Re: blue screens. should i reformat?

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From: John Wright (wright9999_at_comcast.net)
Date: 07/01/04 

Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 15:59:13 -0400

You might consider going into the BIOS and making sure that resetting your
IRQ settings back to AUTO. Consult your MB documentation for a HOWTO.

Good Luck,

John H. Wright, MCP

"c0smic" <too.much@newsgroup.spam> wrote in message
news:%23%23d$wBlXEHA.3156@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Nick Le Lievre wrote:
>
> > "c0smic" <too.much@newsgroup.spam> wrote in message
> > news:eIn%23hbUXEHA.1440@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> >> My computer is 2 years old and has been working very well. About 2
> >> months ago it started to spontaneously re-boot. I did some research
> >> and unchecked automatically restart in system properties. Then I
> >> started getting the
> > blue
> >> screens.
> >>
> >> Usually the screen says "IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" "STOP: 0x0000000A
> >> (0xE0C37E040,0x00000001,0x00000000,0x804FD9BD)
> >>
> >> And sometimes "PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA" "STOP: 0x000000050
> >> (oxE8C13980,0x00000000,0x804FD9BD,0x00000002)
> >>
> >> I did a lot of searching on the web and often bad memory was
> >> suggested as
> > a
> >> reason. So I dwnloaded and ran memtest86. I ran it several times
> >> overnight and always got zero errors. So it would appear that the
> >> memory is OK.
> >>
> >
> > I see from the info below that you have 1GB of memory this means it
> > can take a lot longer then overnight for a memory error to register -
> > your blue screens happen between 4 minutes and 4 days after all.
> >
> > I would definetely test the sticks in the system individually as I
> > strongly suspect one of them is mal-functioning.
> >
> >
> >
> Thank you! I will try all suggestions and hopefully that will solve the
> problem. Bad memory is easy to fix and that's what I hope it is. Too bad
> all the info on the blue screen doesn't provide much help.

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