Installing XP PRO SP1 and SP2 on MSI K8N Motherboard following BSODs

[TonyK]

I'm losing days, not hours. I hope someone will help as it has been a lot of
effort recording BSODs etc.
Background.
System is about 10 months old and has not been very stable with regular
BSODs, which have not stopped successful restart until a few days ago.
Undernoted are 3 successive (I think) BSODs:
BSOD Friday noon
A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage
to your computer.
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
If this is the first time you've seen this Stop error screen, restart your
computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps:
Check to make sure any new hardware of software is properly installed.
If this is a new installation, ask your hardware or software manufacturer
for any windows updates you might need.
If problems continue, disable or remove any newly installed hardware or
software. Disable BIOS memory options such as caching or shadowing.
If you need to use Safe Mode to remove or disable components, restart your
compoter, press F8 to select Advance Startup Options, and then select Safe
Mode.

Technical Information:
***STOP: 0x0000000A (0xF8DFF095, 0x0000001C, 0x00000000, 0x806D08B0)
Beginning dump of physical memory
Note: I did disable caching - no help



Friday 30/09/05 pm
See above. The undernoted happened when attempting to startup from previous
screen, i.e. K8N did NOT boot.
BSOD
A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage
to your computer.
If this is the first time you've seen this Stop error screen, restart your
computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps:
Disable or uninstall any anti-virus, disk defragmentation or backup
utilities. Check your hard drive configuration, and check for any updated
drivers. Run CHKDSK /F to check for hard drive corruption, and then restart
your computer.

Technical Information:
*** STOP: 0x00000024 (0x001902FE, 0xF368C1EC, 0xF368BEE8, 0xF7391365)
*** NTFS.SYS - Address F7391365 base at F736A000, DateStamp 41107eea
Beginning dump of physical memory
Note: Because I was also getting Partition Error 1516 on all partitions over
3 physical disks, I eventuall managed to run CHKDSK /F which (apparently)
cleared the "1516" errors, but I still could not get a successful boot.



Saturday 1/10/05 16.00hrs. This fail came up while the computer was not
being used.
BSOD
A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage
to your computer.
If this is the first time you've seen this Stop error screen, restart your
computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps:
Check to be sure you have adequate disk space. If a driver is identified in
the Stop message, disable the driver or check with the manufacturer for
driver updates. Try changing video adapters.
Check with your hardware vendor for any BIOS updates. Disable BIOS memory
options such as caching or shadowing. If you need to use Safe mode to remove
or disable compomnents, restart your computer, press F8 to select Advanced
Startup Options, and then select Safe Mode.

Technical Information:
*** STOP: 0x0000007E (0x00000005, 0XF6BB1F44, 0xF72F1CC0, 0xF72F19BC)
*** USBPORT.SYS - Address F6BB1F44 BASE AT F6BAC000, dATEsTAMP 41107D62
Beginning dump of physical memory

Following this, the furthest I could get was a "Safe Mode" system.
After many lost hours decided to repair. After 24 hour gave up when near
completion.
Started from scratch: formatted old "C:" partition and loaded SP1.
Excruciatingly slow. Went to bed at midnight with a screen near the end
(Registering Components?) showing 13 minutes left. It still hadn't completed
until about 08.00 this morning (Wed).

Started with SP2 at 08.00. It has just finished.

As I started this I got the undernoted info from Windows Task Manager which
showed:

Application: Windows XP Service Pack 2 Setup Wizard
Processes: 17 of them
Performance: now 24% CPU. Was 100% until a few moments back

Please, can anyone deduce anything from the BSODs. There has been no changes
to the configuration for many months.
My main concern is that I might have a faulty motherboard, and if so I
should do something now as it is 11 months old.

Any help would be so appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[Jim Macklin]

You certainly have a hardware problem, it could be as simple
as a bad cooling fan or it could be a failing mobo or hard
drive. It could be bad RAM. But until you sort out the
mechanical; problems, installing SP1 & SP2 will not alter
the basic situation.
Also, could be bad PSU.

I have been running XP on this computer for 3 years, since I
built it and have never had a BSOD. Intel D845GBVL w Celeron
478 1.7 GHz, 512 MB PNY RAM.


