Guest Gary Fritz Posted August 22, 2008 Posted August 22, 2008 My old XP desktop started getting a BSOD just about the time I got a new laptop. Which was good timing, but I've decided I need to figure out how to resurrect the thing. I'm not having any luck tracking down the cause. Symptoms: system powers up, goes through the Windows splash screen, then BSOD's just before it would display the login page. BSOD says it is an INTERNAL_POWER_ERROR, ***STOP: 000000A0 (0x00000101, 0x00000007, 0xBA517764, 0x00000000). (And naturally some of the later numbers change each time.) I can run the system in "safe mode with networking" but it's not usable in that state. Googling on INTERNAL_POWER_ERROR didn't get me any solutions. I can't turn on minidumps because that requires the Alerter service, and that won't run in Safe mode. Most of the other debugging techniques I tried also wouldn't work in Safe mode. I replaced the mobo battery -- no improvement. I don't have a clean XP install CD so I can't do an in-place reinstall. This is an eMachines T3512. See http://www.emachines.com/support/product_support.html? cat=Desktops&subcat=T%20Series&model=T3512 for product details. Help??? Gary
Guest Kelly Posted August 22, 2008 Posted August 22, 2008 Re: Help debug BSOD on XP SP2 Wireless keyboard? If so, scroll down for suggestions: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/85731;jsessionid=EE0B6D571357605CF439632455A3F3C0?tstart=0&start=0 And: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314118 -- All the Best, Kelly (MS-MVP/DTS&XP) Taskbar Repair Tool Plus! http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm SupportSpace http://www.supportspace.com/pages?aiu=kellyskorner "Gary Fritz" <fritzxxx@xxxfrii.com> wrote in message news:Xns9B0263C09339Ffritzfriicom@207.46.248.16... > My old XP desktop started getting a BSOD just about the time I got a new > laptop. Which was good timing, but I've decided I need to figure out how > to resurrect the thing. I'm not having any luck tracking down the cause. > > Symptoms: system powers up, goes through the Windows splash screen, then > BSOD's just before it would display the login page. BSOD says it is an > INTERNAL_POWER_ERROR, ***STOP: 000000A0 (0x00000101, 0x00000007, > 0xBA517764, 0x00000000). (And naturally some of the later numbers change > each time.) > > I can run the system in "safe mode with networking" but it's not usable > in that state. > > Googling on INTERNAL_POWER_ERROR didn't get me any solutions. > > I can't turn on minidumps because that requires the Alerter service, and > that won't run in Safe mode. Most of the other debugging techniques I > tried also wouldn't work in Safe mode. > > I replaced the mobo battery -- no improvement. > > I don't have a clean XP install CD so I can't do an in-place reinstall. > > This is an eMachines T3512. See > http://www.emachines.com/support/product_support.html? > cat=Desktops&subcat=T%20Series&model=T3512 for product details. > > Help??? > Gary
Guest Gary Fritz Posted August 24, 2008 Posted August 24, 2008 Re: Help debug BSOD on XP SP2 Nope, USB. (Through a KVM but I doubt that's an issue.) In fact I'm pretty sure it's not any periphs at all. I removed every single peripheral and every PCI card, the CD burner, the keyboard and mouse, even the monitor (!), and it still BSODs in normal mode. With *nothing* but the mobo and C:. Gary "Kelly" <kelly@kelly.com> wrote: > Wireless keyboard? If so, scroll down for suggestions: > > http://communities.vmware.com/thread/85731;jsessionid=EE0B6D571357605CF > 439632455A3F3C0?tstart=0&start=0 > > And: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314118 >
Guest Unknown Posted August 24, 2008 Posted August 24, 2008 Re: Help debug BSOD on XP SP2 Long shot but worth a try. Remove all but one module of memory. Then if failure occurs swap module. Best bet is try another power supply. "Gary Fritz" <fritzxxx@xxxfrii.com> wrote in message news:Xns9B03DA046337fritzfriicom@207.46.248.16... > Nope, USB. (Through a KVM but I doubt that's an issue.) > > In fact I'm pretty sure it's not any periphs at all. I removed every > single peripheral and every PCI card, the CD burner, the keyboard and > mouse, even the monitor (!), and it still BSODs in normal mode. With > *nothing* but the mobo and C:. > > Gary > > "Kelly" <kelly@kelly.com> wrote: > >> Wireless keyboard? If so, scroll down for suggestions: >> >> http://communities.vmware.com/thread/85731;jsessionid=EE0B6D571357605CF >> 439632455A3F3C0?tstart=0&start=0 >> >> And: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314118 >> >
Guest Gary Fritz Posted August 24, 2008 Posted August 24, 2008 Re: Help debug BSOD on XP SP2 I isolated the problem. It was a VMware keyboard driver. See http://communities.vmware.com/thread/85731 Most of the people in that thread had wireless bluetooth keyboards, and could unplug them during bootup to avoid the problem. Unplugging anything didn't help me. But the last post in that thread had a solution: change the load order of keyboard drivers in a registry entry. I made that simple change, and shazam! Everything is happy now. Gary "Unknown" <unknown@unknown.kom> wrote: > Long shot but worth a try. Remove all but one module of memory. Then if > failure occurs swap module. Best bet is try > another power supply. > "Gary Fritz" <fritzxxx@xxxfrii.com> wrote in message > news:Xns9B03DA046337fritzfriicom@207.46.248.16... >> Nope, USB. (Through a KVM but I doubt that's an issue.) >> >> In fact I'm pretty sure it's not any periphs at all. I removed every >> single peripheral and every PCI card, the CD burner, the keyboard and >> mouse, even the monitor (!), and it still BSODs in normal mode. With >> *nothing* but the mobo and C:. >> >> Gary >> >> "Kelly" <kelly@kelly.com> wrote: >> >>> Wireless keyboard? If so, scroll down for suggestions: >>> >>> http://communities.vmware.com/thread/85731;jsessionid=EE0B6D571357605CF >>> 439632455A3F3C0?tstart=0&start=0 >>> >>> And: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314118 >>> >> > > >
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