Many Crashes is normal?

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My XP pro is still crashing. It crashed 11 times so far
in March. It crashed 12 times at least in Feb. Sometimes
the error message says PFN_LIST_CORRUPT, other times
NTFS.SYS PAGE_FAULT_IN_NON-PAGE_AREA, other times other
things.

Is this normal for XP Pro to crashed so often?
My PC is 3 months old, has 512RAM, 2.4G pentium 4. Ihave
read many many of the knowledge base articles and have
done what they say, when I understand it. Sometimes it
refers to bad Ram other to corrupt drivers. My drivers
are uptodate. Not sure how to test RAM.

I am ready to throw out this XP and start somehow again.

Should it crash so often?

Thanks for listening and your help.

John
 
No it is not normal.
You have either hardware or software problems.

I have had 2 crashes in 4 years with xp.
Both were related to the power company shutting off the
power. No power no pc.

Not sure this will help.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=ram+test

pick any crash messages and put them into a google search.

Log what you are doing at the point of crash,
try to isolate a program or hardware.

Try coming up in 'safe mode' and running simple tasks.
See if the crashes still occur.

besides memory ram tests test your disks.

try this site
http://www.pcpitstop.com/

lets hear your results.

Hemlock
 
Hello John
You have a major problem, XP is the most stable OS I have ever run and does
not crash under normal use.
What does it do when it crashes, if it is restarting over and over then it
is the Blaster Virus.
http://search.microsoft.com/search/results.aspx?st=b&na=90&View=en-us&qu=blaster

Download and run Ad-Aware 6.0 and get rid of all the junk.(it's free)
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

Do a virus scan, just in case.(it's free too)
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

Be sure to visit MS Windows update site and download all the critical
updates, this is for your security and safety.
http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp
 
Greetings --

Such frequent crashes are normal only if you have defective
hardware. In your case, it seems pretty clear that your have bad RAM.

Bruce Chambers

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If only three months old, what kind of waranty did you get when you bought it?
Have the manufacturer/seller fix it.
 
Thanks Haus I will do these things and see what happens.
Your comments are very much appreciated.
 
Bruce, Thanks for your comment. I will replace the RAM
and hope for the best. Your time is very much appreciated.
 
Thanks Nick for your time. I will check to see if my
drivers are not uptodate. and Try to test some of the
hardware.
 
Bruce, Thanks for your comment. I will replace the RAM
and hope for the best. Your time is very much appreciated.
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Check it first. There are RAM tests that you can load from a boot
floppy that will test it completely. You'll need a floppy disk
confugured to boot into dos and run the test.
 
Hemlock,

Thank you for your advice. I replaced the RAM and It
hasn't crashed in 5 days!!!!!! I shouldn't be too loud I
don't want to be unlucky. BUT the NEW RAM looks like it
solved my problem. Thank you again for responding to my
help. John
 
My XP pro is still crashing. It crashed 11 times so far
in March. It crashed 12 times at least in Feb. Sometimes
the error message says PFN_LIST_CORRUPT, other times
NTFS.SYS PAGE_FAULT_IN_NON-PAGE_AREA, other times other
things.

Is this normal for XP Pro to crashed so often?
My PC is 3 months old, has 512RAM, 2.4G pentium 4. Ihave
read many many of the knowledge base articles and have
done what they say, when I understand it. Sometimes it
refers to bad Ram other to corrupt drivers. My drivers
are uptodate. Not sure how to test RAM.

I am ready to throw out this XP and start somehow again.

Should it crash so often?

Thanks for listening and your help.

John
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Interested to hear how you got your problem solved as I have similar
problems.

Just ran the tests of pcpitstop and got some advice but I do not know
yet if they were of any help.
 
If your machine is as new as John's, return to manufacturer immediately
before warranty runs out ... in all likely hood it is due to bad
hardware. Let them sort it.

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms
 
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