blue screens & lock ups

[Grake]

My computer is getting random blue screens and locks up whenever I watch online videos, on such sites as youtube, megavideo, break etc... Only during those, I can play intensive games or leave the computer on for days and it'd be fine. It gives me 0x0A, 0x7e, 0x8B(?) forgot the last one, and sometimes nothing, just locks up and I have to restart it manually. What's wrong?

Windows XP MCE nlited. (Didn't remove a single thing using nlite, only added registry tweaks). This DVD has been working for many many months without a problem, so I don't think that's it. CPU temp is 44C & MB is 43C. I do see a significant jump on CPU temp to 55C when playing these videos online. Playing HQ videos on my system is fine, never restarts, I can watch movies for hours and hours without a problem. Where to start? Any help would be great.

XP MCE 32bit

Nvidia GeForce 7600GT

Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS

Intel Pentium 4 3.00 GHz

ASUS P5B Motherboard

4GB DDR2 800MHz Memory

Edited March 9, 2008 by Grake

[DigeratiPrime]

Please check if you have dump files in "C:\WINDOWS\Minidump" and upload an example here for analysis. BSOD are usually due to driver faults, and I remember having issues with XP MCE and drivers.

[Grake]

Tried that, and there's only one file in there. Won't let me open it as it looks like it's corrupted. Also, it has the date 07/03/2008 3:13 AM. I clearly remember playing a game with a friend and didn't have a crash during that time. Not sure where it came from really.

[DigeratiPrime]

hmm I never heard of a dump file being created without a crash, could you upload it somewhere anyway? try mihd.net

also run a memtest and scan your computer for viruses and malware.

[Grake]

No virus/malware for sure. Clean install of XP. Ran a memtest, first thing I actually did because I upgraded the memory and it started to happen a months after that. Reinstalled video/audio drivers, along with codecs, flash & shockwave. So far, I'm good, been able to watch it. As for the minidump..uh would you believe me if I say it's not there anymore? Went to upload it and the file isn't there. Umm yeah, lets see what happens.

[cluberti]

No virus/malware for sure. Clean install of XP. Ran a memtest, first thing I actually did because I upgraded the memory and it started to happen a months after that. Reinstalled video/audio drivers, along with codecs, flash & shockwave. So far, I'm good, been able to watch it. As for the minidump..uh would you believe me if I say it's not there anymore? Went to upload it and the file isn't there. Umm yeah, lets see what happens.

If it happens again, let us know. I for one would have liked to get a look at that file (and configuring your box for something more concrete, like a complete memory dump, would be better - just make sure the paging file is on the \Windows volume and it's at least RAM+64MB in size).

[Grake]

Well happened again today. One tried to create a minidump but failed cause I can't open it. The other one went through and the file seems to be MSPCLOCK.sys. I've attached both dump files. Mini031208-02.dmp is the good one.

Minidump.rar

[nitroshift]

By looking at your dump, it seems that MSPCLOCK.SYS is the culprit indeed. It is a generic driver for "Microsoft Streaming Clock Proxy" , so I guess something has messed with it... Anyway, cluberti will give you an authoritative answer on this (I'm just a n00b at reading crash dumps ).

[RJARRRPCGP]

Your symptoms sound like a corrupted Windows XP installation. Sorry.