windows won't load

[Stevo]

This is the message I get at the blue screen of death
after about 10 seconds of trying to login to windows.

A problem has been detected and windows has been shut
down to prevent damage to your computer.

PAGE_FAULT_IN _NONPAGED_AREA

If this is the firts time you've seen this stop error
screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears
again, follow these steps:

Check to make sure any new hardware or software is
properly installed. If this is a new installation, ask
your hardware or software manufacuturer for any windows
updates you might need.

If problems continue, disable or remove any newly
installed hardware or software. Disable BIOS memory
options suchas caching or shadowing. If you need to use
Safe Mode to remove or disable components, restart your
computer, press F8 to select Advanced Startup Options,
and then select Safe Mode

Technical Information:

***STOP: 0x00000050 (0xFFFFFFF6, 0x00000000, 0x8053424E,
0x00000000)

Beginning Dump of physical memory
Physical memory dump complete.
Contact your system administrator or technical support
group for further assistance.

I run a 1.3 celeron with 256ram It's never happened
before and I haven't installed anything hardware or
software. Please help me get windows going again. Or
should I count my losses and reformat. Which leads
to...how do I do that?

 

[Chris Lanier]

Greetings

0x00000050: PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
http://aumha.org/win5/kbestop.php#0x50

 

[Guest]

i don't know wher your from but to reformat... phone up
your local computer store, till one thats free enough to
give you some information, which you should write down,
on how to reformat your computer..its not hard if your
using windows xp... keep phonig around till find that
person who will have the time and patience to guide you
through it...i've done this many times...MAKE sure you
write down what your doing so you will have a reference
the next time you have to do it...good luck.

 

[Alex Nichol]

This is the message I get at the blue screen of death
after about 10 seconds of trying to login to windows.

A problem has been detected and windows has been shut
down to prevent damage to your computer.

PAGE_FAULT_IN _NONPAGED_AREA

This will arise if code that is considered so central that it may not be
paged out to the page file has generated an error. As this is mostly
system code that is very highly tested, trouble with RAM (or corruption
of the code on hard disk) is the most likely reason. But there are some
packages that also put some of their code here - an example is Norton
Internet Security. If you have installed anything of that sort, try
uninstalling again; and do a check of the memory with Memtest86 from
www.memtest86.com

For more specific possibilities, go to http://aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm
and click on 50 in the left panel