comp just crashed 3 times in a row...

MrPink · March 26th, 2008

i know a lot of people still complain about vista being buggy...but this was just absurd. i tried turning my comp on today, and it got to the desktop and froze twice, then i got BSOD on the third time. it booted up, thank god, on the fourth try. i am wondering if maybe i have some sort of virus or something, because there is no way that vista is that unstable...right

?

this has never happened to me before, and i don't think its hardware related. usually crashes are due to weak power supplies, and mine is pretty high end. and the rest of my part are top notch (for my CPU socket anyway, read my sig.

has anyone else experienced these kinds of problems with vista, specifically vista 64 bit? is this "normal", or should i be worried?

NamesSolidSnake · March 26th, 2008

Um, you sure you don't have a virus?

**Kirby** · March 26th, 2008

the STOP code on the BSOD would be nice to have

SCHUMI-4-EVA · March 26th, 2008

Got a place to look up stop codes Kirby? I tried googleing a stop code once but that did not help at all

**Kirby** · March 26th, 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by SCHUMI-4-EVA

Got a place to look up stop codes Kirby? I tried googleing a stop code once but that did not help at all

I get everything from google....you must be doing it wrong

MrPink · March 26th, 2008

KIRBY!

that's exactly the BSOD i got!

what does it mean?

**fivefeet8** · March 26th, 2008

You can also check your event logs to see what happened right before the crash. Non-paged areas usually means a memory issue. You could also try restoring your system to an earlier state to see if that fixes the issue. Something may have changed on your system to start causing it.

Have you installed anything recently? Hardware/Software? Run some ram tests. There are some memory diagnostics that can be run from outside of loading windows.

**Kirby** · March 26th, 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrPink

KIRBY!

that's exactly the BSOD i got!

what does it mean?

exact Stop code and everything on top??

cause if so, bricks will be shat

MrPink · March 26th, 2008

i remember the PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA message, idk about the stop code. but it should be the same right?

my comp is working fine now though,

ugh, i don't want to have to get new RAM...what are some of those diagnostics?

**Kirby** · March 26th, 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrPink

i remember the PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA message, idk about the stop code. but it should be the same right?

my comp is working fine now though,

ugh, i don't want to have to get new RAM...what are some of those diagnostics?

memtest86+ for the memory

I would suggest a full format and reinstall before ruling out any of the hardware. Most likely if it is hardware, it will crash during Windows Setup.

MrPink · March 26th, 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kirby

memtest86+ for the memory

I would suggest a full format and reinstall before ruling out any of the hardware.

ugh, reinstalling everything?
i hope to get a new platform before the end of the year anyway (RAM, mobo, and CPU), so i'd rather not do that if my computer will work, which it is now.

i will try memtest though and see how that goes...

edit: oh i have 64 bit btw, so will memtest86+ work on a 64 bit OS?

SCHUMI-4-EVA · March 26th, 2008

It runs from every windows OS's DOS bootup as far as I know so yeah it should work...

**Kirby** · March 26th, 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrPink

ugh, reinstalling everything?
i hope to get a new platform before the end of the year anyway (RAM, mobo, and CPU), so i'd rather not do that if my computer will work, which it is now.

i will try memtest though and see how that goes...

edit: oh i have 64 bit btw, so will memtest86+ work on a 64 bit OS?

a reformat would take possible software and driver conflicts out of the equation....

better yet, dust off an old HDD and try installing Vista on that.

Zack · March 26th, 2008

I spent the whole day yesterday fixing this error on my new pc (got it yesterday).

I was getting random BSOD all day.

Turns out the problem was caused by 2 loose connections, 1 to the motherboard and 1 to the gpu.

Check that first maybe

Edit : I was wrong its still getting bsods and is going back

John Aiton · March 26th, 2008

since it's been working fine until now, I doubt it's a connection problem

sounds like a failing hard disk maybe,
back up everything important right now MrPink

i've had many hd failures

SCHUMI-4-EVA · March 26th, 2008

My hdd never gave warning when it failed last time....instant BSoD death...everything was recoverable though...it was not able to boot, but the tech guy got it to load like a normal HDD...is an HDD useless if it's file structure becomes corrupt (which is apparenrently what happened to mine)?

