# Windows stop error screen

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-stop-error-screen/440752>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 9, 2008, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-stop-error-screen/440752 "2008-03-09T19:54:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![GomiBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@GomiBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GomiBoy)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2008, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-stop-error-screen/440752/21 "2008-03-13T17:45:54Z")

</div>

0x00000008e is usually a hardware error, but can be software. Microsoft KB article: [http://support.microsoft.com/kb/945658/](http://support.microsoft.com/kb/945658/). Unfortunately, 0x00000008e is a bit of a wild card in that it could be multiple problems.

I’d follow **Number** ’s suggestions to debug.

As for the fix, it could be RAM (no big deal, won’t require a shop to fix), HD (can be easy to fix if you’ve got all the disks and data from your original system, otherwise a pain to rebuild and get it all back), software (rebuild from last known good state or rebuild; again not hard if you’ve got all the disks), or driver (a bit harder, but still can be done using last known good state).

Good luck.

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-stop-error-screen/440752.md?page=1)