A few weeks ago I came home, sat down to my computer desk, and touched my computer's power button. All of a sudden... BZZZT!!! Static electricity... I press the power button and pffft, that's it, computer is dead. No video, no beeps, absolutely nothing.

Last week I got an Optiplex GX270 SFF. P4 2.40GHZ. It only had 128MB RAM so I decided to put my old ram in: 2 sticks of 512 Mushkin DDR333. And it worked!!! Nice...

Unfortunately, ever since I started using this machine I've been getting blue screens. A LOT of blue screens. 9 times out of 10 it's IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL; otherwise PFN_LIST_CORRUPT. The thing is that it's completely random; sometimes I use my computer for 2 hours and it's fine; sometimes I reboot after a blue screen and it happens 10 minutes later. Very frustrating... I don't even do anything that intensive; just Firefox and word processing.

Anyway, I've tried everything I can think of. I defragged my hard drive (was at 30%). Turned off Fast Boot. Flashed my BIOS (A02 to A07).

And here's the weird part... Last night I ran Memtest86+ overnight. ALL night... 24 passes. 0 errors.

WHAT??!!!??

HOW??????

AHHHHH!!!

From a lot of Googling, I found that it would be good to check the temperature in the BIOS each time it blue screens. How do I do that on a GX270? I don't see the option in the BIOS.

Could there be a compatibility issue??



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Here is what I have found from the Event Viewer. Every time there is a blue screen, there is a "Save Dump", as pictured below:

http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/1673/savedumpnj8.jpg

(The Minidump files are just gibberish.)

Those six errors you see pictured (4 minutes later??) are as follows:

1. Generate Activation Context failed for C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\x86_Microsoft.VC80.MFC_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_8.0.50727.163_x-ww_39049d00\MFC80U.DLL. Reference error message: The operation completed successfully.

2. Resolve Partial Assembly failed for Microsoft.VC80.MFCLOC. Reference error message: The referenced assembly is not installed on your system.

3. Dependent Assembly Microsoft.VC80.MFCLOC could not be found and Last Error was The referenced assembly is not installed on your system.

4. Generate Activation Context failed for C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\x86_Microsoft.VC80.MFC_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_8.0.50727.163_x-ww_39049d00\MFC80U.DLL. Reference error message: The operation completed successfully.

5. Resolve Partial Assembly failed for Microsoft.VC80.MFCLOC. Reference error message: The referenced assembly is not installed on your system.

6. Dependent Assembly Microsoft.VC80.MFCLOC could not be found and Last Error was The referenced assembly is not installed on your system.

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Note that sometimes it has a blue screen but there are no errors whatsoever. Case in point:

http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/8882/savedump2pq1.jpg

Any ideas?






Could there be a compatibility issue??

Any other help would be MUCH appreciated!!!!

Message Edited by Paul22000 on 03-11-2007 12:58 AM