MrPink · March 27th, 2008

oh jesus, hard drive failure? i sure hope not, i just got this one, a WD Caviar 500gb such and such not even 6 months ago.

i got it the same time i bought vista, maybe in november of 2007
i'll check the connections, since i get like 1 BSOD a month now on average, but it never bothered me since my comp works 95% of the time.

Squall-Leonhart · March 27th, 2008

Damaged Ram
Corrupt Page File
Bad Display Drivers (yes, they can cause a page fault)

technically, Page faults are normal, its only when they occur in areas not normally accessible that BSODS occur.

MrPink · March 29th, 2008

ok i got more BSODs!

this is the most recent one i got, which tells me to go here and download the newest version of ASPI.

what does this mean? according to the information on the STOP code on the MS website, only XP users should be getting this BSOD.

Squall-Leonhart · March 29th, 2008

just copy wnaspi32.dll from the nero install folder to system32

March 26th, 2008	#1 (permalink)
MrPink McRoll'd Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: "out of the butt and into the f***!" Posts: 428	comp just crashed 3 times in a row... i know a lot of people still complain about vista being buggy...but this was just absurd. i tried turning my comp on today, and it got to the desktop and froze twice, then i got BSOD on the third time. it booted up, thank god, on the fourth try. i am wondering if maybe i have some sort of virus or something, because there is no way that vista is that unstable...right? this has never happened to me before, and i don't think its hardware related. usually crashes are due to weak power supplies, and mine is pretty high end. and the rest of my part are top notch (for my CPU socket anyway, read my sig. has anyone else experienced these kinds of problems with vista, specifically vista 64 bit? is this "normal", or should i be worried? __________________ AMD Athlon X2 4400+ @2.60ghz l 2GB Corsair XMS (oc'd) PC3472 2.5-3-3-6 1T DDR 434MHz l EVGA Geforce 8800GTX 768MB ASUS A8N32-SLI DELUXE l Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer l PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Quad l WD Caviar 500GB 7200RPM SATA Antec 900 l Zalman CNPS9500 92mm l Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit

March 26th, 2008	#2 (permalink)
NamesSolidSnake nullDC Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: California Posts: 616	Um, you sure you don't have a virus? __________________ PC/Laptop:Compaq Presario v5000 Notebook CPU: Mobile AMD Sempron 3000+ at 1.8 GHz with PowerNow! technology. Graphics: ATI Radeon Xpress Mobility 200 Series. RAM: 512 MB. HDD: 60 GB. OS: Windows XP Home Edition SP2.

March 26th, 2008	#4 (permalink)
SCHUMI-4-EVA Devastating Force Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Xenophobia FTL Posts: 4,615	Got a place to look up stop codes Kirby? I tried googleing a stop code once but that did not help at all __________________ AMD Athlon64 3700+ (2.2Ghz rated as 3.7Ghz Pentium), ASUS A8NE-FM (OEM), 4x512MB DDR400 RAM, ATI Radeon X850XT (256MB GDDR3 PCIe), Seagate Barracuda 320GB SATA2 HDD, Windows XP SP2 Home, Leadtek Winfast TV2000 XP Expert, Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Value Get it right fools! The glass is HALF-EMPTY, not half-full!!! !!! WARNING: Emulation requires a brain !!! WARNING: Emulation =/= Piracy !!! The Champ has retired, but may his Legacy live on FOREVER !!!!

