Sick Computer Hardware?
I would normally consider myself reasonably adept at fixing PCs, but mine has been acting-up for a few weeks and I am about to admit defeat.
Every so often various programs announce that 'an error has occurred and the program needs to close. No possibility is offered of saving. In addition, the PC occasionally simply shuts down, without warning, as if the power has been cut.
I am running XP-PRO, fully updated, and have already removed most of my hardware in an attempt to isolate the snag, but so far without success.
The latest error message allows me to see the error report that microsoft want me to send as follows:
BCCode : 1000008e BCP1 : C0000005 BCP2 : BABD5CE0 BCP3 : BABD5CF0
BCP4 : 00000000 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 0_0 Product : 256_1
Can anyone give me any clue as to what this coding means? At the moment I only have a graphics card, network card and one x 160 GB HDD, which had been completely reformatted following FDISK action. I have tried with a different HDD and even tried substituting the RAM; neither of these things have improved matters.
Any assistance much appreciated to avoid me throwing the PC through the window!
Regards
STH