Hi all,

A couple of weeks back my pc blue screened and would only re-boot
after several attempts. The stop errors where either
'irql_not_less_or_equal' or 'page_fault_in_non_paged_area'. When I did
manage to boot the machine everything worked ok but it would blue
screen again after a few hours of being left idle and then after a few
days of acting cranky I could only boot in safe mode.

No new hardware had been installed so I guessed one of the existing
devices had stopped working. I disabled existing devices one by one to
identify the device that was causing the problem but the pc still blue
screen on normal start up.

As I've had problems before I decided it was time to install XP again.
I backed up all my files to the second hard drive and using the
recovery console I attempted to repair the windows installation, but
still got the same blue screen during the setup.

After days of trying to repair the existing installation I decided to
bite the bullet and wipe the drive clean. I deleted the partition on
the C drive without problems, windows setup created a new partition
and formatted it ok but during the installation the PC blue screened
during the 'copying files' stage, this happened every time I re-booted
and started the XP set up. The error message was now suggesting a
problem with the bios instead of the previous device driver error I
had been getting. As the error screen suggested I found a bios update
for the pc and ran it but the flash update no difference.

I now have no OS and get a blue screen when I try to install XP from
disc.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Many thanks, in advance,

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL & page fault,basically deal with memory or
not enough of...When you did a clean install of xp was the 2nd hd connected,
it needs to be physically unplugged till xp is running..If ok,then try
running
memory diagnostic utility,you can get it at:
http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp If youre memory is corrupted or
caput,
the utility will show error(s),once found locate the bad card(s) &
replace,or clean
the contacts (eraser tip) & switch them....

"abbimin" wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> A couple of weeks back my pc blue screened and would only re-boot
> after several attempts. The stop errors where either
> 'irql_not_less_or_equal' or 'page_fault_in_non_paged_area'. When I did
> manage to boot the machine everything worked ok but it would blue
> screen again after a few hours of being left idle and then after a few
> days of acting cranky I could only boot in safe mode.
>
> No new hardware had been installed so I guessed one of the existing
> devices had stopped working. I disabled existing devices one by one to
> identify the device that was causing the problem but the pc still blue
> screen on normal start up.
>
> As I've had problems before I decided it was time to install XP again.
> I backed up all my files to the second hard drive and using the
> recovery console I attempted to repair the windows installation, but
> still got the same blue screen during the setup.
>
> After days of trying to repair the existing installation I decided to
> bite the bullet and wipe the drive clean. I deleted the partition on
> the C drive without problems, windows setup created a new partition
> and formatted it ok but during the installation the PC blue screened
> during the 'copying files' stage, this happened every time I re-booted
> and started the XP set up. The error message was now suggesting a
> problem with the bios instead of the previous device driver error I
> had been getting. As the error screen suggested I found a bios update
> for the pc and ran it but the flash update no difference.
>
> I now have no OS and get a blue screen when I try to install XP from
> disc.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Many thanks, in advance,
>
>