through a selection of
randon coded bluescreens..... perhaps a clean install of XP may bethe best
solution, any ideas?

Thanks again

Denis

 

[Vanguard]

Hi Vanguard

Sorry to have taken so long, but having taken your advice, I had to
wait
several days to ensure the success of your wisdom which has indeed
solved the
situation.

Thank you very much, however, I am now working my way through a
selection of
randon coded bluescreens..... perhaps a clean install of XP may bethe
best
solution, any ideas?

Thanks again

Denis

So which worked? Reinstalling the audio drivers? Or installing the
mobo chipset drivers?

If you are having lots of problems with drivers, I suspect you did an
"upgrade" from Windows 9x/ME to Windows XP (which is really a migrate
rather than an update). That means you could have lots of old and
incompatible drivers in your new Windows XP setup. You'll have to start
visiting the web sites for every hardware vendor for the devices in your
host - mobo, video, audio, SCSI, etc. - to download and install their
Windows *XP* version of their driver or software. Personally I *never*
do a migrate from a 95-based version of Windows to an NT-based version
of Windows because of all the pollution that gets dragged alone and
invariably instability results from the migration. Yeah, it's is faster
(sometimes but not always) but often you pay with much more time later.

Check your BIOS settings, too. Make sure SPD (serial presence detect)
is selected for memory settings rather than trying to use custom or
turbo settings. If you are overclocking then it sounds like you didn't
get it right or you went too far, so back off or revert to standard
clock settings.

If trying to bandaid the OS doesn't work, you might end trying to do a
repair. Use the bootable install CD for Windows XP to bootup using it
and use its Repair to fix the OS (use the second Repair option as the
first one puts you into Recovery Console mode).