BSOD Stop Code 0x0000008E

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I am getting this system halt with this code. However, there's nothing in
this BSOD that tells me what is primary cause of the crash. Is there
anything I can do pinpoint the cause of this crash?
 
Your motherboard and BIOS predate Windows XP. The error message
indicates something incompatible. A BIOS upgrade does not appear to
be readily available.

It could be a driver issue. 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?
 
I'm aware of the possibility of driver corruption or conflict, and so I've
been checking Device Mgr often, and no, there are not any yellow flags.

Actually, I am also getting Stop 0x00000050 - Page_Fault_In_NonPaged_Area,
but not as frequent. I wonder if these two system halts are related, or do I
have two separate problems?

Thanks, Kerry
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Well, this might not be that helpful, but many cases of 0x50 are cd burner
related. I would pull or disable the burner and test for a bsod. Put it back
in and test more. I suppose you could do that with many things, except video,
or keyboard.
 
I have two optical drives, one CD and other is DVD. However, they are both
housed in a external case and connected thru USB ports. They are always
turned off until I need to use them, so I don't think that's a factor.

One other thing that I forgot to mentioned is that all my system crashes
started after I remove my DDR333 1GB & 512MB chips and used DDR400 Dual
Channel. I have two pairs, and they are different enough that I can't use
both pairs the same. But, no matter which single pair I use in either
channel, I still get system crashes.

I'm going to try Verifier as suggested by J. Obrey when I get the chance. I
hope to find the cause here.

If you have other ideas that I could try, pls let me know.

Thanks, Kerry.
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