Blue-sceen of death type thing: Drivers, error messages and such.?

Question

I think it's my TV Tuner, or something, but I get the error message of restarting my computer, safe mode, and blah. It's something like the blue screen of death, only that it hasn't got anything to do with Ctrl+Alt+Del, or anything.

First time I've seen it - Restart computer - DONE.
Other times - Go into safe mode and delete unwanted stuff or restore system.

I decided to restore the system, but out of the 3 times I've tried, it comes up with "Restore Incomplete". Also, this is happening very frequentl today, when it hasn't happened any other times other than once or twice a day.

I thought it was the drivers of the TV Tuner, so I was thinking of uninstalling them, but when I try to do that, the screen comes up.

Also, if this helps t all, here is the error message thing with the ocmplicated numbers and such.

*** STOP: 0C0000008E (0XC0000005, 0XA95DAD59, 0XA8CD3A28, 0X00000000)

Please help. ;_;

Answer 1

When you get a STOP error message like this its almost certainly a device driver problem or related to a device driver which your system cannot load at start up.

The problem is that STOP errors like this are BAD news because the operating system has a MAJOR problem or could even be damaged, i.e. missing files. There are two or three approaches you can try inorder to resolve this (the easiest first hardest last).

1) You can reboot the machine & key F8 at start up just after the windows logo shows. This gives you a menu, from the menu choose the "last known good" option and key return/enter and the machine will attempt to load a stable system. If that works fine and good. (this option uses a saved undamaged copy of the windows registry).

2) You could run a boot logging process to help you find the specific device driver which is causing the OS to bork. Again reboot and key F8 but this time, see the option which offers boot logging. This helps by creating a log file that usually shows which files are causing the problem or are missing.

3) Restore from backups you have (NOT the OS system restore feature, or roll the system back) I'm talking proper previously made backups made precifically for restoration if you have made them.

4) Re-install the whole of windows, your Apps, drivers and data (the whole shooting match!). Windows might allow you to run a repair and that might also be an option which could work.

Best of luck with that, IR

Answer 2

Quite often stop errors are memory problems, however as a test boot the computer in safe mode. If the problem is still there, it is a hardware problem. If you do not have a problem in safe mode, then that points at a driver, software, tsr program problem.

Answer 3

Looks like memory locations...

Have you run a Live CDrom to test the entire system hardware?

http://pclinuxos.com is a free download. Burn it to CD. Boot. It runs in RAM disc. The entire log of the boot up is in the console, DMESG that you can scroll through.

A memory error would be noted during boot up... if it does boot!

Answer 4

A bit late but never Upgrade to Vista wait until you buy a new machine and it's pre-installed. Just google the error code and it will take you to a site where it will tell you waht the code means and hoe to fix it (if possible)

Answer 5

I had something like that on my computer that kept warning me it was fatal. Got rid of it somehow between Norton and System Doctor. Pc seems ok now. I think it was a virus!

Answer 6

FDisk and install windows again, it'd be the only effective way to get rid of any bugs like that.Remember to back up your data.

Answer 7

try removing your TV tuner software and then reinstall it