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Ryan Trevisol
I have this problem child of a computer. For about 6 months, the
installation of Windows 2000 has given me intermittent Kernel Trap
errors on startup. About once every 5 times I booted up, I would get
the proverbial Blue Screen of Death, and couldn't restart.
According to Microsoft, of course, this is a hardware error. Far be it
from being a software or, *gasp* microsoft problem! Therefore I
suspected the Hard Disk, the controller, the removeable hard disk bay,
the memory, and even the Keyboard/Mouse combination.
As time went on, I never found the solution, but then it became worse
and worse, to the point that 9 out of every 10 bootups resulted in a
BSOD. I tried switching RAM slots, RAM sticks, and finally I switched
to a backup installation, and magically, it worked.
Now I tried booting up the original hard disk in Safe Mode. What do
you know? It worked! So I started removing drivers. To no avail.
Obviously something is going wrong on a software level.
I really would like to find out what the problem is here so that I
don't have to go through this the next time. System specs are:
Pentium III 600 / 100 Mhz Bus
768 MB RAM
40 GB Hard Drive
10/100 Ethernet
NVidia Vanta Video (16MB)
Iomega Jaz Internal SCSI (I tried disconnecting both the drive and the
controller)
Ricoh CD Burner
Generic CD Drive
As I said, with a backup installation and all the same applications,
it works fine. Maybe you've run into this problem before. I suspect
some kind of corrupt file . . . any help you can give is appreciated.
Thanks
Ryan T
installation of Windows 2000 has given me intermittent Kernel Trap
errors on startup. About once every 5 times I booted up, I would get
the proverbial Blue Screen of Death, and couldn't restart.
According to Microsoft, of course, this is a hardware error. Far be it
from being a software or, *gasp* microsoft problem! Therefore I
suspected the Hard Disk, the controller, the removeable hard disk bay,
the memory, and even the Keyboard/Mouse combination.
As time went on, I never found the solution, but then it became worse
and worse, to the point that 9 out of every 10 bootups resulted in a
BSOD. I tried switching RAM slots, RAM sticks, and finally I switched
to a backup installation, and magically, it worked.
Now I tried booting up the original hard disk in Safe Mode. What do
you know? It worked! So I started removing drivers. To no avail.
Obviously something is going wrong on a software level.
I really would like to find out what the problem is here so that I
don't have to go through this the next time. System specs are:
Pentium III 600 / 100 Mhz Bus
768 MB RAM
40 GB Hard Drive
10/100 Ethernet
NVidia Vanta Video (16MB)
Iomega Jaz Internal SCSI (I tried disconnecting both the drive and the
controller)
Ricoh CD Burner
Generic CD Drive
As I said, with a backup installation and all the same applications,
it works fine. Maybe you've run into this problem before. I suspect
some kind of corrupt file . . . any help you can give is appreciated.
Thanks
Ryan T