Random, complete, system freeze.

[PETC]

I see what you're saying. I'll devote some left over space on C:/ for my page file and remove the page file from F:/

My only problem now is that Windows stores a bunch of temp files on the C:/ drive (Like the Documents and Settings/User/Local Settings folder) and while I've set my Documents, the desktop and many other folders to my F:/ drive, I can't seem to figure a way to move this folder. Windows doesn't take up a ton of space, but I'm worried over time that my Local Settings folder could swell and begin taking up more size than I'm comfortable with. Any idea how to change it's location?

[31337]

Originally Posted by Luni

Your page file should be on the quicker of the hard drives.

If youre broken into partitions, remember you cant do multiple read/write operations on the same HDD, so since everything is already on C, you should just stop trying to be smarter than windows and put it on C.

Your page file should be set to CUSTOM size, and exactly twice as much physical memory as you have in the system.

Then once youve done that, download page defrag run it, and let it defrag your new page file.

That should fix your issue if its just Page File related.

Another thing, you should just buy a storage drive, and stop multi partitioning your HDD. It really slows you down because the drive cant perform mulitple read/write operations at the same time so you get lag. If the lag is extreme enough, the page file will crash and youll bluescreen.

What he said. If you have access to something like ghost or acronis I would image your disks to another HD (like an external USB) then redo your hardrive as one big partition. I do take issue with setting the page file to twice the amount of memory. I know all over the net people say to do anywhere from 1.5x to 2x the amount of your system memory and for good reason, however its been my experience if you have more then a 1GB of ram you just start to waste disk space. For testing purposes I would move the page file, but keep it a custom size of say 768 and see how that does. make sure you open internet explorer and go to the tool section then depending on what version you are running adjust the size of temp files used in IE. I have mine set to 64 MB. I use firefox mostly and make sure it deletes them when I exit. That will remove a good portion of crud that sits on your disk.

[Luni]

Well, regardless of how large you set the page file to, dont let the system manage it. Set it to a custom size of whatever you want, then lock it there. Then get page defrag. Youd be amazed how fragmented a pagefile gets.

[31337]

+1 on the custom size.

[PETC]

New Development:

Error code 1000008e, parameter1 c0000005, parameter2 bf8054fd, parameter3 a5ed6828, parameter4 00000000.

[31337]

This is what is listed on one of the help sites that I frequent

Title:
HOW to Fix Random BSOD with System Error code: 1000008e
Question: Randomly getting BSOD with this error code in event log.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: System Error
Event Category: (102)
Event ID: 1003
Date: 2/8/2006

Description:
Error code 1000008e, parameter1 c0000005, parameter2 851b35d0, parameter3 ba75acb0, parameter4 00000000.

Data:
0000: 53 79 73 74 65 6d 20 45 System E
0008: 72 72 6f 72 20 20 45 72 rror Er
0010: 72 6f 72 20 63 6f 64 65 ror code
0018: 20 31 30 30 30 30 30 38 1000008
0020: 65 20 20 50 61 72 61 6d e Param
0028: 65 74 65 72 73 20 63 30 eters c0
0030: 30 30 30 30 30 35 2c 20 000005,
0038: 38 35 31 62 33 35 64 30 851b35d0
0040: 2c 20 62 61 37 35 61 63 , ba75ac
0048: 62 30 2c 20 30 30 30 30 b0, 0000
0050: 30 30 30 30 0000


-= My System Specifications=-

Case:
Antec SLK3800B Black Steel ATX Mid Tower - 400 Watt (SP400) SmartPower 2.0 ATX 12V 2.0 for AMD PSU

Drives:
Western Digital WD740GD - 74GB 10K RPM SATA 150 HD
NEC Black IDE DVD Burner - ND-3540A
NEC Black 1.44MB 3.5" Floppy

Memory:
Corsair XMS 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit - TWINX1024-3200C2PT

CPU:
AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 1Ghz FSB, Sckt939 - #ADA3700BNBOX

Motherboard:
AOpen nCK804a-LFS Sckt939 Nvidia nForce4 ATX AMD M/B

Video Card:
AOpen Geforce 6600 256MB DDR PCI Express x16 - #91.05210.66U

Additional PCI Cards:
Firewire 4-port PCI Card
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
ALL THIS WAS PURCHASED BRAND NEW on 11/21/2005



WHAT I HAVE DONE SO FAR:

Removed Each stick of memory and ran individually in all available slots on motherboard.

