Might be a bad BIOS. Intel has pulled Bios version P12 off of their
Website and substituted Bios P11 for it. If anybody knows why, please
post, as Intel hasn't indicated why they have pulled P12 or
acknowledged that they have pulled it (but it isn't there anymore).
Walter
"Eric Andersen" <NoOne@Home> wrote in message news:<A7adnZsLQfwgxG-iRVn-hw@comcast.com>...
> I reinstalled W2K, leaving the file system intact. I got through about 60
> updates (thank goodnes for cable internet) and started to re-load the
> software. I got to my scanner software and that seems to be where the error
> begins......
>
> *** STOP: 0x0000001E (0xC0000005, 0x804A2588, 0x00000001, 0x0000001D)
> KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
> *** ADDRESS 804A2588 BASE AT 80400000, DATESTAMP 3ee650b3 - ntoskrnl.exe
>
> I uninstalled the scanner software and the problem has gone away...... It
> is a pass-through parallel port scanner made by Plustek. I think there is a
> USB scanner in my future.
>
> WOW, I found it.....
>
>
> "MyndPhlyp" <nobody@home.now> wrote in message
> news:5hnIb.15815$IM3.6637@newsread3.news.atl.earth link.net...
> >
> > "Eric Andersen" <NoOne@Home> wrote in message
> > news:7uSdnYpWJZFe62yi4p2dnA@comcast.com...
> > > And now the computer crashes from KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED error.
> Boots
> > > to safe mode just fine.
> > >
> > > I took the HD and put it in another system and it boots OK (to test the
> OS
> > > installation).
> > >
> > > I used DOCMEMORY from www.simmtester.com to test the RAM (2x256 DDR400).
> > > Both memory modules individually fail at the same point. This is weird.
> > >
> > > Any ideas? Is this a bad BIOS? Is the RAM bad? What should I do?
> >
> > Without more on the stop error, it's rather hard to diagnose. Try M$'s
> > knowledge base:
> >
> >
> http://support.microsoft.com/search/...=ALL&Tit les=
> >
> false&numDays=&maxResults=25&Queryl=KMODE_EXCEPTIO N_NOT_HANDLED&Query=KMODE_
> > EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED&QuerySource=gsfxSearch_Query &srchExtraQry=
> >
> >