Facing alot of bsod lately..

[d3v]

Originally Posted by wAnxTa

ali i used prime95 and it f'ked up my windows and harddisk. After restarting it said windows cannot be started and when i try to reinstall windows i cant see the partitions of my 80 gb hdd ..

Make sure the hard disk cables are secure. Un hook the cables and reconnect just to make sure. Do this on both ends (mobo end, hdd end). If you still can't see the HDD partitions I would run seatools again with the long test. Even better if you have some linux experience and can boot of a linux live cd and run badblocks command.

Anyway right now it looks like your hdd is toast.

[wAnxTa]

i got my partitions back .. i just unplugged it and plugged it back. But still facing the display problem i had to remove ram clean it and put it back again to get the display working no blue screens lately though ..

[Ali Tayyab]

IF prime95 did this to your PC, it is (or was) not very stable to begin with.

Did u check the event viewer to see the error prime95 generated?

IF you dont have any more Blue screens it probably meant something was "loose" and now u've plugged it.

If u do a lot of plugging and un plugging (which i see you do), you need to make sure:

1. The ram sticks are properly seated
2. The S-ata cables do not have any 90 degree bends in them

[wAnxTa]

well let me explain to you what happened yesterday. When i turned on my pc for the first time in the night after shutting it down in the evening i had the display problem again so i removed ram and cleaned it and put it back again but then instead of putting both sticks at once i placed only one stick in my mobo to see which one causes the blue screen so then i started my pc on one stick and i got my display back and then i read your post of running SMART online analysis it went fine on both hdds and then i ran prime95 after running it for a while it restarted my pc and when it was booting it said windows cannot be started, some hardware is missing and then i did everything i could do to see if the partitions are still available or not but i couldnt find them the second hdd just totally vanished and i had my windows installed on it. Then i reinstalled windows on my other hdd and after installing it i went to Computer > manage > Disk management but it wasnt able to detect my second hdd so what i did is unplugged harddrive and plug it back again ( what d3v said ) and it started working and then electricity went off and when it came back same display problem again -,- then i put the other stick of ram without removing the first one and the display came back.
and btw i havent faced a single bsod since yesterday yet. The only problem now is the display i guess. Will let you know if i face blue screen again.

i cant wait to crush this motherboard ..

[d3v]

SMART test is not enough. You really need to do a thorough check for bad sectors.

[wAnxTa]

well i will throw my 80 gb hdd in trash in a few days anyway ..

i managed to take a shot of my blue screen ..

[Ali Tayyab]

Error 50 can also be due to bad RAM, not only a dying drive.

Do this: Disconnect the 80 GB HDD and see if things work okay.
The next time you get a bsod, check if it is ntfs.sys that is causing the error.

the 3 major causes of a error 50 are:
1. Failing RAM
2. Spyware
3. Bad Hardware

[wAnxTa]

1. What is ntfs.sys ? And how to check if its causing the blue screen ?
2. It could be the failing ram i guess but how to be sure about it ?
3. I cant disconnect my 80 gb hdd, i have my os installed on it. But i am going to disconnect it forever once i buy my new hdd and my second hdd is new i dont think its the problem .
4. Which hardware could be bad ?

[Ali Tayyab]

Originally Posted by wAnxTa

1. What is ntfs.sys ? And how to check if its causing the blue screen ?
2. It could be the failing ram i guess but how to be sure about it ?
3. I cant disconnect my 80 gb hdd, i have my os installed on it. But i am going to disconnect it forever once i buy my new hdd and my second hdd is new i dont think its the problem .
4. Which hardware could be bad ?

1. NTFS is a form of a file system (NT File System). Just like FAT (File Allocation Table)

2 n 3. Keep checking for Blue screens, if it is always the NTFS.sys that causes the problem it could be the drive. If it varies, it is either bad ram or a rootkit virus. Since you have already installed your OS again, we can rule that out. (You did install from a clean copy right?)

4. Right now, if disconnecting the 80GiG HDD does the trick, it is probably that. But i am not too certain.

5. Try this: use your computer with only one stick of ram IN THE SLOT closest to the processor. See if u can get a blue screen then.

[wAnxTa]

yeah i always do a clean install. And it could be the hdd because it is quite old.

[Ali Tayyab]

Originally Posted by wAnxTa

yeah i always do a clean install. And it could be the hdd because it is quite old.

no, i meant the Disc you installed from was clean?

[d3v]

Googling "ntfs.sys page_fault_in_nonpaged_area" turns up a lot of info.

Straight from the horse's mouth we have this page:

Error Message:

But I think the best course of action is to post your memory dump files created after the BSOD on this forum (make a new thread). There is a guy there that can make sense of those dump files and pin point the faulty hardware:

ntfs.sys PAGE FAULT IN NONPAGE AREA bluescreen - Page 3 - TechSpot OpenBoards

[wAnxTa]

no, i meant the Disc you installed from was clean?

clean from dirt or clean from viruses ?

[swhitton]

I think he means clean of everything.