device driver problem on 3200 XP

My 3200 Xp running XP home with the K7N2 MSI motherboard and FX5200 graphics card is still screwing up. No more serial drive by the way just a regular one. IDE is that right?
I formatted a couple of weeks ago reloaded everything and it still wasn't right. Switched graphic cards at one point and that really crashed the computer. Tried to format and start again and the hard drive wouldn't even format. " Hard drive may be bad" So I took it back to where I bought it and the guy gave me a new one. Reloaded everything, the latest drivers ect... Last night I even played Wolfinstein and it didn't lock up. This morning there's a message that says my computer has just recovered from a major crash do I want to send an error report or something along those lines. The error is caused by a device driver. How in the world do I go about fixing this thing????

On edit: WE were working on a heat problem before or what we thought was a heat problem. My temps now are CPU 107 F System 96 F

 

Go to and open Device Manager here's a guide on what to look for as follows:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prdh_dmt_lhfg.asp

 

I went through all four views clicked every plus sign and have no yellow exclamation points, no red X's and no blue i's. I also clicked show all hidden files.
I clicked all kinds of stuff looking every where and everything says no conflicts.
I saved the responce to my error reporting but of course lost it with the last crash. It definitly stated that I had a device driver that was causing the problem.
What's next?

 

Was just playing Wolfinstein and right in the middle of it it shut down, a blue screen full of white writing appeared for a tenth of a second and the computer rebooted. The only thing I've ever been able to do on this machine with out trouble is run Seti. There's got to be a fix somewhere

 

"The system has recovered from a serious error"

"Generic host process for Win32 Services has encounted a problem and needs to close"


error singature

BCCode : 1000008e BCP1 : C0000005 BCP2 : 80533F7B BCP3 : F6C7C238
BCP4 : 00000000 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 1_0 Product : 768_1


error report contents
C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini041804-01.dmp
C:\DOCUME~1\Michael\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER3.tmp.dir00\sysdata.xml



And a link: http://oca.microsoft.com/en/Response.asp?SID=77

Here's the content of the link:

Error Caused by a Device Driver

Thank you for submitting an error report. Unfortunately, we cannot provide you with specific information about how to resolve this problem at this time. The information that you and other users submit will be used to investigate this problem.

Analysis

A device driver installed on your system caused the problem, but we cannot determine the precise cause.

Getting Help

Depending on which situation is applicable to you, do one of the following:

If this problem occurred after you installed a new hardware device on your system, the problem might be caused by the driver for the device. If you know the manufacturer of the device, contact the manufacturer's product support service for assistance.
Some software, such as firewall and anti-virus software, also installs drivers. If this problem occurred after you installed new software, the software might have installed a driver that caused the problem. If you know the manufacturer of the software, contact the manufacturer's product support service for assistance.
If you don't know the driver's manufacturer and need help diagnosing and resolving this problem, contact your computer manufacturer's product support service.
Updated drivers might be available on the Microsoft Windows Update Web site. At Windows Update, you can have your computer scanned and, if there are updated drivers available, Windows Update will offer a selection of drivers that you might be able to use. To learn more about updated drivers that might be available, visit Microsoft Windows Update.
For information about Microsoft support options, visit Microsoft Product Support Services.



All this since the last time I posted

 

I'm guessing you 've been had by the blaster worm go here for help
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=833330
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.removal.tool.html

 

I'm headed there now. If this is the case it means Norton doesn't block it right???????

 

"The blaster worm was not found on your computer"

It took awhile to get to the page the computer kept locking up. I then kicked the SOB about ten feet down the hall and it didn't freeze up anymore. Hmmm maybe I've found the cure.
THis thing is really getting on my nerves. I've got four computers that I've built and they are all doing fine. This one is the only one with all new parts and it's been a POS help help help help help help help help help help help help

 

No welch worm either, I tried it too.

 

Whoa lets settle down man be cool take a long breath of suds ---- the guys and gals here will be getting on board to help on the problem.Now that blaster is out of the way.Let me dig further

 

Have you tryed this repair yet
Try on the boot select RECOVERY CONSOLE. After selecting the OS enter password or touch enter if you don't have one.
type chkdsk /r and let it repair. Space between k and /.

 

I'm calmer, a little bit anyway

This is a brand new install twice in the last week, so if your last suggestion still applies please expand on it alittle. I get really confused on some of this stuff

 

OK man hold off for a sec.Is your xp disk a recovery disk or the real thing/

 

It's the full disk, what I put XP on this machine with

 

your graphic's card is fanless rite?
when you updated all drivers XP etc did you update your graphic card driver,and if so did you have any problems playing Wolfinstein before installing new driver.

 

Yes the graphics card is fanless, however I have five fans in the case two of which blow directly on the graphics card.
I updated all drivers before I even loaded the game, I think. Sorry
I can't even get into the computer now, started that is. I'm going to try again and see what happens,I'll advise.

Thanks for all your help!

 

I can't even get into anything now. It's been the same thing three times in a row only this time when ever I try to get into safe mode or recovery the computer just reboots. I guess I'll format again, not load any drivers and see what happens from there. If that doesn't work I'm going to see how far I can throw it down the drive way. I'm not the best at patience but I'm not bad, I have none left right now. How do you scream on a computer

 

Well I did something I got it running anyway. the only thing running is Boinc that's the only program on there.
There is one driver listed in add remove programs and thats it, nothing else there.
I also took the FX5200 out and replaced it with the FX 4600 (I think it Is) that was in my other computer. I'll leave it like it is until I see whats it's going to do.

 

Well that didn't take long, I flipped back to it and it was locked up

 

It's gotta be the card's and their drivers.Go back to your Device Manager and see if there is a problemshowing.

 

There's yellow explanation marks beside all SATA entry's but I don't have SATA anymore. I loaded a graphics driver and within 5 minutes it froze up again, I'm trying to get it started again an am going to delete the the nvidia driver that is installed and see what happens.

 

How would you like a program that cleans up your old drivers.

 

I just clicked back over to it and it's froze up again.
Wouldn't formatting clean up the drivers?
Yes to your question.

 

Follow instructions to the Tee http://www.driverheaven.net/cleaner/

 

I'm downloading it now on my main machine. I don't know if I can keep the other running long enough to use it.
I guess I'm going to have to put the 3200 in the shop or trash it. Never has been right, never! I was always betting the graphics card was bad but the card is now in this machine and it's doing fine.
Thanks again for all your help