PC is Messed up, Please Help, AGAIN!

The Badger · 10 Apr 2010 at 12:14

Right, i was having trouble with my pc. It was my g-card, ive now installed a new graphics card into my machine, all was working well.

Turned my pc on a few days ago and it failed to boot.
I got a blue screen which said, Cmos Error. Ive replaced the battery and now this blue screen has not showed its face again.

Upon starting the machine up it fails to boot. I get a frozen screen on the mobo gigabyte screen. Randomly rebooting when booting up. somtimes fails to boot at all and i dont even get to the gigabyte screen at all. Further reboots later i get a "Windows Recovery" screen, Run the repair or start as normally. Ive ran the repair a few times and it fails to find anything.

An other screen which i somtimes get is Page fault, Page_fault_in_nonpaged_area?!

Collecting data for crash dump. Dumping physical memory to disk "55".

Around 20-30mins of rebooting later i finally get my pc on. Everytime i boot my pc up it takes this amount of time everytime.

Can anyone give me any ideas w.t.f is wrong with my pc?

Many Thanks,
Pauliee.

Simon D · 10 Apr 2010 at 12:21

Have you checked your memory?

alex24 · 10 Apr 2010 at 12:30

As above, have you tested anything? That would be a good start. Use memtest86 to test your RAM, a likely culprit.

PapaLazaru · 10 Apr 2010 at 13:48

When my GPU blew it took the mobo with it.

alex24 · 10 Apr 2010 at 13:50

Really? I've never had that before. Sure it wasn't t'other way round?

The Badger · 10 Apr 2010 at 14:04

Right, ive used the memtest86.

1st Attempt - Rebooted Straight away
2nd Attempt - Crashed
3rd Attempt - Got to 45% and rebooted
4th Attempt - Got to 45% and rebooted.

Must be a memory problem then?

alex24 · 10 Apr 2010 at 14:15

Remove sticks of RAM in turn to try and see which stick is causing the problem (or if it is indeed a RAM problem).

Simon D · 10 Apr 2010 at 14:26

My friend had a similar problem his computer was taking over 30mins of re-booting, until it went on and loaded windows.

Then one day it would not start, I was called in to fix it and I found the memory was died, fixed it by installing new sticks.

Do as alexhull24 suggest, try one stick at a time.

The Badger · 10 Apr 2010 at 14:50

i've just taken 1 of the 1gig sticks out and the test has completed 0 errors.

The Badger · 10 Apr 2010 at 14:55

so i think im going to reboot it, just put the stick i took out in, see what happens when testing it.

Memphis · 10 Apr 2010 at 14:56

Pauliee said:
i've just taken 1 of the 1gig sticks out and the test has completed 0 errors.

Put that stick in on it's own and test again.

The Badger · 10 Apr 2010 at 15:12

Right, i r back. I placed the suspected back stick back in into the DDR 2, 2 slot (1,3/ 2,4) and the mem test was fine. I placed all 4 sticks back in, failed to boot. I took one out from slot 1 where the suspected ram was in, failed to boot, took out 3 slot so i now only have 2gig in and it booted up fine. My 1-3 slots must be broken or somthing.

:/

Simon D · 10 Apr 2010 at 15:31

Have you tested all the sticks in slot 2 and 4 to confirm that all sticks are working ok?

kellaway225 · 10 Apr 2010 at 15:34

Pauliee said:
An other screen which i somtimes get is Page fault, Page_fault_in_nonpaged_area?!

Any clue about this one? i have gotten that a few times along with
Kernal Data Inpage Error

one minute i will get them, then i wont see them for a few days before i get a couple and they go away and return, i just have no clue what mine are- check the RAM volts and made sure it was fully connected but cant think what else the problem could be

The Badger · 10 Apr 2010 at 15:39

Simon D said:
Have you tested all the sticks in slot 2 and 4 to confirm that all sticks are working ok?

Yes i have. Just dont know whats up. As none of the sticks work in 1 or 3 now.

alex24 · 10 Apr 2010 at 15:46

Sounds silly, but have you tried resetting the CMOS and reverting to defaults?

The Badger · 10 Apr 2010 at 15:47

Yup, done it several times, i have even changed the battery.