System freezing or BSoD while copying files

Hi,

I've just freshly installed Windows XP SP2 (this is about the third time...)
on my brand new system (all bought two weeks ago) and I have a problem: Often when copying folders, Windows just freezes and I can't do anything with it, so I have to restart. Sometimes I hear a beep just before this happens. If it's not the freezing, I get a BSOD 1000000A (debug analysis attached at bottom of message). Sometimes, along with the freezing, short thin vertical stripes appear on the upper side of the screen. What the hell is happening, Windows ?!

I've been struggling with this problem for almost a week... I work in the
video editing industry, and I feel this problem very hard. Please help me
out, if you can.

My system is made of the following:
ASUS P5Q-E motherboard (latest BIOS version)
Intel Core2Quad Q9550 processor
Corsair 2GB DDR2 Twin2X dual-channel 1066Mhz 5-5-5-15 EPP
Seagate SATA-II 500GB 32MB cache 7200rpm ST3500320NS (set as IDE Enhanced in
BIOS)
Gigabyte nVidia Geforce 8600GT 256MB

My system drivers installed:
Intel P45 Chipset, latest driver from the ASUS site
GPU driver, latest version from the Gygabite site
Marvell Yukon Ethernet Controller - latest version from the ASUS site

I have not installed any programs, only a few, essential, ones.

Things I've done to try to solve the problem:
Reinstalled Windows
Ran CHKDSK
Tested the RAM sticks separately and both (twice), with memtest86+, for 10
passes or more, no problems found
Tested the HDD (2 times) with Seatools (Seagate's Diagnostics program) no
problems found
Changed the SATA port, changed SATA cables
Scanned for viruses
I updated to Service Pack 3 and installed allother updates.

So.. I am certain that this is not a Hardware issue.

I managed to debug the minidumps created by these Stop errors and what I noticed was interesting: every time, the last three Arguments, the LAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER, the FAILURE_BUCKET_ID, the STACK_TEXT and other things were the same! The only change is at stack_text, at the addresses that precede the commands. I hope some of you understand these codes better than me... If you want more information, please ask.

And here are a few relevant lines that are the same for all 1000000A errors I got:
BugCheck 1000000A, {a39423e8, 2, 1, 80522438}
DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: DRIVER_FAULT
PROCESS_NAME: explorer.exe
STACK_TEXT:
b5bb49c0 80522c1e 00000000 e32ad388 81886000 nt!MiRemovePageFromList+0x6e
b5bb49d8 8051bbfb 00000000 ca270000 00001000 nt!MiRemoveAnyPage+0xc8
b5bb4ae0 804e39e9 ca270000 025564a0 00000000 nt!MmCopyToCachedPage+0x229
b5bb4b70 804e17de 8a0d88e8 025564a0 b5bb4ba4 nt!CcMapAndCopy+0x1af
b5bb4bf4 ba674846 89f7dc18 00070000 00010000 nt!CcFastCopyWrite+0x230
b5bb4c5c ba6e0a27 89f7dc18 b5bb4cd4 00010000 Ntfs!NtfsCopyWriteA+0x23d
b5bb4c90 8057d1fd 89f7dc18 b5bb4cd4 00010000 sr!SrFastIoWrite+0x77
b5bb4d38 8054161c 00000adc 00000000 00000000 nt!NtWriteFile+0x30b
b5bb4d38 7c90e4f4 00000adc 00000000 00000000 nt!KiFastCallEntry+0xfc
IMAGE_NAME: memory_corruption
FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: 0xA_W_nt!MiRemovePageFromList+6e

I've been on many forums and talked to ASUS and Microsoft support... but they couldn't help me. They kept telling me to do the same things, although I've done them several times (check Ram, run chkdsk, check cables etc.). Maybe because I don't pay for support...

Anyway, this forum is my last chance! If someone could decipher those minidumps, he'd be god for me! I've been struggling with this problem for almost two weeks... And I can't work at anything at this computer. I normally do video editing, but I can't risk installing Premiere and having the computer crash in the middle of a video processing...

So thanks for any help from any one,
George

 

Are you overclocking CPU or RAM ?

Try "Load Default Settings" in Bios setup.

 

The cause was an incompatibility between the Intel Q9550 and the BIOS (v901 or later). I solved it by setting CPU Margin Enhancement to "Performance Mode" instead of "Optimised Mode" (default setting).

Thanks to all the people that wanted to help.