Just as the title says, I'm trying to figure out what is causing my errors and freezing.
Starting about half a month or so back my computer started getting periodic bsod's, with a message "Page fault in non-paged area". I've looked it up on google but hey, I'm not a super technical guy, so what I came up with is that maybe there's something wrong with my memory, page file, or something with windows or how I have my partitions set up that is causing these problems. At first it was just every now and then, but now it's happening a lot more frequently.
And starting just this past week (actually just within the last two days), my computer has been freezing a lot. Last night it froze about 3 times within a 15 minute period.
Here is what I think might be causing the problems:
Hard drive. I have a 5gb C partition for windows (which is SO not enough as I've found out...), a 10gb D partition to take the place of the Program files directory, and a 65gb E partition for everything else. I moved the page file location to D, which still has 5 or 6gb left, and my C drive is constantly with low space even with just windows and bare minimum components installed. I've noticed my hard drive has made some weird noise every now and then, kind of like a really loud whirring, like it's accessing the disk furiously for about 5 seconds, then stops. No idea what that is...
Memory. I have two sticks of 512mb PNY ddr400 memory. CPU-z says one stick has Infineon memory chips and has the date manufactured, serial number, etc and everything else. The other stick only has a manufacturer, and that's just 127F00000000000 buncha 0's. Same timings and everything though. I had them dual channeled on my motherboard, but I've put them in single channel now in case the memory was causing the problems, but no I'm still getting bsod and freezing. Weird thing I noticed is that at dual channel, the nvidia monitor from my motherboard was saying 400 (I'm assuming for ddr400), but now that they're single channel, it says 333...hmm...
Power Supply. I google'd up information on my page fault errors, and some people noted that bad power supplies could be causing it. True?
computer stuff:
- ecs kn1 sli lite extreme
- amd a64 x2 4200+
- 2x PNY 512mb ddr400
- Zalman passive northbridge cooler (When I removed the stock motherboard heatsink/fan I didn't have any cleaner so I scraped off the thermal tape as best I could with a razor and then applied some thermal paste for the heatsink.....bad move?
- Powercolor radeon x800 gto
- 80gb WD hdd ~4 years old main, refurbished 120gb WD hdd ~2 years old
- Raidmax 630w modular psu...the one with the silly flame cutout design but nice blue lights lol
built in early august, ran fine for a little bit, then this crap started happening.
long story short: i got problems and i want to make them go away and need help figuring it out.
right now I've got a seagate 7200.10 320gb on the way to see if it will help. Also I've been wanting to consolidate all my old drives into a single drive (I have another 80gb and 30gb that were connected to a pci raid controller, but currently are disconnected because they were really whiny...mostly the Quantum fireball 30gb which is 6 years old.
Starting about half a month or so back my computer started getting periodic bsod's, with a message "Page fault in non-paged area". I've looked it up on google but hey, I'm not a super technical guy, so what I came up with is that maybe there's something wrong with my memory, page file, or something with windows or how I have my partitions set up that is causing these problems. At first it was just every now and then, but now it's happening a lot more frequently.
And starting just this past week (actually just within the last two days), my computer has been freezing a lot. Last night it froze about 3 times within a 15 minute period.
Here is what I think might be causing the problems:
Hard drive. I have a 5gb C partition for windows (which is SO not enough as I've found out...), a 10gb D partition to take the place of the Program files directory, and a 65gb E partition for everything else. I moved the page file location to D, which still has 5 or 6gb left, and my C drive is constantly with low space even with just windows and bare minimum components installed. I've noticed my hard drive has made some weird noise every now and then, kind of like a really loud whirring, like it's accessing the disk furiously for about 5 seconds, then stops. No idea what that is...
Memory. I have two sticks of 512mb PNY ddr400 memory. CPU-z says one stick has Infineon memory chips and has the date manufactured, serial number, etc and everything else. The other stick only has a manufacturer, and that's just 127F00000000000 buncha 0's. Same timings and everything though. I had them dual channeled on my motherboard, but I've put them in single channel now in case the memory was causing the problems, but no I'm still getting bsod and freezing. Weird thing I noticed is that at dual channel, the nvidia monitor from my motherboard was saying 400 (I'm assuming for ddr400), but now that they're single channel, it says 333...hmm...
Power Supply. I google'd up information on my page fault errors, and some people noted that bad power supplies could be causing it. True?
computer stuff:
- ecs kn1 sli lite extreme
- amd a64 x2 4200+
- 2x PNY 512mb ddr400
- Zalman passive northbridge cooler (When I removed the stock motherboard heatsink/fan I didn't have any cleaner so I scraped off the thermal tape as best I could with a razor and then applied some thermal paste for the heatsink.....bad move?
- Powercolor radeon x800 gto
- 80gb WD hdd ~4 years old main, refurbished 120gb WD hdd ~2 years old
- Raidmax 630w modular psu...the one with the silly flame cutout design but nice blue lights lol
built in early august, ran fine for a little bit, then this crap started happening.
long story short: i got problems and i want to make them go away and need help figuring it out.
right now I've got a seagate 7200.10 320gb on the way to see if it will help. Also I've been wanting to consolidate all my old drives into a single drive (I have another 80gb and 30gb that were connected to a pci raid controller, but currently are disconnected because they were really whiny...mostly the Quantum fireball 30gb which is 6 years old.
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