computer crashes constantly...(cont)

[-=SG=-]

>-----Original Message-----
>Every time I try to play a game, my computer crashes. At
>first it would just restart itself, until I disabled the
>auto restart feature. Now I just get a blue screen with
>some crazy information that I can't make any sense out
>of. I thought maybe it was my video card, and I re-
>installed it, and reinstalled the drivers for it, but
>it's still crashing. In the System Event Log it says:
>
>Source: Serial
>Category: None
>Type: Warning
>Event ID: 4
>
>"Unable to create the symbolic link for \Device\Serial1"
>
>Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
>Thanks

(CONT)
I'm running WinXP Home, and when I try to play StarCraft
(an oldie but goodie) it usually happens within the first
5-15 minutes. I have 1024 meg of DDR RAM (PC3200). I
tried entering the stop code:
STOP 0x000000D1 (0x11CDCE00, 0x000000D2, 0x00000000,
0xF75E004E)
into the knowledge base and it said something about
debugging. The file is nv4_mini.sys which I discovered
belongs to my video card (Nvidia Geforce4 MX 440-SE, 64MB
DDR) so I tried to re-install the drivers for it but no
luck. I'm running out of ideas. If someone could help I'd
really appreciate it. Thanks.

P.S. It also happens when I try to play other games.

[Dragonteeth]

"-=SG=-" > wrote in message
...
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Every time I try to play a game, my computer crashes. At
> >first it would just restart itself, until I disabled the
> >auto restart feature. Now I just get a blue screen with
> >some crazy information that I can't make any sense out
> >of. I thought maybe it was my video card, and I re-
> >installed it, and reinstalled the drivers for it, but
> >it's still crashing. In the System Event Log it says:
> >
> >Source: Serial
> >Category: None
> >Type: Warning
> >Event ID: 4
> >
> >"Unable to create the symbolic link for \Device\Serial1"
> >
> >Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
> >Thanks
>
> (CONT)
> I'm running WinXP Home, and when I try to play StarCraft
> (an oldie but goodie) it usually happens within the first
> 5-15 minutes. I have 1024 meg of DDR RAM (PC3200). I
> tried entering the stop code:
> STOP 0x000000D1 (0x11CDCE00, 0x000000D2, 0x00000000,
> 0xF75E004E)
> into the knowledge base and it said something about
> debugging. The file is nv4_mini.sys which I discovered
> belongs to my video card (Nvidia Geforce4 MX 440-SE, 64MB
> DDR) so I tried to re-install the drivers for it but no
> luck. I'm running out of ideas. If someone could help I'd
> really appreciate it. Thanks.
>
> P.S. It also happens when I try to play other games.
>

I do not know whether you're still having the problem.... here is a link to
assist you:
http://aumha.org/win5/kbestop.php#0x8e

1) reset your paging file (set min and max to 0, then reboot.... once
rebooted, restore it to system managed)
2) if you have more than one RAM stick, consider trying your system with
just one.... test each stick, in this way.
3) are your RAM timings too stringent? CAS latency to low? consider
slightly up-ing you RAM voltage. These things can all improve RAM-related
freezes... if it *is* RAM. Hopefully it's just a corrupt paging file...
because that requires little effort to fix.

p.s. There is no need to make new posts to reply.... your replies show up
just the same as a new post - as long as you choose "Group Reply"