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2nd Jul 2009, 02:45
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It's quite possible that the cause is another piece of hardware, but as I said earlier, it's a process of elimination, starting with the simple/cheap options first.
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When you work on it tonight, run it with just one stick of Ram in slot 1, leave the other stick out. See if things improve and run it for a while .... if the problem persists, remove the Ram in slot 1 and try the other stick. My System: Home Build
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2nd Jul 2009, 03:36
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Okay I need to ask you a huge favour, more a confirmation...
Could you look onto the Nvidia website for me and tell me which graphics updates go with my spec's as in drivers its a Nvidia 9600 GSO or so it tells me. Its just confirmation that ive installed the right one....as it yet again did the IRQL and the page fault in a non page area again but suprisingly then stopped.... Still have to try the RAM yet but will be doing that shortly...... |
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2nd Jul 2009, 05:17
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One thing to bear in mind ..... if you have faulty Ram, Windows can throw up all sorts of spurious error messages, blue screens etc., it's often the case that Windows just gets confused ..... so it's important to establish/eliminate any Ram issues first
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2nd Jul 2009, 06:28
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Okay that driver is installed and so are all the motherboard ones again just to make sure.
Didnt stop it from blue screening.....but on a positive note i finally found the minidump files. Bad news is i dont know how to open those things or read em anyhow. Ive watched the eventviewer after a fix and no bad sectors, and application that keeps erroring is Acrobat.exe for some reason, who knows and the other application is faultrep.dll. And my computer is also having a go at this file being removed before being prepared for it according to the event viewer device Root\LEGACY_SETUPNTGLM7X\0000 (PLug Play Manager) its only done it a couple of times but still has done it. I have a few things that have to get done tonight so there wont be enough time to give the ram a good test will have to do when i get home tommorrow.....sorry |
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2nd Jul 2009, 14:37
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I see you have installed software etc., since installing XP ....... just checking ..... is this all legit stuff, as trojans/malware could be at work otherwise.
Also .... did the problems exist immediately after installing XP, or after installing software ? |
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2nd Jul 2009, 22:19
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Thanks for that reminder, I'm a luver or design and 3D software so not everything is legit i must confess, however i've had some of this software on my previous computer and the rest is from someone who is a technician and ive had it for a while. So while i wont rule it out, i would additionally say that its unlikely.
However you do raise an underlining point that with everything on that machine its going to be hard to identify one source. Hence im seriously considering back up and reformat and back to scratch discussions with yourself. Pending of course you wanting to take this approach. Additionally i rarely use IE ive always downloaded Firefox once windows has been installed as well. So if its preferred to reformat and do all testing with IE please let me know. The only hardware attached to the computers is an NB5 Modem, keyboard, Mouse and an analogue monitor with a converter onto the digital board. |
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3rd Jul 2009, 03:34
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Well ........ it would make things simpler, to do your testing/diagnosis on a fresh install.
If you start off clean and the problem doesn't re-occur, you can then add one thing at a time, over a period of time, giving each a while running. Sometimes it can be a simple case of an incompatible driver that causes problems. The fact that you are receiving multiple error messages though, with no consistency, still leads me to question the ram. |
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6th Jul 2009, 17:35
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Apologies for the delay....but ive been waiting till the end of this week to get some replacement parts to see if that makes a difference.....although im suspecting i know what the issue is......
I got a realtec audio Eaccess violation the other day locked up the pootah and windows made sure i restarted...... I read onlike that SP3 does not like the realtec audio which sp1 & 2 do.....so i suspect the clash in memory is due to windows having sp3 on it....and clashing with the motherboard driver........ |
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12th Jul 2009, 21:17
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*hugzzzz* thank you for all your help, i replaced all the external parts on the weekend( they were very old anyhow) and changed the RAM with board compliant RAM according to the manual.
That was done over the weekend and it has been booting up fine with no issues to date...... Thank you very much for you help and assistance much appreciated. |
