XP Pro freezing & randomly turning itself off!

[Tim]

I had a similar problem. I had installed a sound card on
and my motherboard had a built in sound card. I could
not disable the onboard sound. Once I removed the sound
card that I bought the problems were resolved. Perhaps
it is something like that?
>-----Original Message-----
>For over half a year I have been receiving Blue Screen
>messages like:
>
>PAGE_FAULT_IN_NON_PAGED_AREA
>IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
>PFN_LIST_CORRUPT
>
>Now, my computer (Athlon 1500XP, 512MB RAM, GeForce 4
>Ti4200, Jetway 830CF motherboard) either freezes (with
the
>last frame before the malfunction displayed endlessly
>accompanied by the last note of sound which repeats
>constantly in an annoying hum), or sometimes just
appears
>to turn itself off. The computer is still running as I
can
>hear it but the screen is black. The Num Lock key works
>(it turns the Num Lock light on) for a few times but on
>the 5th or 6th key press it freezes too.
>
>It's all very complicated and it's extremely annoying.
>Sometimes it won't happen for a week and then it'll
occur
>ten times in one day.
>
>Please help!!!
>.
>

[Yer Welcome]

>>PAGE_FAULT_IN_NON_PAGED_AREA
>>IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
>>PFN_LIST_CORRUPT
>>
>>Now, my computer (Athlon 1500XP, 512MB RAM, GeForce 4
>>Ti4200, Jetway 830CF motherboard)


Better do some basic maintenance :

open the case and LOOK clean the dust out with a soft brush
pull the memory and reseat also all the others [vid/sound/lan etc]
check ALL the cooling fans for proper operation

you can do a restore from the XP cd [don't use console]use the install
restore , it'll keep your programs intact [doesn't save SP1 tho]


lemme know what you find