[Raver367]

I've had a strange, long running problem that has been driving me insane. My computer is brand new, and randomly crashes to the bios screens that show when I first push the power on button. I've just had the machine completely rebuilt, and the motherboard replaced by the people who sold it to me, and the problem is persisting, but wont happen for them in the shop.

Last time the problem eventually started showing disk errors and the occassional blue screen flashed up, and the computer became totally inoperable (at least until it got into the store). After reading some reasonably similar posts here, I managed to find the error log in the event viewer, that corresponded with the 2 most recent crashes...

Event Type: Error
Event Source: System Error
Event Category: (102)
Event ID: 1003
Date: 1/29/2006
Time: 12:29:50 AM
User: N/A
Computer: HOME
Description:
Error code 1000000a, parameter1 9d066240, parameter2 00000002, parameter3 00000000, parameter4 8051ec1c.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft....link/events.asp.
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 30 1000000
0020: 61 20 20 50 61 72 61 6d a Param
0028: 65 74 65 72 73 20 39 64 eters 9d
0030: 30 36 36 32 34 30 2c 20 066240,
0038: 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 32 00000002
0040: 2c 20 30 30 30 30 30 30 , 000000
0048: 30 30 2c 20 38 30 35 31 00, 8051
0050: 65 63 31 63 ec1c

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you have a bad driver...

Without more info (make and model of PC), I cannot guess which one.

I would start with the system driver, then the video driver, then the sound driver, as these are the three most troublesome

[gerryf]

you have a bad driver...

Without more info (make and model of PC), I cannot guess which one.

I would start with the system driver, then the video driver, then the sound driver, as these are the three most troublesome

[Raver367]

Thank you! I've updated all of my drivers, so I hope that fixes it. Are you sure it will just be a driver issue? I've been noticing that things have been running a bit hot (54C) and whenever I do anything processor intensive the fans make a big racket - is this likely to be a problem as well?