WindowsXP crashing/restarting/BSOD

[codemyyster]

For the past few weeks now, 2 things have been happening: BSOD, and random restarts. The BSODs have ranged from kmixer.sys, nv4_disp.dll, win32k.sys, or just no file in particular. I was typically getting them while playing World of Warcraft, just seems to make it happen faster [anywhere from 1-15 minutes into playing], because it also will occur when I'm just running a few applications, perhaps instant messaging or just browsing the internet. When my computer comes back from the BSOD, or a random restart [i'll go into that in a second], I get this following error:

Event Type: Error

Event Source: System Error

Event Category: (102)

Event ID: 1003

Date: 10/31/2005

Time: 10:46:19 AM

User: N/A

Computer: CODYSAN

Description:

Error code 1000007f, parameter1 00000008, parameter2 80042000, parameter3 00000000, parameter4 00000000.

Data:

0000: 53 79 73 74 65 6d 20 45 System E

0008: 72 72 6f 72 20 20 45 72 rror Er

0010: 72 6f 72 20 63 6f 64 65 ror code

0018: 20 31 30 30 30 30 30 37 1000007

0020: 66 20 20 50 61 72 61 6d f Param

0028: 65 74 65 72 73 20 30 30 eters 00

0030: 30 30 30 30 30 38 2c 20 000008,

0038: 38 30 30 34 32 30 30 30 80042000

0040: 2c 20 30 30 30 30 30 30 , 000000

0048: 30 30 2c 20 30 30 30 30 00, 0000

0050: 30 30 30 30 0000

That is where it says "Windows has recovered from a serious error. blah blah, etc"

Now my other problem which seems to be occuring more often than the BSODs, is just a random restart.. and yes, I have unchecked the Automatically Restart box in Startup and Recovery-- but it's not even going to BSODs anymore.

Here are some more of my event/error logs:

Event Type: Information

Event Source: Save Dump

Event Category: None

Event ID: 1001

Date: 10/31/2005

Time: 1:36:57 AM

User: N/A

Computer: CODYSAN

Description:

The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x1000007f (0x00000008, 0x80042000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini103105-01.dmp.

Event Type: Error

Event Source: atapi

Event Category: None

Event ID: 9

Date: 10/31/2005

Time: 1:20:01 AM

User: N/A

Computer: CODYSAN

Description:

The device, \Device\Ide\IdePort0, did not respond within the timeout period.

Event Type: Information

Event Source: Save Dump

Event Category: None

Event ID: 1001

Date: 10/30/2005

Time: 11:06:06 PM

User: N/A

Computer: CODYSAN

Description:

The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x10000050 (0xc2909a18, 0x00000000, 0x804e58fc, 0x00000000). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini103005-08.dmp.

Event Type: Information

Event Source: Save Dump

Event Category: None

Event ID: 1001

Date: 10/30/2005

Time: 8:18:26 PM

User: N/A

Computer: CODYSAN

Description:

The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x1000008e (0xc0000005, 0xbfa520b1, 0xb9abeabc, 0x00000000). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini103005-06.dmp.

Yea, I think you get the idea? And also, FYI, I was getting BSODs prior to my TWO reformats, as well.

System Specs:

Motherboard: Asus A7N8X-X

Bios Version: Phoenix Technologies, LTD ASUS A7N8X-X ACPI BIOS Rev 1009

OS: Windows XP Professional

RAM: 1 Gig DDR

CPU: AMD ATHLON XP 2800+

Graphics Card: GeForceFX 5600

PLEASE HELP! This has been a problem for weeks! :ninja:

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Hello, and welcome to the forum :)

The first thing in a situation like this is to check if you don't have anything nasty installed on your system. Please check this topic how to create a Hijackthis log, then download, install, and run Hijackthis, and post the resulting log in this forum. One of the experts will then have a look at it.

Meanwhile can you tell us what antivirus & antispyware software you have installed?