blue screen

Hi All,
I am having a problem, hope someone can help. I have a Dell
Dimension 9100 for about a year now. Pentium D CPU 2.8GHz and 512 of ram. I
just bought another 2 Gigs of DDR 2 pc5300 of market grade memory. I put
the two 1 gig strips in slots I and 2. I put the two 256MB strips in slots
3 and 4. I went to systems in control panel and windows recognizes the full
2.5 Gigs. For the first 2 to 3 days it ran great, much faster. Today I
tried to install MS Office 2007 exchange, 4 to 5 minutes into the
installtion I get a blue screen saying ( a page fault has occured in a
nonpaged area ) I removed the Office disc and turned off the computer,
after a few minutes turned it back on and again same blue screen, could not
even get back to windows desktop. Turned off again, removed the new 1 Gigs
strips and returned the old 256MB strips to slots 1 and 2. Booted up to
Windows desktop and everything was fine. I then tried to install Office
2007 again and the installtion was again halted, but no blue screen this
time. I rebooted again and this time Office was suffesfully installed. I
haven't put the new 1 Gigs strips back in, but even if it works ok I don't
want to have to remove memory time I install programs.
I was thinking that the installtion of Office was too taxing for the
new memory or maybe it was not compatible with the old memory.
Any ideas???

Thanks John B

"John B" <> wrote in message
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> Hi All,
> I am having a problem, hope someone can help. I have a Dell
> Dimension 9100 for about a year now. Pentium D CPU 2.8GHz and 512 of ram.
> I just bought another 2 Gigs of DDR 2 pc5300 of market grade memory. I
> put the two 1 gig strips in slots I and 2. I put the two 256MB strips in
> slots 3 and 4. I went to systems in control panel and windows recognizes
> the full 2.5 Gigs. For the first 2 to 3 days it ran great, much faster.
> Today I tried to install MS Office 2007 exchange, 4 to 5 minutes into the
> installtion I get a blue screen saying ( a page fault has occured in a
> nonpaged area ) I removed the Office disc and turned off the computer,
> after a few minutes turned it back on and again same blue screen, could
> not even get back to windows desktop. Turned off again, removed the new 1
> Gigs strips and returned the old 256MB strips to slots 1 and 2. Booted up
> to Windows desktop and everything was fine. I then tried to install
> Office 2007 again and the installtion was again halted, but no blue screen
> this time. I rebooted again and this time Office was suffesfully
> installed. I haven't put the new 1 Gigs strips back in, but even if it
> works ok I don't want to have to remove memory time I install programs.
> I was thinking that the installtion of Office was too taxing for the
> new memory or maybe it was not compatible with the old memory.
> Any ideas???
>
> Thanks John B
>


Sounds like a reasonable theory to me. What brand are the DIMMs?

If they are cheapies, return them and go to www.crucial.com and replace
them with quality RAM.

If you insist upon keeping them, you could attempt booting with one of them
or both installed, F12 at the Dell screen to get the boot menu. Choose
"boot to utility partition" and follow the prompts to run Dell diags on the
entire system or just the RAM.

I don't know if I'd want to boot back into the OS given your last two tries.


Stew

Curious? Is this the cheap 1gb ddr2 pc5300 Crucial memory Newegg had on
sale last week for $12.99 a stick after rebate. I picked up 4 sticks and
have installed 2 of them in my new Dell 9200 Vista Quad core machine to
go along with the 2gig pc5300 that was in there. So far so good here,
but i seem to remember there were a few reviews at Newegg about some
people were getting bad memory. You might
download and run the Free PC Wizard 2008 from
http://www.cpuid.com/pcwizard.php, and see if all memory is up and
running correctly. Its a neat program, even gives core temps on the Quad
Chip.

