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Random BSODs...

Hi - I'm struggling to get to the bottom of a Blue Screen of Death problem I'm having at the moment. Randomly, Windows XP will freeze and display a BSOD that reads "***Hardware Malfunction".

The problem is pretty random and hard to replicate, but seems to be more likely to occur if I run Photoshop or Illustrator (versus just using Firefox, Outlook and Word as is normal for my computer). It also gets more frequent if I use eDonkey - possibly due to CPU load...? Any ideas? Does Photoshop/Illustrator use RAM or CPU in an unusual way that could help isolate the problem? I've run Memtest and my DDR module seems ok..


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have you tried to underclock your system
e.g. by lowering the FSB
for testing purposes



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what about temps?
(i´m having freezes during gaming because of heat, in normal use there´s no prob)


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Temps: They're fine - ambient system temp is 30C, CPU 40C.
Underclocking: Not tried that yet - what would it prove if it sorted the freezes - that there's something wrong with the CPU specifically?


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any chance to get the error/stop code?
0x00000079 or something?


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totally random crashes are in most cases due to somekind of system instability
und if it occurs most under heavy CPU usage CPU and RAM are the 2 direct suspects
underclocking can be done very easy with one change in BIOS and if it works you have your problem



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Dark Biene Wrote:
any chance to get the error/stop code?
0x00000079 or something?


That's the prob - the WinXP BSOD doesn't give any details. It just says:

***Hardware Malfunction

Please contact your manufacturer.

***Your system is halted

It's a bit odd I don't get an error code... and annoying


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Microsoft´s KB about that [url=http://support.microsoft.com/kb/222973/en-us/]Prob[/ur]

what u can try:
install the latest official driver for all the devices u can
bios update if possible
underclock ur sys
run memtest for 24h and more
try another RAM (incompatible?!)



what hardware are you using?
ram , cpu , etc ?


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I think I've tracked the problem down to some generic RAM... it's been running fine in the system for about a year, but now that I've replaced it with Crucial the crashes have become far less frequent/stopped altogether (fingers crossed!)

Anyone want to buy a 512MB stick of DDR2700...? Smile


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