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Windows Vista Windows Vista Home Premium and the DSOD

Discussion in 'Legacy Windows' started by peterell46, 2007/01/31.

  1. 2007/01/31
    peterell46

    peterell46 Inactive Thread Starter

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    I have just purchased Windows Vista Home Premium as an upgrade to Windows XP SP2. About 56% ot the way through the fifth (last) step and during a reboot, I ended up with "Page Fault in Nonpaged Area ". This happened on two occasions.

    Despite running for over 5 hours in "Repair Mode ", nothing would progress and I rolled back to XP for the second time. I contacted the Microsoft Technical Support people but they were not able to offer any help despite about 2 hours of research.

    My version of XP is current (I did a Windows Update immediately prior to running Vista upgrade) and I have made no changes to my hardware configuration in recent times.

    I have looked in a number of places on the Internet for some advice on resolving the problem but have been unsuccessful.

    Help !!!

    PeterEll46
     
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  2. 2007/02/01
    Arie

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    Only 2 ideas here:

    run scandisk /f from a command prompt

    check your systems RAM.

    Next up: a clean install instead of an upgrade.
     
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  4. 2007/02/01
    Admin.

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    Did you provide them with dump files of the crashes?

    Do you have dump files?
     
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  5. 2007/02/05
    usasma

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    If, during the upgrade, Vista attempts to load an incompatible driver from XP - it's gonna crash!

    I'd suggest the clean install also - less problems and less to mess it up.
     
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