New A7N8XED board has BSOD problems

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Everyone loves a mystery, right? This one's getting a little tired though.
Just bought new MB/case/memory, trying to get a more stable system, but
after a week of fiddling, I am frequently getting a
"STOP 0x0000000A IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" blue screen on startup. At first I
thought it was caused by improper CPU settings (that's another story, posted
here as "New A7N8XED board has CPU/memory problems"), but after setting all
CPU and memory settings at very slow speeds, the problem persists. MS
knowledge base has articles with long lists of possible causes, but due to
the sporadic nature of the problem, I'd almost have to buy a new machine to
address all the possibilities. But I just did buy a new machine ;-(

Any advice would be greatly appreciated - I am in way over my head here.

Clues:
-- Address was 8042de0, device (or "driver") named is " ntoskrnl.exe "
Knowledge base article says that this suggests the named driver is
"buggy" -- unfortunately the named "driver" sounds to me more like a central
part of the OS.
-- The blue screen will often (but not always) remain after repeated
reboots, unless I remove the MB battery for several minutes. This seems to
fix it every time (so far). Other attempts at a remedy - removing all cards,
second HD and CD rom, disabling stuff in bios, sometimes would fix it, but
that, in retrospect, may have just been a coincidence. I would think that I
had everything "fixed," then next morning another blue screen would greet
me...

Faulty memory is listed as one possible cause. I got one gig of it - don't
know if win2k has trouble with that much ram.

This installation of win2k was transplanted from my old machine, which I
understand can cause problems. I could do a fresh install -- reluctantly,
because it's got a lot of stuff -- but am a little skeptical that a registry
problem could cause such a strange intermittent problem which is cured by
removing the battery. Seems more like hardware. But me, I know nothing.

Thanks in advance for any hints....
Doug
 
Doug said:
Everyone loves a mystery, right? This one's getting a little tired though.
Just bought new MB/case/memory, trying to get a more stable system, but
after a week of fiddling, I am frequently getting a
"STOP 0x0000000A IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" blue screen on startup. At first I
thought it was caused by improper CPU settings (that's another story, posted
here as "New A7N8XED board has CPU/memory problems"), but after setting all
CPU and memory settings at very slow speeds, the problem persists. MS
knowledge base has articles with long lists of possible causes, but due to
the sporadic nature of the problem, I'd almost have to buy a new machine to
address all the possibilities. But I just did buy a new machine ;-(

Any advice would be greatly appreciated - I am in way over my head here.
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Have you ran Memtest86 ?..
 
Doug - pull all but one stick of memory (run with the smallest amount of RAM
that you can), and see what happens. Also, have you run CHECKDISK from a
prompt/reboot? It's the one with five stages. From a prompt:

chkdsk c: /v/r <enter>

Say YES

Reboot
++++++++++++++++
Please post a follow-up.
Ron
 
Thanks again, all, for your suggestions. I spent some time combing through
the reg, removing most references to "via" or "highpoint," along with all
related files, since those were two major sources of trouble on my old Abit
board (which is where this drive came from). Sure enough, it seems to have
solved the problem (cross fingers...).

Of course, I really can't blame those files -- I can see now why it's a good
idea to start with a fresh OS install when putting together a new machine. I
ran Norton Utilities and System Mechanic to clean up the registry, but
obviously those programs just scratch the surface of what could (and should)
be cleaned out of the reg.

Having solved the blue screen mystery, I'm now able to run my xp2500+ at
13X166, no problems. Still don't know why I can't run it at 11X, but then,
I'm not complaining ;-)

One question: Is it normal for this board to use only the standard windows
ide controller? Seems that boards usually replace this with their own custom
drivers, but I'm not finding one on the Asus disk...

All I can say is... damn this machine is fast... ;-)

Doug
 
Getting same BSOD message as you. XP2500, 512mb pc2700 and win2k not winxp.

My solution has been removing the power. Then it boots fine. It was a clean
CD install with sp4 .

COuld you be more specific about WHAT cured it. I was wondering about the
BIOS from other posts- it currently rev1005.
Trying not to go for rebuild of OS , but if I have too
 
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