Building a PC. Having Problems! Memory Related??

[skullman80]

Hi,

hopefully someone can be of some help here...as i am at my wits end. I have built many computers in my time, for both myself, and friends. I am currently building one for my G/F.

Here is the specs...

»www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Searc..[?]

I got everything installed easily...and everything seemed to be working fine.

POST test was fine on just the basic parts(cpu, vid card, memory, motherboard...etc)
and then again after i installed Hard Drive, Burner, Floppy etc...

I then went to install WIN XP SP 1 on the machine...i had the boot floppys for XP from microsoft site, and everything was going fine, and after the boot floppys got done, and i went to hit enter to install win xp...

i got an error message saying...

Page_Fault_In_Non_Paged_Area...

and it said if this is the first time you have seen this restart your computer...something to that effect...

I restarted and tried it again...this time i did not get the error, but instead after hitting enter key to install windows xp after the boot floppy's were done, The text down at the bottom of the screen said examining hard disk, and just hung there...and hung there....so i turned the machine off...

does anyone have any idea what the problem could be? Bad Memory?? Maybe put the memory in another DIMM slot??

Im just frustated as ive never had any problems when building systems before and i cant seem to figure this one out...

any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks
Alan

 

[TSSTechie]

Hi

Sounds like memory

Check this out :

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315335

Hope this helps

May The Force Be With You

 

[skullman80]

thanks for the link....i only have one 256 mb piece installed in it...so i would have to buy another one to see if that one is faulty....

Maybe i will recheck to see if it is seated securely, and maybe put it in the other dimm slot..and see if that helps..

thanks again for the link....

 

[TomCologne]

Alan,

The link to the specs doesn't work!

You could try reseating the memory, maybe it did not snap in correctly. The slots should be filled starting from the far right, some boards may however have a problem with all slots occupied.
Run memtest86 (

http://www.memtest86.com)to

test the modules, it works without an OS.
Memory errors can be caused by a faulty power supply,
you may also want to check the PSU.

Good luck,

TomCologne

 

[skullman80]

Tom,

THanks for the reply...

here is the correct link

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?sku=C255-XP-2000-S

shed anymore light??

 

[B52Burden]

Is the FSB set to the correct speed? I had this problem with an Athlon 1800, and the FSB was set too low. I belive that the speed should be 166(PC2700) for your system.

 

[mainegeek]

Why the boot floppies? Why not boot it from the cd? Are you using the correct ones? Different boot disks for different versions of XP.

 

[paparazi]

Nearly all CDrom devices are bootable and so is XP
Forget the floppies set first boot device to CDrom and restart with XP in the drive.
The link wouldn't work for me so I don't know what components you have.
FSB set to 166 default for XP2.5+ and above processors that have 333fsb
XP CPU's below this should be set to 133 (266fsb)
Martin

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