I replaced a faulty 80gb hard drive in my pc recently. Keep in mind that this
is the ONLY change to the system I've made since it was working normally. I
changed the hard drive because shortly after initialising the new drive, the
pc couldn't boot from the 80gb drive (mysteriously. I think this drive is in
need of retirement and will fail soon - can anyone please verify?).

Because I couldn't boot from the 80gb drive, I decided to install XP Pro on
the new drive. After working around another mysterious problem (STOP 0xA5
(0x11) error - this confused me because I've installed XP Pro on this system
many times over the years without incident), The pc rebooted and loaded the
installation proper (the screen shortly before you set regional settings and
such). This screen displayed for around half a minute, and then the Stop
Error in the subject (0x0000008E (0xC0000003) appeared.

I haven't been able to find out what this ones means. Can anyone help me
with this? Forums online suggest that it could be an issue with components
overheating (which could be accurate as there was a screw in the fan on my
graphics card that was stopping it from spinning and the card was overheating
which is when the problems all started).

Thanks in advance for any help.

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> I replaced a faulty 80gb hard drive in my pc recently. Keep in mind that this
> is the ONLY change to the system I've made since it was working normally. I
> changed the hard drive because shortly after initialising the new drive, the
> pc couldn't boot from the 80gb drive (mysteriously. I think this drive is in
> need of retirement and will fail soon - can anyone please verify?).
>
> Because I couldn't boot from the 80gb drive, I decided to install XP Pro on
> the new drive. After working around another mysterious problem (STOP 0xA5
> (0x11) error - this confused me because I've installed XP Pro on this system
> many times over the years without incident), The pc rebooted and loaded the
> installation proper (the screen shortly before you set regional settings and
> such). This screen displayed for around half a minute, and then the Stop
> Error in the subject (0x0000008E (0xC0000003) appeared.
>
> I haven't been able to find out what this ones means. Can anyone help me
> with this? Forums online suggest that it could be an issue with components
> overheating (which could be accurate as there was a screw in the fan on my
> graphics card that was stopping it from spinning and the card was overheating
> which is when the problems all started).
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.

Look here:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315335&sd=RMVP

Bernd

"LoganYoung" wrote:

> I replaced a faulty 80gb hard drive in my pc recently. Keep in mind that this
> is the ONLY change to the system I've made since it was working normally. I
> changed the hard drive because shortly after initialising the new drive, the
> pc couldn't boot from the 80gb drive (mysteriously. I think this drive is in
> need of retirement and will fail soon - can anyone please verify?).
>
> Because I couldn't boot from the 80gb drive, I decided to install XP Pro on
> the new drive. After working around another mysterious problem (STOP 0xA5
> (0x11) error - this confused me because I've installed XP Pro on this system
> many times over the years without incident), The pc rebooted and loaded the
> installation proper (the screen shortly before you set regional settings and
> such). This screen displayed for around half a minute, and then the Stop
> Error in the subject (0x0000008E (0xC0000003) appeared.
>
> I haven't been able to find out what this ones means. Can anyone help me
> with this? Forums online suggest that it could be an issue with components
> overheating (which could be accurate as there was a screw in the fan on my
> graphics card that was stopping it from spinning and the card was overheating
> which is when the problems all started).
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.

A search of the windows Knowledge Base produced this result:

http://support.microsoft.com/search/...3comm=1&res=20

Sounds like a hardware failure when Windows won't clean install. Third
article down suggests a stop during install may be due to bad RAM. Test you
RAM with memtest86+ Test one module at a time to identify which module is bad.