system hangs.....page fault in non paged area

[xsbs52x]

a few weeks ago i installed an ati aiw 9000 pro. about 1 week ago my system started to blue screen during boot up. i can only get my computer to boot after trying about 4 or 5 times. when i get it booted, windows runs fine. the blue screen says:
a problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.
PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
***STOP: 0x00000050 (0xF8842D20, 0x00000000, 0xF882BB01, 0x00000000)

i was pretty sure that my new graphics card wasnt the problem, because it wouldnt even boot in safe mode, it just gave me the same error.

because safe mode uses generic drivers and most instabilities in winXP (which is my OS) are due to bad drivers, it seemed impossible that it could be driver related. but then i saw something on ati's website about something similar to that can happen after installing updated drivers for it. after searching google i found that that error is usually caused by bad memory, but i was wondering if anyone has had this problem with their aiw or just knows how to fix it.
thanks.


btw:
OS - WinXP home
CPU - 1.6 ghz p4
Motherboard - intel motherboard
Chipset - 845
HDD - two 40 gig drives
RAM - 512
Graphics card - ATI AIW 9000 pro
Onboard sound

[jacknjt]

it could be your hardrive. check ur hardrive or switch the hardrive.

[Faustus]

Its not likely the hard drive itself. More likely is the video card, memory, or software.

The first place to look is the software, without knowing alot about your specific card I'd suggest backing up any needed documents/pictures/music ect ect. and reformtting your hard drive. If after the reformat the problems is still there then likely its either your card or memory. If you have another vid card switch it in and run it for a while and see if th eproblem clear up. If you dont have another video card still then take the ram to a computer store and pay to have tested. If you have it tested make sure they actually have a DIMM tester... if you dont ask then they might charge you to just hook it up in a PC and run some crummy test software on it. Trust me a DIMM tester give WAY better info.

The reason I suggest the steps in the order I do is because they start with free and work their way up.

[Northstar]

You have to look at what you have installed lately, obviously the video card or some software, mem can go bad at anytime, so like flaystus says, 'its gotta be one of the three'.

I started getting random BSOD recently myself, i put it down to the ram, still not 100% sure, one thing that sort of cured it was flashing my mobo bios to the one before, i had been using the latest bios for at least two months and it somehow went bad, now my pc dosent like the latest bios at all, so that may be worth looking at too, since flashing back i rarely have a BSOD but still get one occassionaly, which is a pain so im upgrading soon to an Nforce2 mobo with DDR, so that will prolly fix my probs.... i just hope it isnt my GFX card or PCI ADSL modem

[xsbs52x]

im praying that it isnt my new AIW cuz i love the thing. but i when i try to boot into safe mode i get the same BSOD i do when i try to boot into normal mode. that technically means that it cant be a bad driver because safe mode uses generic drivers. sometime soon i wil swap the AIW out with my old geforce2 and see what happens. it cant be bad agp drivers either because the old geforce2 that i had been using for about a year or more was in the same agp slot as the new one. im hoping its just memory issues cuz that would be more simple to fix. ive read a few things on google where people had the exact same bsod that i did and swapping or cleaning the ram fixed it. i believe page fault in non paged area has to do with the computer not finding something that was supposed to be stored in ram. today i will see if i can borrow some ram from a friend and test it out. if it is my graphics card, how would i go about fixing it?

[deliriumaximus]

I have an ATI AIW 9000 Pro too & it worked for a week or two, then my computer started haveing severe hardware problems & would not boot most of the time. I have read that the AIW cards have to have GART drivers installed before you put it in. but that is for non-Intel chipsets.. but maybe still worth a try? I have an nforce2 chipset board.

[xsbs52x]

actualy i fixed the problem a little while ago. it was a driver that some other program for cd burning had installed. i never used that program anyway and when i uninstalled it, it removed the driver and everything went back to normal.

[Northstar]

Yeah i fixed my problem a week ago too, it was getting worse and worse, no matter what i installed/uninstalled, even building my new NForce2 system it was still happening which proved once and for all it had to be GFX card or CPU (had to buy some DDR mem so not that).

It turned out to be my CPU, got a new one and everything is fine again