I am at the end of my rope with my system. My system was functioning until I changed PC cases. I am particular about anti-static wrist straps etc and take the usual precautions. Previously, my PC was slowish but I think that it just needed a reformat. Post case change, I have had several odd errors. It led me to reformat the hard disk and since I wanted more space, I bought a new 250gb SATA drive.

 

I get all manner of BSOD errors, usually surrounding sysdata.xml and some other file, and I am most prone to it when I use DVDDecrypter, MS Word or Nero. Since they are mainly the only progs on my drive I cannot be sure if it is flaky with everything or not. And also, the computer screen goes black and restarts automatically with no warning. Thinking it was the drive, I installed on my new SATA and get the same issue. I have installed SP2 and still the same issue. I have also had GPF errors: C0000005 occurred in module ACSUI.DLL @ O2EA83CD and failed to initiaise properly when installing AOL 9. And now the weirdest thing is that when I try to reinstall I get an error in the process that says the file copied to the harddisc is incorrect. If I hit enter to retry, the file is copied on the second try with no problems but this is obviously having a serious effect.

 

In order to trouble shoot this, I have tried everything. Tried two different gfx cards, two different hard disks, installed using separate optical drives, differnet memory confirgurations. The only thing that seems (and I say seems with some skepticism) is that I stripped the system down so that only the gfx card, DVD drive and hard disk were connnected and the errors seemed less frequent. I still couldn't install AOL but I didn't get kicked out of windows with now warning as regular.

 

So the way I see it, it is either;

 

a) motherboard - maybe damged in the move process

b) PSU

 

Any ideas? Full spec;

 

AMD 2500

768mb PC 3200 (kingmax)

Abit KT7 KT600 motherboard

80gb IBM PATA

205gb Hitachi SATA

NEC 2500A DVDRW

Leadtek Geforce4 Ti-4400 256mb ram

420W Thermaltake PSU

 

 

Thanks peeps....

sysdata.xml is what is sent to MS when software or hardware crashes or bluescreens.

This could be a problem with the hd. Have you run chkdsk? Load Maxtors power tools and run the diagnostics. You very well could have a bad drive.