How to Fix Blue Screen Errors

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  1. Ingrid says:

    Thanks Anthony. I read my minidumps and they all point to the same Intel NIC driver ele5132.sys as the cause of the issues.

  2. Anthony says:

    @Ali Muhammad – Glad you figured it out. Unfortunately random blue screen errors like that can be due to motherboard, memory or power issues. Replacing components is often to only way to pinpoint it. Like I mentioned, I have not seen blue screen errors due to lower temperatures before, but great you worked it out!

  3. Ali Muhammad says:

    Dear Anthony,
    I finally figured out what my problem was due to. It was the PSU.
    I got my processor back to stock frequencies/voltage and i hate to say but. I’m gonna miss my BSOD.
    I still thank you for your help. I wont have solved it without this information you’ve written here.
    Cheers
    Ali

  4. Ali Muhammad says:

    Dear Anthony, I got BSOD this morning again. My games crash with a CRITICAL ERROR message and when i try to run them again, i get a BSOD.

    But Just like old times. I swapped the module into another slot. and its like perfect again.

    But i cant keep changing its slot every second day..One thing is certain now, it really is something with swapping the ram.

    More info: i had 4G of ram (2sticksx2gb) on a 32-bit OS xp. I gave one away to a friend of mine. as 32-bit means not full usage of one of the ram, could that be the problem? maybe i have the HALF used ram left with me and i gave the full used to my friend?

    Please help me with this. I’m really about to cry at this moment…

  5. Ali Muhammad says:

    ADDED: Voltage in bios – vcore – 1.45
    and the Voltage in cpuZ – vcore – 1.344~1.360

    So does that mean my PSU is weak?

  6. Ali Muhammad says:

    Sir Anthony, I think it really might be the power-supply. I’m getting alot of VDROOP on vCore.
    I just want to confirm one thing. If the power supply can fail to provide better voltages at low temperatures. It was fine until winters started. I get 6/7 degree celc on c2d 3.6gig.
    Specs:
    450 watts Asus A-GA45
    gtx260
    c2d
    2gbram
    500gb sata WD HD
    stikerextreme M/B 680i
    I’m not running any other peripheral.

  7. nicola says:

    hey anthony if i could use my keyboard and mouse to do anything i probably would should i take the harddrive out and put it in another cpu to do that????

  8. Anthony says:

    @Ali Muhammad – Temperature variation can certainly affect the operation of electronic equipment, including PC hardware. Normally overheating is more of an issue than low temperatures though, unless we are talking very cold.
    In your case it seems a hardware sensitivity as well. The only thing I can recommend is to unplug the hardware cards and memory, make sure the slots are clean and replug them (ISA/PCI/AGP cards assuming this is a desktop).
    Power supply could be an issue, what is the wattage?

    @Ingrid – Did you try going back to the previous configuration with one monitor? Since that is the only change, try updating or reinstalling the video driver. A dual monitor display does affect the way the video card is operating and interacting with Windows, so the video driver is important.

    @Jacket – Okay, good. Well that leave me only my earlier suggestions about the video card and motherboard :(

  9. Jacket says:

    I have actually already. No errors on any of my disks.

  10. Ingrid says:

    Anthony,

    I am getting the BSOD quite frequently since I reformatted my hard drive (downgrade from Vista to Windows XP Service Pack 3). It worked fine for about four months then I started getting the BSOD. The only thing I recently changed is my monitor, I am now using dual monitors. I don’t know what is the problem. The error code is:

    STOP:0x40000080 (0x8664D130, 0x8623A698, 0xF7A63E60, 0x000000002)

    Hope you can help. Thank you!

  11. Peter Forman says:

    I keep getting the following stop messages:
    0x00000124
    0x000001A
    0x000008E

    Please help I have tried a number of suggetions above without any success and its very frustrating

    Thanks

  12. Ali Muhammad says:

    Sir, I’m on 6-6-6-18-1T on 2.1volts ddr2 800 mhz, Single 2gb corsair stick.
    Factory is 5-5-5-18-2T on 1.8volts 800 mhz.
    Motherboard: 680i chipset
    Processor: e6850 3.0 @ 3.6 GHz

    memtest proves its stable. I ran it once again today for 4 hours.

    I just want to add that i was having BSOD even on stock timings/voltage and even on a little higher voltage on a factory timing.

    One thing is certain. I get BSOD in the morning when the pc is COLD.
    + i get the computer FREEZES after running the pc for some time.

    The BSOD doesn’t appear much after the PC warms up but most of the times when the pc gets cold over night.

    I remember the first time i experienced crashes was when i took my PC to my friends place in SUMMERS, when i used to have very high temperatures at my place but at his place he had his AC on 18 CÂș full time. and I belive it was the low temperatures that caused the crashes.
    Im just saying that COLD temperature seems to be involved. More as if its not getting much power because of the low temperature? possible?

    I really appreciate your help.

    Ali

  13. Anthony says:

    @Jacket – Did you already run a chckdks /f on your system disk? If not, try that, could be some bad sectors on the disk.

    @Ali Muhammad – If one of the memory modules has an error, you could reduce the frequency of BSOD errors by swapping them, but depending on the amount of memory in use, the error could still happen. At least try running a full memory test with memtest86, so you know if the RAM modules have any errors.

