NO! it's the BScOD (Blue Screen of Death) proclaiming c000021a 1

[isayni2u]

Oh, I feel as if I have been shot!

My "child", a gaming Box which I created as a freshman at WashU died on me 15 min. before work this morning!!!

NOoOooooOooo....


Specs:

3.2 Pentium 4 HT
GeForce nVida 6600 Pro
500W ULTRA
1G Corsair DDR2
250G Maxtor

[Asus A5PGD2 Premium]
-" Marvell PCIe 88E8053 Gigabit LAN controller
-" Marvell PCI 88E8001 Gigabit LAN controller
-" 802.11g Wireless
-" IEEE1394a (rear I/O)
-" IEEE1394b (via bracket)
-" both 4x IDE and SATA RAID
- with certain Special Features:

Stack Cool heat spreader
Copper MOSFET cooler
LAN cable checker
Q-Fan2 fan control
Ai NOS dynamic overclocking
CrashFree BIOS 2


The problem started after I did a massive bug removal utilizing Adaware, Spysweeper, and Norton Anti-virus. The CPU seemed a little taxed, so I checked the internal core temp and glanced at my voltage monitor. Everything was within normal limits...

After the cleaning, I decided to alter the overclocking settings. In anticipation of a LAN, I set the AI NOS to 115% [it ran fine at 120 and 125% nearly a year ago!]. As I clicked on the option for 115%, the computer froze. I waited 3 min and then rebooted...

Bad move.


I knew something was deathly wrong when Bios began POST [checking IDE...] flashed the ASUS bios screen for about a sec...then it went blank and started POST again. As fate would have it, just when windows began to load, a BSOD [BLUE SCREEN OF DOOM] appeared:

0X0000008E (0XC0000005, 0X8053684 (5?-can't recall last digit atm)) virtual memory dump!


Since this is a RAM error, I believe at least,...I reseated the RAM and rebooted.

No change.

In desperation, I rebooted again! Everything was the same except the BSOD didn't appear. Instead, the Window's XP user/administrator log-in screen was displayed. I attempted to log in...

and got another BSOD with [fatal error] code: c000021a f 0X00000080 (0X00000000, oX00000000).

After trying to reboot and log in three times to no avail. I gave up at least for the moment, and went to work. Each time, the fatal error code c000021a showed up!

From what I have read, this is a window's log-in error resulting from a WinLOgon faliure. But I suspect that somehow...


I killed my CPU!




-Any Thoughts?


ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO ME!

 

[BadBigBen]

0x0000008E: KERNEL_MODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED

A kernel mode program generated an exception which the error handler didn’t catch. These are nearly always hardware compatibility issues (which sometimes means a driver issue or a need for a BIOS upgrade).

See if Article

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315335

0xC000021A: STATUS_SYSTEM_PROCESS_TERMINATED

This occurs when Windows switches into kernel mode and a user-mode subsystem, such as Winlogon or the Client Server Runtime Subsystem (CSRSS), is compromised and security can no longer be guaranteed. Because Win XP can’t run without Winlogon or CSRSS, this is one of the few situations where the failure of a user-mode service can cause the system to stop responding. This Stop message also can occur when the computer is restarted after a system administrator has modified permissions so that the SYSTEM account no longer has adequate permissions to access system files and folders.

Mostlikely you just shot down WinXP not the CPU itself... it seems that you may have a rogue process (Corruption) that interferes with your LOG-IN...

see (for a similar effect):

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=316503

Question: can you enter the BIOS and load the DEFAULT VALUES, exit and save...?

Then I would attempt a REPAIR INSTALL of the existing OS...

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315341/en-us

Ben

"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."

 

[isayni2u]

Thanks BigBadBen, it seems that the culprit was a malfunctioning Asus AI NOS utility. It seems that after I reset the passwords via MB CMOS pin swapping, I discovered that my CPU was running at 3.8 [and hence shutting down].


Thanks for the tip. Your link helped a great deal in troubleshooting...and calming hysteria.

ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO ME!

 

[BadBigBen]

Glad you got it running and thank you for posting what you did, so that others with similar problems, as yours, may look into that avenue for troubleshooting...

Ben

"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."