Blue Screen of Death issue... driver related?

Hi there, thanks in advance for any help.

I'm assuming I have a driver issue. This started a few weeks ago, where suddenly I'll get the blue screen of death and the computer will reboot, and afterwards it tells me that Windows suffered a severe failure (or whatever), and do I want to send the error report to Microsoft. Well, I've done that, and their site seems to suggest it's a driver problem.

My system has an Asus P4C800-E Deluxe motherboard. I've downloaded the EVEREST Home Edition as suggested, so if you need more info, let me know where to find it and you can have it. I'm running Windows XP Professional SP3.

The only hardware I can track this to would be a new monitor that's been attached as a secondary monitor. It's an Acer AJ15. I've tried to d/l the newest drivers from their site, but it appears they're only good for Windows Vista, and my computer can't do anything with the downloaded file.

What has me more concerned is that since this started, I can't run a full virus scan on the system anymore.. somewhere during the run the computer reboots itself. I did manage to run it using Safe Mode last week and it didn't find anything, but MalWareBytes found a Trojan yesterday that it removed, but I couldn't run the actual virus scanner to completion.

Any help is appreciated,
Sidana

 

you need to disable automatic reboots, in order to see the actual error code for the BSOD
1. Click Start, and then right-click My Computer.
2. Click Properties.
3. Click the Advanced tab, and then click Settings under Startup and Recovery.
4. Under System failure, click to clear the Automatically restart check box.
5. Click OK, and then click OK.
6. Try to reproduce the error message.

 

Hi there,

I tried installing the driver I downloaded from the Acer website, but my computer couldn't read the file. So it wasn't really an error message, just a message stating it didn't know how to open/read that file type.

I don't recall any other software being installed around that time, though I've had to re-install my printer software, but that was just last week.

I don't think it's malware, at least none of my programs are finding any, and I'm checking regularly with the most recent updates for each program, most of which I have thanks to the Malware section here.

I disabled the automatic reboots and it took a while to get the blue screen again, but here is the error code:

Stop: 0X0000008E (0XC0000005, 0X8056C5CA, 0XB93AEBC8, 0X00000000)

I'm going to run the checkdisk tonight to see if it find anything. The Report file you requested is attached.

Thanks,
Sidana