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August 7, 2001 at 08:09 AM
ttirsway

BSOD Hardware Malfunction

by ttirsway . Updated 24 years, 11 months ago

I have a client with a fairly simple configuration consisting of an NT 4.0 Server (SP6a). Periodically, the server hangs with a BSOD reporting “Hardware Malfunction” and “Contact the System Administrator” There is one FAQ in the Microsoft Knowledge Base dealing with this particular message but the T/S steps only deal with this happening on bootup. Since the message event is random and the system reboots fine after chkdsk runs, I can’t seem to isolate the problem. I’ve tried swapping memory,SCSI cards, DAT drives, etc. w/no luck. Event viewer logs blissfully report all apps and processes normal with the exception of a single “dirty shutdown” message when it crashes. (duh) Any ideas?

TIA

Trent

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