BSOD when idle

[mattedatten]

Hey all!

I'm tyring to debug my friends computer, that keeps BSOD-ing and restarting when idle.
What might be the cause:
His video-card gave up a while ago, it was a Nvidia card. Without removing the old drivers (I think) they installed an Gigabyte Radeon HD5450-card and its drivers.

So, this is what I think is creating the random crashes.

But, these are just speculations and I cant be sure. So before doing full time-consuming driver removals and stuff like that on a computer that isn't mine, I'd like to be able to narrow down what's causing the random restarts.

Usually when Vista comes back it gives the BCCode: 1a
But today when we returned to the computer, the screen was black; Explorer.exe wouldn't start and the code was different: BCCode: 1000008E

I filled in this computers specs when I registered, if those arent visible, then tell me and I'll rewrite them.
Also, I'll look for the .dmp files now, and attach them in a sec.

Thanks for helping out!
//Mattedatten

 

[Patonb]

I'd remove all aspects of the Nvidia card using something like driversweeper. Its pretty easy, and woul be my 1st try.
http://majorgeeks.com/Driver_Sweeper_d6171.html

You might want to check the memory with memtest.

What is the power supply size? You should beabgle to power a 5450 on pretty much all psu, but it might be going bad.

 

[mattedatten]

Nvm that part about idleing, now It keeps BSOD-ing and restarting, giving
BCCode: 1000008e
BCP1: C0000005
BCP2: 82827FEE
BCP3: A25E3AD8
BCP4: 00000000
OS Version: 6_0_6000
Service Pack: 0_0
Product: 768_1

During the bluescreen there is some kind of counter, and I've seen two bluescreens within the last 5 min. As I tried to take a picture of them both times, I failed to read what actaullly was written..

So, ehm, I guess that it might be something with multiple drivers. But, noted again, this isn't my computer, and I really wouldn't like to remove drivers and things like that before beeing sure about whats wrong (even if I know that this is probably next to impossible with this type of errors)

Is there any kind of decompiler or translator that reads the .dmp-files created and writes out something readable, I mean, opening the files with notepad is just confusing.

I'll attach all 10 dmp-files from today;


(Have to leave the computer for now, will post this message as it may bluescreen and restart )

 

[Lottiemansion]

Hi,

The dump files are inconclusive (Memory corruption, Drivers - afd.sys & PxHelp20.sys)

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[mattedatten]

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As Malwarebytes doesnt seem to be free, would a scan with the installed avast! Free or maybe installing Ad-aware and make it clear whatever it finds?

Complete the windows update process to SP2 - plus others!

We noticed that it wasn't even updated to SP1, and the windows update didnt find the update, so we downloaded the 2 service-packs manually from microsoft homepage. I'm trying to contact my friend as of progress on SP1/2 and if it've done any difference.

 

[Patonb]

I find alot of Plain vista doesnt find sp1.

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