a very bad case of the Stop 50
- From: "Perdition" <nhnmp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 9 Oct 2006 02:36:27 -0700
My system is:
XP Pro service pack 1
2 hard drives, IDE
2 memory cards, 256 mb each
ps2 mouse and keyboard
Athalon computer, 2GHz+
I've been having a rough patch with my computer lately. Without having
installed any new hardware, or driver, it stopped booting properly.
Last thing i remember before i restarted it when it functioned for the
last time, was my opening a video file in Winamp and the playback acted
up by skipping about. I rebooted.
When it boots past the BIOS phase, i get the menu which tells me
windows didn't boot properly, so i can choose safe mode, with
networking, normal boot, last known good configuration etc.
after any of these, the computer resets automatically. With the normal
boot and last known good configuration, it runs checkdisk and THEN
resets automatically.
I tried accessing the computer via ERD Commander 2005, and it tells me
PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA, along with Stop 50 (0xe0b7b4e8,
0x00000000, 0xe0b7b4e8, 0x00000000). no more info than that.
I've also tried swapping the ram as some sites suggested for this
error, and even removed ram, it made no difference. Basically i can't
get into windows so i can't reinstall windows. I even tried the xp
installation disk, i get the same error when i try the recovery
console. If i try to reinstall, it gives me the stop message as well.
With knoppix Live however i was able to access windows, i ran a memory
test and the memory appears functional. I booted the knoppix desktop
and i can see that i have access to my hard drives, so those aren't
messed up and neither is the ram.
Does anyone have any ideas how i can get my computer working with
windows xp without having to reformat the entire harddrive (not that i
have the opportunity to do so as you've heard). Someone mentioned on a
forum that i might want to delete the swap file as a generic resolution
to the stop message. Thing is i can't even see the pagefile.sys with
Knoppix live, and i enabled showing hidden files. So either i need to
do something more to see the file, or it's just not there.
Thanks alot for your time guys :)
MIchael
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