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re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000'
Monday, January 5, 2004 at 9:29 am
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Posted by Hockey_Dad (2 messages posted)

I found a solution to _my_ unexpeced reboots: ...I moved my USB hub card one more slot away from the (empty) AGP slot ... That's the bottom line. Here's the story if you'er interested. MOBO: GA-7VKML w/integrated Video, Sound, and NIC. Only added card is a USB (PCI) bus in slot nearest AGP slot (unpopulated). 512 MB (2@256MB) mixed brand RAM. I've been having daily unexpected reboots for about a year, sometimes a dozen a day. I had them with Win98, then recently, with WinXP Pro (clean install) on same box as had Win98. I turned off the auto-reboot-on stop-error, so I've been able to see the various error causing the reboots. The messages referred to "WIN32K.SYS", "S3GNB.DLL", "PAGE-FAULT-IN-NONPAGED-AREA", and "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL". Maybe others that I didn't write down... If I let Windows report the error to Microsoft and analize it, Microsoft would give me the useless report saying that there was some _unspecified_ "driver problem" (MS excells at worthless "help".) I updated ALL my drivers, OS, programs, etc. I also uninstalled Zone Alarm firewall, having read several reports of potential compatability problems (Hate XP firewall). By the way, I checked my IRQs and none of them are shared. Still geting lots of the same errors! 'Bout this time I'm looking for a trash can big enough to dump my PC! -so now I'm thinking maybe incompatable video card or bad ram... Finally I found a thread here in Annoyances.org suggesting that if a Sound card is in PCI slot nearest AGP slot, sound and video would 'certainly' share resources/IRQ and likely create the sort of problems I've been having. ************************* In desperation, I moved my USB hub card one more slot away from the (empty) AGP slot and reversed my two RAM sricks. It's been a week now and NO reboots! NOT ONE. I think the solution was moving the card. The fix looks real and I'm a happy dog. I hope my experience will help somebody else. Regards, Hockey_Dad

On Monday, May 20, 2002 at 9:43 pm, Jo wrote:
>Your suggestion sounds good except I cannot get into the bios the way you described,
>is there any other way, with the errors I get the blue death screen as as per norm
>it asks me to check everything from software to hardware, technical error as follows
>PAGE-FAULT-IN-NONPAGED-AREA
>asks to disable catching or shadowing
>
>STOP: ox00000050 (0xCOFF824C,0X00000001,0X804EB84A,0X00000000)
>beginning to dump physical files.
>this to me is jargen. My HP model is 8637. I can't tell you BIOS details as yet cause
>I can't seem to get into them. I've download some BIOS updates from HP for a different
>model, that came a few month after mine so I figure they couldn't have changed it
>too much and if I can get into BIOS should I try to up grade that way, as I need
>to run XP for my broad band to work so I have to try anything, even ripping the guts
>out of this thing and starting again, should be cheeper than a new pc.
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