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August 31st, 2008 15:00

HELP! BSOD on CLEAN REINSTALL

To anyine who can help!!!!

 

I did clean reinstall (deleted partitions, created new one, formatted) a few days ago on XPS GEN3. All drivers, begining with latest chipset driver were installed. No conflicts in Device Manager, everything looked O.K.

Installed Acronis True Image Home 11 (the only new program so far - other programs were reinstalled) about 3 days ago - everything is O.K. Installed and played Battlefield 2 (was installed before). Right now started installing Orange Box (compilation of Half Life games) by putting installation disc into the DVD drive, and upon the spinup of the disc - BSOD with following message driver_irql_notless_or_equal and error stop code: 0x000000d1  - screen went blank, tried to go to SAfe Mode, could not - screen went blank during bootup. Next I choose F8 - Last Known Installation which worked - and that one worked - I got into regular Windows. Put Orange Box DVD in again and .... everything is O.K, game is installing as I type, no problems, like nothing happened????

 

Can anyone help??? I tried to Google the problem, but did not see any specific solutions - many people were having problems with different drivers. Some of them even stated that they did not do anything and the problem just disappeared?!

 

Thanks a lot for future help, I am completely confused!

  • Dr. Lawrence Ho

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    Posted August 31st, 2008 19:00

    It seems that your computer is now working.  If this game caused trouble but is now OK, ignore the previous problem.  If it continues to cause a blue screen, don't install it or dump it.  Search the game web site for support. You are probably not the only victim of this software.  My advise is like the guy who went to the doctor and complained, "Doc, it hurts when I do this."  "So stop doing that," replied the doc.
  • kisianik

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    Posted August 31st, 2008 23:00

    Just to clarify the previous explanation of my problem.

    When I put Orange Box DVD in DVDROM, the setup did not start yet, the disc start just spining and PC went into BSOD - so, how it could be the game? Install did not start yet?

    On the WEB everybody talking about hardware (driver related to one or another hardware componenet) issues, not a software.

    Let me see Event Viewer...

     

    Edit - grammar 

     

    Edit 2: Event Viewer log:

     

    Event Type:    Information
    Event Source:    Save Dump
    Event Category:    None
    Event ID:    1001
    Date:        8/31/2008
    Time:        9:07:34 AM
    User:        N/A
    Computer:    (PC name)
    Description:
    The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck.  The bugcheck was: 0x100000d1 (0x00000000, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0x00000000). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini083108-01.dmp.

    For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

     

    Computer was not just rebooted - it went into BSOD?

    Message Edited by kisianik on 08-31-2008 05:23 PM
    Message Edited by kisianik on 08-31-2008 05:36 PM
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    Posted September 1st, 2008 00:00

    check event viewer and look for the error(s) with a red x at about the date/time it happened and see what the error event and description are... 
    Message Edited by xcator on 08-31-2008 08:56 PM
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    Posted September 1st, 2008 02:00

    There is no errors before the memory dump, BSOD event, but a lot after, when I tried to restart PC in SAFE MODE and regularly. So Should I post the ones which are after BSOD as well? Bunch of drivers could not be loaded after BSOD untill I used Last Know Configuration which worked.
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    Posted September 1st, 2008 03:00

    if it does it again write down all the info on the blue screen...  
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    Posted September 1st, 2008 14:00

    Now I am back to random BSODs as it was happened before reinstall of OS. To summarize Stop Error Codes, so far I had 3 different: 0x000000D1 with driver_IRQL_notless__or_equal message on top of BSOD page, and 2 generic BSODs with 2 different stop error messages (nothing on top of the page except regular words). The first one was 0x00008086 and second (a few minutes ago) 0x0000008E (0x80000004, 0x804dcf91, 0xaa65abc4, 0x00000000). Rebooting PC now, will look for Event VIewer Errors...

     

    EDIT 01: Just looked in Event VIewer - NO ERROR MESSAGEs???????

    Just System Event ID 1001 - Save Dump...

     

    What is next????

     

    Edit 2: Is there any way to analyse .dmp files for any information??? 

    Message Edited by kisianik on 09-01-2008 08:37 AM
    Message Edited by kisianik on 09-01-2008 08:39 AM
  • Dr. Lawrence Ho

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    Posted September 1st, 2008 15:00

    Perhaps you need updated drivers.  Another thing you can do is start from safe mode using sequential start mode to see what is bothering your computer.  Try updating your bios.  Look at your hardware manager to be certain everything is properly installed.  (This found in control panel/system.)  Open your windows temp file and clean it out.
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    Posted September 1st, 2008 17:00


    @paindoc wrote:
    Another thing you can do is start from safe mode using sequential start mode to see what is bothering your computer.

    How to use Sequential Start Mode?

     

    Bios, hm... Can I revert BIOS back somehow after update? I still have original one.

     

    What about reseting NVRAM?


    @paindoc wrote:
     Look at your hardware manager to be certain everything is properly installed.

     

     Everything is good here.

     

    Temp will gone in seconds...

     

    Anything else/anybody else... 

     

  • xcator

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    Posted September 2nd, 2008 00:00

    I would begin by running hardware diagnostics including hard drive and memtest86 on memory... if it all checks out ok, then read this thread carefully starting on about page 6 to the end....your answer may lie there, you have a gen3 with 925 chipset...good luck
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    Posted September 2nd, 2008 17:00

    To do sequential start, go to safe mode and select sequential start.