Need Help w/ a series of crashes on a newly purchased DELL XPS

[Kelly]

Hummmm.... the McAfee is your anti virus software and
the KIngston is your memory. What did you do to these
things when the tech helped you? I've seen a bad stick of
ram do this and if that's the case, they need to replace
the ram chip in it. I'd take it into be serviced since
it's still under warranty. Ram chips for Laps are
expensive! and you DON'T want to be without antivirus
protection.

Good Luck,
Kelly

-----Original Message-----


I purchased a Dell XPS desktop approximately 3 weeks ago
and have encountered numerous crashes / BSOD. I'm hoping
that I'm posting this information in the correct
newsgroup, if not can someone point me in the right
direction.


At the bottom of this document I will list my hardware and
software specifications.

The errors on the blue screen were varied and today's was :


( 0x86427532, 0x000001BB, 0x00000002, 0x00000003,
0x0000000B )

if this helps.


Prior to today's crash I spoke to a Dell technician over
the phone regarding the other crashes. It seems we may
have resolved that problem ( I think ). He came to the
conclusion that I was having problems with Drivers
associated with McAfee and Kingston products. I fully
removed those products and the crashes stopped up until
today ( it was about 3 days of trouble free operation ).


I'm simply looking for advise and input from someone
knowledgeable with this type of problem.


I'm also trying to figure out if everything was software
related as opposed to hardware related. Reason being if it
is hardware related I have only 2 days left until I can
return the desktop & I really really do not want to do
that, for a variety of reasons.




If anyone reading this can possibly assist me I would
greatly appreciate it.




Sincerely,


Andy L. / Chicago


(e-mail address removed)




Specifications :



Operating System System Model
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1 (build 2600) Dell
Computer Corporation Dimension XPS
System
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
2833 megahertz Intel Pentium 4
8 kilobyte primary memory cache
512 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: Dell Computer
Corp. 0G0729
Serial Number: ..CN4811236D027B.
Bus Clock: 800 megahertz
BIOS: Dell Computer Corporation A01 04/28/2003
Drives Memory Modules c,d
119.96 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
97.37 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

SAMSUNG CD-R/RW SW-248F [CD-ROM drive]
SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-616T [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

Promise 1X2 Mirror/RAID1 SCSI Disk Device (120.00 GB) --
drive 0 1024 Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot 'CHANNEL A DIMM 0' has 512 MB
Slot 'CHANNEL B DIMM 0' has 512 MB
Slot 'CHANNEL A DIMM 1' is Empty
Slot 'CHANNEL B DIMM 1' is Empty
Local Drive Volumes

c: (on drive 0) 119.96 GB 97.37 GB free

Logins Network Drives
CF333\Administrator
CF333\Andrew Lipinski
NT AUTHORITY\LOCAL SERVICE
NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE
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