Kernal error

kleefarr

3 major parts installed in the last couple of days..

Maxtor 80GB

Maxtor 320GB

Corsair TX750W PSU

Upgraded motherboard, CPU and RAM a couple of months ago (MS-6526, P4 2.8 and 2GB RAM)

Set up out of case with barebones setup installed Windows 2000 Pro, fully updated drivers and windows, everything seamed to be fine but now the system hangs after a few minutes, the 80GB HDD makes a slight grinding noise and then I get..

***STOP: 0x0000007A (0xE20DD574, 0x000000E, 0xA014DBD1, 0x163C7860)
KERNAL_DATA_PAGE_ERROR
***ADDRESS A014DBD1 BASE AT A0000000 DATE STAMP 45ed063d - WIN32K.SYS
Beginning dump of physical memory
Physical memory dump completed contact system administrator

I have done chkdsk and booted in safe mode same problem. Ran a Maxtor (Now Seagate) disk checking utility and all was good.

Any ideas??

Kevin

Capt'n Midnight

Random Google says
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/prork/prhd_exe_qofl.mspx?mfr=true

Stop 0x7A is usually caused by a bad block (sector) in a paging file, a virus, a disk controller error, or failing RAM. In rare cases, it is caused when nonpaged pool resources run out. It is also caused by defective hardware.

I'd probably add drivers for motherboard and drive controller too

hdtune can report on the smart status of the drives may give more/different info to the maxtor utility

kleefarr

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Random Google says
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/prork/prhd_exe_qofl.mspx?mfr=true
I'd probably add drivers for motherboard and drive controller too

hdtune can report on the smart status of the drives may give more/different info to the maxtor utility

I updated all of the boards motherboard drivers via MSI Live auto update. Will check again though.
Does that hdtune pick up things that the OEM software wouldn't? Cloud be worth a try I suppose.

I did a search for w2k related Kernal errors and didn't have much luck.

kleefarr

I packed this away just before Christmas and have now dug it back out again.
I decided that it being a New Year I would do a complete clean install now that the BIOS had been updated.
Set it all up out of case on anti-static mat as usual. Booted from CD selected clean install, everything was going fine until half way through the install and the 80G HDD started a slight grinding sound like it had been doing before, but seemed a bit worse this time, it went on for longer as well. So I turned everything off and decided that there must be something wrong with the HDD.
It's the first time I have any problem with a new HDD but I guess it can happen.
Think I'll contact the seller and ask for a replacement, what do you think?

Kevin

kleefarr

Not long after my last post I intalled W2K on the 320GB HDD without any problems at all. It's been running fine since, updated and everything.

Only thing is, I can't get my firewire card installed for my external DVDRW.

Put an RMA in for the 80GB HDD last night.