Hi All
Have a homegrown system with lots of nice components which worked fine for a number of months. However, it has developed serious instability issues – which make the system unusable.
With a certain degree of certainty the computer crashes with a blue screen and reboots. This doesn’t appear to be associated with any particular program: it often occurs at log on (with the computer freezing – rather than a blue screen); Microsoft games seem to crash regularly with an exception error; even while booting up I can get a blue screen (endless restarting); even safe mode can be difficult to access.
When I get a blue screen, it can come up with a few different error messages (which I only have a few seconds to read) but one does come up very often: ‘PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA’.
I have tried new memory and using different memory banks.
I have tried using old images to restore the system – with a limited amount of success (the computer may work normally for a few hours or even weeks). Once the crashes start, they become more and more regular.
Even on a clean install – I often get error while I’m trying to install – or blue screens immediately after (sometimes).
One very annoying issue is that on moving the computer to support specialists – the issue (sometimes) disappears and I get the computer back in exactly the same state.
I have no experience in dealing with such unpredictable problems and I need help to come up with an approach that will enable to find out what is causing the problem.
Please help!!
Stew
OS: WinXP
MB: Gigabyte 8PE667Ultra
Gainward GF4 4600 Powerpack 750 or something
SB Audigy Platinum
Western Digital Caviar 400JB * 2 on raid
Have a homegrown system with lots of nice components which worked fine for a number of months. However, it has developed serious instability issues – which make the system unusable.
With a certain degree of certainty the computer crashes with a blue screen and reboots. This doesn’t appear to be associated with any particular program: it often occurs at log on (with the computer freezing – rather than a blue screen); Microsoft games seem to crash regularly with an exception error; even while booting up I can get a blue screen (endless restarting); even safe mode can be difficult to access.
When I get a blue screen, it can come up with a few different error messages (which I only have a few seconds to read) but one does come up very often: ‘PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA’.
I have tried new memory and using different memory banks.
I have tried using old images to restore the system – with a limited amount of success (the computer may work normally for a few hours or even weeks). Once the crashes start, they become more and more regular.
Even on a clean install – I often get error while I’m trying to install – or blue screens immediately after (sometimes).
One very annoying issue is that on moving the computer to support specialists – the issue (sometimes) disappears and I get the computer back in exactly the same state.
I have no experience in dealing with such unpredictable problems and I need help to come up with an approach that will enable to find out what is causing the problem.
Please help!!
Stew
OS: WinXP
MB: Gigabyte 8PE667Ultra
Gainward GF4 4600 Powerpack 750 or something
SB Audigy Platinum
Western Digital Caviar 400JB * 2 on raid