For the life of me I cannot fix the infamous blue screen of death.... Ive gotten the error of page not formatetd and the 0x24 error Its done numerous memory dumps and chkdsk Now I am having a hard time just booting up windows. As for my luck, I havnt backed up in ages, its an older dell dimension desktop If anyone can please help, I would greatly appreciate it and compensate for it...I thought about taking it to a comp repair store but would try here first Im in the katy area....
All of these recommendations are assuming the system is running Windows XP Step 1. What have you changed recently? New memory? New video card? If anything has been changed, undo it. Then see what happens. Step 2. Reduce. Disconnect everything from the mboard except processor, one memory module, video card and hard drive. Disconnect everything, including sound card, nic, floppy drive (if present - I have seen faulty floppy drives crash a comp), CD/DVD ROM etc. If the computer comes back up, reconnect components one-at-a-time, rebooting after each one. Start with the RAM and go from there. Step 3. Recovery Console. See the steps listed online here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545 I have been able to bring more than a couple of systems back to life using the ol' Recovery Console. Step 4. Repair Windows. Try to reinstall Windows over your current installation. May or may not work. Step 5. Reinstall Windows. At which point you're basically screwed.
I wasnt aware of this. I repaired the win32.sys file which one blue screen said was corrupted by renaming is win32.old this enabled me to boot correctly and back up the data i needed. I have a feeling the blue screen may come up, esp because my avg antivirus will not update. I get different errors, ill write them down including the zeros I have not installed any new hardware for this to be happening My gut tells me its the ram as well----would this be a simple swap and replace?
My instincts say RAM or hard drive, which were the two most common hardware failures when I was working as a bench tech. RAM is quite an inexpensive and easy fix: just replace the faulty module. The more tricky part was determining which module was faulty, which is best done by replacing one module at a time and rebooting every time to see when the error went away. Detecting and replacing a faulty hard drive is not nearly so simple or inexpensive. So try the RAM first.
page _fault_ in _nonpaged_area ntfs.sys 0x00000050 (0xA77B9960, 0x00000000, 0xF85FB764, 0x00000000 is what the latest blue screen shows
Try this 0x00000050. You can always back up your stuff from that hard drive even if you can't boot into it because of an OS problem. But of course you need another computer with enough disk space. Take out your hard drive and mount it on an external adaptor and backup your stuff. For future consideration. Always partition your drive into 2 if you have a large disk space. Create a small enough space for the OS and other programs on the C drive and the rest would be for your backup. That way if something does go wrong you have a much easy time backing up stuff on the C drive and easily reinstall over top of it.
Another thing you can try to do is IF this BSOD was just recently happen. Try SYSTEM RESTORE from earlier date.
I'm fairly confident this guy has a hardware problem, not a software problem. Unfortunately these things can be hard to diagnose (I once had a problem that didn't go away until I replaced the actual case. Believe it or not.)
Thanks for all the suggestions I have a dell dimension desktop and from the numerous things I have tried, I believe its a RAM problem I reseated the ram in opposite slots and problem still existed I kept one one and worked fine tried the other and got blue screen, leading me to believe I had a corrupt memory stick well see, if not, at least I got a cheap ram upgrade
Funny, but I really don't want to see a fight over this. Khal, if you are ever interested in a Mac, let me know; I'm more than willing to answer any questions you have. Or stop by the store -- apple.com/houstongalleria Best of luck fixing your computer, man. I have forgotten most everything about fixing Windows errors, so I'm not going to be a lot of help.
