Having a new PC problem today. For some strange reason my browsers stopped working. Let me start from the beginning.
I switched it off last night and went to bed, but got back up after an hour when I couldn't fall asleep.
I switched on the computer again to surf the net for a while but the broswers didn't work.
Firefox initially loaded the tabs I had opened before closing it earlier to shut down the comp. That was normal. But when I tried to go to another page, it didn't respond. It loaded for a second or so, then it said "Done" at the bottom. Yet the screen remained the same.
Restarting it didn't work. Furthermore, an error message popped up when it closed.
So I tried IE. It was worse. The browser told me straight away it couldn load the website, suggesting I was not connected to the net. When I closed it, the same error occured as the one for Firefox.
Next I tried to disconnect and reconnect to the network. It was fine.
So I reopened Firefox for the nth time, but opening 192.168.1.1 (router's page for all Linksys routers) on a new tab. That didn't load either. By this point, everytime I opened Firefox all the tabs were completely blank and named "Untitled" despite having the correct URLs and saying "Done" at the bottom.
Finally, I went to the Command Prompt and pinged 192.168.1.1. It was perfectly fine. So was the pings for www.google.com. In conclusion, there was no problem with the connection.
Giving up and feeling very sleepy, I went to bed and successfully fell asleep.
Yet my hope of it resolving itself overnight did not materialize. Nothing changed when I switched it on this morning. Hence restarting the computer does not work.
I even read the error message but I'm getting nothing useful from Google.
The error name is BEX and the Fault Module is stackhash_fd00. Worse, this is also affecting my Windows Media Player which I had not tried to use when the error first occured last night. I can watch stuff but the error pops up when I close the player.
I have no idea why this is happening. If it was a driver error, I have already deleted the only driver I installed yesterday before the first shut down, which was the printer's. Restarting the PC after that did not solve this problem.
Disabling all addons for IE didn't do anything either.
This is obviously not just a browser problem. The root here is the stackhas_fd00. Unfortunately, few seem to be having any issue with this... thing... and nobody has any answer for this problem.
So now I'm doing a disk scan. 2.23pm. Stage 4 of 5, 14% complete. Ugh. I'm getting desperate. Safe Mode didn't work either btw.
At this rate I'm going to try to boot with the Vista DVD and see if the Recovery Console can do anything about it.
4.55pm. Nothing is working. Media Player apparently only gives me the BEX error upon closing once in a while but Firefox and IE still do so constantly. WHY WHY WHY?!? The only thing that changed before I shut down back then was the printer driver. I've already uninstalled everything there.
There, I've even deleted the printer's programme and driver before emptying the Bin. Restarted PC and it still isn't working. WHY??
NOD32 can't connect to the update servers, "Failure to open socket."
Malwarebyte can't either, "PROGRAM_ERROR_UPDATING (12007, 0, WinHttpSendRequest)". When I close it, it also gives me the BEX error with fault module being StackHash_3e1d.
WHY??
This ruined my Saturday completely. Games are working fine but still, this PC is brand new!!
Going to re-download the driver package and reinstall it.
Not working. Gah!
7.45pm. Reinstalling Windows. In case you don't know what this means, installing Windows always formats the partition it's installed in.
9.18pm. Okay it worked. Now I'm installing everything again. Save files are on the secondary hard disk so that's no problem. Forgot to mention before the Restore feature didn't begin to create restore points until like 5pm just now. Yea that's screwed up. Oh well, now it's... normal again.
This has indeed ruined my entire Saturday. Ugh.
10.07pm. "Installing update 57 of 104..." Looking on the bright side, at least I'm not in Australia. I mean, seriously, that's... well... so... not New Orleans, fortunately for them. Man, I'm such an optimist. Destined for the 18th level of Hell, but an optimist nonetheless.
Fuck it. This time I'll just install FNV and Cities XL 2011 and skip ME2 until I finish FNV. It's just the final mission anyway.
So after all those vids I watched all these years on Youtube where people do stupid things that could have gotten them killed, I'm wondering why I haven't seen any in which those morons actually die. I mean, if people fall/jump into frozen lakes often enough to get caught on camera, someone has to have recorded someone drown in freezing water, right?
So where did those vids go?? They have to be online somewhere.
11.06pm. Finally done installing the browsers and they all work (IE8, FF, Chrome). Time to transfer to the desktop.
11.20pm. The Windows installation automatically threw all the old stuff in the C: into a folder named "windows.old" so now I have a list of all the necessary programmes right there. Can't use those programmes I believe but they help remind me of what to download, like Winrar and Daemon Tools Lite.
1.09am. Fallout New Vegas is working fine. Only needed to download FOMM and the rest could be copied from the FNV folder in windows.old.
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