[schuster_md]

Hi,
I need some help with my computer as it has being rebooting with the blue screen almost every day since I changed the MoBo (Asus Commando) and installed Vista Business. I think that is a hardware driver (or software?) since it doesn't happens in Safe Mode and some of the error messages say something about ataport.sys
I disabled the auto reboot mode to read the blue screen and I have written to errors: 0x0000007E (with the ataport.sys description) and another one was 0x0000008E.
I run MemTest x86 v3.3 and passed fine.
I thought it was the iTunes (read something about) and I removed it but the system kept hanging, so I uninstalled NOD32 and it's been 24 hrs w/o rebooting (maybe it's just a question of time!).
I made a zip with the Minidump log, hopping that someone with deeper knowledge could help me.

Thanks in advance,

A.Schuster

[Rollin' Rog]

I've looked at about 5 or 6 of these; yes most are in ataport.sys -- an IDE Storage driver which could indicate hardware issues with a storage medium.

One is in a Nod Antivirus driver: amon.sys

Another is quite curious and seems to involve "spsys.sys", which the dump file seems to think is hardware related;

BugCheck 50, {9c06a54b, 1, 998b841c, 0}

*** ERROR: Symbol file could not be found. Defaulted to export symbols for spsys.sys -

Could not read faulting driver name
Probably caused by : hardware ( spsys!SPVersion+13be4 )

but which turns up trojan references in a google search:

http://www.sophos.com/security/analy...2codbotav.html

If you run regedit and navigate here:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SPsys\

Does "SPsys" exist?

If so, right click on it and delete it and reboot.

[busterc69]

For me it turned out to be a bad hard drive. I had two SATA drives in when installing and the second hard drive, not the one I was installing the OS on, had errors on it and even had a SMART event. Vista did not like it. Once I removed the hard drive, the install went smooth.