March 26th, 2008	#6 (permalink)
MrPink McRoll'd Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: "out of the butt and into the f***!" Posts: 428	KIRBY! that's exactly the BSOD i got! what does it mean? __________________ AMD Athlon X2 4400+ @2.60ghz l 2GB Corsair XMS (oc'd) PC3472 2.5-3-3-6 1T DDR 434MHz l EVGA Geforce 8800GTX 768MB ASUS A8N32-SLI DELUXE l Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer l PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Quad l WD Caviar 500GB 7200RPM SATA Antec 900 l Zalman CNPS9500 92mm l Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit

March 26th, 2008	#7 (permalink)
fivefeet8 &-)---\|--< Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Smallville Posts: 7,555	You can also check your event logs to see what happened right before the crash. Non-paged areas usually means a memory issue. You could also try restoring your system to an earlier state to see if that fixes the issue. Something may have changed on your system to start causing it. Have you installed anything recently? Hardware/Software? Run some ram tests. There are some memory diagnostics that can be run from outside of loading windows. __________________ Play emulated games online Main Rig\|\|Intel Q6600@3.2 ghertz\|4x1gb DDR2 1066\|Asrock 1600sli 110db LGA 775\|EVGA 8800gtx@620/1450/975\|2x Seagate 160gb SATA150 Raid0\|250 gb Samsung SATA2 HD\|Seagate 7000.10 500gb HD\|NEC 3520 4x/8x DVD+R/RW DL burner\|Antec TP 650 watt\|40" Sony Bravia 1080p\|20.1" 5ms LCD 1680x1050 Native\|Logitec 5.1 Speaker System w/15" Sub\|Dual Boot Winows XP Pro/Vista 64bit\|\| 2nd Rig\|\|Athlon64 x2 3800+\|2x1 gig PC3200\|BFG Geforce 6800 Ultra OC @450/1250 agp\|60 gig Maxtor IDE HD 7200 RPM\|40 gig Maxtor IDE HD\|Asrock Dual SATA2\|Silver Aluminum ATX\|17" LCD\|\| 3rd Rig\|\|Athlon Xp 2800+\|1.5 gig PC2700\|BFG GeforceFx 5900 Ultra OC agp\|100 gig Maxtor SATA HD\|NF7-s rev2.0\|Nvidia Soundstorm MCP\|19" CRT\|\|

March 26th, 2008	#9 (permalink)
MrPink McRoll'd Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: "out of the butt and into the f***!" Posts: 428	i remember the PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA message, idk about the stop code. but it should be the same right? my comp is working fine now though, ugh, i don't want to have to get new RAM...what are some of those diagnostics? __________________ AMD Athlon X2 4400+ @2.60ghz l 2GB Corsair XMS (oc'd) PC3472 2.5-3-3-6 1T DDR 434MHz l EVGA Geforce 8800GTX 768MB ASUS A8N32-SLI DELUXE l Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer l PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Quad l WD Caviar 500GB 7200RPM SATA Antec 900 l Zalman CNPS9500 92mm l Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit

March 26th, 2008	#12 (permalink)
SCHUMI-4-EVA Devastating Force Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Xenophobia FTL Posts: 4,615	It runs from every windows OS's DOS bootup as far as I know so yeah it should work... __________________ AMD Athlon64 3700+ (2.2Ghz rated as 3.7Ghz Pentium), ASUS A8NE-FM (OEM), 4x512MB DDR400 RAM, ATI Radeon X850XT (256MB GDDR3 PCIe), Seagate Barracuda 320GB SATA2 HDD, Windows XP SP2 Home, Leadtek Winfast TV2000 XP Expert, Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Value Get it right fools! The glass is HALF-EMPTY, not half-full!!! !!! WARNING: Emulation requires a brain !!! WARNING: Emulation =/= Piracy !!! The Champ has retired, but may his Legacy live on FOREVER !!!!

March 26th, 2008	#14 (permalink)
Zack Coder Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: idk Posts: 160	I spent the whole day yesterday fixing this error on my new pc (got it yesterday). I was getting random BSOD all day. Turns out the problem was caused by 2 loose connections, 1 to the motherboard and 1 to the gpu. Check that first maybe Edit : I was wrong its still getting bsods and is going back __________________ My Releases : Wolfenstein 3D For PSP V4.8 (With Better Sound & Music Quality, Game Loader, Wolf3D Full Version Support, Spear Of Destiny Full Version Support + Spear Of Destiny Expansion Packs Support!! + Cheats, Quick Load & Save, Improved Controls & Lots More) ^^ Check out our coding compo! ^^ Last edited by Zack; March 30th, 2008 at 00:36.

