Weird Problem

[deadkenny]

Hi,

I have a weird problem with my Athlon System. It's a 1.4GHz T-Bird. From time to time when I boot up Windows 2000 will crash with "Page fault at none pageable area". If I restart the system in the same moment it will work fine. This usually only happens when I have pretty low room temperatures and it only appears when I start the computer for the first time that day (or when it has been off for a whole while).
Today this happened, I restarted and immediatly looked at Via HW Monitor. It said 29° CPU temperature and 24° case temp. (watercooled)
At first I thought it might be instable because I overclocked it too high - it ran at 176 x 10. Now I have clocked it back to 133 x 10.4 (default) and I set everything back to default values and the error still appears from time to time.
What could that be? Despite that the system runs absolutetly fine, no errors - never :-(

 

[MidnightKrawler]

your registry may be corrupted, I had something similar happen to me. I would get random freezes even though the core was 32C or lower. I'm running a Duron 800 @ 1GHz 1.85 volts btw. I formatted and installed a fresh copy of win 2000. You could try that if you have time, I'm not sure that'll fix your problem. Good luck

 

[Wind]

Could it be over cool ? LOL.

Try checking the registry, the IRQ, or any other components tht might conflicts w/ the memory address used by the bios.

 

[deadkenny]

It is a fresh new copy of Windows. If it would be a hardware conflict, then the error should appear more often, not only once a day only on certain days. I doubt that it could be overcool but it might be a problem of condensation or something. However I have never noticed any water in the case.

 

[AlGood]

you water cooled your geforce 2 pro? good lord...

 

[deadkenny]

It had a fan on it and that was very noisy. I had a cooling block from my old K6 that would fit - perfect
I'm thinking about something for my northbridge, it even has a fan (though quite unnoticeable) and I might try to watercool my DDR ram because it gets slightly warm - if I can't tweak it then where's the fun?

 

[heffe734]

i'm stuck on this one...never seen that error b4...kenny, you think it might be that 5v mod...i haven't had the time to try it....working on a secondary rig.

 

[deadkenny]

I think it's the memory. I have disattached the 5V modification. And all the mod did was connecting a 5V line to the 5V - so that shouldn't be the problem. I have turned the memory setting down from fast to normal. The error didn't occur again. It didn't really occure very often though so it might just happen again tomorrow morning.
Really weird is that my system runs 100% normal all the other time. I just get sometimes this page faul error when I boot up. But when I reboot in that very moment my system will work normal even in the fast settings. I can run any benchmark, I can do any work with photoshop. I'm really pissed :-(
Maybe I should sell the computer, someone offered good money for it because he fell in love the the 1760 (how childish *g*)

 

[deadkenny]

I might have solved the problem. I read in the manual to my Epox board that the default jumper for the memory is the second one if you count from the left side (the side closer to the slots). I always believed it was the first one because the first one will provide 2.5V (and it's 2.5V Micron DDR so obviously 2.5V should be the right one. I use the 2.6V setting now - hopefully that has solved the problem.
You may call me a bummer

By the way, I didn't notice that you are a platinum member Heffe. Please excuse that I told you how dangerous the modification might be, you surely know a lot more about this than I do - I must appolgize.

 

[heffe734]

no need to apologize...just because i'm platinum doesn't mean i know everything...

 

[Spydc]

I don't have an Athlon, but I have a PIII-600E on a soyo 6ba+100.. When I had windows 2000, I got the "EXACT" same problem....only during a cold boot for the first time from time to time. I recently installed winXP and I noticed the same error this morning when I booted my computer up. Can't explain it..but if I immediately reboot, everything is fine. It can't be a hardware conflict because I hardly have any pci devices.. just my soundcard and nic card. I suspect it is a ram issue! I have 3 pc133 dimms (128, 128, 256) from different companies.

 

[panhead49]

just for laughs...disable "dram page mode" in bios, if not already.....just a shot