I need help in recovering my system. Last week it started crashing occasionally, mostly when I was trying to write to a DVD/RW using Nero's InCD. A few times I was surfing the net when it happened. The BSOD appears only long enough for me to read something like "page fault in non-pageable area".
After one of the several crashes yesterday, XP automatically ran Chkdsk on my D: drive (my HDD is a RAID0 (striping) consisting of 2 Maxtor 500GB SATA II drives and contains 3 partitions, C, D, and E). Chkdsk found several problems and corrected them. I was able to boot XP and run Chkdsk on the E: drive. I then tried to run Chkdsk on the C: (boot drive) and was told that it would have to be scheduled after a restart. I restarted my system and went away for a while. When I came back about 30 minutes later Chkdsk was still running. It turns out that Chkdsk was running and as soon as it ended it tried to boot XP. XP issued the BSOD and the system restarted and ran Chkdsk again.
I pressed a key to stop Chkdsk from running and XP then issued the BSOD and restarted my system. I can't keep the BSOD on the monitor long enough to write down more of the messages.
I then tried to boot into Safe mode and had the same results, BSOD and a system restart.
I then powered down the system and reseated all of the cards and the memory (same results). I then swapped memory around one pair at a time (4 sticks of 1GB DIMM's) (same results). I then took out 2 of the DIMM's and had the same results. Replaced them with the 2 that I removed, same results.
I can't get the system to come up far enough to see if there are any memory dumps, let alone be able to send them to someone for analysis.
How do I go about recovering my system? I haven't tried, but I should be able to boot from my XP CD. I'm not sure what I should do once I get the CD to boot.
Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.
SysProg
After one of the several crashes yesterday, XP automatically ran Chkdsk on my D: drive (my HDD is a RAID0 (striping) consisting of 2 Maxtor 500GB SATA II drives and contains 3 partitions, C, D, and E). Chkdsk found several problems and corrected them. I was able to boot XP and run Chkdsk on the E: drive. I then tried to run Chkdsk on the C: (boot drive) and was told that it would have to be scheduled after a restart. I restarted my system and went away for a while. When I came back about 30 minutes later Chkdsk was still running. It turns out that Chkdsk was running and as soon as it ended it tried to boot XP. XP issued the BSOD and the system restarted and ran Chkdsk again.
I pressed a key to stop Chkdsk from running and XP then issued the BSOD and restarted my system. I can't keep the BSOD on the monitor long enough to write down more of the messages.
I then tried to boot into Safe mode and had the same results, BSOD and a system restart.
I then powered down the system and reseated all of the cards and the memory (same results). I then swapped memory around one pair at a time (4 sticks of 1GB DIMM's) (same results). I then took out 2 of the DIMM's and had the same results. Replaced them with the 2 that I removed, same results.
I can't get the system to come up far enough to see if there are any memory dumps, let alone be able to send them to someone for analysis.
How do I go about recovering my system? I haven't tried, but I should be able to boot from my XP CD. I'm not sure what I should do once I get the CD to boot.
Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.
SysProg