greymist
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My wife called me at work, advising her PC at home was showing a BSOD. I get home and reboot, sure enough BSOD with message STOP: 0x0000007F. I boot into Safe Mode, and it works, I try restoring to a point from last night, reboot same BSOD. Her PC is running Win XP Pro SP2.
I decide to use my PC to Google the Stop message, fire it up: BSOD, STOP: 0x0000007F!! My PC is running Win 2000 with most recent SP.
The PCs are networked so something could have got from one to the other, and we use a shared e-mail address so we both get the same messages. We have received a number of PDFs and a couple of JPGs in the shared mailbox, but all were expected, nothing weird.
The MS KB indicates that this STOP message relates to a hardware or software malfunction, but I find it unlikely that 2 PCs would experience a malfunction, especially given that both worked fine yesterday, and my wife's PC was shutdown since yesterday night, and I turned mine off early this morning. Both use an APC UPS. And there are no indications that a power surge occurred while we were a work.
I came across a Symantec page which indicated this STOP message might be due to the limited amount of kernel space for kernal drivers. While this page discusses a specific issue with Norton AV (which I don't use) I did note that when my wife's PC boooted in Safe Mode it did not load any of the usual apps into the System Tray, including ZoneAlarm and AVG Anti-Virus. AVG is set to auto-update on both PCs and I am wondering (hoping) that a recent update might have caused an issue.
Sorry for being long-winded, but if anyone has any ideas, I will grateful, as I am stumped.
I decide to use my PC to Google the Stop message, fire it up: BSOD, STOP: 0x0000007F!! My PC is running Win 2000 with most recent SP.
The PCs are networked so something could have got from one to the other, and we use a shared e-mail address so we both get the same messages. We have received a number of PDFs and a couple of JPGs in the shared mailbox, but all were expected, nothing weird.
The MS KB indicates that this STOP message relates to a hardware or software malfunction, but I find it unlikely that 2 PCs would experience a malfunction, especially given that both worked fine yesterday, and my wife's PC was shutdown since yesterday night, and I turned mine off early this morning. Both use an APC UPS. And there are no indications that a power surge occurred while we were a work.
I came across a Symantec page which indicated this STOP message might be due to the limited amount of kernel space for kernal drivers. While this page discusses a specific issue with Norton AV (which I don't use) I did note that when my wife's PC boooted in Safe Mode it did not load any of the usual apps into the System Tray, including ZoneAlarm and AVG Anti-Virus. AVG is set to auto-update on both PCs and I am wondering (hoping) that a recent update might have caused an issue.
Sorry for being long-winded, but if anyone has any ideas, I will grateful, as I am stumped.