Hello,
I recently purchased a compaq mini 311c-1020SA with windows XP. Along with it I brought a 2 gig stick of ram to bring it up to 3gig total (1 gig is surface mounted on the motherboard.) My problem seems to lie with this additional stick of RAM. I`m getting a full gamut of BSOD stop codes intermittently. I could start the laptop one day and it would clearly be unstable, with services and processes dropping out, in somecases the windows themes service dies and the whole thing reverts back to the normal Windows XP theme. Usually it comes up with a bsod then and planks completely.
Other times I have used it without issue for hours. The one common element seems to be the ram, without it seems to be fine, but I`m currently proving this by using it for an extended period without the 3 gig. 1 gig of ram is no fun these days though.
The stop codes I have recieved are
0x10000050 Page Fault in non paged area
0x1000000A IRQL NOT LESS EQUAL
0x10000019 BAD POOL HEADER
0x1000008e KERNEL MODE EXCEPTION NOT HANDLED
0x100000C2 BAD POOL CALLER
Google seems to be 50/50 on these being drivers or hardware. I`m having a hard time believing it being drivers as its a production laptop and I have seen no complaints on forums like this. I have updated everything possible except the bios, which I must do yet.
I have run memtest against the stick for about 18 hours now, not a single error has been found. My problem is, should I return the ram, or is this an issue caused by a faulty motherboard ? I have also ran the built in ram checker and some HDD testers, all seem fine.
I have also updated
I have attached the minidump files. Any help would be fantastic. Thanks
I recently purchased a compaq mini 311c-1020SA with windows XP. Along with it I brought a 2 gig stick of ram to bring it up to 3gig total (1 gig is surface mounted on the motherboard.) My problem seems to lie with this additional stick of RAM. I`m getting a full gamut of BSOD stop codes intermittently. I could start the laptop one day and it would clearly be unstable, with services and processes dropping out, in somecases the windows themes service dies and the whole thing reverts back to the normal Windows XP theme. Usually it comes up with a bsod then and planks completely.
Other times I have used it without issue for hours. The one common element seems to be the ram, without it seems to be fine, but I`m currently proving this by using it for an extended period without the 3 gig. 1 gig of ram is no fun these days though.
The stop codes I have recieved are
0x10000050 Page Fault in non paged area
0x1000000A IRQL NOT LESS EQUAL
0x10000019 BAD POOL HEADER
0x1000008e KERNEL MODE EXCEPTION NOT HANDLED
0x100000C2 BAD POOL CALLER
Google seems to be 50/50 on these being drivers or hardware. I`m having a hard time believing it being drivers as its a production laptop and I have seen no complaints on forums like this. I have updated everything possible except the bios, which I must do yet.
I have run memtest against the stick for about 18 hours now, not a single error has been found. My problem is, should I return the ram, or is this an issue caused by a faulty motherboard ? I have also ran the built in ram checker and some HDD testers, all seem fine.
I have also updated
I have attached the minidump files. Any help would be fantastic. Thanks