March 26th, 2008	#15 (permalink)
John Aiton Forever Guilty Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Toronto, Ontario Canada Posts: 1,917	since it's been working fine until now, I doubt it's a connection problem sounds like a failing hard disk maybe, back up everything important right now MrPink i've had many hd failures __________________ The prevalent effects of cocsa. That is my sin

March 26th, 2008	#16 (permalink)
SCHUMI-4-EVA Devastating Force Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Xenophobia FTL Posts: 4,615	My hdd never gave warning when it failed last time....instant BSoD death...everything was recoverable though...it was not able to boot, but the tech guy got it to load like a normal HDD...is an HDD useless if it's file structure becomes corrupt (which is apparenrently what happened to mine)? __________________ AMD Athlon64 3700+ (2.2Ghz rated as 3.7Ghz Pentium), ASUS A8NE-FM (OEM), 4x512MB DDR400 RAM, ATI Radeon X850XT (256MB GDDR3 PCIe), Seagate Barracuda 320GB SATA2 HDD, Windows XP SP2 Home, Leadtek Winfast TV2000 XP Expert, Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Value Get it right fools! The glass is HALF-EMPTY, not half-full!!! !!! WARNING: Emulation requires a brain !!! WARNING: Emulation =/= Piracy !!! The Champ has retired, but may his Legacy live on FOREVER !!!!

March 27th, 2008	#17 (permalink)
MrPink McRoll'd Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: "out of the butt and into the f***!" Posts: 428	oh jesus, hard drive failure? i sure hope not, i just got this one, a WD Caviar 500gb such and such not even 6 months ago. i got it the same time i bought vista, maybe in november of 2007 i'll check the connections, since i get like 1 BSOD a month now on average, but it never bothered me since my comp works 95% of the time. __________________ AMD Athlon X2 4400+ @2.60ghz l 2GB Corsair XMS (oc'd) PC3472 2.5-3-3-6 1T DDR 434MHz l EVGA Geforce 8800GTX 768MB ASUS A8N32-SLI DELUXE l Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer l PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Quad l WD Caviar 500GB 7200RPM SATA Antec 900 l Zalman CNPS9500 92mm l Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit

March 27th, 2008	#18 (permalink)
Squall-Leonhart VBA-M Team Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Australia Posts: 4,192	Damaged Ram Corrupt Page File Bad Display Drivers (yes, they can cause a page fault) technically, Page faults are normal, its only when they occur in areas not normally accessible that BSODS occur. __________________ TechZone3K \| NGOHQ \| Post Impact Productions READ THE NGEmu/EmuForums Rules of Conduct

March 29th, 2008	#19 (permalink)
MrPink McRoll'd Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: "out of the butt and into the f***!" Posts: 428	ok i got more BSODs! this is the most recent one i got, which tells me to go here and download the newest version of ASPI. what does this mean? according to the information on the STOP code on the MS website, only XP users should be getting this BSOD. __________________ AMD Athlon X2 4400+ @2.60ghz l 2GB Corsair XMS (oc'd) PC3472 2.5-3-3-6 1T DDR 434MHz l EVGA Geforce 8800GTX 768MB ASUS A8N32-SLI DELUXE l Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer l PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Quad l WD Caviar 500GB 7200RPM SATA Antec 900 l Zalman CNPS9500 92mm l Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit

March 29th, 2008	#20 (permalink)
Squall-Leonhart VBA-M Team Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Australia Posts: 4,192	just copy wnaspi32.dll from the nero install folder to system32 __________________ TechZone3K \| NGOHQ \| Post Impact Productions READ THE NGEmu/EmuForums Rules of Conduct

Thread Tools
Show Printable Version Email this Page
Display Modes
Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode