Random reboot - gave error signature - anyone know what it means?

[Goenitz196]

Ok earlier on I was running a N64 games emulator, and when I tried to adjust some video settings (in the emulator menu) XP Pro rebooted...after it rebooted it went through scandisk obviously, and said that "The system has recovered from a serious error." When I viewed the technical side it gave the error signature: -

BBCode: 1000008e BCP1:C0000005 BCP2:BFA6FB27 BCP3:BA6D814C BCP4:00000000 OSVer:5_1_2600 SP:1_0 Product:256_1

I know this sounds a bit far-fetched, but perhaps someone here might know what the cause was, and even the error code. And it wasn't overheating...it's only happened once. But I have to find out. Any help will be most appriciated. Thanks.

 

[Goenitz196]

I forgot, my specs are:

Asus P4P800 BIOS 1009
WinXP Pro SP1 5.1.2600
ATi Radeon 9700 Pro
512MB DDR2700 RAM

If thats any help.

 

[bcastner]

An explanation of the error:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/ddtools/hh/ddtools/bccodes_59k7.asp

Your first parameter means:
0xC0000005: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
A memory access violation occurred.

Common reasons:

It can be a new device driver, or a driver acting up.
Error code 1000008e = "KERNEL_MODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED_M" - Most of newsgroup comments about this error point to faulty hardware or drivers. The hardware varies from modems, video cards, USB device to memory or sound cards. Sometimes it proves to be hardware that it is not compatible with Windows XP. Q310740 gives an example of this error occuring when and old Audigy sound card driver is installed.

In addition, issues with your pagefile can be responsible for this.

Use one of the three options.

Right Click the My Computer Icon/Properties/Advanced/
Performance/Settings/Advanced/Change. Set Page File to 0, ok your way out and reboot. Then follow the same procedure and reset the Page File to System Managed File.

Right Click the My Computer Icon/Properties/Advanced/
Performance/Advanced/Virtual Memory/Change/No Page File. Reboot. Then delete C:\Pagefil.Sys then revert the page file setting.

Right Click the My Computer Icon/Properties/Advanced/
Performance/Advanced/Virtual Memory/Change. Set the swap file size to zero, reboot. Re-set to System Managed, reboot. Reset the Custom setting, reboot.

"System Has Recovered from a Serious Error" Message Every Restart

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q317277

Finally, and most likely, it can be a hard RAM error. Download and run a memory test of your RAM:

http://www.memtest86.com/#download0