Blue screen when installing XP on refomatted drive

[abbimin]

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,

 

[JS]

Try running Memtest86+, this runs from a boot disk and should eliminate or
confirm if your ram is bad.
Let it run for as long as you can, 2,4,6,8 or more hours, if no errors by
then your ram is OK and that eliminates one possible problem area.
See: http://www.memtest.org/

JS

 

[abbimin]

Try running Memtest86+, this runs from a boot disk and should eliminate or
confirm if your ram is bad.
Let it run for as long as you can, 2,4,6,8 or more hours, if no errors by
then your ram is OK and that eliminates one possible problem area.
See:http://www.memtest.org/

JS













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Thanks for the reply, I did suspect a memory problem but was not sure,
will check it and let you know the results, once again thanks for
replying.