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vsrdan

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I am getting occassional BSOD's with this system and here is the screen:

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System:

Pentium D 945
Gigabyte 965P-DQ6 (with BIOS F11 - latest)
OCZ DDR2 667 RAM - 2 x 512MB (OCZ2667512V) at 5-5-5-12 & 2T
PowerColor X300SE 128MB PCI-Ex video card (DVI port used for a Samsung SyncMaster 730B)
Booting with a Seagate 80GB ST380811 SATA-II
Two Seagate ST3320620AS 320GB SATA-II HDs at RAID-1
ITE8212 ATA PCI card
Trendware MIMO wireless PCI card
LITEON DVD RW drive
A couple of other HDs
USB Card reader + floppy combo
Xclio Greatpower X14S4P3 550W PSU

Again, this happens once every two weeks or so. Sometimes without warning, and most of the time when I plug in a USB flash drive into FP USB port(s).

I recently flashed BIOS thinking that it would solve the problem, but no change :(

The system is not overclocked. No errors in Prim95 (few hours) and Memtest.

Thanks for all the replies in advance.
 
Have you tried running chkdsk with /r switch? It almost sounds like maybe a failing drive or data on it somehow getting corrupted (loose cable maybe?) if it's getting errors from the page file. Intermittent problems are always tricky to troubleshoot, but maybe that's worth a shot
 
I suspected HD failure, too. I am going to put a new drive and check.

BTW: Seagate's disk checking software did not detect any errors in this drive either.
 
This is what microsoft.com had to say about that specific stop code:

"Stop 0x7A is usually caused by a bad block (sector) in a paging file, a virus, a disk controller error, or failing RAM."

Run the SeaTools hard drive diagnostic and Memtest86.
 
Replaced the HD. No problems so far. I am planning to seek "Warranty Service" from Seagate. Hopefully, they'll send me a replacement!
 
If you have a system page file on the Raid 1 drives, remove it and use a page file on a "normal" drive and see if the problem goes away.

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BillParrish said:
If you have a system page file on the Raid 1 drives, remove it and use a page file on a "normal" drive and see if the problem goes away.

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I did not have page file in RAID 1.

BTW: The drive was sent to Seagate under warranty.
 
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