"Page Fault in nonpaged area"

So I just put together an Athlon 64 tower and today I recieved the Windows XP 64 Bit install CD. While loading the files it needs to run the install program I get a blue page error that says Page Fault In NonPaged Area. What does this mean? The Stop error is " ***STOP: 0x00000050 (0xFFFFF09FD5D6BEA7, 0x0000000000000000, 0xFFFFF8000122A2C5, 0x0000000000000007)" SO if anyone has any clue as to what may be preventing me fom instaling the XP 64 OS please help me out! THANK YOU!
~Jason

 

Have you got the clock speed for the Athlon 64 set correctly in BIOS? Is the ram the correct speed for the prcoessor? Have you tried using another stick of RAM?

Here's a MSKB that relates :
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315335

 

Might be tough getting support for a customer preview product like that, according to Microsoft the support newsgroup for Windows Server 2k3 64-bit also deals with extended systems XP 64:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/64bit/extended/trial/support.mspx

We have a resident XP expert who might be able to help you, I'll send him a PM but because of the late hour he probably won't reply till tomorrow.

 

Here's what the bug code means.

Basically, something tried to access memory and failed.

Most likely cause is damaged System RAM. Download MemTest86+ (not sure if normal MemTest86 works on the AMD64 yet) and run the complete tests overnight. This test is floppy-based, so you don't need an OS installed at all.

Other possible causes are damaged video memory (very unlikely, IMO) meaning you would need to replace the video card, and damaged L2 cache memory (meaning the processor is damaged).

Note that some of the tests that MemTest86+ runs use the L2 cache, so it's possible that you might be able to discover that the cache is bad with that, too. I find it highly unlikely that a processor would be damaged, however. It wouldn't leave the factory that way, so that means it would need to be damaged in transit -- but no so badly damaged that it wouldn't function.

Oh, and if you're overclocking your system, don't.

Out of curiosity, what is your processor? You should know that most Socket 940 processors require registered DIMMs. Socket 939 and 754 processors generally do not.

 

The processor is an AMD 64 2800+ on a ECS 755-A Socket 754 AMD Athlon64 DDR333 Motherboard. I have one SAMSUNG 512MB DDR Ram PC2700 333Mhz Cas Latency 2.5

I reset the BIOS and now after it says to hit any key to begin install I get a black page error that says Does not support Local APIC. Check system firmware setings ... ensure that the firmware has enabled the APIC on this system. I know less about this than my first problem?

Jason

 

Okay, it was very easy to just enable the APIC. But now that I have reset the bios to it's origonal settings except for the APIC it just restarts after loading all the setup files when it should start the install. Anymore advice? Until then i'll download that memory program and see what's up tomorrow. Thanks a bunch!

Jason

 

One more update! I noticed that on the description of the mother board I bought it says DDR333 BUT on the motherboard factory box it says DDR400. Does this make any difference? Could this be my problem? A simply typo on an invoice? ... this is what I read from to know which RAM to buy. Thanx again.

Jason

 

Yes, that means the motherboard is trying to run the RAM at 400Mhz, and it only supports 333Mhz... which would be where the problem is. You need to go into the bios and set the RAM FSB to be 333, which should be in the CPU settings. As the chip runs at 400Mhz, it will be asynchronious with the CPU... so less performance, but at least it will work.

To get the best performance out of that system you should buy DDR400 ram.

 

If the above has not resolved your problem--is this Windows XP 64 for AMD or Intel?

It makes a big difference.

 

Read some of the reiviews for this board on Newegg. It seems that flashing the BIOS to the revised BIOS can enable DDR400 support. However, it also seems that the board is buggy. Four or five of the reviews had people returning the boards.

I've never dealt with ECS stuff before, and my only experience with SiS was bad -- so I guess I'm not too confident that BIOS flashing is going to work.