Blue Screen "Page Fault" error

[kashew]

I have experienced the dreaded blue screen after installing Service Pak 2. The error code is 0X00000050 .... page fault error. The system will not boot in safe mode unless I disable L1 and L2 caching in the bios.

I've tried recovery disk, vga mode, last configuration to no avail.

Can anyone provide me some guidance? .... if I have to reinstall, I'll probably be loading up Linux. I can't tolerate unreliability.

 

[butchrecon]

What type of system is it? Have you had your system tested for faults? This type of error can indicate a problem with the cache. James Collins
Computer Hardware Engineer
A+, MCP

email: butchrecon@skyenet.net

 

[kashew]

It's an 800MHz Athlon board with 256Meg RAM ... not sure how much cache is on it.... been running it since January with Win2000.... problem started with Service Pak2 upgrade. How do I test the cache?

 

[daweb]

I have recently bought a Jetway m/board 663as ultra, using an AMD Duron 750 and 256Mb Ram (PC133), 10Gb Samsung UDMA 66 HDD.

I tried installing a fresh copy of Windows 2000 on it and after it finished the install from the GUI part, I get the bsod with the following error message:

Stop 0x00000050 PAGE_FAULT_IN_NON_PAGED_AREA
Beginning dump of physical memory

It then proceeds to count from 1 to about 60 then re-boots.

Has anyone come across this before?

Daweb