Hi,
I've got this problem in my office and it's driving us nuts! Here's
the situation: we've got two *new* Acer Desktops (AcerPower Series),
Pentium 4, HT, 1 GB ram, intgrated Video Card. They're identical. Top
of them there is XP pro, Office 2003 and Visual Studio 2005.
Integrated Video Cards are Ati X200 and they use shared memory. Now,
usually these machines work well, but very often during a long Visual
Studio session they show up Blue Screen of death, saying
PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA. This happens sooner if I startup
VisualStudio while lots of other apps are open (say firefox + word +
messenger...), but happens even with the app alone. Another situation
that causes the BSOD is Application Manager. If we use it sometimes we
got BSOD. Seems, but I'm not sure because it happened only once to me,
that it happens only when uninstalling Microsoft and Visual Studio
related software, for example it fired when I was removing .NET
Compact Framework 1.1 .

That's what I've tried:

- I have updated the Catalyst drivers, both from ATI and from Acer. No
effect.
- I tried to change the size of the video card shared memory (just in
case). NE.
- Tryed with a standalone videocard with 256 Mb of vram. NE
- Removed norton av. NE.
- Completely removed Ati drivers from the system and installed them
from scratch. NE
- Checked every possible thing in BIOS, and everything is OK, such as
Bios Shadow. NE
- Removed a Wireless network NIC we installed after the purchase. NE.
- Complete Ram Banks test with Memtest86+ (or is it Memcheck86+??? I
don't remember the name). Everything's ok
- complete HDD check with drive manufacturer's official test program.
Everything's ok

The strange thing is that the phenomenon happens on two brand new
computers and they are supposed to be good coz they are from Acer.
They idea that both are faulty seems rather improbable...

We really don't know were to go with it.... Acer says we shouldn't use
Visual Studio... that's quite an interesting answer =) But you know,
IT geeks are very rigid and we wouldn't change our mind about
it : ) : )

Ok, let's stop kiddin', coz the situation is getting really annoying.
If you have any hints, tests to do or anything that may help solve
this situation please help.

I did a search at the MS website on your BSOD and came up with
this:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro....mspx?mfr=true
Looks like you have some bad RAM Since they are brand new contact ACER
and get it checked under warranty.
Im wondering why you bought 2 new PCs with no dedicated videocards?
Integrated graphics mixed with intense applications usually dont turn out
well.
Good luck.


"Gotch@" wrote:

> Hi,
> I've got this problem in my office and it's driving us nuts! Here's
> the situation: we've got two *new* Acer Desktops (AcerPower Series),
> Pentium 4, HT, 1 GB ram, intgrated Video Card. They're identical. Top
> of them there is XP pro, Office 2003 and Visual Studio 2005.
> Integrated Video Cards are Ati X200 and they use shared memory. Now,
> usually these machines work well, but very often during a long Visual
> Studio session they show up Blue Screen of death, saying
> PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA. This happens sooner if I startup
> VisualStudio while lots of other apps are open (say firefox + word +
> messenger...), but happens even with the app alone. Another situation
> that causes the BSOD is Application Manager. If we use it sometimes we
> got BSOD. Seems, but I'm not sure because it happened only once to me,
> that it happens only when uninstalling Microsoft and Visual Studio
> related software, for example it fired when I was removing .NET
> Compact Framework 1.1 .
>
> That's what I've tried:
>
> - I have updated the Catalyst drivers, both from ATI and from Acer. No
> effect.
> - I tried to change the size of the video card shared memory (just in
> case). NE.
> - Tryed with a standalone videocard with 256 Mb of vram. NE
> - Removed norton av. NE.
> - Completely removed Ati drivers from the system and installed them
> from scratch. NE
> - Checked every possible thing in BIOS, and everything is OK, such as
> Bios Shadow. NE
> - Removed a Wireless network NIC we installed after the purchase. NE.
> - Complete Ram Banks test with Memtest86+ (or is it Memcheck86+??? I
> don't remember the name). Everything's ok
> - complete HDD check with drive manufacturer's official test program.
> Everything's ok
>
> The strange thing is that the phenomenon happens on two brand new
> computers and they are supposed to be good coz they are from Acer.
> They idea that both are faulty seems rather improbable...
>
> We really don't know were to go with it.... Acer says we shouldn't use
> Visual Studio... that's quite an interesting answer =) But you know,
> IT geeks are very rigid and we wouldn't change our mind about
> it : ) : )
>
> Ok, let's stop kiddin', coz the situation is getting really annoying.
> If you have any hints, tests to do or anything that may help solve
> this situation please help.
>
>