Frogybloop
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I've just purchased a Dell Inspiron 1420 laptop within the last few weeks. It came with windows vista which I immediately got rid of to retrograde to XP. I used nlite to streamline a copy of XP sp2 with my sata drive drivers, than used a multitude of threads around the internet to get my machine up and running with working drivers. At first everthing seemed to be working great. However, I have now run into an issue which i just can't seem to get a handle on.
Directly after getting the system running I installed the normal software i usually use. After this, once i leave the computer alone for an extended period of time (usually around an hour or so) it blue screens and gives me the error STOP: 0x000000F4. Ive search the internet for this error and come up with a multitude of problems from SATA drive issues to bad RAM, to issues with the pagefile.sys. The problem now is I have no idea what to do to diagnose where the real problem is. Ive run mem test which found no issues. Ive also run the driver verifier to look for problems. This showed an error in the wmiacpi.sys driver file which also got me no where when i searched for it. Additionally, after each bluescreen error, even though ive set it to, my machine does not output a minidump file so I am unable to find out whats happening. Anyone have any suggestions on where I should look next? I need to decide within the next few weeks on whether or not i should return this computer and order another which may not have this annoying issue.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Directly after getting the system running I installed the normal software i usually use. After this, once i leave the computer alone for an extended period of time (usually around an hour or so) it blue screens and gives me the error STOP: 0x000000F4. Ive search the internet for this error and come up with a multitude of problems from SATA drive issues to bad RAM, to issues with the pagefile.sys. The problem now is I have no idea what to do to diagnose where the real problem is. Ive run mem test which found no issues. Ive also run the driver verifier to look for problems. This showed an error in the wmiacpi.sys driver file which also got me no where when i searched for it. Additionally, after each bluescreen error, even though ive set it to, my machine does not output a minidump file so I am unable to find out whats happening. Anyone have any suggestions on where I should look next? I need to decide within the next few weeks on whether or not i should return this computer and order another which may not have this annoying issue.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.