Virus?Hardware?Other?

From: Ian (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/03/04 

Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 06:27:13 -0700

Hello,
This is quite a long message!
My PC, for no know reason started giving me the Blue
Screen of Death(BSOD) approximately 5 minutes after I had
logged on.

The PC is only used by me, is a stand alone(no network,
just dial up to internet) running Windows XP Pro SP1. It
had 384MB RAM and P3 at 450Mhz. About 1GB spare on the
Hard-disk...sound card, graphics card, DVD-ROM drive, CD-
R/RW drive.
All hardware is in good working order.
BIOS seems fine.

I have been trying to work out the problem and narrowed
down the area. Here's the story:

ERROR message on BSOD was:

PAGE FAULT IN NON PAGED AREA

STOP 0x00000050 0x00000000 0x8053434E 0x000000000
0x000000000

This was displayed every time.
I thought it being a page error meant some software was
trying to do something it shouldn't. In the 5 minute
window I had before the BSOD I uninstalled the software I
thought might be causing problem. But no change.
I tried SAFE MODE and this I thought helped. But it
turned out that I still got BSOD after 5 mins if I logged
on with my user name(which has administrator privlidges)
in SAFE MODE, but not if I logged on with Administrator.
If I switch on PC and let get to the page to select a
user, I can let it sit there happily for ages and nothing
happens. But within five minutes of selecting my user
profile and booting up, guaranteed if in Safe mode or not
I'll get BSOD with the above error.
I tried reinstalling Windows XP to repair it. This has
not changed anything except the memory/page location
referenced to in the Error message above. The last few
numbers are slightly different.

Is this a virus only affecting my user profile? Or is
something corrupted in Windows?
There is data on my profile I need to keep and so I do
not want to do a complete clean re-install and wipe of my
harddrive.
Any suggestions, and thanks for reading!!

Ian.

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