Help w/BLUE Screen: PFN_LIST_CORRUPT

[Wayne]

1 Ghz machine AMD, 500+ mb RAM, 80 GB Disk
XP Home - just reinstalled (due to "flakiness")

Every so often, during cold and warm boots, machine reverts to a Restart
mode displaying a BLUE screen with msg:

PFN-LIST_Corrupt.

This is followed by a help msg, noting for those seeing this for the first
time, etc.

Nothing NEW has been added (ref help msg noted above), no new hardware or
software.

There is a STOP address. Also RAM is dumped to a location on disk.

Machine restarts . . . PFN-LIS-Corrupt may appear a second time, sometimes
not, i.e. XP Home loads properly.

Pls, What is this PFN-LIST-CORRUPT msg telling me?

Best Regards,
Wayne

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Please try the following link to Jim Eshelman's web site - left hand
column(4E)

http://aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm

 

[Guest]

The Basics: Bugchecks Explained: PFN_LIST_CORRUPT
http://www.osronline.com/article.cfm?article=334

 

[Wayne]

Thanks for the feedback! Machine has worked w/current set of drivers for
a few years which leads me to think the RAM may be the culprit.

(BTW, link to osronline.com did not work.)

An enjoyable and safe weekend to you!

Wayne

 

[Wayne]

Pulled RAM and ran an eraser down the connector(s). Considerable very fine
dust/soot at the connector - maybe at high freq, losses across the pins
(??). No blue screens (just yet). Machine "seems" to be running a bit
faster. Is this possible? Dirty mem caused multiple RAM read/writes to get
the job done??

All much better. Thank You

BTW, where might I find a mem R/W diagnostic? Worthwhile "exercising" RAM
every so often??
Also, XP has a PC-Health folder. How is this used?

Wayne