Hi folks. I'm hoping to get some help to narrow down the cause of a problem I've been having. I recently purchased a ThermalTake Xaser III mid-tower and just this week got around to swapping cases. The case swap went fine, and things seemed to be working just fine. But anytime I would try to do something a bit more intensive (running a game such as Chaos Legion or even Mahjongg Master 5), I would get a blue screen. The error messages were not consistent either. Sometimes it would be KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED, and lately it's been PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA, and some IRQL errors. I even got one last night NTFS_FILE_SYSTEM. And sometimes it would make reference to a file, other times not. The only hardware changes I've made were putting in a stick of 512 DDR RAM, a new network card, and some rounded cables. Everything else is the same. And I haven't made any software changes either. A friend and I were checking as much as we could think of at 1:30 am: changed out memory, ran MemTest86 3.0, ran torture test in Prime95, changed various BIOS settings including FSB speed, memory speed and other options, video drivers, removing network card, etc, etc. It's looking like the installation is corrupted. We tried booting from the CD, but after it loaded all the drivers and while loading windows 2000, it would blue screen. I'm fairly frustrated with this to say the least. I imagine that I'll have to reinstall, but I'm going to check and see if any of my NTFS partitions are corrupt (found some info at MS knowledge base). So aside from that, does anyone have an idea as to what the problem could be? Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated. For the curious, here is the rest of my system: Mainboard: MSI K7T266-Pro2 CPU: AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz RAM: 1.0 GB PC2100 DDR (1 stick 512, 2 256) Video: ABit Siluro GeForce4 Ti4600 128MB Sound: Sound Blaster Live! NIC: Linksys LNE100TX-CA 10/100

I might be off on this, but a friend of mine had the PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA, which you can find information on in Microsoft's Knowledge Base (or something it's called). The error stopped coming after I installed Adaware 6 and AVG Virus Scan and ran both programs about 3 times each. Some of his programs wouldn't run because they were virus infected. Hope this helps you. Post back either way.

My guess is the problem is the memory. W2k is very particular about the memory it will use. I had an identical problem one time and it was the RAM - the machine would throwdifferent blue screens.