STOP 0x00008086 bluescreen error + other problems

[dandicedan]

My PC is an HP Pavilion dv6000 laptop with Vista and an Intel Mobile 965 Chipset, and its always had some problems, mostly with games and internet browsers crashing for seemingly no reason.

It's really intermitent on when it acts up, sometimes ill just have a browser crash a few times a day, and other times it will repeatedly crash upon being opened, and even worse I will get blue screens of death with a STOP 0x00008086 error. Now I have no idea what that means, but I assume it has something to do with the graphics card because it noticebly fails more when playing games on my PC, especially ones taxing to the video card, older games from say 10 years ago dont cause many problems

Also I've been running into alot of errors with anti virus software and windows update, specifically when they have to do with malware updates and most notably, when I try to install SP1 it will give me an error.

But just recently it has gotten terrible, almost no game runs for more than 10 seconds before crashing, and the PC is just extremely slow in general.

Also I don't know if this is related but when i check services in the task manager, there are two sometimes more of this thing called "svchost" that generally take upwards of 60k+ memory.

I'm really at a loss for answers here. Thanks in advance

 

[dandicedan]

bump

 

[notherdude]

Under warranty? With these issues you should have returned it when it was still covered, though getting them to acknowledge an intermittent error is another thing. Anyway.

Few things to try:

1. Go to HP and get all of the latest drivers and updates! Be sure to do that first.

2. Could be a failing fan, it sounds sort of like heat related crashing. You might DL a temp reading utility such as 'speedfan' and see what your temps are.

3. Could be a bad memory chip. If there are two chips in there then take one out and then switch with the other one see if you still crash.

4. Hard drive error - run checkdsk /r from the recovery console.

Before giving up you might try loading up a new install of Vista from the recovery partition.