Re: Troubleshooting an XP BSOD

Borgholio wrote:
> Borgholio wrote:
> 
>> This one is a bit of a puzzle.  I've been playing an online game for a 
>> month or two and once in awhile I'll get a BSOD.  Checking the game's 
>> online forums seem to indicate that it's a sound issue.  I've tried 
>> several different versions of my sound card drivers, and reducing my 
>> hardware acceleration.  So far I haven't had any more BSODs while I 
>> was playing the game...but the strangest thing happened.  I woke up 
>> this morning and noticed that my computer had rebooted overnight.  I 
>> checked the system log and sure enough:
>>
>> 0x00000019 (0x00000020, 0x86477000, 0x86477928, 0x0b250000)
>>
>> Now seeing as how the computer wasn't doing squat at 2AM, and I was in 
>> bed, I don't see what could have happened.  Every online resource 
>> points to a device driver...yeah that narrows it down a bit.  :-/
> 
> 
> Still getting the exact same error message, as well as what appears to 
> be 1 - 3 reboots in a row.  It seems to happen mainly between 4am and 
> 5am.  I have a few programs (antivirus, Spybot, etc...) set to run 
> around that time, so I'll try re-scheduling and see what happens.  This 
> is most annoying though.  The fact it happens at roughly the same time 
> every day means it can't be a device driver...and why is it even 
> rebooting in the first place?  I have it set to NOT reboot when it gets 
> a BSOD.

I rebooted the system just now to run chkdsk, and when it finished booting, 
the event log showed the same error code.  I was watching it the whole time 
and there was no BSOD at all...yet one was still logged.  :-/  This is 
getting stranger and stranger.