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BSoD pagefault error in nonpaged area

post #1 of 4
4/19/05 at 3:56pm
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Hola my fellow 9860 is giving me hell-ers.

I recently was working on my 9860 trying to load up some 3DS max models when BAMMM!M!M!@M I receive the ever painfull bs0d. Not one to be detered by such minial crap. I reboot the computer. I get to the part in the boot when it should be happily jumping into windows when babamamam bs0d again!! So I reboot, try to go into safemode and BAMMM (yep you guess ed it) another bs0d. At this point i have come to the conclusion that for whatever reason windows has been bad, so I need to try to do a recovery from the disk. So, i go in an disable the card reader, make sure the cd rom is the primary boot device, check to make sure it is set to ATA and put the Ata drivers on a floppy disk.

I have booted to the windows xp setup screen, pressed f6, found the drivers on the disk, and then it does it's thing
I get to the screen that says do you a. want to recover (press r) b. install windows (press Enter) c. quit.

I have tried both a and b and get a bs0d when it is examining the harddrive (haven't been able to get to the part where it actually says do you want to install or the dos prompt)

The BSOD is
PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA

0x00000050...


Please help... i have been reduced to using a mac until I can get my laptop up and running
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post #2 of 4
4/19/05 at 5:08pm
Try testing the memory.
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post #3 of 4
4/20/05 at 11:04am
Thread Starter 
update to my predic a ment
I have reseated all of the ram ( I did test it, but I don't think the tests were conclusive).

I did take the harddrive out and try to hook it up to another computer and got the same BSoD as before.... so I am thinking my harddrive is the problem
I am going to attempt to try somethings, but I feel a reformat is in my future


any other ideas are always appreciated
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post #4 of 4
4/20/05 at 1:11pm
Sounds like you've found the culprit. I'd recommend running CHKDSK from a command prompt (I forget which switches to use).

If you end up reformatting, don't do a "quick" format; use a full format. That in itself *might* fix slight problems.

If you want to test the memory more to rule it out:

Download Memtest86 (you'll want version 3.2 for your chipset - get the ISO, burn the image to a CD and boot from it) and test the machine with only one stick of memory in it at a time. Memtest is very thorough, so it'll take a while for it to cycle through each round of tests (on the 9860, a 512MB stick takes around 20 mins to complete a full cycle, IIRC). Let it run for a good hour or so on each stick.

If you get red error results on the lower portion of the screen, then you have a bad stick of memory. Test each stick anyways, even if the first one comes up bad. If you get errors on all of them, then the problem possibly exists with the motherboard.

If you get no errors, then run one final test with all sticks in to rule out the memory controller. If you still have no errors, your memory is likely rock-solid.
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