Win XP BSOD

[VCDHunter]

I've recently installed Win XP Pro on my PC and have had nothing but 0x00000024 stop messages since. These occur during DVDShrink, Call Of Duty, Web Browsing and any kind of Virus Scanner or Spyware software in fact pretty much any kind of PC activity.

The MS help site explains that these relate to the ntfs.sys file and that I should disbale any kind of Virus Scanner or SCSI devices. Well I've done all that and more and still no luck.

Aside from format and reinstall anyone got any tips, tricks or suggestions ? As I'm all out.

[ViRaL1]

Even if you wanted to stick with FAT32 instead of NTFS, you'd still have to reinstall. How long was the system up and running fine before you started having problems? It sounds like there's definitely some kind of incompatibility. I'd say back up your docs and start from scratch. Install the OS and your basic apps first, run it for a few hours, try things out thoroughly, then move to another wave of non-essential apps. Keep trying things out until you've got everything you need installed. If you start seeing the BSOD again, try a system restore back to whatever the last wave of non-essential apps was and maybe install one a day until you've narrowed it down.

[gitreel]

Have you run chkdsk /f from the dos command prompt?

Your ntfs file system is corrupted.

chkdsk /f should fix it.

You should not need to reinstall.

[DVD_Ripper]

I've recently installed Win XP Pro on my PC and have had nothing but 0x00000024 stop messages since. These occur during DVDShrink, Call Of Duty, Web Browsing and any kind of Virus Scanner or Spyware software in fact pretty much any kind of PC activity.

The MS help site explains that these relate to the ntfs.sys file and that I should disbale any kind of Virus Scanner or SCSI devices. Well I've done all that and more and still no luck.

Aside from format and reinstall anyone got any tips, tricks or suggestions ? As I'm all out.

Had you upgraded or did you do a fresh install?

If Upgraded I would in fact do a format and fresh install -- especially since you are experience such a global failure rate. If it was a fresh install you may to check to make sure all drivers are the latest and greatest.

[gitreel]

There are a couple of things you could try.

I have already stated one (chkdsk)

You could also hit f8 upon bootup and select last known working configuration.

You could also go into safe mode and do a system restore.

None of these require reinstalling.

[VCDHunter]

Have you run chkdsk /f from the dos command prompt?

Your ntfs file system is corrupted.

chkdsk /f should fix it.

You should not need to reinstall.

I have run this and it found no errors.
The XP is a clean install on a formatted partition.

I'm not "sticking with FAT" its a NTFS partition.

[gitreel]

Have you done any windows updates lately?

Sometimes the updates will cause problems.

Just trying to help.

[VCDHunter]

Have you done any windows updates lately?

Sometimes the updates will cause problems.

I did as many updates as I could trying to fix the problem. Made no difference.

[gitreel]

Well other than safe mode and doing a system restore or selecting last known working config, it sounds like you will have to reinstall.

[VCDHunter]

Well other than safe mode and doing a system restore or selecting last known working config, it sounds like you will have to reinstall.

feck, I really don't know if I can be arsed with it now. I may just go back to 2k - it may be slow but at least it worked.

[DVD_Ripper]

When you do a fresh install... go into Control Panel, System, Hardware and before each hardware or hardware driver install go in and create a new Hardware profile.. Thus if it is a hardware anamoly that is causing a problem you can go back to a 'good' hardware profile and hopefull avoid the ongoing BSOD's

[VCDHunter]

The thing that pisses me off the most is that I've just installed XP home on a mates PC and it works bloody sweet. I kept it for 3 days to give it a good workout to ensure it was stable and it performed flawlessly, encoding, burning, playing games - all went fine.

[gitreel]

Did you shut off any services?

What is your hardware config?

Maybe we can unravel this mystery.

[ViRaL1]

I'm not "sticking with FAT" its a NTFS partition.

To clarify...I was saying that even if you wanted to use FAT32 (thereby possibly avoiding issues with ntfs.sys) instead of NTFS the ONLY way to do that would be to reinstall WinXP as you can convert from FAT32 to NTFS, but not vice versa.

[VCDHunter]

Did you shut off any services?

What is your hardware config?

Maybe we can unravel this mystery.

For some reason no BSOD for two days Have done a 2hr encode, used DVDShrink on one of my Simpsons DVDs and played Call Of Duty for about an hour and a half. This is bloody weird.