Building a PC...having problems! memory related??

[Alan Erceg]

Hi,

hopefully someone can be of some help here...as i am at my wits end. I have built many computers in my time, for both myself, and friends. I am currently building one for my G/F.

Here is the specs...

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...C255-XP-2000-S

I got everything installed easily...and everything seemed to be working fine.

POST test was fine on just the basic parts(cpu, vid card, memory, motherboard...etc)
and then again after i installed Hard Drive, Burner, Floppy etc...


I then went to install WIN XP SP 1 on the machine...i had the boot floppys for XP from microsoft site, and everything was going fine, and after the boot floppys got done, and i went to hit enter to install win xp...

i got an error message saying...

Page_Fault_In_Non_Paged_Area...

and it said if this is the first time you have seen this restart your computer...something to that effect...

I restarted and tried it again...this time i did not get the error, but instead after hitting enter key to install windows xp after the boot floppy's were done, The text down at the bottom of the screen said examining hard disk, and just hung there...and hung there....so i turned the machine off...

does anyone have any idea what the problem could be? Bad Memory?? Maybe put the memory in another DIMM slot??


Im just frustated as ive never had any problems when building systems before and i cant seem to figure this one out...

any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks
Alan

[Xeroid]

Take a look here and see if this helps:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315335

Mike

[Alan Erceg]

Mike,

THanks for the link...seems helpful...

Ill check that out tomorrow, as i dont have the computer here at my house....

I thought it could possibly be the RAM but wasnt sure...

Thanks again,
Alan


If anyone else has any suggestions let me know..

[cbuddha42]

someone had that error awhile ago - sounds like a memory error and i think thats what it turned out to be - serch the forums and see if you can find their thred to see if they ever found a solution

[JPMiller]

Thats a good cdrw...
and yes that could very well be a memory issue ...bring along a known working stick of memory for testing and go though and check all connections and typical things before you begin.
Good Luck man...this can get frustrating!