I have begun to have problems with my Fuijitsu Siemens C1020 laptop. Up until just recently it has been fine, but starting yesterday it has seemed to crash and BSOD reliably. Usually these errors have been 0x0000000A and after turning off the laptop and trying to turn it back on again the screen would often not come on. I have just left it for about an hour or so and rebooted the machine and within about 2 minutes of being on it has crashed again, but this time I have a 0x00000050 error with the title PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA. Its been so long since I had a BSOD I am not quite sure how to proceed, though I am tempted to wipe out windows and install FreeBSD again, but this would somewhat hamper my need to take my external hard drive home this christmas and the drive is currently formatted as NTFS which I would have no problems reading, but I dont feel confident giving FreeBSD write access to the drive.
Does anyone have any ideas as to what might be causing these issues, I should note that the laptop uses part of the system memory for video memory, and I am thinking that this could be a memory issue, maybe the RAM has gone south or something like that. I havent installed any additional software or hardware in the last day or so to cause this, though after I brought it out of hibernation Monday afternoon it did for some reason bring up a command.com window, though I couldnt see it executing anything.
Does anyone have any ideas as to what might be causing these issues, I should note that the laptop uses part of the system memory for video memory, and I am thinking that this could be a memory issue, maybe the RAM has gone south or something like that. I havent installed any additional software or hardware in the last day or so to cause this, though after I brought it out of hibernation Monday afternoon it did for some reason bring up a command.com window, though I couldnt see it executing anything.