Blue Screen Of Death

[OcramC]

XP regularly gives me the blue screen of death, meaning that I have to restart and loose whatever I was doing at that time.

The error message is as below


PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA

....

Technical information:

*** STOP: 0x00000000

0xFD7AFFBE,0x00000000,0xBF873D4B,0x00000000

** win32k.sys - Address BF873D4B base at BF80000, Datestamp 3F73195D



This is beginning to be a really annoying problem, so does anybody know how I could resolve this to the problem or avoid seeing it?

[AndrewBarker]

well first of all you need to do a full antivirus scan and adware/spyware scan

[dsa16]

I had the same problem when I first got my computer, It had PC-cillin anti-virus installed and at start up I would get a blue screen error. I uninstalled it and it stopped. When did the problem start, do you remeber installing something recently that maybe causing the problem?

[tesco]

probably related to drivers, temps or ram.

first try updating chipset, sound and video drivers.

next if it still happens check what your temps are in bios or with a program like speedfan or motherboardmonitor 5.

[chinook_apache]

this is going to sound daft but whenever i get blue screens i know my heatsink needs vacuuming. yes! vacuuming, so all i do is pull of the fan on the heatsink, use the vac and suck all the dusk out.
after this everything work fine. :D

[RGX]

Originally posted by chinook_apache@17 June 2004 - 11:27
this is going to sound daft but whenever i get blue screens i know my heatsink needs vacuuming. yes! vacuuming, so all i do is pull of the fan on the heatsink, use the vac and suck all the dusk out.
after this everything work fine. :D
Thats because the dust is imparing the cooling effectivness of the heatsink causing the processor to overheat causing system locks/crashes, so when you hoover it out the temps drop down to normal levels. :)

Worth a go if you've tried all else.

[chinook_apache]

exactly my amd athlon 2000+ has serious probs so the only way to combact this without sepnding money on a new heatsink is to vac it now and then :P