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Link
Jul 10, 2002, 07:54 AM
As you may or may not know, I recently built my own computer. I'm experiencing frequent freezing and blue screens of death. It happens at seemingly random times, but often during games, or after clicking buttons. It also seems to happen when a progress bar is displayed.

Windows XP Pro
AMD Athlon XP 2100+
512MB RAM
Gigabyte 7VRXP (Motherboard)

Most of the time it just freezes, but sometimes I'll get a BSOD with nothing but the error code 0x0000008E. I looked this up on the microsoft site, and only found something about an error while installing windows.

I am bewildered. Has anyone else experienced problems like these? Does anyone know what could be wrong?
Trafton AT
Jul 10, 2002, 09:00 AM
It sounds that most of the things wrong involve 3D items, such as buttons. Have you checked the driver for your graphics card?
$tilettø
Jul 10, 2002, 09:06 AM
Finnaly someone post this

i had this too
.. everytime when i click to start jazz quake etc or click on a reply button or exit Explorer

its realy annoying i get it like 10 times a day
Alister
Jul 10, 2002, 02:01 PM
If you built your own computer, try talking the graphics card out and putting it back in.
I had a computer that was notorious for bad behaviour, and that fixed everything.

You might also wnat to try fiddling about with all your connections. And remember static electricity, though you probably don't need to be told that...
Monolith
Jul 10, 2002, 09:06 PM
On WinXP? That's strange. Try turning all your enhanced settings down, like the video card hardware support, all those nifty effects Windows likes to do, and that sort of stuff.
Trafton AT
Jul 11, 2002, 09:49 AM
WinXP shouldn't do this...Hmmm...
Alberto
Jul 12, 2002, 01:22 AM
I don't know about Windows XP and the problem you have, but I would suggest you to try with another operative system such as Windows 98 and check if it happens.
Tho yer problems remind me of a netcafe that has almost the same problems, specially while strarting a game that requires DirectX (DirectDraw or Direct3D), he said it's caused because of motherboard drivers. If that can help you...
$tilettø
Jul 12, 2002, 01:59 AM
HELLO???

i have the same problem and i have Win98 Second Edition

Geforce2 Mx 200 32 mb..

the error contains

VXD Vcache..