5 mins from shooting myself!!!

Hi guys,

I am 5 mins from shooting myself. I am having this persistent problem with my laptop.......the blue screen 'page fault in unpaged....' followed by 'serious error' (sysdata.xml & minidump) on restart.

I am doing my GMAT studies and online tests on my laptop so one crash restart means my online course works goes unsaved!!!! this has happened about 7-8 times now.

I have re-installed XP SP2 thrice already, clean install.

MY config. are:

Acer Aspire 5573.
Dual core T2080, 1.73 GHZ. 533MHz FSB
Intel graphics media accelerator 950
120 GB HDD
1 GB RAM
802.11b/g wireless lan.

Major Software earlier:
Zone Alarm Security suite (OS still crashed so changed)
Spybot - tea-timer (still installed)
spywareblaster (still installed)
ad-aware 2007 (still installed)
Tune up utilities 2007 (still installed)
Avast AV & Comodo firewall (Currently installed.....but system still crashes!!!!!)
I havent installed the drivers for my WLAN - (network adapter - Atheros). Dont need WLAN as of now.

My last dump report is attached.....

pls pls pls help me.............the sad part is I have my exams on the damn 4th of Sept and just THIS laptop - so cant even throw it out !!

J

BSOD - found some more reports in dr. watson, if they can help

founds some more files.....if they can help.....pls help.....these blue screens are coming almost EVERY day for the past 4-5 days

Sounds like you have bad system memory (RAM). Take your laptop to the store and have them test it.

thx.......but there is no Acer shop here...

I bought this acer from another city.........

I called them and it'll take a while.....got another BSOD.........

if you can check and reconfirm so I'll make the trip...pls
BCCode : 10000050 BCP1 : F7B9FFE8 BCP2 : 00000000 BCP3 : 805E38D0
BCP4 : 00000000 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 2_0 Product : 256_1

DuDe!!! slowly put your finger away from the trigger men.....

You got a memory problem . I've seen this many times is either HDD or RAM
and almost 80% of the times is RAM.

And yours , sounds , smells , and even looks like RAM. chamge them Both , their either not compatible or not working the way they should.

ah ha

dude......thanks.......

I ran the memtest - (suggested in one of the forums)........with 1 RAM first.....no problem (no errors)......

with the second one.....the screen became all red....errors I guess??
was the crash because of that?

I have sent for a replacement............when the new one comes.....how do I know the other one will be compatible/wont give the same kinda problems....??


thanks again guys........

It Shouldnt matter much DuDe...

just get one with the same Boost....then switch them from slot.
Put the new one were the old one is.
and you should be o your way.

you might want to change your power supply thou..
there is a reason why tha memory went bad ,,,,, and
i think it was a voltage issue.

oh......

My computer is normally mostly on the power supply..........(a dumb question) but is that bad for the RAM??

also, thanks for the tip man

Not bad for your ram....but homicide for your battery ! If you work this way for long periods, remove the battery and store it some place cool (even a fridge is ok).

WIERD PROBLEM again!

hi guys.....

Ok now......this is Wierd!!

I have already taken out one 512 RAM for replacement (memtest found errors in that) and the second one was fine.....

Now, while running AVG antispyware for registry fault.....I got the BSOD again....

on restart, apart from the normal ' serious error message', I got another message asking to run Checkdisk and erors related to firefox entries were found and fixed (or filed recovered)......

BCCode : 10000050 BCP1 : FFFF3FF8 BCP2 : 00000000 BCP3 : 80552211
BCP4 : 00000000 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 2_0 Product : 256_1
C:\DOCUME~1\faujdar\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER3d7f.dir00\Mini082107-01.dmp
C:\DOCUME~1\faujdar\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER3d7f.dir00\sysdata.xml

Any suggestions???
BTW: another twist........I am getting a SMART HDD failure on bot saying that hard drive failure is imminent.......and I should back up this data....
I went to the ACER guys and they said that they'll replace it by the end of the week......I am not sure if the two problems are attached........are they?? or is it the RAM, or the HDD, or is it just the whole damn laptop!

another one

BCCode : 10000050 BCP1 : FFFF3FF8 BCP2 : 00000000 BCP3 : 80552211
BCP4 : 00000000 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 2_0 Product : 256_1

I'm unable to format your minidumps for some reason. If you want, you can run the last five through the debugwiz (from the link below), and then attach the text files.

http://www.windowsbbs.com/showthread.php?p=175971#post175971

hi....

hi there.....

thanks for helping me out man....

I am attaching the dr. watson text file....along with the dump files again.

I really couldnt figure out the dmp file thing.....I am so sorry, I am really bad with computers............

would you be able to try again with those dump files......funnily - the BSOD happened when I tried to scan the registry for malware or inconsistencies with AVG anti malware (twice - and it crashed both the times)

files attached again

Have you reinstalled windows since taking out the dodgy ram?
Dodgy ram can easily bodge up your windows installation, so just changing the ram is not likely to fix the issue. Reformat again and re-install, then see what happens.

Excuse me coming in late on this one - you may have two problems here: hard drive and RAM.

F.Y.I : whenever you get the chance , you can go agead and use your hard drive to level a table or to keep a door open jejej.

sorry but that hard drive should be replaced as soon as possible.

Hey. thx guys.........

You guys are right abt the hard drive and the RAM. I've already give a 512 MD RAm stick for replacement and the hard drive is getting replaced this saturday.......what I am wondering is that - if the computer is still giving me a BSOD - it's because of the hard drive now is it......

hope the other RAM is ok......how do i check that (i ran the memtest and it was ok)

Glad to help - if memtest is OK on 6+ passes, your RAM is OK.

the metest was ok....and it said that nothing is wrong with the other RAM...

also, if you guys can perhaps give me a little advice on how to handle better the new RAM and HDD, when it comes in. I use the laptop for a lot of downloading and all and thus it's on for long periods of time.

Anything I can do - which can perhaps avoid or minimise such grave errors or stop them from becoming 'irreversible' !!??

Thx guys, you've been really great!!!