Pent 4 BSOD continually

[MAVERICKS CHOICE]

Gday guys my redundant Pentium 4 since retirement, handed to the children approx five months ago is now continually BSODing. reformatted a few times now but after a coupla uses BSOD's again comes up with a ATI error can't remember exactly though?

Thinking maybe the Vid card could be the problem?....or maybe worse??...Mobo??

Gotta tell ya guys this is by no means a sh**t machine has 1.5Gig ram, 256mb Vid cards 2x 250 gig HD 8mb cache.

Must say the children luv to install games & use em. I'm reserved with this & have my concerns,never had a drama with this box ever before & would be no more than fours old referring to Mobo & CPU.

Your advice guys always greatly appreciated,don't wanna spend too much on this but would like to sort it, great back up machine.

[nitroshift]

Quoting cluberti:

1. Create or set the following registry value:

Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\i8042prt\Parameters

Value: CrashOnCtrlScroll

Type: REG_DWORD

Data: 1

2. Right-Click on the "My Computer" icon on the desktop and select "Properties", then click the "Advanced system settings" option in the left-hand pane of the window. On the "Advanced" tab, click "Settings" under the "Performance:" header. Click the "Advanced" tab, then click "Change" under "Virtual Memory". Set the pagefile to be located on the partition where the OS is installed, and set it to be equal to Physical RAM + 50 MB.

3. Also in the "System Properties" window on the "Advanced" tab, click the "Settings" buttun under the "Startup and Recovery" header. Make sure "Complete Memory Dump" is selected (see 3a if this is not in the list). You can change the location of the memory dump file to a different local partition if you do not have enough room on the partition where the OS is installed.

3a. If the "Complete Memory Dump" option in step 3 is not available, you will need to manually set this registry value:

Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl

Value: CrashDumpEnabled

Type: REG_DWORD

Value: 1

4. You will need to reboot for these changes to take effect.

5. The next time that the system appears to be hanging like you have stated, hold down the RIGHT CTRL key and press the SCROLL LOCK key twice to cause the machine to bugcheck and create a memory dump. After the box comes back up, you'll find the resulting memory dump file in %systemroot%\memory.dmp.

After that ask cluberti nicely if he can check your memory.dmp file to find the culprit

Edited January 9, 2007 by nitroshift

[MAVERICKS CHOICE]

Thanks man will run it when one gets a chance & forward it.

Anyways Children are on Summer holidays atm visiting Relos & I have set up the old P4 1.6 for the interim the unblowable...so far anyway.

[LLXX]

Overheating? Clean the heatsink/fan of any dust accumulation and ensure there is sufficient airflow throughout the case.

[MAVERICKS CHOICE]

Quoting cluberti:

1. Create or set the following registry value:

Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\i8042prt\Parameters

Value: CrashOnCtrlScroll

Type: REG_DWORD

Data: 1

2. Right-Click on the "My Computer" icon on the desktop and select "Properties", then click the "Advanced system settings" option in the left-hand pane of the window. On the "Advanced" tab, click "Settings" under the "Performance:" header. Click the "Advanced" tab, then click "Change" under "Virtual Memory". Set the pagefile to be located on the partition where the OS is installed, and set it to be equal to Physical RAM + 50 MB.

3. Also in the "System Properties" window on the "Advanced" tab, click the "Settings" buttun under the "Startup and Recovery" header. Make sure "Complete Memory Dump" is selected (see 3a if this is not in the list). You can change the location of the memory dump file to a different local partition if you do not have enough room on the partition where the OS is installed.

3a. If the "Complete Memory Dump" option in step 3 is not available, you will need to manually set this registry value:

Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CrashControl

Value: CrashDumpEnabled

Type: REG_DWORD

Value: 1

4. You will need to reboot for these changes to take effect.

5. The next time that the system appears to be hanging like you have stated, hold down the RIGHT CTRL key and press the SCROLL LOCK key twice to cause the machine to bugcheck and create a memory dump. After the box comes back up, you'll find the resulting memory dump file in %systemroot%\memory.dmp.

After that ask cluberti nicely if he can check your memory.dmp file to find the culprit

Having a drama getting to the os level now...Can I perform this with PE, Bart PE?? If so some advice please.

[nitroshift]

Ummm.... Nope

[nmX.Memnoch]

What's the exact BSOD message?

And was that P4 ever overclocked?