page_fault_in_nonplugged_area...

MrPayless

Turned my dell 2400 (p4 pc) on today and I got a BLUE SCREEN with the following message:

page_fault_in_nonplugged_area

and loads of other stuff.

Ive been getting the blue screen for a couple of weeks (cant remember if the messages were the same) but when I restart it seems to be fine.

What to do???

frak

Could be a couple of things
1. your ra might be faulty or be goign faulty
2. Your page file is badly fragmented or corrupted

to fix page fault corruption in Windows XP go to My Computer, right click it and then choose Properties, go to the Advanced tab, click Performance Options, then click Settings.
Your page file should be approximately 2.5 times the size of your ram. so if you have 512mb ram you want a page file about 1.25gb.
to delete your page file set both the minimum and maximum to zero. Reboot yoru machine. Now go back in and set your page file to the requried size and reboot again.
Warning you are playign with critical system settings here so please take care.
Also before you change the pagefile settings try and free up some space and run a defrag.
Make sure you put your pagefile back before you try doing anything

frak

John_Gray

The usual* problem which results in the message PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA is due to a faulty driver. Have you recently installed some new hardware, perhaps?

The other useful piece of information, which you haven't given, is the so-called Stop Code, which is at the top left of the blue screen, and is "probably" STOP 0x00000050. Could you confirm this, please?

John

* I say "usual" because there are other possibilities, which among others include a particular virus. I assume you have done virus scans when the PC has been running...