Need help with blue screen of death

Crockett

I've been getting the blue screen of death soon after booting into Windows XP Pro. I've tried Googleing the Error code but google keeps saying "your search did not match any documents." I assume the zero's should be O's instead -- or there should be spaces where I have none -- or something like that. I've tried various different changes but still get the same message. Here is the error code -- can someone help?

STOP: 0x0000008E (0xC0000005,0x805505A1,0xB65DB96c,0x00000000)

Thanks,
Crockett

Qeldroma

Hello, Crockett. Welcome to Short-Media

Crockett wrote:

I've been getting the blue screen of death soon after booting into Windows XP Pro. I've tried Googleing the Error code but google keeps saying "your search did not match any documents." I assume the zero's should be O's instead -- or there should be spaces where I have none -- or something like that. I've tried various different changes but still get the same message. Here is the error code -- can someone help?

STOP: 0x0000008E (0xC0000005,0x805505A1,0xB65DB96c,0x00000000)

Thanks,
Crockett

0x0000008E: KERNEL_MODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED

A kernel mode program generated an exception which the error handler didn’t catch. These are nearly always hardware compatibility issues (which sometimes means a driver issue or a need for a BIOS upgrade).

More specifically: 0xC0000005: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION

A memory access violation occurred.

Did you maybe add some new hardware, update the BIOS or install new drivers? If you installed new hardware and have not done so, you may have to update your drivers or BIOS.

You might give Memtest a try if nothing comes to mind.

Hope you figure it out.