My parents are using an older 866 MHz PIII Gateway with mininal software loaded. The machine originally came with W95 and was eventually upgraded to W98SE. About a month ago I upgraded W98SE to Win XP and put in 256MB memory. The machine seemed to work fine until last week. It now crashes on the first boot try with a bsod indicating "Page_fault_in_nonpaged_area". Strangely, it consistently successfully restarts from this error but the next boot attempt starts the cycle all over again. In other words, every other boot attempt consistently brings the bsod and page_fault..... error.
I reloaded XP and changed to the NTFS file system. Even with a fresh installation this problem persists unchanged leading me to suspect a hardware problem.
Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated as short of just starting to substitue different hardware (graphics card, modem, etc.) I am out of ideas.
I reloaded XP and changed to the NTFS file system. Even with a fresh installation this problem persists unchanged leading me to suspect a hardware problem.
Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated as short of just starting to substitue different hardware (graphics card, modem, etc.) I am out of ideas.