    @nicola – Rootkit viruses are not easy to remove, so doing a full format and reinstall is a good idea.
    Regarding the automatic reboot, that is the default behavior in Windows. You can change it, but you need to be able to access the Control Panel for that.
    Can you boot from the Windows setup CD? If not, you might need to change the sequence of the boot devices in the Bios, and make sure the CD-drive is the first option. If you cannot get into the bios the only option would be to do a motherboard CMOS reset…
    The disk in any case should be fine after you reformat it.

  14. nicola says:

    ok, so i was trying to get free antivirus and it had a ton of viruses along with it after it started geeking up i managed to get norton full trial in there to stablize it so i could clean most of the viruses out myself and did so till it expired but my avast pro 4.8 antivirus the full version kept saying i had a virus some rootkit virus and this other one windows system/32/atapi crap well i tried cleaning those ones out couldnt figure out how to get rid of it because the antivirus wouldnt dlete it or clean it so after finding the rootkit one and klicking on it i got the blue screen of death and i keep getting a blue error screen that goes so fast i can’t see what it is or anything and it just keeps rebooting i was going to install my windows xp disk over it but while it s rebooting my keyboard or mouse wont work so i can do anything if i could get some help on how to try and save my hard drive from buying a new one since i got the 160 gig wd drive a years back for around 150 and don’t wan to buy a new because im not rich if i can get any help it would be much appreciated

  15. Ali Muhammad says:

    Dear Anthony,
    You are EPIC ^^
    I have been posting on other tons of websites and i don’t seem to get a single reply, Even when im trying to give 99% information they just wont give me the 1%. No reply on ACTIVE forums.
    Anyways.
    I’ll make it simple. I had random BSOD like a month ago. and i followed a thread where the guy says he SWAPPED the ram into another SLOT.
    Which in fact DID help stopping the BSOD! But there is another problem which doesn’t seem to have fixed itself with the RAM swap. the PC FREEZES. it would freeze IN GAME/ or just on DESKTOP. If in game/video it repeats that sound where its hung and i have to press the RESET button. Fact is, i got 2 or maybe 3 more random BSOD since i swapped but its NOT like it was before the swap. I mean the swapping DID help. But i just want to know WHY it fixes it temporarily and how do i fix it once and for alllllllll..aarrgg!
    Cant wait to hear from you.
    I’m still grateful for the whole thread you’ve replied to. Great information.
    Ali

  16. Jacket says:

    got another bluescreen. I wasn’t able to take out the graphics card yet mostly cuz I need it for my 3d software.

    PFN_LIST_CORRUPT (0x0000004E)

  17. Anthony says:

    @Darren – Mostly likely cause is a memory error as commented to earlier stop error 0x0000008E errors with the same first parameter. Try running memtest86 to check your RAM.

  18. Darren says:

    Im running windows xp on an AMD Dual core system and its started to randomly restart and blue screen, the error codes are 0x0000008e (0xC0000005,0x8054b10d,0xb53f39co,0x00000000)

    any ideads????

  19. Anthony says:

    @Jacket – The only think I can think of is to take out the video card and enable the onboard video card if your motherboard has one. If not, you could first try inserting a cheap, simple video card to test if the issue is fixed before getting the video card you really need. If the issue remains with the video card change , it must be the motherboard…

    @Niwa – I am not familiar with that error at all. Is it a blue screen error?

    @Calahan – Very likely it is a memory (RAM) error. If you can, try and download a bootable ISO image from memtest86 and run that to test the memory.

  20. Calahan says:

    Okay so I keep vetting error code 0x00000050. But when I try to run in safe mode I can’t even get to my desktop. I have reset all of my bios settings. After i see the windows loading screen the bsod pops up. I have no idea what to do since I can not get to my desktop please help me

  21. Niwa says:

    I got 0x805D3131 what is it?

  22. Jacket says:

    Yes, I set the bios to default already and turned off any extra acceleration options for the video drivers. I was considering it to either be the graphics card or the mother board since I’m not sure what else it could be, but I just was hoping that I could figure out what part exactly it is seeing as both parts are relatively expensive. (replacing with the brands I need for my computer’s function) Do you know any way to pinpoint which is at fault? I’m assuming no but i figured it was worth an ask.

  23. Anthony says:

    @Jacket – Yes you are right, I forgot about your first comment. Considering that you have reinstalled all these versions of Windows, and had the error with all, it really must be something with the hardware.
    If you have tried the memory test, checked and reinstalled the drivers, checked the hard disk, I fear it comes down to replacing hardware. I can not say what component though as the error is random. You did try loading the default bios settings and turning off the hardware acceleration on the video driver?

  24. Jacket says:

    as i said in my original post I have tested the ram with memtest86 several times with no issue. I have all my drivers updated and to make sure that the drivers are correct I ran a drive sweeper program and made sure it was all set and clean then reinstalled the latest updates.

    The computer has been doing it since I bought it less than a few months ago through 3 OSes. XP, Vista and Windows 7

  25. Anthony says:

    @Beth – Try going into the Bios and load the default settings, that might help.
    If not, the next most likely cause is a memory error. You could try swapping the memory modules if you have more than one, but be very careful because they are rather sensitive to static electricity. Other than that it could be the motherboard, is it an old system?

    @Jacket – Try running a memory test with memtest86 to make sure the RAM is okay first. The irql_not_less_or_equal is often a driver error though. Did you update or install something recently?

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