yet another windows stability problem...

Xyon_of_Calhoun · September 19th, 2006, 12:07 PM

Hi guys...

CURSE ALL THINGS MICROSOFT!!

Sorry, little frustrated over here. Thing is I've just spent the last six months trying to fix my PC (Specs below... don't shout at me yet...)

It took this long because I couldn't find me a half-decent winXP disc... But then I did.

Now I have a lovely "clean" installation of windows (Well, it is windows... how clean can it be?) and yet I still get spontaneous reboots and lovely BSOD's that tell me I have a page fault in the nonpaged area... ok, how in the name of all things burgundy does THAT make any sense?? Am I missing something or am I just dumb? please advise... I'm going to go bald...

SPECS: (See, I told you)
ASRock P4VM800 Mobo
Intel Celeron 1.7GHz
384 MB RAM in 2 DIMM lots at 133 MHz (I know... I know...)
40 GB HDD (Maxxtor I think...)
Currently using onboard sound and audio - VIA chipsets I believe...

outlaw2001it · September 19th, 2006, 12:21 PM

Hello,
Hmmm...Let's start with the Windows XP CD...is it a legal copy (original disk)? If not...maybe the person that copeid it for you didn't copy it correctly. Maybe your Hard Drive is failing. Did you try doing a scan disk to ensure that the disk is working properly?

EXreaction · September 19th, 2006, 12:28 PM

Yes, if you don't even have a legal copy of XP you won't get any help here.

Otherwise it could be quite a few things...
Run a memory tester overnight www.memtest86.com
And whats the make/model of your power supply?
Have you checked your harddrive for errors?

Xyon_of_Calhoun · September 19th, 2006, 05:17 PM

yes, it is a genuine disk. and as to the PSU I've no idea - it's the one that came with it but until I get home I can't say what in the nine hells that is.

I did get some stability programs for it including advanced windowscare and the like - however it crashes before I can sucessfully run them on it. :@

Nice to hear my harddrive might be failing. Last thing i bloody need.

**GroundZero3** · September 19th, 2006, 05:37 PM

Check all your hardware before you start ranting about MS being the fault. As EX said run memtest and check your hardrive.

cadetstimp · September 20th, 2006, 06:26 AM

Page fault in non page error is a typical error related to memory corruption....

There could be a RAM and/or HDD issue at hand

Xyon_of_Calhoun · September 20th, 2006, 07:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by outlaw2001it

Maybe your Hard Drive is failing. Did you try doing a scan disk to ensure that the disk is working properly?

Yes I did try scandisk. Yesterday. And it crashed right in the middle. Now... well whenever I try booting from it I get a "disk read error" message.

Also, when I try to boot from the XP CD, i get - setup is inspecting your hardware configuration - then black screen until I get bored which takes about an hour...

Methinks I might need a new harddrive. At least...

Xyon_of_Calhoun · September 20th, 2006, 07:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GroundZero3

Check all your hardware before you start ranting about MS being the fault. As EX said run memtest and check your hardrive.

My apologies if I came across as ranting... the amount of problems I've had with MS tho - well it's a shorter list to say how many problems with my PC have NOT been caused by MS. This one I think is the only one EVER!

Damn it Calhoun you're ranting again.... dooobady dooo...

Now for some 80dB Bon Jovi to calm myself down....