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singhy44

macrumors member
Original poster
Jun 9, 2008
93
0
Manchester, UK
Right, so I log into Vista, boots up fine, 5-10mins later, it comes up with a Blue Screen saying 'page_fault_in_non_paged_area'. I've looked around and all i've found is that it's often a hardware/drivers issue. This is odd, considering my iMac has been running Vista on the same hardware for atleast 4 months. I'm not sure what to do. One option is to reinstall Vista, but I have loads of stuff on there I don't want to lose. Also, I was considering installing Windows 7. I have two issues with this. Firstly, I'm worried that it will mess up/be highly unstable and won't support the things I want to run (games, documents). My other bigger worry is that it won't solve the problems, and I'll be stuck with non-functioning Windows. Any ideas?
 

singhy44

macrumors member
Original poster
Jun 9, 2008
93
0
Manchester, UK
These were the details from the report:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 2057

Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: 50
BCP1: AD080000
BCP2: 00000000
BCP3: 82030AB3
BCP4: 00000000
OS Version: 6_0_6001
Service Pack: 1_0
Product: 256_1

Files that help describe the problem:
C:\Windows\Minidump\Mini042809-01.dmp
C:\Users\-USER-\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-70106-0.sysdata.xml
C:\Users\-USER-\AppData\Local\Temp\WER5CA.tmp.version.txt
 

ryannazaretian

macrumors 6502a
Sep 21, 2008
649
5
Mississippi
Does this happen every time you login, or did it just happen once. If it's just once, don't worry about it. A driver will occasionally do that without any real consequences. I have noticed that wireless drivers and video drivers seem to be the big problem makers on laptops for drivers. Try to reinstall those.
 
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