What would you do next?

[looper]

I had a power supply failure (overheating) about ten days ago. Fortunately, still in warranty and PC Power & Cooling sent me out another Turbo-Cool 510 in two days. Installed it yesterday. At first start-up, all was fine...ran several different applications. This morning at start-up, got a BSOD, "Page_fault_in_non-paged_area...beginnig dump of physical memory..."

Is it possible that, when my power supply was failing, and I did get that metal-burning smell, other components might have been damaged? Possibly the RAM? How would I determine this? Is there a freeware prog somewhere that could test the memory with? What would my next step be?


Thx...

Brian

 

[stogez]

Its possible that other parts may have been damaged. That error could be anything though. Does it give that error everytime you try to turn the computer or just once? Use memtest86 to test the memory. I think the only other thing that can cause that error would be your harddrive. Check it for errors and bad sectors.

 

[looper]

Checked hard drive for errors...no problems there.

I can't figure out how to install and run the metest86 program...

 

[KayKay]

Originally posted by: looper
Checked hard drive for errors...no problems there.

I can't figure out how to install and run the metest86 program...

It's either a bootable floppy disk image or a bootable cdrom iso image.
Burn the cdrom iso to a cd-r, and use the utility included to write a bootable floppy disk

 

[looper]

Wow...

It was the memory that was damaged... ran "memtest86+" again, and Prime95...mem errors...

Bought and installed new 2 gig of OCZ 3200 mem... all set...no lockups in 2 days!!

Thx, guys...