page_not_found at 30min mark installing XP!! 1

[isayni2u]

This has been the bane of my last week of vacation! My "good" box started acting odd. Within 20min of startup, I would receive a Blue Screen of Death [BSoD] with varying messages from c1a system failure to IRQ_not_less... Using Ultimate Boot CD diagnostics to test hardware, I found no problems with the memory, HD, or CPU. Having already backed up all relevant data and assuming a virus was responsible, I purchased a new copy of windows and tried to write over my drive.

Oddly, it didn't work.
When I repartitioned and reformatted my HD, at the 30min mark of XP professional installation, a BSofD popped up claiming page_not_found. I decided to try again with a brand new, still sealed HD [I sort of purchase in bulk]. Same problem.

Does anyone think that this might be a problem with the window's disk? Might I have just gotten a lemon??


Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Specs:

3.2 Pentium 4 HT
GeForce nVida 6600 Pro
500W ULTRA
1G Corsair DDR2
250G Maxtor

[Asus A5PGD2 Premium]
-" Marvell PCIe 88E8053 Gigabit LAN controller
-" Marvell PCI 88E8001 Gigabit LAN controller
-" 802.11g Wireless
-" IEEE1394a (rear I/O)
-" IEEE1394b (via bracket)
-" both 4x IDE and SATA RAID
- with certain Special Features:

Stack Cool heat spreader
Copper MOSFET cooler
LAN cable checker
Q-Fan2 fan control
Ai NOS dynamic overclocking
CrashFree BIOS 2

ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO ME!

 

[lb63640]

Have you tried with a different copy of the OS?

 

[wahnula]

This sounds like an identical problem:

http://www.motherboardpoint.com/t32803-shuttle-ak32vn-and-amd-xp2400-problems-help-update.html

Heat and PSU were discussed as possible culprits. My guess would be heat or bad RAM. Heat especially because of the time involved, 20-30 minutes, enough time to get really hot. After the next failure, check your CPU temp in BIOS.

Reseating the CPU might be worth a shot, and clean everything else while you're in there.

Tony

 

[isayni2u]

yeah, i reset the Ram and also used memtest86+ without any failures over 6 cycles previously, because I was also thinking module failures at first. I decided, since I have an extra drive and computer, to test the XP cd [XP is freaking expensive, not like I can just run out and purchase another] on a working unit! Will keep informed. Thanks for the idea of checking heat, it was so simple, I just overlooked it.

ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO ME!

 

[isayni2u]

Update:

The CD is working. I installed XP using my main HD, the disk in question, and the remainder of a working computer...all indications are that the CD and HD are not culprits.


I placed my 1G DDR2 ram in a different slot. This had no effect. The error is still the same and occurs at about the same time that the "registry install" should appear during the XP installation process. The BSoD error isn't page_not_found; I was tired when I made the above post and didn't quite remember correctly. The following is the error that has shown every time I tried to install:

PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA

STOP: 0X00000050 (0XF6C00908, 0X00000001, 0X805D853D, 0X00000000)



If anyone has any suggestions as to what might be causing this fatal error, please let me know

 

[wahnula]

6 cylces is not enough to test RAM, you need to let it run for hours (good) or overnight (better).

I'm betting bad RAM but here a video driver is to blame:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/329293

Best of luck!

Tony