Win XP SP2 Sudden Crashes. Need help.

[shervinafshar]

Hi there,

My Windows XP Sp2 machine keeps crashing and showing blue page error with messages like "DRIVER IRQ NOT LESS OR EQUAL" and "PAGE FAULT IN NON-PAGED AREA" and reboots. It happens in random time interval, even when there is no software activity. My hardware specs :

MB Gigabyte 7DXR+ (with last bios update)
CPU AMD Athlon XP 2000+
RAM 512 MB DDR Kingston (in 2 128 MB Modules)
Grphic card ATI Radeon 6500
HDD Western Digital 40 GB
Soundcard Creative Soundblaster Live
Modem Creative Modem Blaster V.92

Some of the main software I usually have loaded and resident in memory are :
Google Desktop
CPU Idle
Motherboard Monitor
Norton Antivirus
Feedreader
ZoneAlarm Pro with Web Filtering
Babylon

And finally I have these major software installed :

Nero 6 : I've disabled the filter check on startup.
iTunes 5 : I've disabled the Bonjour services.

I'm really mixed up about this problem and I don't really have the time to diassemble the PC and check the parts one by one. Even the problem may be raised by a faulty driver which in this case it's out of my abilities to find out. So I'm asking here for help. Here is a few number of the most recent windows dump files related to event 1001.

I'll be quite thankful if anyone can help.

Shervin

 

[cpc2004]

Your minidumps have memory corruption and I believe that it is faulty ram.

You can run memtest to stress the ram. If memtest reports the ram is faulty, ram is bad. However Memtest is not a perfect tool to test the memory as some faulty ram can pass memtest.

Suggestion
1. Check the temperature of the CPU and make sure that it is not overheat (ie temperature < 60C)
2. Reseat the memory stick to another memory slot
3. Downclock the ram
4. Clean the dust inside the computer case
5. Make sure that the ram is compatible to the motherboard
If it still crashes, diagnostic which memory stick is faulty
1. Take out one memory stick. If windows does not crash, the removed memory stick is faulty.
2. If you have only one memory stick, replace the ram

Debug report of your minidump

CHKIMG_EXTENSION: !chkimg -lo 50 -db !Ntfs
3 errors : !Ntfs (f98a95e3-f98a95f3)
f98a95e0 f6 c5 04 *87 0f 85 01 02 00 00 68 *fc 5b 89 f9 e8 ..........h.[...
f98a95f0 13 ee fc *75 83 26 00 5f 5e 5b c9 c2 0c 00 90 90 ...u.&._^[......

MODULE_NAME: memory_corruption
IMAGE_NAME: memory_corruption
FOLLOWUP_NAME: memory_corruption
DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP: 0
MEMORY_CORRUPTOR: STRIDE
STACK_COMMAND: .cxr ffffffffede171ec ; kb
FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: MEMORY_CORRUPTION_STRIDE
BUCKET_ID: MEMORY_CORRUPTION_STRIDE

 

[shervinafshar]

Thank you very much. I do appreciate your help. By now when the problem is narrowed to RAM, it's quite easier to solve the problem.