Machine Check Exception

[deleteME]

Hi and a Merry Christmas to all!!

I am experiencing a problem on a new machine, (windows xp/sp2)

I have the machine running perfectly, but I have connected my old HD as a slave.

The Slave disc has all my old windows XP / all old files.

When I go to access and copy any files over from my slave disk, they start copying fine, then I get a 'Blue' screen with "Machine Check Exception" error / fault. It explains if the problem occurs again to check all hardware and software installations/drivers, which I have done, I updated my BIOS, MB all other major hardware, and still getting this problem.

The problem only seems to exist when copying the files from the other hdd.

Any help would be great!

kind regards,

Dee

Edited December 25, 2005 by deleteME

[Mr Snrub]

Microsoft KB on "machine check exception" STOP errors:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=329284

It looks like either a hardware fault (HDD, controller or cable) or it could be that your chipset or IDE drivers need updating.

Do you have the slave HDD connected as a slave on the primary IDE channel?

Does the same happen if you use the secondary IDE channel?

Do you have another IDE cable to test?

Check for any updated drivers for your motherboard - chipset, IDE in particular.

Maybe try forcing the disk access to not use DMA (either through the BIOS or in Device Manager in the properties of the IDE channel), and/or disable write caching on the disk itself (Device Manager).