I keep getting BSODs on my lappy and I keep seeing (most occuring)

0x00000096 (INVALID_WORK_QUEUE_ITEM)

and

0x0000000A (Can't remember error for this one)

There are a few others. I'm thinking faulty RAM, not had a chance to use memtest yet. I'm not sure what to look for with memtest either and was looking for advice or if it's blatently crappy RAM. (Had this lappy 6 years, seems to get hot often too.)

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whats the last few things you did with your laptop???

plugged it in and out much?
changed operating systems?


are your drivers up to date?
did you update them recently?




does it boot up?
does it boot up in safe mode?

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not a gateway is it?

http://support.gateway.com/s/issues/2-1871076238.shtml

quick google found that

but yea could be memory, worth testing.

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Its a hardware/device driver error - check your ram by booting a DOS floppy/CD and runnin memtest, its worth seeing if the fan is working in the laptop too.

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To be honest, I've narrowed it down to many things:

Drivers
RAM
Heat Problems (Can hear fan spinning etc though)
Registry (Hope not, but possible)

I might just sling a recovery disc in there and see if that sorts it.

The power is plugged in and out quite often, yup. Also, the BSODs only seem to happenen often at bootup unless left like like couple hours.. (bout 12 hours I left it and it booted right into windows) or after about 30 mins of use. I uninstalled stuff that isn't used that could have caused conflict and now I'm just lost. And no it's not a gateway, just a general lappy for browsing intardnet...

EDIT: Can someone tell me what to look for in MEMTEST? Do I just put disc in, let it run the auto test and just monitor results? What am I looking for or should I run a specific test or something?

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Meh, I just wiped the HDD using the Recovery disc to restory factory settings, I'll post back if it still happens.

EDIT: Just installed the Wireless Card (Think it might be that... I'll just install SP2 and uninstall the card. > . >) Then got the Death Screen again of 0x0000000A

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Ok, this is driving me nuts. I installed Win XP and whilst doing that, it BSOD... does that mean hardware issues? > . >

I unplugged the wireless card like 2 mins before. I'm wondering if CPU is overheating, so I might get speedfan on here.

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try my favourite fault finder (actually suffered with this on a previous laptop)
as i often rattle on about this

RAM -

leave 1 stick in, boot up = borked*/ yay!*

try with other stick = borked* / yay!*

* delete as appropriate


Dr.Strangelove - its a 'ram' thing

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Ran Memtest86 on the single RAM chip in the old piece of crap... no errors returned.

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6 Years old might be your problem =/

answer my questions and i can help you.....

(they weren't random questions you know! )



It's probably not your RAM, not with that error anyway....and you said memtest showed nothing.


I'd say it's the drivers for the wireless network card.
It could be a few things, answer my questions(2nd post in the thread) and we'll find out which

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mate i have blue occasional blue screen aswell... i get 0a message, i get about 4 different codes ... and they occur when

burning a cd, video editing, doing something processor intensive or gpu intensive...

my ram is fine...memtest no errors

i put it down to bad or poorly written drivers, windows os being a bit lame..., but i doubt its hardware failure.

and those are the main things... hw failure or drivers..thats what windows send error message report says aswell when i start system again

they dont happen frequent enough to bother me so i just live with them


try this....

in start run > cmd

chkdsk /f

see if it could be a disk error / inconsistency in the file system.

if it asks u to do it at restart because its locked put yes

might be worth trying a diff o/s at some point if your that determined

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whats the last few things you did with your laptop??? Can't remember

plugged it in and out much? Power cable, yeah. Wireless card, I guess pretty often too
changed operating systems? Nope (Reinstalled Windows and seems to be okish, go to install Service pack and I get BSOD all the time. 0x00000096


are your drivers up to date? Never had a problem before (Not my laptop, only recently occured and isn't used much)
did you update them recently? Nope




does it boot up? Leave it a a couple hours it'll bootup (Overheating maybe?)
does it boot up in safe mode? Not tried it, but assuming that because I can access windows when not in Safe-Mode, this would also work.

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so you go to boot it up, you get a BSOD....you leave it 12 hours. and then it starts working again?
strange enough....



you can check if your drivers are faulty, thats what those errors are for anyway...device drivers.

finding out which driver is faulty (i won't lie to you, i can't follow this...but maybe you can )
http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... -us;818501

after you know which driver it is, just replace it.

alternately just replace all your drivers

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