re: Problems Starting Up Windows XP (Urgent!!!!) Wednesday, September 18, 2002 at 5:29 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by snookie (4 messages posted) On Wednesday, September 18, 2002 at 12:04 pm, Eduardo Cestone wrote: >2 Weeks ago i formatted my pc and tried to install windows XP. It installs perfectly, >but after a few hours (just when i think it might work) it shuts down (says "Critical >Error, preparing to shut down"). >When i turn it on again it shows that feared "blue screen" with the following message: >PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA >stop: 0x00000050 >Error in NDIS.SYS > >Sometimes it appears the same blue screen but with this: Stop 0x0000007E > >At first i thried to solve it with a BIOS upgrade, it worked well for a couple of >days and then, the same mistake. > >Please help me, i cannot go back to Me, due to a license issue, so i have to get >this one started. > > > > how much ram is in the computer, if there is two chips of ram remove one and shutdown the computer , turn the computer back on to see if you get the message , if you do, remove the other chip and repeat the process, this could be from bad ram, let me know if this helps, good luck. Written in response to: Problems Starting Up Windows XP (Urgent!!!!) (Eduardo Cestone: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 at 12:04 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Problems Starting Up Windows XP (Urgent!!!!) (Eduardo Cestone: Wed, Sep 18, 2002, 12:04 pm) re: Problems Starting Up Windows XP (Urgent!!!!) (snookie: Wed, Sep 18, 2002, 5:29 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum