My installations of XP have generally been very stable and run as long as needed. My download server has been up for months without an issue. But this morning I got up to discover one of my systems had blue screened. This was recently built from an existing parts including an Athlon 64 CPU and existing ram, but a new motherboard.
The BSOD error referred to Ntfs.sys with the error number 0x00000024
On searching for this many sites are saying it can be caused by a faulty PSU. Has anyone else here encountered such a problem and this error?
On looking though the event logs it did log 4 errors the same in a row as its last entry before the next entry being the successful boot entries for this morning. All report a read error (bad block) on a DVD in one of the DVD drives which I had left copying its contents to the HDD when I went to bed last night.
Could a bad block read error on a DVD cause a BSOD system crash? I've never encountered that before.
It has also now got me wondering if the PSU is strong enough. It's a 500W unit and the system is running an Athlon 64 4000+, 3GB Ram, 1x120GB SATA HDD, 3x1TB SATA HDD, 2x 8xDVD-RW, nVidia 7800GT 256MB GPU. Personally I thought a 500W PSU was more than strong enough.
The BSOD error referred to Ntfs.sys with the error number 0x00000024
On searching for this many sites are saying it can be caused by a faulty PSU. Has anyone else here encountered such a problem and this error?
On looking though the event logs it did log 4 errors the same in a row as its last entry before the next entry being the successful boot entries for this morning. All report a read error (bad block) on a DVD in one of the DVD drives which I had left copying its contents to the HDD when I went to bed last night.
Could a bad block read error on a DVD cause a BSOD system crash? I've never encountered that before.
It has also now got me wondering if the PSU is strong enough. It's a 500W unit and the system is running an Athlon 64 4000+, 3GB Ram, 1x120GB SATA HDD, 3x1TB SATA HDD, 2x 8xDVD-RW, nVidia 7800GT 256MB GPU. Personally I thought a 500W PSU was more than strong enough.