Hi
Well I have replaced most of the stuff inside my box, a new motherboard, RAM, HDD and CPU.
All that has stayed the same is the power supply, Graphics Card and CD Drives.
I am still getting blue screens after the install so I am guessing its the graphics card that is giving "Page fault in non paged area" and "IRQL not less or equal".
Without having to replace my graphics card is there anyway I can get rid of these blue screens? My computer doesnt go 50mins without a BS-OD (Bluescreen of death).

Many Thanks,
Joseph Middleton

Did you reinstall Windows Vista yet? I had a customer with a similiar problem recently on Windows XP where I couldn't get rid of the blue screens. Even though I thought I did at one point. But I was getting a Page fault in non paged area fault too. I believe something was accessing memory (program, hardware) where it wasn't supposed to. I tried loading a past Windows System Restore point first but no luck - even to a restore point a long ways back.

I gave up and reinstalled Windows XP and it was fine after that. She hasn't called me back about any blue screens.

You could look at the blue screen crash dumps that Windows saves. In my situation a few weeks ago, each blue screen was different so trying to locate the culprit would take a bunch of time. The crash dumps give you clues but it's still not a guarantee you can solve it without reinstalling Windows.

Take a look at buying Norton Ghost or any other hard drive imaging program. You can save exact snapshots of your system. In your situation, you could reload a "working snapshot" of your computer within 20-30 minutes without having to reinstall everything.

Mark

IRQL not less or equal is usually related to hardware. Whether something broke but more often a corrupted driver.

Reinstalling Windows will almost certainly solve the corrupted driver proplem. The details displayed in the BSOD will give you a clue as to what hardware is casuing the problem. Just needs a bit of research.

Stuart

Hi
Well this is a clean install and I have got some BSoD's. But I have installed a driver update for a similar graphics card and so far so good...

Many Thanks,
Joseph Middleton

Ok...

If it continues, swap in a known working graphics card and test. Vice versa with a power supply after that. Unplug the cd-roms lastly. Something flaky going on.

Mark

Hi,
So far so good so unless I get another BSoD then hopefully I have sorted it!

Many Thanks,
Joseph Middleton