Brad

John B wrote:
> Hi All,
> I am having a problem, hope someone can help. I have a Dell
> Dimension 9100 for about a year now. Pentium D CPU 2.8GHz and 512 of ram. I
> just bought another 2 Gigs of DDR 2 pc5300 of market grade memory. I put
> the two 1 gig strips in slots I and 2. I put the two 256MB strips in slots
> 3 and 4. I went to systems in control panel and windows recognizes the full
> 2.5 Gigs. For the first 2 to 3 days it ran great, much faster. Today I
> tried to install MS Office 2007 exchange, 4 to 5 minutes into the
> installtion I get a blue screen saying ( a page fault has occured in a
> nonpaged area ) I removed the Office disc and turned off the computer,
> after a few minutes turned it back on and again same blue screen, could not
> even get back to windows desktop. Turned off again, removed the new 1 Gigs
> strips and returned the old 256MB strips to slots 1 and 2. Booted up to
> Windows desktop and everything was fine. I then tried to install Office
> 2007 again and the installtion was again halted, but no blue screen this
> time. I rebooted again and this time Office was suffesfully installed. I
> haven't put the new 1 Gigs strips back in, but even if it works ok I don't
> want to have to remove memory time I install programs.
> I was thinking that the installtion of Office was too taxing for the
> new memory or maybe it was not compatible with the old memory.
> Any ideas???
>
> Thanks John B
>
>

"S.Lewis" <> wrote in message
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> "John B" <> wrote in message
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>> Hi All,
>> I am having a problem, hope someone can help. I have a Dell
>> Dimension 9100 for about a year now. Pentium D CPU 2.8GHz and 512 of ram.
>> I just bought another 2 Gigs of DDR 2 pc5300 of market grade memory. I
>> put the two 1 gig strips in slots I and 2. I put the two 256MB strips in
>> slots 3 and 4. I went to systems in control panel and windows recognizes
>> the full 2.5 Gigs. For the first 2 to 3 days it ran great, much faster.
>> Today I tried to install MS Office 2007 exchange, 4 to 5 minutes into the
>> installtion I get a blue screen saying ( a page fault has occured in a
>> nonpaged area ) I removed the Office disc and turned off the computer,
>> after a few minutes turned it back on and again same blue screen, could
>> not even get back to windows desktop. Turned off again, removed the new
>> 1 Gigs strips and returned the old 256MB strips to slots 1 and 2. Booted
>> up to Windows desktop and everything was fine. I then tried to install
>> Office 2007 again and the installtion was again halted, but no blue
>> screen this time. I rebooted again and this time Office was suffesfully
>> installed. I haven't put the new 1 Gigs strips back in, but even if it
>> works ok I don't want to have to remove memory time I install programs.
>> I was thinking that the installtion of Office was too taxing for the
>> new memory or maybe it was not compatible with the old memory.
>> Any ideas???
>>
>> Thanks John B
>>
>
>
> Sounds like a reasonable theory to me. What brand are the DIMMs?
>
> If they are cheapies, return them and go to www.crucial.com and replace
> them with quality RAM.
>
> If you insist upon keeping them, you could attempt booting with one of
> them or both installed, F12 at the Dell screen to get the boot menu.
> Choose "boot to utility partition" and follow the prompts to run Dell
> diags on the entire system or just the RAM.
>
> I don't know if I'd want to boot back into the OS given your last two
> tries.
>
>
> Stew
>

Hi Stew,
There is no brand name on the strips. I got them from 1st Choice
Memory both for $52.00. I don't do a lot of gaming so I though I could use
cheaper memory.
So you are saying that I shouldn't even put them back in my computer?
Thanks John B

"Brad" <> wrote in message
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> Curious? Is this the cheap 1gb ddr2 pc5300 Crucial memory Newegg had on
> sale last week for $12.99 a stick after rebate. I picked up 4 sticks and
> have installed 2 of them in my new Dell 9200 Vista Quad core machine to go
> along with the 2gig pc5300 that was in there. So far so good here, but i
> seem to remember there were a few reviews at Newegg about some people were
> getting bad memory. You might
> download and run the Free PC Wizard 2008 from
> http://www.cpuid.com/pcwizard.php, and see if all memory is up and running
> correctly. Its a neat program, even gives core temps on the Quad Chip.
>
> Brad
>
> John B wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> I am having a problem, hope someone can help. I have a Dell
>> Dimension 9100 for about a year now. Pentium D CPU 2.8GHz and 512 of ram.
>> I just bought another 2 Gigs of DDR 2 pc5300 of market grade memory. I
>> put the two 1 gig strips in slots I and 2. I put the two 256MB strips in
>> slots 3 and 4. I went to systems in control panel and windows recognizes
>> the full 2.5 Gigs. For the first 2 to 3 days it ran great, much faster.
>> Today I tried to install MS Office 2007 exchange, 4 to 5 minutes into the
>> installtion I get a blue screen saying ( a page fault has occured in a
>> nonpaged area ) I removed the Office disc and turned off the computer,
>> after a few minutes turned it back on and again same blue screen, could
>> not even get back to windows desktop. Turned off again, removed the new
>> 1 Gigs strips and returned the old 256MB strips to slots 1 and 2. Booted
>> up to Windows desktop and everything was fine. I then tried to install
>> Office 2007 again and the installtion was again halted, but no blue
>> screen this time. I rebooted again and this time Office was suffesfully
>> installed. I haven't put the new 1 Gigs strips back in, but even if it
>> works ok I don't want to have to remove memory time I install programs.
>> I was thinking that the installtion of Office was too taxing for the
>> new memory or maybe it was not compatible with the old memory.
>> Any ideas???
>>
>> Thanks John B


