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From: Stephen on 5 Apr 2008 12:31

I have a critical issue - I have a Windows 2003 Server that is
experiencing random BSODs
on boot. Each time, the machine boots up all the way - and if I'm quick,
I can log in. But within seconds or minutes, I get a random BSOD. So far,
I've seen:

Stop 8E
klif.sys

Page_fault_in_nonpaged_area
Stop 50
tcpip.sys

Page_fault_in_nonpaged_area
Stop 50

IRQL_not_less_or_equal
Stop 0A

Bugcode_NDIS_driver
Stop 7C


Booting in safe mode doesn't help. Neither does it help if I boot up
after disconnecting the internet network cable.

The server is perhaps a month behind on the Windows Update patches - so
I suppose if one of those addressed a vulnerability that would cause this,
that might at least provide an easy solution. (If I can keep the server up
long enough to install it)


Anyone familiar with this set of symptoms?



From: Stephen on 5 Apr 2008 13:14

Update:

Booting in Safe Mode *does* work - but booting in "Safe Mode with
Networking" yields the BSOD.

To me, that makes it more likely that this is an external attack -
although, I'm not sure how, if it happens when the WAN cable is
disconnected.



Stephen


From: Stephen on 5 Apr 2008 16:39

As a further update, I was also able to get the machine to boot by
disconnecting the WAN cable and doing a Diagnostic Boot. Working from
there, I was eventually able to get it to boot with network access and stay
up long enough for me to pull off a Windows Update. Somewhere along the
way, I cleared out the temp directory as well, and as a final result, I've
been able to boot normally and have not experienced a BSOD yet.

I don't know how much of this is coincidence, or if it was the direct
result of what I did, but as long as it stays solved - that's what matters.


From: Stephen on 5 Apr 2008 19:37

I was premature. The server stayed up for a couple of hours, and then
went down again under another BSOD:

BAD_POOL_CALLER
Stop 0x000000C2


From: Jabez Gan [MVP] on 6 Apr 2008 02:36
Hey Stephen,

Please try:
http://aumha.org/a/stop.php#0xc2

Seems like your network card driver could be causing the issue...?

--
Jabez Gan
Microsoft MVP: Windows Server
http://www.msblog.org


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> I was premature. The server stayed up for a couple of hours, and then
> went down again under another BSOD:
>
> BAD_POOL_CALLER
> Stop 0x000000C2
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