possible hardware problem?

[davidkunttu]

i posted this in the windows xp section and got a reply that the problem might be hardware related. here is the original post:

ok i need to post this quick before my computer restarts again because this is the third time i've tried. i recently installed a new motherboard after my old one died on me. ever since i reformatted and reinstalled windows xp pro programs i am running have had errors and needed to close for no apparent reason, including windows explorer. i have all the windows updates, adaware and spybot are clean, i cant finish a virus scan without it restarting but i reformatted yesterday and stuff so i doubt its a virus. my system configuration is listed below. any ideas?

any idea of what it could be?

 

[dai]

what size power supply

 

[MustBNuts]

Have a few ideas....are any of them any good? who knows!

When you replaced the motherboard, was it an equal swap? In other words, did you replace with the same make/model?

If it's a completely new mobo, what else did you replace? If you just moved existing components, are you absolutely sure they are compatible?

Did you just move your hard drive over with or without a clean reinstall? (Edit: oops, you answered that!)

Have you installed all the drivers that came with the new mobo?

As you can see, you need to provide a few more details on exactly what you did.

Hope this helps,

MBN

 

[davidkunttu]

300W psu
no i used to have a gigabyte ga-4n700 board, both had the nforce2 chipset so thats why i went with the biostar m7ncd. i kept all my old parts, only the motherboard is new. i installed all the drivers for all the hardware i have, i even updated my BIOS.

 

[dai]

turn off the auto reboot and see if you get the bsod error message and post it

 

[MustBNuts]

are you sure it was a 4n700? I just searched oon gigabyte site and can't find the specs on it....did you mean a 7n400?

MBN

 

[davidkunttu]

ha sorry yes, 7n400

where is auto reboot? bios?

 

[MustBNuts]

AutoReboot is in Control Panel>System>Advanced tab at bottom, Startup and Recovery, click Settings button, System Failure section, uncheck Automatically Restart.

MBN

 

[MustBNuts]

Hmmm, your old mobo died...did it show the same symptoms? How is the cooling in that case?

MBN

 

[davidkunttu]

no i had no problems with the old motherboard until one day i rebooted and nothing came back, tried everything with tech support, had people look at it, nobody came up with everything. i am going to have gigabyte send me a fresh one. i have a good number of fans in my case and the cpu runs around 30-40 degrees celsius

also, autoreboot is now off so i will post any stop codes i get if i get the blue screen

 

[davidkunttu]

ok this is the first blue screen error i got:

0x0000008E
win32k.sys at base BF872506

google came up with a ton of pages for 0x0000008E but i didn't see any that applied to my situation....help?

 

[davidkunttu]

so far i've gotten to different blue screen's:

PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
0x0000005O

and

0x0000007F


any ideas?

 

[~Candy~]

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prmd_stp_ccgm.asp

 

[dai]

fault in non paged area
reseat the ram
stop auto start a/v
and see if it still bsod
Stop 0x00000050 or PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA - The Stop 0x50 message indicates that requested data was not in memory. The system generates an exception error when using a reference to an invalid system memory address. Defective memory (including main memory, L2 RAM cache, video RAM) or incompatible software (including remote control and antivirus software) might cause Stop 0x50 messages.

 

[davidkunttu]

ok i've done everything everyone has suggested, nothing has helped, i ran a 17 hour burn in ram test and it passed everytime and i am on the verge of buying a new processor because i've already tried a new motherboard. please anyone with any other thoughts? i would hate to have gone out and buy a new processor and have that not fix the problem...