Hello,

Since yesterday my Vista keeps giving the BSOD screen. At first it was short after login but now it happens when the login screen is displayed.

Also Safe mode used to work but today it also crashed after login in Safe Mode.

The Stop error is :

STOP: 0x0000008E (0xc0000005, 0x8247ad6d, 0x9cd08940, 0x00000000)

I searched with Google but this exact error doesn't seem to be available.

the 0x0000008E should be a memory problem (trying to write read-only memory) but there is also sites that talk about a virus/trojan that can cause this problem (that's for XP not vista though).

Try to eliminate the Read/Write memory doubt and get a copy of Memtest86. Use the CD to boot and let it run for a while until it completes the tests.

As a safety, I would also get a copy of the free utility distributed by your had drive manufacturer and perform quick diagnostics on the drive, this is a "juuuuust in case" step, as I have seen Blue Screens that look memory related be produced by a faulty hard drive.

Let us know what you find out.

Thanks for the reply.

Both the Memory and Harddrive are pretty recent (had a crash just a few weeks ago which destroyed the harddrive).

Anyways, I was finally able to get the system booted into safe mode and did a system restore to a recent restore point.

After that the system seemed to work well (kept it running for about 24 hours without crashing).