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Old 08-02-2005, 05:46 PM
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Angry Computer is completely messed up. Help!

My computer is completely screwed up and I have no idea how to fix it. For starters it will randomly shut off and take me to a blue screen giving me an error about non-paged area's among a few others from time to time. I've been here and asked how to fix it before but I get completely lost when someone tries to explain it. It usually happens if I am running a game but can sometimes happen while I am just sitting at my computer talking on AIM.

Second of all whenever I open a folder or any windows explorer menu and close it I get a message saying "Windows explorer has encountered an error and needs to close. Sorry for any innocnvience." Sometimes I will get lucky and windows explorer will just close and restart but other times Dr Watson Postmortem Debugger also closes and my entire computer freezes.

Internet Explorer also runs extremely slow, to the point it just freezes up. Luckily I use Firefox but it would be nice to have it working for when I do need it from time to time.

I also play a game online from time to time. One of those MMORPG's so it is quite large and there is a lot to load. I was having big problems with it not loading properly or randomly closing but I think the re-install I did fixed it for the most part. It will still crash and stuff and I think it could have something to do with my computer having too much crap on it and the pathing of certain files is probably slightly messed up.

Does anyone have any suggestions on what to do? I've run chkdsk, I've defragmented all my hd's, run virus scans, spyware scans. If fixing all of this would just be completely complicated then would it be best for me to just reinstall windows or reformat?

I have 4 hd's with Windows installed on the C: drive. If I reformat it will only wipe out my C: drive am I correct? I'd hate to do this since it would require me to start all over pretty much but I'd rather have my computer working.

If anyone could help me figure out what to do and sort of walk me through it I would really appreciate it.

Thanks.
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Old 08-02-2005, 06:42 PM
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Originally Posted by NoTimeForAgency
My computer is completely screwed up and I have no idea how to fix it. For starters it will randomly shut off and take me to a blue screen giving me an error about non-paged area's among a few others from time to time. I've been here and asked how to fix it before but I get completely lost when someone tries to explain it. It usually happens if I am running a game but can sometimes happen while I am just sitting at my computer talking on AIM.

Second of all whenever I open a folder or any windows explorer menu and close it I get a message saying "Windows explorer has encountered an error and needs to close. Sorry for any innocnvience." Sometimes I will get lucky and windows explorer will just close and restart but other times Dr Watson Postmortem Debugger also closes and my entire computer freezes.

Internet Explorer also runs extremely slow, to the point it just freezes up. Luckily I use Firefox but it would be nice to have it working for when I do need it from time to time.

I also play a game online from time to time. One of those MMORPG's so it is quite large and there is a lot to load. I was having big problems with it not loading properly or randomly closing but I think the re-install I did fixed it for the most part. It will still crash and stuff and I think it could have something to do with my computer having too much crap on it and the pathing of certain files is probably slightly messed up.

Does anyone have any suggestions on what to do? I've run chkdsk, I've defragmented all my hd's, run virus scans, spyware scans. If fixing all of this would just be completely complicated then would it be best for me to just reinstall windows or reformat?

I have 4 hd's with Windows installed on the C: drive. If I reformat it will only wipe out my C: drive am I correct? I'd hate to do this since it would require me to start all over pretty much but I'd rather have my computer working.

If anyone could help me figure out what to do and sort of walk me through it I would really appreciate it.

Thanks.
Hi the error you are getting is PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA.
A hardware driver or system service requested data that was not in memory, causing an exception error. The cause may be defective physical memory or incompatible software, especially remote control and antivirus programs. If the error occurs immediately after installing a device driver or application, try to use Safe Mode to remove the driver or uninstall the program.

I hope this helps you.
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Old 08-02-2005, 08:29 PM
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I'm sure it did start happening after install some driver or software but I didn't know about this at the time so I have no idea what it could be. Any way I can check?
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Old 08-02-2005, 10:38 PM
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Check the Event Viewer (Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Event Viewer) for possible errors.
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