My Packard Bell Miami (FR520) system has had a tendency of BSOD-ing (0E at 0187:BFF...). On other occasions, the whole thing would freeze with no other option as to restart by turning off the whole system by pressing te power button.

A few weeks back, my wife had a freeze after burning an audio CD (philips CDD3600 SCSI) and leaving the system unattended for a couple of hours. Restarting wouldn't help: the fans would go, but no boot sequence. Also the power indicator would not go to green, but stay orange.

When I tried it later, it would normally boot, but hang a while later. Restarting gave the same problems.

Now I updated BIOS in a moment of non-failure, and the booting seems to work fine. Now I am only stuck with frequent 0e at 0187 errors. Not fatal, but nagging. Sometimes it twists to a 0167 error, which requires a hard reboot.

Thanks computerpilot.

But now for another question. Would installing Windows 2000 protect me from this type of problem?

greetz

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: Your memory address BSOD is similar to CDROM driver issues. You may have an older version or corrput version of the CDRW driver. Also, I have seen error messages associated with installed burning software. The software installs new driver files to work with your particular CDRW drive and those files can become corrupt, be the wrong version for your OS, or may be unstable in general.

: I would take a look into this issue.

: As far as your reboot problem, installing the update was probably a good idea. If you continue to have the problem, you might consider this issue with boot hardware devices.

: I have seen similar issues with external USB hubs. The computer BIOS is usually set to stop on error and sometimes will not report the error as it may be associated with a hardware device. If you have an external (usually self powered) USB device, you may consider disconnecting it (temporarily for testing) or changing the power setting to use the BUS instead of SELF.

: Computerpilot

Since the BIOS upgrade I haven't had any power up problems again. So that seems to work just fine. It might have been related to the power usage of my AMD K6-2... but who cares, it just works now!

New modem driver installed, seems to affect the stability of the system in a positive way.

As far as for the USB question: I have no USB devices installed whatsoever.

I have tried to look at the CDROM/CDRW driver problem, but it seems a bit complex to find the right stuff. Furthermore, I haven't used the CDRW lately, so I'll have to find out if burning a CD still gives me trouble. (software = Nero 5. something). I'll report if anything special occurs.

Thanx 4 now,

While Nero is a very effective burning software, I have had some unusual conflicts with it and windows 9X.

I would take a look into this issue.

As far as your reboot problem, installing the update was probably a good idea. If you continue to have the problem, you might consider this issue with boot hardware devices.

I have seen similar issues with external USB hubs. The computer BIOS is usually set to stop on error and sometimes will not report the error as it may be associated with a hardware device. If you have an external (usually self powered) USB device, you may consider disconnecting it (temporarily for testing) or changing the power setting to use the BUS instead of SELF.