Machine_Check_Exception

[Hassan]

Im having a big problem with my sister's computer. Im getting that annoying BSOD screen with the message Machine_Check_Exception

I thought that it must be a loose connection so I opened the whole computer apart and put it back together, but it seems that it didn't help at all

Its driving me crazy :banghead:

Please HELP ME!!!

 

[Toxcity]

Next time it happens.. can you write down the code? Should look something like 0x0000000.

That will give us more to go on.

 

[Hassan]

These are the codes I get:

0x0000009c (0x00000004, 0xB05461F0, 0xB2000000, 0x00070F0F)

 

[Toxcity]

Unfortunately.. 0x0000009C is a hardware error. So something in the PC is on its way out.

 

[Hassan]

What could it be?

I wonder

 

[Hassan]

Not to jump to any conclusions I am providing the specs:

AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (Venice)

Asus A8N5X Motherboard

1GB PC2700 Samsung Ram

ATI X550 Graphics

80GB Samsung Hard Drive SATA

250GB Maxtor Hard Drive PATA

Windows XP SP2

 

[Toxcity]

Harddisk packing in? Memory?

It is really hard to figure out what it is unless you made it do the BSOD...

What were you doing when it kicks the bucket.

 

[Hassan]

It crashes in 1 minute after the computer starts. In other words I wait for it to reach the BSOD screen

 

[Toxcity]

Something is seriously dead then.

 

[Hassan]

the thing is there is that rare occasion that no BSOD screen will come up.

If something is dead, how do I find out what is dead?

 

[Toxcity]

I guess you have another PC?

Test the parts in the other PC, Ram processor and so on..

But this confuses me.. seeing as if the motherboard was dead it wouldn't boot.. if the ram is dead it wouldn't boot.. if the GPU is dead, black screen if the CPU was dead it wouldn't boot.

Is it overclocked?

Booting into windows pushes the system over the edge, as I said before.. harddrives?

 

[Hassan]

That is what I was thinking so what I did is when it booted into Windows I popped the Sata cable off which came with a BSOD screen saying something about a thread failure - no Machine_Check_Exception

 

[Toxcity]

lol, thats one way of doing it.

Try doing a memory test?

Memtest - Click free download

 

[Hassan]

Thats the thing I cant run it coz the BSOD kicks in 30 seconds or so of logging in

 

[Toxcity]

You boot from Memtest, no need to get anywhere near windows.

Burn it to CD.. put it on a floppy or even a USB drive.

 

[Hassan]

I've burnt it to CD. How long should this take for a 1GB stick

How do I check if it is the CPU that is causing the problem

 

[Hassan]

Memtest reported no errors on the ram stick

 

[Ty07allstar]

I would definelty check the HD's.

 

[Hassan]

It can't be the HD coz I've popped the Sata cable when it logged into Windows and it obviously came BSOD screen saying something about Thread Failure - not the Machine Check Exception

Im thinking that it maybe the Motherboard or the PSU.

Let me know how to interrigate them

 

[SuB]

when you say popped? what do you mean?

if you mean disconnecting the hard drive while windows is running.. BAD idea?!

if its sata, get hold of speedfan (google) and check the s.m.a.r.t. status of the drive,

tbh this sounds like a hard drive problem to me