A month ago, I installed a new 1GB RAM card. But before that, I upgraded from
Norton Internet Security to Norton 360. After getting Norton 360, my
notebook's performance slowed to a crawl. That's why I upgraded the RAM from
256+512 to
512+1GB. The performance improved SOME, but still slow, so I decided to try
switching AV programs. I downloaded AVG, disconnected from internet,
uninstalled N360, and installed AVG. After AVG performed a complete scan of
my system, I got the first blue screen. That was followed by black screen,
and no screen, so I used the Toshiba Restore Console to re-install Windows
XP. That seemed to work at first, but then the blue screens started again.
Here are errors I got:
STOP: 0x0000008e (0xc0000005, 0xbf87af89, 0xba565a58, 0x00000000)
Win32K.sys. address bf87af89 base at bf800000, date stamp 3f73195d
BIOS not ACPI compliant
next
STOP:
Windows error
BC Code 1000008e BCP1:c0000005 BCP2:bf849c48 BCP3: bid95bb4 BCP4:
00000000
next
Driver IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL
STOP:0x000000d1 (0x0-0, 0x0-02, 0x-01, 0xb2157ad1)
Then
PAGE FAULT IN NONPAGED AREA
Then
STOP: 0x0000008e (0xc0000005, 0xb0978c70, 0xaf4e7680, 0x0-0)
So then I changed the RAM back to original, but still getting occasional
blue screens 8(daily).
Since the blue screens continued even after changing the RAM back to
original, I put the RAM in again as 512+1GB.
I don't know how to check Event Viewer.
Thanks for helping.