I've got a similar problem also. It happens when I try to run a clean install of 
Win 2k. I've gotten a 0x00000050 Page Fault In Nonpaged Area ntoskrnl.exe STOP screen 
(same one about three times now), an 0x00000026 CDFS File System cdrom.sys error 
(that stopped when I went from two cdrom drives to just one--a read only now, haven't 
got that one again), and 0x0000001E KMODE Exception Not Handled ntoskrnl.exe STOP 
screen, not exactly in that order, but close enough. I've researched the error numbers 
on Microsoft and found nothing usefull.

I'm on my second mother board. The last one was an ECS, and I attributed the problem 
to crappy hardware. However, the latest board is a DFI, and I can't see how it could 
be the board again. My memory is brand new, also. Barely been 14 days since I purchased 
it. The hard drive is one from my previous system, a Maxtor 7200rpm 30gb. It worked 
fine under my previous system, however now Win2k won't install what with the STOP 
screens interrupting the installation.

My new board has an nVidia chipset, the processor is an AMD Athlon 2500+, the memory 
is Centon pc2700 512mb, and my video card is a Geforce FX 5200 128mb PCI card with 
GPU (last computer didn't have an AGP slot, the card is new, only a few weeks old). 
I see a hardware connection with some of us, however who knows what is to blame. 
I'm going to give the previous "no overclocking on CPU" idea a try, see if that works 
for me. I doubt it will, however anything is worth a shot.

I'm at my wit's end. I've tried everything I can think of, all to no avail. It'll 
be my luck I'll go out and buy a new hard drive and STILL have the same problem. 
lol

If I solve it on my end, I'll post an update. If anyone has any ideas, please don't 
hesitate to jump in.


Anthony

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