Page fault in nonpaged areas

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David Miller

I have received this dreaded blue screen. Can someone
point me in the right direction? What can I do?

Thanks.

David Miller
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Hi David,

Generally means that either a) you installed an incompatible (signed or not)
driver or b) you have faulty, mismatched, or incompatible ram.

How you proceed depends on what you have done to the system lately. Think
about any recent changes before this problem developed -driver upgrades,
hardware installs, etc. You may need to upgrade the driver, or you may find
that the new hardware is in conflict with something previously installed on
the system. These may help:

How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in Windows XP [Q310560]
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310560

HOW TO: Perform Advanced Clean-Boot Troubleshooting in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=316434

If you want to check the memory, there are free programs here:

http://www.simmtester.com/page/products/doc/download.asp
http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp

But keep in kind that a thorough test can only be done with test equipment
at a computer shop. At the price of memory today, you may find that the test
costs more than a replacement stick.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
 
Just to help explain what a "page fault in a non-paged area"
means (as I understand it and I may be wrong).

Computers have to manage memory and to make it easier data
is collected in "pages" and when the amount of free RAM
needed to perform an operation is too small, some "pages"
are copied to the hard drive as "virtual memory or pagefile"
and when that data is needed to be used in a computation it
is copied back to RAM (where all data manipulation takes
place). If there is an error in these operations you get a
"page fault" and if the data was being sent to an area of
memory that should not be moved it is a non-paged area.

I'm sure some real computer engineer will have a better
explanation, but this works for me.


| Hi David,
|
| Generally means that either a) you installed an
incompatible (signed or not)
| driver or b) you have faulty, mismatched, or incompatible
ram.
|
| How you proceed depends on what you have done to the
system lately. Think
| about any recent changes before this problem
developed -driver upgrades,
| hardware installs, etc. You may need to upgrade the
driver, or you may find
| that the new hardware is in conflict with something
previously installed on
| the system. These may help:
|
| How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in
Windows XP [Q310560]
| http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310560
|
| HOW TO: Perform Advanced Clean-Boot Troubleshooting in
Windows XP
| http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=316434
|
| If you want to check the memory, there are free programs
here:
|
| http://www.simmtester.com/page/products/doc/download.asp
| http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp
|
| But keep in kind that a thorough test can only be done
with test equipment
| at a computer shop. At the price of memory today, you may
find that the test
| costs more than a replacement stick.
|
| --
| Best of Luck,
|
| Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
| Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!
|
| Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
|
|
|
in message
| | > I have received this dreaded blue screen. Can someone
| > point me in the right direction? What can I do?
| >
| > Thanks.
| >
| > David Miller
| > (e-mail address removed)
|
|
 
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