I'm running WinXP Home on an A7V333 mobo, g4 ti4200, athlon 2200+ xp, 80 gig maxtor hard drive. If there's any other relevant information that could help, let me know.
I have a big problem with my comp. There are a few things that could've possibly caused it. Either it's a device driver (if it is it's probably the latest nvidia DET), or it's ****ed up registry editing. I was editing the registry before all this happened, and I firs noticed the bootup problem when I restarted immediately after editing the registry. Anyway, it started out with frequent errors and a bootup problem. In order to load windows, I had to boot up, then it wouldn't load windows, so I had to press restart and leave "start normally" highlighted for 30 seconds in order to load windows properly. If I actually pressd enter to select it, it wouldnt load right.
By the way, I had this computer for about a month with nvidia drivers that came with the card. The latst DET is what I downloaded. There were a few minor errors (whatever must close, send error report, etc.) and apparently they were caused by a device driver, and the only new driver I had gotten was the new DET a few days before. That driver is defenitely the cause of some problems.
So, I formatted and reinstalled XP. Reinstalled all drivers including the nvidia DET. Problems. The same bootup problem, frequent errors, and occasionally a blue screen saying "PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA" and then I would have to restart. There have been various other errors, such as errors with win32k.sys, nv4_disp.dll.
So anyway, I tried repairing the xp installation but it wouldn't work. I tried formatting the drive again, but this time XP wouldn't install. It would give me the "page fault" thing in the middle of installation. Also, there was one "driver irql not less or equal"
I tried doing a disk check in DOS, and it said there were one or more errors and I assume they were repaired because they didn't show up on another disk check.
At one point it actually finished installing, but at the very end it said there was an error loading registry files and "\windows\system32\config\system" and there was "systemroot\system32\config\software"
If I tried to install XP anymore, it would give me a blue screen with an error listing like the ones above, or page_fault etc. and it would say "beginning dump of physical memory" and "dumping physical memory to disk" with a number indicating dumping progress, I guess.
Now I'm on my old computer wondering what the hell is wrong. My other computer is new, and I will be in a ****load of trouble if it's broken or whatever. Any suggestions at all, please?
It is hard drive corruption? It couldn't be the registry because I formatted, right? Maybe a problem with the driver or registry before I formatted messed up the hard drive in some way that formatting can't fix? Problem with the winxp install disc, even?
Someone suggested that it could be an IRQ conflict between the video card and the card in the slot under it. Could that cause all of this?
I have a big problem with my comp. There are a few things that could've possibly caused it. Either it's a device driver (if it is it's probably the latest nvidia DET), or it's ****ed up registry editing. I was editing the registry before all this happened, and I firs noticed the bootup problem when I restarted immediately after editing the registry. Anyway, it started out with frequent errors and a bootup problem. In order to load windows, I had to boot up, then it wouldn't load windows, so I had to press restart and leave "start normally" highlighted for 30 seconds in order to load windows properly. If I actually pressd enter to select it, it wouldnt load right.
By the way, I had this computer for about a month with nvidia drivers that came with the card. The latst DET is what I downloaded. There were a few minor errors (whatever must close, send error report, etc.) and apparently they were caused by a device driver, and the only new driver I had gotten was the new DET a few days before. That driver is defenitely the cause of some problems.
So, I formatted and reinstalled XP. Reinstalled all drivers including the nvidia DET. Problems. The same bootup problem, frequent errors, and occasionally a blue screen saying "PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA" and then I would have to restart. There have been various other errors, such as errors with win32k.sys, nv4_disp.dll.
So anyway, I tried repairing the xp installation but it wouldn't work. I tried formatting the drive again, but this time XP wouldn't install. It would give me the "page fault" thing in the middle of installation. Also, there was one "driver irql not less or equal"
I tried doing a disk check in DOS, and it said there were one or more errors and I assume they were repaired because they didn't show up on another disk check.
At one point it actually finished installing, but at the very end it said there was an error loading registry files and "\windows\system32\config\system" and there was "systemroot\system32\config\software"
If I tried to install XP anymore, it would give me a blue screen with an error listing like the ones above, or page_fault etc. and it would say "beginning dump of physical memory" and "dumping physical memory to disk" with a number indicating dumping progress, I guess.
Now I'm on my old computer wondering what the hell is wrong. My other computer is new, and I will be in a ****load of trouble if it's broken or whatever. Any suggestions at all, please?
It is hard drive corruption? It couldn't be the registry because I formatted, right? Maybe a problem with the driver or registry before I formatted messed up the hard drive in some way that formatting can't fix? Problem with the winxp install disc, even?
Someone suggested that it could be an IRQ conflict between the video card and the card in the slot under it. Could that cause all of this?