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sammmmmy195

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Hi, I didn't know what section of the forum to post this on but this seemed sensible

I know there are millions of posts saying this but I can't find the answer.

Every 30 mins or so when I'm on the computer it freezes before sending me to a blue screen. It says KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR and starts talking about how I should disable memory caching and shadowing (not that I know how. It comes up error 0x00000077 or 0x0000007A and says soemthing like collecting data for crash dump.

It's a vista and I have tried regcure, disk checks, memory diagnostic tools, virus scans (although I've never been able to scan the whole thing as the computer has always frozen before then). Some have slowed it down but nothing works. When I've finished the disk check it always seems to say there was a driver error or something but the driver it mentions seems to change every time.

Please can someone give me some advice, I'll give you any computer info that you think could help. Thank you.
 
I have had this problem back on my Laptop that was using Vista as well.

Like you, I had searched, and searched through different forums, answers, and other computer sites, etc. but I could not find a solution. I decided to check to see where it was and if I could fix. I turned my computer on without logging in and I had noticed, Nothing happened, it was fine. But only when it is logged in, do I get the killer blue screen.

So I had reformatted my computer, and that was the end of my problem. I am not sure exactly how it is caused, it is definitely different for different ways. What I think my problem was, I tried to get a program that was not made for vista, compatible with vista and I must have went a little too far into it, to get it to work and must have corrupt some files I needed.
 
Reboot the computer into Safe Mode to run the virus scan - though this may be of little help with a boot sector virus. If you are still getting crashes, you can try disabling virtual memory. And if by disabling virtual memory you fix the issue for a while, you may have a bad sector or a dying hard drive. What have you done so far for disk checks? CHKDSK?

A low level format is usually the best way to clear up bad sectors on your drive. This is most likely why Bones' reformat fixed his issue.

FYI - Formatting and Reformatting do the same thing, format your hard drive. If you wish to go this route, boot from your Vista install disk and when asked which drive you want to install to, click your main drive, then the additional tools button and choose delete partition and/or format. Warning: This will erase all data on your drive.


Edit: What memory diagnostics have you run?
 
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What are memory diagnostics? (sorry I'm not too great, I've done zillions of disc checks and I've done this ram diagnostic tool thing a few times if that's what you mean) How do you disable virtural memory? Also how can I Format C: because when I bought this computer it either didn't have a disk with it or I've lost it :S (I might be able to find it) Is there any other way of formatting the disk without a CD?

Edit: I've found it but I'm gonna check my computer after this virus scan has finished
 
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Download and run Memtest or you could also grab the Ubuntu Live CD and run Memtest from it. That should help eliminate or confirm the issue of a bad memory module.

How to Disable Virtual Memory in Vista:

- Goto Start>Control Panel>System and Maintenance, then click System.

- On the left side of the window, click Advanced System Settings, then in the advanced tab, click the Settings button under Performance.

- Click on the Advanced tab in the new window that pops up, then click the Change button under Virtual Memory.

- Uncheck the check box at the top that says "Automatically manage paging file size for all drives."

- Then, for each drive, select the drive and click the "No Paging File" radio button at the bottom.
 
ty so much,
I've just done the memory thing and I'm going to get memtest in a minute,
I'll get back to you on how well it went.
:D

EDIT: ok, I've got memtest but it just comes up with weird iso files that i can't burn or anything with, got any ideas?

EDIT: I still can't get memtest to work and bios thing didn't work
 
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sammmmmy195 said:
ty so much,
I've just done the memory thing and I'm going to get memtest in a minute,
I'll get back to you on how well it went.
:D

EDIT: ok, I've got memtest but it just comes up with weird iso files that i can't burn or anything with, got any ideas?

EDIT: I still can't get memtest to work and bios thing didn't work
Click to expand...

Provided you have a CD burner and some blank CD's grab this application to burn the ISO to a disk.
 
I've burned it but it just has this BOOT thing that says security catalog and another iso which says it's invalid....

Any other ideas from anyone else? I really don't want to format my hard drive :(
 
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