A BSoD that I can't get past

[fallen-angel]

First off, yes I am young I am 18, and I don't know much about computers, so I discided to go to a fourm,hopefully I am in the right place. If some things are not clear to you or you need more information please let me know.

First, I had my computer set up at home, and it was running perfectly fine, just like normal.
Then later that night I brought it over to a friends house and tryed to start my computer, the screen where it says "your computer wasn't shut down properly" came up, and I just chose "start windows normaly".
It started to load then all of a sudden my computer just restarted, Quickly showing a blue screen. (explained below)
I tryed again and still the same thing happend.
My friend know's more about computers than I do and he took a look at it, I told him I was having trouble with my cards (video,sound etc) coming loose.
So he pulled them all out and put them back in, then started the computer.
Now a black screen came up saying "windows could not start normally because \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM is corrupt"
I tryed to put the Windows Home Edition CD (which I have on my computer) in to repair it.
It goes through and is able to read all the files.
Then I get to a screen saying I can press "r" to repair or F3 to exit ect. so I click r.
It sent me to a screen where it asked me which driver I wanted to repair and I chose C:\.
Then it goes to a blue screen that says
"PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA "

I am compleatly stuck my friend thinks it might be the memory? And to get more memory I have to get into windows, so it will have enough memory to boot.

So if you know anything that might be helpful,please reply. Thank you

 

[Spike]

run the recovery console from the windows xp cd.

Log onto your windows install.

at the prompt, type chkdsk/r

This should scan the disk for disk/file corruption and repair it if possible, but depending on how much corruption there is it can take quite a while.

Edit: Almost forgot!!!

Welcome to Techspot!

 

[fallen-angel]

Thank you for the welcomeing!

the sad thing is, is that I can't get to the recovery console from the windows XP cd, I allmost get there, and the blue screen withpage fault in nonpaged fault area comes up.

 

[Spike]

From what I can research on your problem, it seems almost certainly a memory problem.

I would suggest that you try removing your memory sticks one at a time, booting after each one is removed. If after removing one particular stik your computer boots, you've found your culprit. If not I'm pretty much stumped.

 

[fallen-angel]

Thank you Spike for your help, but my friend ended up going onto the internet and downloaded a boot disc for me, one of the options in the program had a delete function, and we ended up erasing everything off the hard drive. Luckily enough, I had all my documents and pictures saved befor this happend.

 

[Spike]

As long as you have it fixed and have your data