David Jones
December 12th 03, 07:14 PM
This error is normally caused by hardware or drivers
(usually hardware).
The key culprit is usually bad or incompatible RAM - do
you have other RAM you can test with?
Try stripping out as much as you can and starting with
the least amount of hardware possible - and you'll also
want to double and triple-check connections on the MB,
and make sure there's nothing loose, dirty, or otherwise
screwed up.
>-----Original Message-----
>I have recently upgraded my motherboard/CPU/memory and
>have had too many problems to recall them all. I need to
>know if I'm having an XP problem, or a hardware problem.
>Specifically, the most common error is the dreaded blue
>screen, usually a "page fault in a non-paged area". Any
>time I attempt to troubleshoot/change/fix a problem,
>there it is again. It happens so often sometimes that XP
>will fault continously until I go in via safe mode and
>remove something. So far I've lost faxing,printing,the
>sound card and any form of stability. I was forced to re-
>install XP on a NEW drive just to get it working. And
>have had so many problems along the way that I have to
>know what the error is about to even guess what is
>causing it. It is looking like I mite have to wipe out
>everything again and start over, but I already did that
>once, and still have the same problems. There has to be
a
>way to trace the cause of this error. Otherwise there is
>no way to "fix" it. XP was up, stable, and reliable with
>the old board (including the same video board, sound
>card, hard drive, modem, DSL, CD-rom, XP and all of it's
>service packs.). I just wanted to step up the speed with
>some of the latest speed gear. I can't send back the
>motherboard combo without knowing what is causing the
>errors. Can you refer me to a list of page fault errors
>with discreptions of what they mean please? I never have
>been able to find a list of all the various error codes
>for XP. I had found a good source for 98 codes though,
>but that does not help much. (this one was not even
>mentioned in it, and I've been using XP for over a year
>now.)
>.
>
(usually hardware).
The key culprit is usually bad or incompatible RAM - do
you have other RAM you can test with?
Try stripping out as much as you can and starting with
the least amount of hardware possible - and you'll also
want to double and triple-check connections on the MB,
and make sure there's nothing loose, dirty, or otherwise
screwed up.
>-----Original Message-----
>I have recently upgraded my motherboard/CPU/memory and
>have had too many problems to recall them all. I need to
>know if I'm having an XP problem, or a hardware problem.
>Specifically, the most common error is the dreaded blue
>screen, usually a "page fault in a non-paged area". Any
>time I attempt to troubleshoot/change/fix a problem,
>there it is again. It happens so often sometimes that XP
>will fault continously until I go in via safe mode and
>remove something. So far I've lost faxing,printing,the
>sound card and any form of stability. I was forced to re-
>install XP on a NEW drive just to get it working. And
>have had so many problems along the way that I have to
>know what the error is about to even guess what is
>causing it. It is looking like I mite have to wipe out
>everything again and start over, but I already did that
>once, and still have the same problems. There has to be
a
>way to trace the cause of this error. Otherwise there is
>no way to "fix" it. XP was up, stable, and reliable with
>the old board (including the same video board, sound
>card, hard drive, modem, DSL, CD-rom, XP and all of it's
>service packs.). I just wanted to step up the speed with
>some of the latest speed gear. I can't send back the
>motherboard combo without knowing what is causing the
>errors. Can you refer me to a list of page fault errors
>with discreptions of what they mean please? I never have
>been able to find a list of all the various error codes
>for XP. I had found a good source for 98 codes though,
>but that does not help much. (this one was not even
>mentioned in it, and I've been using XP for over a year
>now.)
>.
>