Updated Motherboard to Latest Bios (none to download)
Updated all NVIDIA Drivers for chipset/motheboard, video card, sound, lan, and audio
Windows XP SP2 - with all latest updates
Run Trend Micro Small Business Edition & Trend Micro Anti-Spyware Small Business Edition - System is Clean of Viruses and Spyware

System will Randomly Blue Screen to the "1000008e" error code, and I have to do soft or hard reset to reboot system.

Only thing that I have noticed in the event log, 9/10 times the crash happens W32Time - Event ID 35 is posted.

Event Type: Information
Event Source: W32Time
Event Category: None
Event ID: 35
Description:
The time service is now synchronizing the system time with the time source myservernamehere (ntp.d|192.168.0.136:123->192.168.0.10:123)

I am not sure if that is just a coincidence or not.

Other than that, I have ran multiple memory testers for around 2 hours with 0 memory errors.

-- Any Help with this problem will be very much appreciated!
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02.08.2006 at 05:29PM EST, ID: 15907578


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Antunb:
Create boot disk and run
Memtest86+ - Advanced Memory Diagnostic Tool

could be faulty ram


have you got another display adapter you could test?

when did this start happening? after you instelled a new device? updated drivers?


02.08.2006 at 05:33PM EST, ID: 15907617


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Antunb:
download
http://mersenne.org/gimps/p95v2414.zip

and run stress test


02.08.2006 at 05:54PM EST, ID: 15907844

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rcstech:
just started happening, didn't update any of the drivers or anything until it started happening, then I did everything I could think of to try to fix it.

This is my work PC, so I will download the tool and try running it tomorrow.

Thanks.



02.08.2006 at 06:03PM EST, ID: 15907927


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cpc2004:
The crash may be caused by faulty ram or device driver error. The system event log and the minidump has the most useful diagnostic information. When Windows crashes with blue screen, it writes a system event 1001 or 1003 and a minidump to the folder \windows\minidump. Check system event 1001 and 1003 and it has the detail of the blue screen.

Event ID: 1001
Source: Save Dump
Description:
The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck.The bugcheck was : 0xc000000a (0xe1270188, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0x804032100).
Microsoft Windows..... A dump was saved in: .......

Event Source: System Error
Event Category: (102)
Event ID: 1003
Description:
Error code 1000007f, parameter1 0000000d, parameter2 00000000, parameter3 00000000, parameter4 00000000

Control Panel -> Adminstrative Tools -> Event Viewer -> System -> Event 1001/1003. Copy the content and paste it back here

Zip 5 to 6 minidumps to a zip file and attach it at any webspace. I will study the dump and find out the culprit. If you can't provide the minidumps, run memtest to stress test the ram. Make sure that your windows is not infected with spyware and adware.
Memtest86.com - Memory Diagnostic

Get public webspace
Use a free service like rapidshare to attach the minidumps and post the url of the mimidumps at this thread.
RapidShare Webhosting + Webspace


02.09.2006 at 09:32AM EST, ID: 15912877

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rcstech:
Okay I have uploaded the Mini-Dumps here:

http://www.mymidway.com/fix/Minidump.zip

I have been doing MEMORY Stress TESTING this morning, NO ERRORS at all.



02.09.2006 at 10:33AM EST, ID: 15913510


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cpc2004:
Your windows is infected with virus called Backdoor.Rustock.
Solution : Backdoor.Rustock | Symantec

Refer the following cases
XP box reboot - System Error 1003 : error, 1003, system
Stop code generated and a reboot : code, stop
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02.09.2006 at 11:14AM EST, ID: 15913907


rcstech:
Ahh, I Believe you are right, How did you find that out? Just curious if you found it in the mini-dump... then where and how -- for future reference.

I will follow the removal instructions and see if I can fix this -- This could be allowing them to email through my PC also correct? --- Making our IP BLOCKED on some spamsites --- blacklisted...


02.09.2006 at 11:40AM EST, ID: 15914220

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rcstech:
Ahh, exactly what it was... THANKS ALOT CPC2004 -- Very Much Appreciated.


02.09.2006 at 11:57AM EST, ID: 15914397


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cpc2004:
I find out the solution because you are not the first person with this trojan at your windows.

[31337]

It looks like its more or less spot on to the issue you are having. I would do everything the user who created the posting did and I would also run some scans for Virus and spyware.

Trend Micro has house call which is good and kaspersky has a decent free download trial of their AV. I hope we aren't chasing a ghost in this one.