Damnable Windows!

AllUrHiveRblong2us

<div class="IPBDescription">BSODs make me cry.</div> Ok, so lately my comp has been crashing for no reason I can see. I'll leave it alone for a few hours and when I come back it'll be in a blue screen. This doesn't happen on a regular basis either, and it's only happened once when I was actually AT the computer. Just now, when I was playing around with the litte doot sounds that Homestar Runner makes when you put the mouse over the shirts at the homestarrunner.com store, it just died, I wrote down what it said. It said that the problem appeared to be in "win32k.sys" and that it was a "page fualt in nonpaged area"

So basically I'm asking if anyone knows 1)exactly what this error means, and 2)what the heck could cause it

That_Annoying_Kid

I blame small MonsE gremlins

BigMadSteve

I had those problems. I looked it up and it said the page fault problem was caused dodgy drivers or something along those lines. Turned to actually be a hardware fault.

AllUrHiveRblong2us

I don't like the sound of the words "Hardware fault" at all.

Bo_Selecta

Are you running 2k? xp? try updating your drivers or looking for shared IRQ's (Shared irq's suck)

AllUrHiveRblong2us

Yeah, I'm runnin XP. I always forget the really basic info like that when I ask for tech support.

uranium_235

I've only had 2 BSOD's ever with windows XP. One was intentional, and one was when my graphics drivers had a total neurotic meltdown.

Talesin

Usually that can be caused by 'dirty' RAM. When's the last time you ran a tester over your memory?

(Of course, this is one reason I love running under Linux... no unintelligible BSODs)

DOOManiac

yeah, to me it sounds like the problem may be either bad ram, or a bad windows installation.

Nil_IQ

How do you tell? I think I may be a victim of "bad ram".

Although i'll admit my computer hasn't crashed in two days now, which is a real achievement.

AllUrHiveRblong2us

GRRRR it just did it again! I went downstairs, grabbed a hot dog and when I came back there was a BSOD! This time a "IRQL not less or equal" error caused by "usbport.sys" GRRRR!!!

Last

Virus scan? I don't think XP even has a blue screen of death, never got one so far :\.

RustySpoon

I had that a while ago. Kept getting blue screens every now and then.
Ran a RAM test and found out thats where the prob is.
I just went to the (dreaded) shop and they cave me a new one for free.
Never had one PC crash thereafter <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

RuBy

do your programs also just close all of a sudden? (error report box pops up)

I think its probably due to bad RAM... I had the same problem and used this little app:
<a href='http://www.memtest86.com' target='_blank'>http://www.memtest86.com</a>

AllUrHiveRblong2us

Just ran memtest, looks like my RAM is the problem after all. Could be worse I guess, but now I gotta take some of my Christmas shopping money and but some RAM. Poo.

BigMadSteve

<!--QuoteBegin--Last.+Nov 30 2003, 06:31 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Last. @ Nov 30 2003, 06:31 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Virus scan? I don't think XP even has a blue screen of death, never got one so far :\. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
It does have a BSOD. You just have to set it up to display one instead of just automatically turning off.