setting pagefile == memory dump??

[DeRusto]

hey all, i was playing the Star Wars Galaxies Beta and it chugs a lot..so right after the program crashed out I got this notion to up my pagefile size. Well, I have 512MB ram and it was at 768MB min and max so I figured I would up it to 1024 min and max. Right when I press OK to save the change it goes to a memory dump screen. I find this behavior to be abnormal, so figured I would ask you guys BTW, im running Win2k3 Server RC2

 

[Smilin]

Yep, that would be abnormal. You might want to pass that one on to M$. Without going on a major technet hunt I'm guessing that's some problem with RC2.

 

[NogginBoink]

what was the STOP code?

check your system event log for a message "the system is recovering from a bugcheck" and give me the hex numbers.

 

[DeRusto]

The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x00000024 (0x00190329, 0xf7e4609c, 0xf7e45cec, 0xf84cf7a2). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\MEMORY.DMP.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

The reason supplied by user TENSION\DeRusto for the last unexpected shutdown of this computer is: System Failure: Stop error
Reason Code: 0x805000f
Bug ID: screwy memory and SWG beta
Bugcheck String: 0x00000024 (0x00190329, 0xf7e4609c, 0xf7e45cec, 0xf84cf7a2)
Comment: 0x00000024 (0x00190329, 0xf7e4609c, 0xf7e45cec, 0xf84cf7a2)

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

hope thats what you wanted

 

[DeRusto]

well, i got it to work.

i turned off pagefiling, rebooted, and ran defrag. then i put the pagefile at 1024 and rebooted. its working fine

although, im still curious as to what exactly was wrong

 

[NogginBoink]

Originally posted by: DeRusto
well, i got it to work.

i turned off pagefiling, rebooted, and ran defrag. then i put the pagefile at 1024 and rebooted. its working fine

although, im still curious as to what exactly was wrong

A STOP 0x24 is an unhandled exception in the ntfs filesystem driver.

The NTFS filesystem driver is *very* mature, and the liklihood that you've found a bug in ntfs is VERY low. More likely, you've got a filesystem filter driver installed (antivirus? quota management? open file backup agent?) that didn't handle something correctly and caused NTFS to choke on its excrement.

 

[DeRusto]

Originally posted by: NogginBoink

Originally posted by: DeRusto
well, i got it to work.

i turned off pagefiling, rebooted, and ran defrag. then i put the pagefile at 1024 and rebooted. its working fine

although, im still curious as to what exactly was wrong

A STOP 0x24 is an unhandled exception in the ntfs filesystem driver.

The NTFS filesystem driver is *very* mature, and the liklihood that you've found a bug in ntfs is VERY low. More likely, you've got a filesystem filter driver installed (antivirus? quota management? open file backup agent?) that didn't handle something correctly and caused NTFS to choke on its excrement.

damn that antivirus software!! no computer is safe so long as it is running antivirus

 

[Smilin]

The fact your problem cleared up after a defrag might mean you have a couple bad sectors. You might wanna run a surface scan some night.

Usually a new OS means new anti-virus and new CD copying software since they hook into the file system at a really low level....but they will either work fine or not at all usually.

 

[DeRusto]

sounds like a good plan

 

[DeRusto]

just thought i would say i did a surface scan and nothing peculiar came up, so i think im good in that department