Pagefault in nonpaged area

[birdman264]

Haven't seen this one before, any ideas?

STOP: 0x00000050 (0x9415FE54, 0x00000000, 0x83F4FD1A, 0x00000000)

XP boots up, then once you select your username, it crashes and gives the above message.

Tried booting from XP disk, but in Recovery mode, it locks up; in reinstall mode, it locks up. Even tried reinstalling on different hard drives, locks up.

Tried removing all hardware (cards, hard drives, RAM) no change.

MOB or processor a goner?

 

[TheLad]

Have you got any USB devices connected to the PC and what happens if you remove them then boot?

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[TheLad]

Except keyboard and mouse... if they are USB

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[birdman264]

Thanks, actually methodically went through removing everything... starting with RAM, then HDD's, then CDROM, then all of the cards (firewire, sound, usb, even video - replacing it with an older one); disconnected all usb devices... basically stripped it down to just the MOB, a hard drive and video card... same result. Crashes when windows opens.

Thought it might have been a corrupt Windows file -- but given that the windows installation crashes when trying to install on several different HDD's, it makes me think it might be the MOB or even the processor. I'm just not familiar with the STOP code, other than the "Pagefault error in non-paged area" code.

Thanks for the response!

 

[linney]

What is it like from Safe Mode?

Have you tried resetting the Bios to any Safe Defaults?

Capacitor plague

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague

The computer may automatically restart, or you may receive a "serious error" message or a Stop error message in Windows Server 2003, in Windows XP, or in Windows 2000

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/894278

 

[BadBigBen]

kinda sounds like the L2 Cache (CPU) took a dump or your northbridge (mobo) ... seeing as you stripped it to the bones, there... and that STOP error is usually related to RAM, CACHE and Spyware...

probably not spyware related, as you tried a fresh install on a different HDD, so that leads me to believe the two above...

take a look at the capacitors on the motherboard, if they are leaking or bulging, it could lead to power variances in the CPU, which in turn could corrupt the L2 Cache of the CPU...

have a look at what I mean...
Capacitor plague

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague

Ben

"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."

 

[birdman264]

Thanks guys!

When trying to boot to Safe Mode, it does the same thing as Windows starts up.

I reset the BIOS to the "Fail Safe" settings, with no change. I then did a manual reset of the CMOS, via jumper shorting... again, no change when rebooted.

I probably should mention that the MOB/Processor are going on 6 years old... so I think I'm ahead of the curve here on longevity. It's on old VIA board with a 1.8GHz processor.

Any final thoughts before I make the trek over to MicroCenters this afternoon would be much appreciated...

 

[BadBigBen]

in that case, 6 yrs. and it served you well, I'd throw a party with a "VIA CPU PINATA" and charge every one a buck to take a whack at it (covers some of the costs of the new one)...


not to be taken too seriously, there... but I would just go ahead and upgrade now...

Ben

"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."