XPS 600 Recurring BSOD Problem

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I've been having a recurring BSOD issue STOP: 0x0000008E (0x80000003, 0x8052A744, 0xA8F2A378, 0x00000000)Windows is beginning a physical memory dump.... With a Dell XPS 600. I tried rolling back my forceware drivers to 77.89 from 81.98. As I read on a lot of the dell and nvidia forums that users are having issues with the SLI technology using any nvidia forceware drivers above 77.xx and receiving these errors with nforce4 Intel and AMD Motherboards.

I started getting this error in the beginning of the year. So I reformatted, that did nothing. I rolled back my drivers to 77.89 and didn't have the problem for 2 mos, now (without changing any drivers recently) its back and will happen during various tasks ie. Playing Battlefield 2, playing cds, downloading stuff, and even just being Idle. I produce music and receive file transfers from fellow musicians to work on via AIM and it has crashed 5 times since yesterday while trying to receive one file. HELP!

Specs- Pentium D 3.0 Gig
2 Gigs RAM
160 Gig Sata HD
Nvidia Geforce 6800

Message Edited by oo0mattyg0oo on 02-27-2006 09:42 AM

oo0mattyg0oo · Answer

The only reason Im posting in here is because I thought after a lot of people having issues such as this and with (more than likely) the nforce mobos causing this trouble that maybe there was any definitive help to these kinds of issues as i had trouble reformatting windows and spoke to 5 different Hardware technicians for about 6 hours without them resolving anything.

In party because I was hung up on twice. Once after being on the phone with a tech for about 45 minutes after I ripped a floppy drive out of another cpu at home and found a floppy disk. When he then told me to reboot and Im like "what do I need on this floppy disk before I reboot to try to reformat again." Eventually after all those hours on the phone and browsing the internet I was able to do it myself. I do basic technical support for a wordwide company with 20,000 companies as our clients. If I treated a single one of my clients employees the way dell treated me Id be canned instantly.

All of the machines and servers where I work are dells and we have a team of dell cert. techs onsite. I think Im going to have them take a look at it because I really do not want to call Hardware "support" untill Ive possibly nailed down my issue. It just happens at such random times, Ill give them an event log but. I dunno. I feel I got a 3 G shaft and it honestly feels pretty c*appy (can't believe I can't even post that word LOL, I suppose thats been used a lot in this forum) that so many people have issues with these machines.

XPS_MAYHEM · Answer

im in the same boat..with the same erros as you..so you arent alone man.

i have had 3 XPS's with the same BSODS.

windows debugger shows the same files causing the issue...theres NO END TO IT.

gotta live and learn.

oo0mattyg0oo · Answer

Yeah. I dunno. So is it a driver issue? Live and learn, If someone sold me a 3,000 lemon that was a car that broke down in a month, Id be the one teaching a lesson. But since its a large corporation we just get taken to the cleaners? Its not even a lemon, lemons are used items that don't run. These are brand new, I don't know, its pretty weak. So you've had 3 replacements?

BTW Thanks for replying. I wasn't looking to a specific solution but does anyone admit its a widespread problem at dell or just look at the people that got good machines and talk about how great they have it?

VCraig · Answer

At the risk of covering old ground, are you guys using the Dell wireless KB and mouse - reason for asking is these two devices seem to be a common denominator across similar BSOD complaints.

oo0mattyg0oo · Answer

No wireless anything.

XPS_MAYHEM · Answer

well i guess we got bad luck..i got 3 machines with the same issue... still pulling my hair to straighten it out... there will be days it will work flawlessly..but then there will be days that it will bluescreen after bluescreen... reading the boards..on XPS desktop..these types of bluescreen are pretty common man so you aint alone brother

Scream_And_Fly · Answer

Yes, there are confirmed issues with the 81.98 drivers, including hard lockups (I experienced one last night).  When you roll back the driver, make sure you use Driver Cleaner to completely remove the old driver.  I cannot stress the importance of this enough. Finally, make sure your system is spyware/virus free.

oo0mattyg0oo · Answer

Yeah I used nvcleaner when I rolled it back to v77.79. Are there any documented issues with the WDM drivers? If so are there any useable ones other than Nvidias. When I first reformatted the WDM drivers wouldn't work . I d/l 4.17 a little while after that and installed. At least a month later I got the 6 Blue Screens in like 2 days. Then I didn't have any problems at all for a while. I deleted the drivers and now am using 7.17. I haven't had any freezes yet but probably will in the future.
I don't know, its just such a hassle. Without those WDM drivers this system totally will not perform some of the tasks it is advertised as. I really am infuriated by this, I don't really blame anyone but its just unbelievably frustrating that I have to deal with this after spendind over 3k when I could have bought a $400 system that would not freeze up. It wouldn't be the bada** machines that XPS's are but it would at least perform basic tasks without locking up like these do.

Message Edited by oo0mattyg0oo on 03-04-2006 03:55 PM

Message Edited by oo0mattyg0oo on 03-04-2006 03:57 PM

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XPS 600 Recurring BSOD Problem

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