It all started some time ago. One of my HDDs started to go bad (suddently stopped working at random times, but always showed up again after a restart of the system) so I figured it was about time to exchange it. I couldn't afford to buy a new HDD then so I unplugged the bad drive and waited for better times.
Then I bought an external HDD and plugged it in (surprised that no CD with drivers was included), my win xp pro found it and the bad drive (which I had plugged in again). The HDD had apparently gotten worse by being unplugged (stopped working faster, sometimes didn't show up after reboot) so I started to work immediately. I started to transfer the files. Bluescreen.
Restarted, tried again, bluescreen.
Restarted, tried again, no bluescreen (weird, I thought). The files were transfered, the bad disk removed from the system. When I was at it I thought it best to backup my other HDD too, you guessed it, bluescreen.
It all ended with me emptying the second HDD and formating it because for some reason I had made it a dynamic disk, now it's basic again. Anyway, I thought the it was the old, bad drive that caused the BSODs, but that was pretty much out of the question when I started to work on the second drive.
I did a scan with Whocrashed (dumps found below) and found out that ntkrnlpa.exe was causing them, after a few hours on Google I still had no idea of how to fix it. Everyone I could find that had solved their problem was either using win 7 or a laptop-
Almost everytime it was caused by faulty drivers of some sort and as I didn't get a driver-CD with my external HDD I went to the manufacturers homepage to look for the drivers. No drivers for XP though.
I'm pretty sure that it's the External drive that are causing the BSOD's, but I'm not really sure about how to fix it... Help?
Report from whocrashed:
[codebox]Analysis
Crash dump directory: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump
Crash dumps are enabled on your computer.
On Fri 2010-07-16 09:38:26 your computer crashed
This was likely caused by the following module: ntkrnlpa.exe
Bugcheck code: 0xA (0xA46F659C, 0x2, 0x1, 0x806ECAB2)
Error: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Dump file: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini071610-01.dmp
file path: C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntkrnlpa.exe
product: Operativsystemet Microsoft® Windows®
company: Microsoft Corporation
description: NT:s kernel och system
The crash took place in a standard Microsoft module. Your system configuration may be incorrect, possibly the culprit may be another driver on your system which cannot be identified at this time.
On Thu 2010-07-15 02:21:09 your computer crashed
This was likely caused by the following module: ntkrnlpa.exe
Bugcheck code: 0xA (0xE8, 0x2, 0x1, 0x806E6A16)
Error: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Dump file: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini071510-01.dmp
file path: C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntkrnlpa.exe
product: Operativsystemet Microsoft® Windows®
company: Microsoft Corporation
description: NT:s kernel och system
The crash took place in a standard Microsoft module. Your system configuration may be incorrect, possibly the culprit may be another driver on your system which cannot be identified at this time.
On Tue 2010-07-13 08:00:27 your computer crashed
This was likely caused by the following module: ntkrnlpa.exe
Bugcheck code: 0xA (0x99EADF5C, 0x2, 0x1, 0x806ECAB2)
Error: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Dump file: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini071310-02.dmp
file path: C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntkrnlpa.exe
product: Operativsystemet Microsoft® Windows®
company: Microsoft Corporation
description: NT:s kernel och system
The crash took place in a standard Microsoft module. Your system configuration may be incorrect, possibly the culprit may be another driver on your system which cannot be identified at this time.
On Tue 2010-07-13 01:39:03 your computer crashed
This was likely caused by the following module: ntkrnlpa.exe
Bugcheck code: 0xCA (0x5, 0x8ACC8030, 0x0, 0x0)
Error: PNP_DETECTED_FATAL_ERROR
Dump file: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini071310-01.dmp
file path: C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntkrnlpa.exe
product: Operativsystemet Microsoft® Windows®
company: Microsoft Corporation
description: NT:s kernel och system
The crash took place in a standard Microsoft module. Your system configuration may be incorrect, possibly the culprit may be another driver on your system which cannot be identified at this time.
On Thu 2010-07-08 22:19:03 your computer crashed
This was likely caused by the following module: ntkrnlpa.exe
Bugcheck code: 0xCA (0x5, 0x8ACCF030, 0x0, 0x0)
Error: PNP_DETECTED_FATAL_ERROR
Dump file: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini070910-01.dmp
file path: C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntkrnlpa.exe
product: Operativsystemet Microsoft® Windows®
company: Microsoft Corporation
description: NT:s kernel och system
The crash took place in a standard Microsoft module. Your system configuration may be incorrect, possibly the culprit may be another driver on your system which cannot be identified at this time.
Conclusion
5 crash dumps have been found and analyzed. Note that it's not always possible to state with certainty whether a reported driver is really responsible for crashing your system or that the root cause is in another module. Nonetheless it's suggested you look for updates for the products that these drivers belong to and regularly visit Windows update or enable automatic updates for Windows. In case a piece of malfunctioning hardware is causing trouble, a search with Google on the bug check errors together with the model name and brand of your computer may help you investigate this further.[/codebox]
Edited by Halvtand, 16 July 2010 - 06:31 PM.