XP Boot up problems?

[eddie_fb]

HELP..Going crazy.....Sorry about long Post! Please bear with me.

Was having problem with my comp the other day, blue screen everytime I tried to boot up, saying either;
Page Fault in Non Paged Area,
IRQ not less or Equal,
or Bad Pool Caller (seemingly random).
Those were the main three anyway. I persevered with the damn thing, and could usually get it to boot OK after about 1/2 hour of going into safe mode, then restarting again and again. When finally in desktop a microsoft box pops up, saying System has recovered from a serious error (well duh!) Send error report? I do this & the web page it connects to says I have a driver problem.

So, I decide to clean install windows XP right from the beginning, formatting the drive and everything. Now it boots, but I still get a serious error pop up box, still send an error report, now the web page says the problem is being researched. For how long??? I can't see it still being a driver problem, as the only thing I have installed (other than Windows XP) is my Via 4-in-1 drivers, and my USB ADSL Modem (to get to this site).All these were off original CD's, so I would have thought they were ok? I am even running without proper Nvidia drivers!

Does anybody have any idea what might be causing this?? I am out of ideas...

Thanks.

[Cricket]

Hi eddie_fb,

Post your system specs.

Problem could be RAM. Do you have spare sticks you can swap in to test with?

Cricket

[eddie_fb]

System Spec:

AMD Athlon 2100+
Asus A7V333 Mobo
512mb PC2700
80gb HDD
Audigy 5.1 Surround
Leadtek Geforce4 TI4600 (128mb)


I have no extra memory to hand, so is there anyway I can test the memory?? Tech support is only a phone call away but I find they are bloody useless most of the time.

Thanks.

[Hpro]

Hi there - Enter the bios and set it to FAIL SAFE MODE this will help it.. Disable Legacy USB in the bios which is another trouble maker..
If this still doesn't help either slow down ram Speed and everything which comes with it or buy new RAM - XP is very tricky when it comes to RAM .. as Cricket correctly wrote..
Hpro

[eddie_fb]

Have disabled USB Legacy support.......

Cannot find anything relating to a fail safe option...

One weird thing I have realised;

When I finally get the PC up and running it seems to work fine, no slowdown, no problems running large programs etc... so I wonder if the RAM is the problem? If I restart the computer it is fine, no probs when I restart.

However, if I turn it off properly, and leave it for 5 mins, still no problem...........BUT If I leave it for 3 or 4 hours, then try to boot up, all my old problems return. Would this be indicative of some temperature related problem??? Or I have read somewhere that the very start of the HDD is reserved for a (and don't quote me here) MASTER_BOOT_VOLUME. If this is just used for booting up, could it have become corrupted in some way? As mentioned before, I did a format of my HDD and I would of thought this would have cured any problem though?

Any Ideas???

Cheers

[edge345]

Uninstal the 4-1 drivers win-xp does not need them. Did the problem start after installing the 4-1 drivers. the 4-1 drivers.

If however you are still having problems try installing the newer 4-1 drivers. You can always uninstall them....

http://www.viaarena.com/