Hi Brad,
No I bypassed Newegg also, saw the reviews but the price was
even higher than the $52.00 I paid. this started about a month ago. Like I
said earlier they worked fine for days until I tried to install MS Office
2007 Exchange. My orginal memory was Samsung, I was just trying to save
some money by not going with them again.
Thanks John B

"John B" <> wrote in message
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> "S.Lewis" <> wrote in message
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>> "John B" <> wrote in message
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>>> Hi All,
>>> I am having a problem, hope someone can help. I have a Dell
>>> Dimension 9100 for about a year now. Pentium D CPU 2.8GHz and 512 of
>>> ram. I just bought another 2 Gigs of DDR 2 pc5300 of market grade
>>> memory. I put the two 1 gig strips in slots I and 2. I put the two
>>> 256MB strips in slots 3 and 4. I went to systems in control panel and
>>> windows recognizes the full 2.5 Gigs. For the first 2 to 3 days it ran
>>> great, much faster. Today I tried to install MS Office 2007 exchange, 4
>>> to 5 minutes into the installtion I get a blue screen saying ( a page
>>> fault has occured in a nonpaged area ) I removed the Office disc and
>>> turned off the computer, after a few minutes turned it back on and again
>>> same blue screen, could not even get back to windows desktop. Turned
>>> off again, removed the new 1 Gigs strips and returned the old 256MB
>>> strips to slots 1 and 2. Booted up to Windows desktop and everything
>>> was fine. I then tried to install Office 2007 again and the installtion
>>> was again halted, but no blue screen this time. I rebooted again and
>>> this time Office was suffesfully installed. I haven't put the new 1 Gigs
>>> strips back in, but even if it works ok I don't want to have to remove
>>> memory time I install programs.
>>> I was thinking that the installtion of Office was too taxing for the
>>> new memory or maybe it was not compatible with the old memory.
>>> Any ideas???
>>>
>>> Thanks John B
>>>
>>
>>
>> Sounds like a reasonable theory to me. What brand are the DIMMs?
>>
>> If they are cheapies, return them and go to www.crucial.com and replace
>> them with quality RAM.
>>
>> If you insist upon keeping them, you could attempt booting with one of
>> them or both installed, F12 at the Dell screen to get the boot menu.
>> Choose "boot to utility partition" and follow the prompts to run Dell
>> diags on the entire system or just the RAM.
>>
>> I don't know if I'd want to boot back into the OS given your last two
>> tries.
>>
>>
>> Stew
>>
>
> Hi Stew,
> There is no brand name on the strips. I got them from 1st Choice
> Memory both for $52.00. I don't do a lot of gaming so I though I could
> use cheaper memory.
> So you are saying that I shouldn't even put them back in my computer?
> Thanks John B
>
>
>

John,

Not at all. What I am cautioning against is booting the system back into
Windows with those DIMMs until you've run the F12 diags on them. (which, if
they cause the system to go no POST (won't boot) is irrelevant).

I'd just suggest returning them if you could and buying from www.crucial.com
using their system configurator. Sure, it's more expensive but you'll have a
lifetime warranty, good support, and super fast shipping - and a machine
that won't be throwing BSODs or that won't boot.

Crucial (mainstream) DIMMs are mainstream quality RAM. They have a more
premium line (Ballistix) for gamers.

How long you choose to test the new DIMMs or keep them altogether is your
decision. I certainly wouldn't risk hosing my OS over them though.

Good luck,

Stew