How to read the small memory dump files that Windows creates for debugging
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315263
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Rey


"Bruce." wrote:

> XP SP3 and all current patches.
>
> I rarely reboot my system and did so last night for the first time in quite
> a while. During that time I've installed several software packages so I
> can't easily tell if one of those might be responsible for the BSOD I am now
> getting, assuming one is, which I'm not sure of.
>
> Just as the reboot nears completion and the initial blank blue screen
> appears (prior to the loading of the desktop background), it intermittently
> crashes to a BSOD with a
>
> STOP: 0x0000008E
>
> It is very intermittent and doesn't crash every reboot. I can't predict if
> or when it will do it. Sometimes a few times in a row, sometimes not for
> several reboots.
>
> I have the latest ASUS P5E BIOS.
>
> I believe it is a faulty device driver (I've read 8E's are generally
> drivers) but the screen makes no mention of WHICH device driver it was in
> when the fault happened.
>
>
> The entire BSOD screen is here:
>
> http://www.bachastain.com/temp/crash.jpg
>
> If it boots, then it will run error free forever, until the next reboot.
>
> I have run the MS RAM diagnostic overnight with no errors, and I run ECC
> RAM.
>
> Considering it isn't predictable, iIs there any way to diagnose which device
> driver is causing the STOP: 0x0000008E error?
>
> Bruce.
>
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