Diagnosing BSOD

[JamMasterClay]

My girlfriend's computer is getting a BSOD.

PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA

0x00000050

When booting the computer gets past the BIOS, shows the Vista Loading screen, flashes a blue screen then restarts. Same situation if I try to start in SafeMode or "Last Known Good Configuration." If I put in the Vista repair disk, as soon as the disk finishes loading it freezes on the BSOD with error above.

I tried running a RAM test, I checked it at about 90% and it hadn't found anything, but it finished and restarted before I had a chance to look at it again.



Does anyone know what it could be? It's a Gateway GM5472 (Desktop).


Thanks!

 

[BoBBYI986]

Hi, first of all I would try slaving your hard drive in a spare machine and deleting pagefile.sys, I think windows automatically creates a new pagefile.sys. Once you've done that try the disk in your machine and see if it boots if it doesn't it will most likely be a hard drive issue could be a corrupt partition from virus's or the hard drive it self (if it is a corrupt partition you won't be able to delete pagefile.sys as you will not have access to the partition). If it turns out to be a corrupt partition and you have important data you will have to use recovery software such as recovermyfile or spinrite, sometimes chkdsk helps to recover a partition but in most cases very unlikely. Good luck

BTW: The memory error basically mean's your system is not page filing (swopping data from hard drive and ram) which the kernel deals with, this is generally down to dodgy disk, corrupt partition, kernel fault, ram.