errors using Windows XP

[Frank]

Hi all,

lately I am being troubled by blue screens giving all
kind of error messages, sometimes right after filling in
the password and pressing go!

Most of the error messages are the same one:
Errorcode: 1000008e - category 102- evenId : 1003!

I've been doing some research and have found that mostly
this seems to be a RAM-error. However, I've tested the
memory thoroughly through Goldmemory (available at
www.goldmemory.cz) and through memtest86 and they show
memory is OK!

The next I've tested is my harddrive (Maxtor 6L040J2) by
means of the maxtor testing software. The burnin test
succeeded and showed an impeccable harddrive.

So, I am a little out of options. What hardware should I
test next?

Some clues: Sometimes the BIOS does not see my second
harddrive, but after another restart ( a cold reboot)
everything is fine again.

I have a dual boot and work with Linux Mandrake 9.1
Occasionally, mandrake shows hd i/o errors, although this
is being contradicted by the maxtor tests!!??

Well, that's it. Hope somebody has some usefull hints.

Ciao

Frank

[dev]

/Frank/ said:
> Hi all,
>
> lately I am being troubled by blue screens giving all
> kind of error messages, sometimes right after filling in
> the password and pressing go!
>
> Most of the error messages are the same one:
> Errorcode: 1000008e - category 102- evenId : 1003!
>
> I've been doing some research and have found that mostly
> this seems to be a RAM-error. However, I've tested the
> memory thoroughly through Goldmemory (available at
> www.goldmemory.cz) and through memtest86 and they show
> memory is OK!
>
> The next I've tested is my harddrive (Maxtor 6L040J2) by
> means of the maxtor testing software. The burnin test
> succeeded and showed an impeccable harddrive.
>
> So, I am a little out of options. What hardware should I
> test next?
>
> Some clues: Sometimes the BIOS does not see my second
> harddrive, but after another restart ( a cold reboot)
> everything is fine again.
>
> I have a dual boot and work with Linux Mandrake 9.1
> Occasionally, mandrake shows hd i/o errors, although this
> is being contradicted by the maxtor tests!!??
>
> Well, that's it. Hope somebody has some usefull hints.

Despite the fact that memory checks good, and may have functioned with an
earlier version of Windows, consider swapping out the chip/s for a single,
high-quality 512 - as a test. When XP was first installed on this box, it
was a disaster, until that measure was implemented.

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