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So I left my pc (windows xp) on last night as I selpt. Certainly not the first time I've done that. Woke up to find BSOD with the error message in the title.
From the things I've read, it would seem to indicate a RAM error. About two weeks ago I double the size of my RAM. The pc worked fine up until now after the upgrade. I find it hard to believe the upgrade is thus responsible.
I've read this article,
http://tech.icrontic.com/articles/fix-the-0x0000008e-bsod-once-and-for-all
but unfortunately my old ass desktop is unable to burn cd's at the moment and I can't locate my usb thumb drive. Ugghh.
Heres the thing, i have a brand new 320gb HDD. I can get windows 7 for 30 bucks with my .edu email. I was thinking about just doing a clean install on the new HDD. I am wondering if this is such a good idea if the RAM is the inherent problem. Would I not just get the same BSOD? Should I fix this HDD before doing that?
From the things I've read, it would seem to indicate a RAM error. About two weeks ago I double the size of my RAM. The pc worked fine up until now after the upgrade. I find it hard to believe the upgrade is thus responsible.
I've read this article,
http://tech.icrontic.com/articles/fix-the-0x0000008e-bsod-once-and-for-all
but unfortunately my old ass desktop is unable to burn cd's at the moment and I can't locate my usb thumb drive. Ugghh.
Heres the thing, i have a brand new 320gb HDD. I can get windows 7 for 30 bucks with my .edu email. I was thinking about just doing a clean install on the new HDD. I am wondering if this is such a good idea if the RAM is the inherent problem. Would I not just get the same BSOD? Should I fix this HDD before doing that?
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You are, however, correct - if it's a problem with the RAM, reinstalling the OS won't likely solve the issue. You can take out the new RAM and see if it runs well again, or you can find a thumb drive and run memtest on it and see if it passes.
But again, either way, I'd suggest moving to Win 7.