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shadowrider
12-13-2002, 04:00 AM
:( i'm not sure why, but....here you go.
i had winxp and suse installed. was on windows for a few days (left on), then one day suddenly the screen turned into black and a little glitches i guess. so i decided to restart the com, can't really go to windows (everytime about to login, it automatically restarts and no matter how many times you try). then tried linux, it didn't work either when logging in (it just keep switching back and forth between the login menu-->basically can't use the graphics mode). i reformatted both os except my other FAT partition that i used to backup files.
couldn't install linux --> stopped when trying to display (btw though the graphics card i think it's fine since i'm using 98 now) the installation screen. then when tried to install 2k, i got the following messages:

0x00000026 (0x000401F0,0xF24E6D08,0xF24E6960,0xF217A27A)
CDFS_FILE_SYSTEM

when tried xp(fresh or upgrade):

0x000050 (0xF000E832,0x000000,0xBFDA1585,0x0000002) PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
Address BFDA1585 base at BFD9D000, DateStamp 3814ad92-fastfat.sys

now that the only os i can install is 98, everthing runs fine(excepts crashes every 1 hour, and can't seem to update with windows...crashes during).
so, if anyone can tell what the problem is, that would be great..:(
Pierre Lambion
12-13-2002, 04:50 AM
It could be a bad RAM stick problem. Make sure they are well seated in the slots and if you have several ones, try keeping one only (alternating them).

It doesn't sound like a software problem ...

P.
The_Wounded
12-13-2002, 04:58 AM
It aint a software problem u probably have a corrupted memory block, u can try to install some memory test programs and run them. Or else your hd is foinked. But it definatly isn't a software problem.
shadowrider
12-13-2002, 12:54 PM
what kind of memory test program? do you know where i can get it?
wapcaplet
12-13-2002, 12:58 PM
memtest-86 (http://www.memtest86.com/) is a good, easy memory test program. Write it to a floppy, then reboot and it'll check all your RAM, CPU caches, etc. (takes a long time though!)
shadowrider
12-14-2002, 05:52 PM
thx..i did it but i didn't finish it (does it supposed to tell you when it's done testing?)
anyway, so far i got:

Test: errors:
0 0
1 0
2 0
3 0
4 13716
5 0
6 23287
7 19
8 0
9 0
10 0

badram = 0x08000004, 0x08000004

does it tell you something so far?
richjoyce
12-14-2002, 06:15 PM
sounds to me like bad ram

how much ram do you have in how many pieces?
Bysshe Shelley
12-14-2002, 09:12 PM
What is your system, anyway?
shadowrider
12-14-2002, 09:26 PM
thx guys....i just took them off, and tightened them up again and it works now.
i have 2 256-DDR