Can you post the contents of the dump?

Yes... heres what i could understand of it.

bf9e3645 750b jnz ati2dvag+0x10652 (bf9e3652)

bf9e3647 49 dec ecx

bf9e3648 8b06 mov eax,[esi]

bf9e364a 8907 mov [edi],eax

bf9e364c 83c604 add esi,0x4

bf9e364f 83c704 add edi,0x4

bf9e3652 51 push ecx

bf9e3653 c1e903 shr ecx,0x3

bf9e3656 83f900 cmp ecx,0x0

bf9e3659 7427 jz ati2dvag+0x10682 (bf9e3682)

bf9e365b 0f6f06 movq mm0,qword ptr [esi]

bf9e365e 0f6f4e08 movq mm1,qword ptr [esi+0x8]

bf9e3662 0f6f5610 movq mm2,qword ptr [esi+0x10]

bf9e3666 0f6f5e18 movq mm3,qword ptr [esi+0x18]

bf9e366a 0f7f07 movq qword ptr [edi],mm0 ds:0023:00000028=????????????????

bf9e366d 0f7f4f08 movq qword ptr [edi+0x8],mm1

bf9e3671 0f7f5710 movq qword ptr [edi+0x10],mm2

bf9e3675 0f7f5f18 movq qword ptr [edi+0x18],mm3

bf9e3679 83c720 add edi,0x20

bf9e367c 83c620 add esi,0x20

bf9e367f 49 dec ecx

bf9e3680 75d9 jnz ati2dvag+0x1065b (bf9e365b)

bf9e3682 59 pop ecx

bf9e3683 83e107 and ecx,0x7

bf9e3686 743c jz ati2dvag+0x106c4 (bf9e36c4)

bf9e3688 f7c104000000 test ecx,0x4

bf9e368e 7414 jz ati2dvag+0x106a4 (bf9e36a4)

bf9e3690 0f6f06 movq mm0,qword ptr [esi]

heres the actual one thats causing the error.

Bf9e366a 0f7f0f movq qward ptr [edi], mm0 ds:0023: 00000c28=????????????????


looks like a processor fault to me.

UPDATE ON THIS

Run Linux Knoppix 3.9 on the system with the stop error problem and the system is still crashing. i think it rules a problem with the operating system itself. it's crashing after about an hour with linux. no errors are coming up but its randomly freezing and im having to hard reboot.

any ideas now?? i've reformatted the hard disk god knows how many times.

im veering off on the idea of the processor being at fault

pls help. im running out of ideas

Sounds more like a heat related problem. Since you have Knoppix you can run memtest at the boot prompt. If you can get through memtest then I would suspect the processor is overheating for some reason. Have you checked the thermal pad/grease between the heatsink and the chip? Otherwise I'd try a different processor if available.

i have thought that it could be a heat issue and checked to make sure that the fans were all running correctly and that the thermal pad is ok. that all seems to be fine. memory has also been swapped out of that PC into another one and vice versa so i doubt its a memory fault. the only thing i havent done yet is to try another processor (for the record i have another machine running with the same model of processor and that doesnt crash whatsoever). im thinking maybe to swap out the processors for a short time and try the processor in the good and working machine in this one and see what happens.

dont know if it makes any difference but he reformatted again last night after having stop error 'DRIVER IRQ NOT LESS OR EQUAL' I wasnt in the room when he was doing this but he's told me that it was blue screening through the reformat and setup routine. he also had 'page fault in non paged area' come up while i was in the room. this tells me there is a hardware issue. i will attatvh a document i have found for you guys to read.

its called common stop messages. you'll need a version of acrobat reader to read it though

hi ppl.

notice that theres been nothing said about the document i submitted to you.

i've noticed something that i dont think is at all right (maybe you are right buggz - about it being a heating problem)

shortly before the machine goes off on a blue screening episode i have noticed (by watching) that the CPU fan seems to slow right down - almost to a complete stop for a few seconds then it begins to spin fast again. this is confusing me as to why this is happening and what it could possibly mean

in the meantime though i have brought a new heatsink assembly and am going to fit that over the next few days. i am sooo confused over this.

Hi,

Try updating all drivers on the PC; chipset, video, sound, NIC, modem, Windows update and anything else.

Sam

all the drivers andwhat not are fully updated and windows update runs automatically once a week. i schedule all may maintenance to run over the weekend.


seems to be fine now i whacked the new heatsink in anyway.

Hey there, I am having errors with my computer too. Same thing happens. I'm thinking that maybe it's just xp pro, try see if you can get a xp home to test it out.