BSOD after about 1 hour

[bitznpcz]

I am working on a clients PC - a Dell Dimension 4700. The problem is a BSOD after about an hours usage.

I thought it was either heat or bad RAM, but have so far drawn a blank. The BSOD's received are:

0x0000000A IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
0x00000050 PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
0x0000008A on win32k.sys
0x0000008E

I have replaced the RAM, updated the drivers, updated Windows, cleaned the heatsink and CPU and replaced the heatsink paste. The Fan is part of the case, so I haven't replaced that yet...

I have tried Speedfan and Sensors View to monitor the heat, but they both only detect the HDD temp.

I am just running BurnInTest now under a clean boot to see if it could be driver related, but am running out of ideas...

What do you think?

Thanks,

Kevin

 

[gunslinger]

I have a Dell Dimension 4700 in the shop right now that was doing the same thing. I went through the same steps you did and nothing fixed it. I then tried running chkdsk /r and found the HDD had lots of bad sectors on it. After this I would still get the blue screen when doing a defrag or virus scan.

Next I tried a program called hard drive regenerator, it found 543 bad sectors that chkdsk missed. Once fixed I ran an all night burn in and did a full virus scan and defrag with no blue screen.

Hope this helps.

I called the customer and explained the situation. I basically told her that her HDD was on borrowed time and asked her if she wanted me to replace it. She declined and instead wanted her data backed up to disc. She said when it does fail she will bring it in for replacement.

 

[gunslinger]

I have had it for a while, got it along with spin rite in an attempt to recover one of my hard drives.

I think I paid $39 with a promo code.

It seems to work really well. I have only used it 3-4 times but it does seem to buy some time without erasing data.

 

[stevenamills]

FWIW I've had HDRegen work on disks that knocked Spinrite into a cold lock. It'd worth the investment I think.

 

[doortodoorgeek]

IRQ not less or equal/file error

0x0000000A IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
0x00000050 PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
0x0000008A on win32k.sys
0x0000008E

Spinrite it to actually fix it or chkdsk /r to kinda/maybe fix it

 

[RyanMeray]

Better than Spinrite? SOLD!

Thanks GS!

I called the customer and explained the situation. I basically told her that her HDD was on borrowed time and asked her if she wanted me to replace it. She declined and instead wanted her data backed up to disc. She said when it does fail she will bring it in for replacement.

I hope her drive dies long enough from now that she doesn't blame you for 'sabotaging' it, but soon enough that your admonishments are still fresh in her head! lol

 

[Pc Fixed Right]

I have used HD Regenerator several times it has not failed me once. I give it a thumbs up.

 

[doortodoorgeek]

First Time

I have used HD Regenerator several times it has not failed me once. I give it a thumbs up.

I know and have used Spinrite for 8+ years, the only time is has not worked is when the drive is to close to death

This is the very first time I have herd of (I guess you mean) HDD Regenerator, the site looks really crappy

If I continue to hear good things from other sources I will give it a shot, until then Spinrite has worked 80+ times and failed only 1 time, I like those odds

 

[stevenamills]

I hope her drive dies long enough from now that she doesn't blame you for 'sabotaging' it, but soon enough that your admonishments are still fresh in her head! lol

Put that on the invoice. Not a cure-all, but can help.

 

[mnoakes]

HDD Regenerator - love it

In the very early days, I used to use Spinrite, it works sometimes and other times it would sit there in a spin.

Until the day, I heard about HDD Regenerator. I was very supicious of it's claims. Gave it a whirl on a HDD that Spinrite wouldn't fix. HDD Renegenerator found errors and repaired errors. I highly recommend this to any Computer Tech. I find this program to be a nice little program that alot of weekend computer fixers do not know about.

Tip - If HDD Regenerator finds any BAD blocks that it cannot fix, run it mutliple times. But if after a few runs, there is still unfixable BAD blocks, replace HDD.

Cheers
Michael

 

[bitznpcz]

Next I tried a program called hard drive regenerator, it found 543 bad sectors that chkdsk missed. Once fixed I ran an all night burn in and did a full virus scan and defrag with no blue screen.

Hope this helps.
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Thanks - i'll give it a go and let you know how it goes.

 

[bitznpcz]

I am working on a clients PC - a Dell Dimension 4700. The problem is a BSOD after about an hours usage.

I thought it was either heat or bad RAM, but have so far drawn a blank. The BSOD's received are:

0x0000000A IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
0x00000050 PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
0x0000008A on win32k.sys
0x0000008E

I have replaced the RAM, updated the drivers, updated Windows, cleaned the heatsink and CPU and replaced the heatsink paste. The Fan is part of the case, so I haven't replaced that yet...

I have tried Speedfan and Sensors View to monitor the heat, but they both only detect the HDD temp.

I am just running BurnInTest now under a clean boot to see if it could be driver related, but am running out of ideas...

What do you think?

Thanks,

Kevin

Just finished running HDD Regenerator and no bad sectors found. The latest BSOD to add to the list is 0x000000c5...

 

[gunslinger]

Have you tried replacing the cable?

 

[usacvlr]

I am working on a clients PC - a Dell Dimension 4700.
I have replaced the RAM, updated the drivers, updated Windows, cleaned the heatsink and CPU and replaced the heatsink paste. The Fan is part of the case, so I haven't replaced that yet...

I have tried Speedfan and Sensors View to monitor the heat, but they both only detect the HDD temp.

I am just running BurnInTest now under a clean boot to see if it could be driver related, but am running out of ideas...

What do you think?

Thanks,

Kevin

Well you might try replacing the CPU

 

[l337]

id res-eat the cpu before replacing it and see if that helps then id try a new mobo lol dont see cpus go very often but mobos do from time to time

 

[mnoakes]

Psu ??

Have you tried another PSU?

Michael

 

[smr1619]

HD Regenerator works great. I had a laptop that wouldn't boot up because the drive was jacked up. I ran HD Regenerator for a couple of hours, because of long it takes and it fixed a ton of bad sectors and I was able to boot up the laptop to get the data off of it.

 

[bitznpcz]

just swapped the RAM again for another brand and all looks well again.

Replacing the RAM was the first thing I tried and I ran memtest for several passes, but it didn't find anything???

Anyway, thanks for all of your suggestions.