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| I'm losing days, not hours. I hope someone will help as it
has been a lot of
| effort recording BSODs etc.
| Background.
| System is about 10 months old and has not been very stable
with regular
| BSODs, which have not stopped successful restart until a
few days ago.
| Undernoted are 3 successive (I think) BSODs:
| BSOD Friday noon
| A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down
to prevent damage
| to your computer.
| IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
| If this is the first time you've seen this Stop error
screen, restart your
| computer. If this screen appears again, follow these
steps:
| Check to make sure any new hardware of software is
properly installed.
| If this is a new installation, ask your hardware or
software manufacturer
| for any windows updates you might need.
| If problems continue, disable or remove any newly
installed hardware or
| software. Disable BIOS memory options such as caching or
shadowing.
| If you need to use Safe Mode to remove or disable
components, restart your
| compoter, press F8 to select Advance Startup Options, and
then select Safe
| Mode.
|
| Technical Information:
| ***STOP: 0x0000000A (0xF8DFF095, 0x0000001C, 0x00000000,
0x806D08B0)
| Beginning dump of physical memory
| Note: I did disable caching - no help
|
|
|
| Friday 30/09/05 pm
| See above. The undernoted happened when attempting to
startup from previous
| screen, i.e. K8N did NOT boot.
| BSOD
| A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down
to prevent damage
| to your computer.
| If this is the first time you've seen this Stop error
screen, restart your
| computer. If this screen appears again, follow these
steps:
| Disable or uninstall any anti-virus, disk defragmentation
or backup
| utilities. Check your hard drive configuration, and check
for any updated
| drivers. Run CHKDSK /F to check for hard drive corruption,
and then restart
| your computer.
|
| Technical Information:
| *** STOP: 0x00000024 (0x001902FE, 0xF368C1EC, 0xF368BEE8,
0xF7391365)
| *** NTFS.SYS - Address F7391365 base at F736A000,
DateStamp 41107eea
| Beginning dump of physical memory
| Note: Because I was also getting Partition Error 1516 on
all partitions over
| 3 physical disks, I eventuall managed to run CHKDSK /F
which (apparently)
| cleared the "1516" errors, but I still could not get a
successful boot.
|
|
|
| Saturday 1/10/05 16.00hrs. This fail came up while the
computer was not
| being used.
| BSOD
| A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down
to prevent damage
| to your computer.
| If this is the first time you've seen this Stop error
screen, restart your
| computer. If this screen appears again, follow these
steps:
| Check to be sure you have adequate disk space. If a driver
is identified in
| the Stop message, disable the driver or check with the
manufacturer for
| driver updates. Try changing video adapters.
| Check with your hardware vendor for any BIOS updates.
Disable BIOS memory
| options such as caching or shadowing. If you need to use
Safe mode to remove
| or disable compomnents, restart your computer, press F8 to
select Advanced
| Startup Options, and then select Safe Mode.
|
| Technical Information:
| *** STOP: 0x0000007E (0x00000005, 0XF6BB1F44, 0xF72F1CC0,
0xF72F19BC)
| *** USBPORT.SYS - Address F6BB1F44 BASE AT F6BAC000,
dATEsTAMP 41107D62
| Beginning dump of physical memory
|
| Following this, the furthest I could get was a "Safe Mode"
system.
| After many lost hours decided to repair. After 24 hour
gave up when near
| completion.
| Started from scratch: formatted old "C:" partition and
loaded SP1.
| Excruciatingly slow. Went to bed at midnight with a screen
near the end
| (Registering Components?) showing 13 minutes left. It
still hadn't completed
| until about 08.00 this morning (Wed).
|
| Started with SP2 at 08.00. It has just finished.
|
| As I started this I got the undernoted info from Windows
Task Manager which
| showed:
|
| Application: Windows XP Service Pack 2 Setup Wizard
| Processes: 17 of them
| Performance: now 24% CPU. Was 100% until a few moments
back
|
| Please, can anyone deduce anything from the BSODs. There
has been no changes
| to the configuration for many months.
| My main concern is that I might have a faulty motherboard,
and if so I
| should do something now as it is 11 months old.
|
| Any help would be so appreciated.
|
| Thanks.
|
|

 

[TonyK]

Thanks for reply. Now that I have the system up and running (crawling), I
can give some info.
I have an Abit KG7 running within a few feet of this problem computer.
System Properties on the ABit shows this as AMD Athlon 1600+, 1.4 GHz, 512
MB RAM.
CPU on this computer with nothing running shows 2-4% (mainly Taskmgr.)

On my problem computer, System Properties shows AMD Athlon (tm) 64 Processor
3200+, 2.21 GHz, 1.0 GB RAM, Physical Address Extension (whatever that
means)
With nothing else running, i.e. no Tasks, CPU starts around 40% and often
reaches 100/%.
As I look across just now it is moving between 40% and 100%.
There are 21 Processes showing. Main users are:
Explorer.exe: 3 - 5%.
Taskmgr.exe: 15 - 18
Svchost.exe: 0 - 3
Isass.exe: 2
Services.exe: 13 - 18
Csrss.exe: 0 - 65 (occasionally)

Does this extra info help?. Fans seem OK and I assume memory is OK since
Systems Properties correctly report 1GB.
Watching the Windows Task Manager just now, the average is about 40%, with
occasional lift to 100% (Csrss.exe)

I hope I have given enough info now for one of you techies to tell me what
is happening. Although I have Had many BSODs, I have NEVER had the computer
slow down, even by a small margin.
Thanks again.

 

[TonyK]

Now resolved. If you look at the first of my BSODs (further down) you will
see I was invited to "Disable BIOS memory options such as caching orThanks again.