"kristian64" <kristian64@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote ...
> Can anyone translate this information to help me determine why I keep
> getting
> BCCode: 124
> BCP1: 00000000
> BCP2: 8609E658
> BCP3: B2000018
> BCP4: 02000E0F
This is a STOP 0x00000124 error.
It is not very common, but it is known to affect some Dell machines:
http://support.dell.com/support/topi...0B1&doclang=en
It looks, from Google, like this crash also tends to affect people with
nVidia 8800 graphics cards.
The workaround, in nVidia case, would be to either get the latest drivers
for your system fom the hardware vendor's website; or to uninstall any 3rd
party video drivers and go back to a standard, Microsoft-supplied SVGA
driver.
To say more, we'd probably need to know what was in the sysdata.xml and
Version.txt files - or a least, what file name was mentioned in the error
report. This would probably indicate the driver which is playing up. As a
general guide: one of your device drivers is bad and crashing Windows. You
need to get a more reliable version of the guilty driver - either by
updating to a fixed (corrected) version of the driver, or else rolling back
to a less-demanding driver which won't stress the system so much.
When an application in user mode becomes unstable, Windows kills that
application, but leaves the rest of the system running. But device drivers
usually run right in the middle of the operating system kernel - when they
play up, they could corrupt the entire system. There is no process
protection for kernel mode drivers. Processing cannot reliably continue, so
Windows responds with a fail-fast shutdown of the entire system, before any
data is corrupted. Hence the blue screen.
Hope it helps,
--
Andrew McLaren
amclar (at) optusnet dot com dot au
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