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James
Here is what I have: Gigabyte GA-7ZXE ver1.0 motherboard using AMI F4
Bios, 300 watt power supply, AMD 1700+, 1.5gig pc133 ram (3 x 512),
windows xp pro (has all updates), NVIDIA MX400 64mg graphic card,
80gig Maxtor hard drive (7200rpm, ata133) master on IDE0, 60gig IBM
hard drive (7200rpm, ata100) slaved off of Maxtor hard drive, 24x10x40
cdrw master on IDE1, 16x dvd rom slave off of cdrw, A-Open LAN card
10/100, Hercules Muse XL sound card, 1.44 floppy.
I've had this system for almost 2yrs now and it has worked great, well
until about 2 months ago. The computer was working great and then it
gave me the blue screen of death. This is the error that it gave me:
Kernel_stack_inpage_error (0xc000000e, 0xc000000e,0x00000000,
0x00a2b000). The computer dumped memory then restarted. Everything
seemed to be ok for the next couple of days and then it did it again
but this time it flashed the blue screen fast and then restarted. It
never came back up, the bios was saying that the hard drive was not
installed. I tried everything, including new IDE cable and resetting
bios, but it just wouldn't detect it. I discovered that my harddrive
had indeed went bad by hooking it up to my old computer, it didn't
detect it either. I bought a new 80gig Maxtor in December and hooked
it up. Everything seemed to be great for the first couple of days but
then the same thing happened, flashed blue screen then restarted. Now
sometimes it will run for hours and then sometimes it won't run for 5
min. before it crashes and no blue screen, just shuts down and
restarts. A few days ago after crashing when it came back up it said
that the hard drive was not installed. I went into bios and still
nothing. Then the next morning I discovered that the clock and date
along with the settings in the bios had been reset. I reset it and it
booted up then crashed a few minutes later, when it restarted the bios
was reset again. I just knew it was the battery, I put a new one in
and then set the bios and it crashed on windows boot up. I talked to a
few people and they said that it was my ram. I tested them using
Sandra they tested ok. I pulled them all out and used 1 at a time on
boot up. 1 of my ram chips would not let the system boot. I noticed
while doing this that if a ram chip was installed in the furthest ram
slot from the edge of the motherboard it would boot real slow, this is
the same slot that the bad one was installed in. I installed just the
2 good ram chips (512 x 2) and it still does the same thing (crashes).
Yesterday when I started it up, it said something to the fact that the
bios was set incorrectly (don't remember exact words). I went into the
bios and everything looked fine, I changed nothing then exit it and it
booted. Last night when it crashed after restarting the bios said that
my new drive has a SMART error and for me to back up and replace it. I
ran a test on the drive using a Maxtor utility and it shows it to be
ok. I've tried to update the bios on several different occasions but
it keeps saying that the bios is write protected. In the bios settings
I have enable and auto, it won't update in either position. I've
looked for a jumper that will disable the write protection but there
isn't one. I have ran Saundra it says everything is ok. I have ran out
of ideas and I need help. Is it my mother board??? If not what could
it be??? Please help.
Bios, 300 watt power supply, AMD 1700+, 1.5gig pc133 ram (3 x 512),
windows xp pro (has all updates), NVIDIA MX400 64mg graphic card,
80gig Maxtor hard drive (7200rpm, ata133) master on IDE0, 60gig IBM
hard drive (7200rpm, ata100) slaved off of Maxtor hard drive, 24x10x40
cdrw master on IDE1, 16x dvd rom slave off of cdrw, A-Open LAN card
10/100, Hercules Muse XL sound card, 1.44 floppy.
I've had this system for almost 2yrs now and it has worked great, well
until about 2 months ago. The computer was working great and then it
gave me the blue screen of death. This is the error that it gave me:
Kernel_stack_inpage_error (0xc000000e, 0xc000000e,0x00000000,
0x00a2b000). The computer dumped memory then restarted. Everything
seemed to be ok for the next couple of days and then it did it again
but this time it flashed the blue screen fast and then restarted. It
never came back up, the bios was saying that the hard drive was not
installed. I tried everything, including new IDE cable and resetting
bios, but it just wouldn't detect it. I discovered that my harddrive
had indeed went bad by hooking it up to my old computer, it didn't
detect it either. I bought a new 80gig Maxtor in December and hooked
it up. Everything seemed to be great for the first couple of days but
then the same thing happened, flashed blue screen then restarted. Now
sometimes it will run for hours and then sometimes it won't run for 5
min. before it crashes and no blue screen, just shuts down and
restarts. A few days ago after crashing when it came back up it said
that the hard drive was not installed. I went into bios and still
nothing. Then the next morning I discovered that the clock and date
along with the settings in the bios had been reset. I reset it and it
booted up then crashed a few minutes later, when it restarted the bios
was reset again. I just knew it was the battery, I put a new one in
and then set the bios and it crashed on windows boot up. I talked to a
few people and they said that it was my ram. I tested them using
Sandra they tested ok. I pulled them all out and used 1 at a time on
boot up. 1 of my ram chips would not let the system boot. I noticed
while doing this that if a ram chip was installed in the furthest ram
slot from the edge of the motherboard it would boot real slow, this is
the same slot that the bad one was installed in. I installed just the
2 good ram chips (512 x 2) and it still does the same thing (crashes).
Yesterday when I started it up, it said something to the fact that the
bios was set incorrectly (don't remember exact words). I went into the
bios and everything looked fine, I changed nothing then exit it and it
booted. Last night when it crashed after restarting the bios said that
my new drive has a SMART error and for me to back up and replace it. I
ran a test on the drive using a Maxtor utility and it shows it to be
ok. I've tried to update the bios on several different occasions but
it keeps saying that the bios is write protected. In the bios settings
I have enable and auto, it won't update in either position. I've
looked for a jumper that will disable the write protection but there
isn't one. I have ran Saundra it says everything is ok. I have ran out
of ideas and I need help. Is it my mother board??? If not what could
it be??? Please help.