BSOD if I/O heavily pressed

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I have a new[-ish] PC I built about four months ago with fresh hardware and
a fresh install of Windows XP, and since it was assembled I've always had
this problem.

Whenever the I/O is heavily pressed--specifically, whenever I use the
DVD-ROMs and hard drives with a lot of hard drive seeking, such as copying
multiple files from both DVD-ROMs to the hard drive at the same time, or
sometimes when I'm defragmenting the hard drive--I will eventually get a
BSOD ("MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION" or something similar, a useless error which
can mean anything from bad memory to hot temperatures to bad drivers).

I'm not sure what to think of this. The CPU temperature readout says that
it's pretty darn cool. Might be the hard drive temperature, but I don't know
what to think of that since the hard drive is spaced out in its own drive
slot with plenty of room to breathe.

The case side fan blows in and not out. Is this correct?

Ideas?

My configuration:

M/B - MSI K8N Neo4 w/ nVidia nForce 4
CPU - AMD Athlon 64 3000+
Memory - 1GB (tests check out)
Hard drive - Western Digital WD3200JD (320GB Serial-ATA)
O/S - Windows XP Pro SP2 (w/ latest nVidia nForce drivers)

Jon

 

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> M/B - MSI K8N Neo4 w/ nVidia nForce 4
> Hard drive - Western Digital WD3200JD (320GB Serial-ATA)
> O/S - Windows XP Pro SP2 (w/ latest nVidia nForce drivers)

I have uninstalled the nVidia IDE drivers and will monitor to see if there
further errors. I'll post here if errors continue.

Jon

 

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My first impression is that you may have an underpowered/unstable power
supply unit. You may want to try installing a more powerful High Quality
(stable) brand of PSU and see if that fixes it.

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DaveW
"Jon Davis" <jon@REMOVE.ME.PLEASE.jondavis.net> wrote in message
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>I have a new[-ish] PC I built about four months ago with fresh hardware and
>a fresh install of Windows XP, and since it was assembled I've always had
>this problem.
>
> Whenever the I/O is heavily pressed--specifically, whenever I use the
> DVD-ROMs and hard drives with a lot of hard drive seeking, such as copying
> multiple files from both DVD-ROMs to the hard drive at the same time, or
> sometimes when I'm defragmenting the hard drive--I will eventually get a
> BSOD ("MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION" or something similar, a useless error
> which can mean anything from bad memory to hot temperatures to bad
> drivers).
>
> I'm not sure what to think of this. The CPU temperature readout says that
> it's pretty darn cool. Might be the hard drive temperature, but I don't
> know what to think of that since the hard drive is spaced out in its own
> drive slot with plenty of room to breathe.
>
> The case side fan blows in and not out. Is this correct?
>
> Ideas?
>
> My configuration:
>
> M/B - MSI K8N Neo4 w/ nVidia nForce 4
> CPU - AMD Athlon 64 3000+
> Memory - 1GB (tests check out)
> Hard drive - Western Digital WD3200JD (320GB Serial-ATA)
> O/S - Windows XP Pro SP2 (w/ latest nVidia nForce drivers)
>
> Jon
>

 

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"Jon Davis" <jon@REMOVE.ME.PLEASE.jondavis.net> wrote in message
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> > M/B - MSI K8N Neo4 w/ nVidia nForce 4
> > Hard drive - Western Digital WD3200JD (320GB Serial-ATA)
> > O/S - Windows XP Pro SP2 (w/ latest nVidia nForce drivers)
>
> I have uninstalled the nVidia IDE drivers and will monitor to see if there
> further errors. I'll post here if errors continue.
>
> Jon
>
What PSU/maunufacturer/rating? What video card? How have you tested
memory?
Mike.

 

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"Jon Davis" <jon@REMOVE.ME.PLEASE.jondavis.net> wrote in message
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>> M/B - MSI K8N Neo4 w/ nVidia nForce 4
>> Hard drive - Western Digital WD3200JD (320GB Serial-ATA)
>> O/S - Windows XP Pro SP2 (w/ latest nVidia nForce drivers)
>
> I have uninstalled the nVidia IDE drivers and will monitor to see if there
> further errors. I'll post here if errors continue.
>
> Jon

If anyone is watching this thread, uninstalling the nVidia IDE drivers seems
to have solved the problem.

Jon

 

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"Jon Davis" <jon@REMOVE.ME.PLEASE.jondavis.net> wrote in message
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> "Jon Davis" <jon@REMOVE.ME.PLEASE.jondavis.net> wrote in message
> news:18ORe.7361$UI.4449@okepread05...
> >> M/B - MSI K8N Neo4 w/ nVidia nForce 4
> >> Hard drive - Western Digital WD3200JD (320GB Serial-ATA)
> >> O/S - Windows XP Pro SP2 (w/ latest nVidia nForce drivers)
> >
> > I have uninstalled the nVidia IDE drivers and will monitor to see if
there
> > further errors. I'll post here if errors continue.
> >
> > Jon
>
> If anyone is watching this thread, uninstalling the nVidia IDE drivers
seems
> to have solved the problem.
>
> Jon
>
The system will work better if you install the latest version of the
driver. If you are using standard Microsoft driver for IDE controller you
will be losing a lot of performance.
Mike.

 

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> The system will work better if you install the latest version of the
> driver. If you are using standard Microsoft driver for IDE controller you
> will be losing a lot of performance.
> Mike.

I had the latest driver installed all along.

Jon