Well some of you may or may not remember me posting a while back with some serious bsod troubles.....in the end I decided to cough up a few bucks and take my pc out to a technician....they said they found the problem....it was supposedly my chip on the mobo....so it was sent out to asus for a replacement......to make long story short all this took over a month and I just got my pc back this saturday....and in 3 days I had 3 BSODs.....so naturally I was a bit ticked and decided to do some more digging....as far as I can remember I was getting pretty much the same problem as before....just nowhere near as often....( i will attach my mini dumps at the end of this post)....after some playing around with the WinDbg I think I found the problem.... it says that its " ntoskrnl.exe" (I got the symbols from microsoft, loaded my dumb, typed in !analyze ?v and voila.... this is what i got
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (d1)
An attempt was made to access a pageable (or completely invalid) address at an
interrupt request level (IRQL) that is too high. This is usually
caused by drivers using improper addresses.
If kernel debugger is available get stack backtrace.
Arguments:
Arg1: 000001e0, memory referenced
Arg2: 00000002, IRQL
Arg3: 00000000, value 0 = read operation, 1 = write operation
Arg4: 000001e0, address which referenced memory
Debugging Details:
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***** Kernel symbols are WRONG. Please fix symbols to do analysis.
MODULE_NAME: nt
FAULTING_MODULE: 804d0000 nt
DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP: 3b7de38f
READ_ADDRESS: unable to get nt!MmSpecialPoolStart
unable to get nt!MmSpecialPoolEnd
unable to get nt!MmPoolCodeStart
unable to get nt!MmPoolCodeEnd
000001e0
I did some googleing but couldn't dfind any concrete answers....do you guys have any suggestions on what is next or what exactly is causing the problem? (As in...what is this ntoskrnl.exe)
note: I only did the analasys for the first (latest) dump... any help would be really appreciated... my specs are as follows
AMD Athlon 3000+
Asus A8N SLI Deluxe
512x2 RAM
Radeon X300 Graphics Card
Audigy 2 sound card (Integrated)
a 450W power supply (can't remember the brand)
Maxtor 200GB SATA HDD (Slave)
Western Digital 120 GB IDE HDD (Master)
If the ntoskrnl.exe file is corrupt or missing this can also generate the error. To restore this file follow the below steps.
Insert the Microsoft Windows XP CD. Note: If you have a recovery CD or a restore CD and not a Microsoft Windows XP CD it is likely the below steps will not resolve your issue.
Reboot the computer, as the computer is starting you should see a message to press any key to boot from the CD. When you see this message press any key.
In the Microsoft Windows XP setup menu press the R key to enter the recovery console.
Select the operating system you wish to fix, and then enter the administrator password.
Type expand d:\i386\ntoskrnl.ex_ c:\windows\system32
You will then be prompted if you wish to overwrite the file type Y and press enter to overwrite the file.
Type exit to reboot the computer.
