About a week ago my ASUS began to give me quite a bit of difficulty. It was failing to boot, and displayed only a black screen after the motherboards splash screen. I began by attempting a simple reformat with the original Windows XP disk. BSOD was spasmodically showing up during formatting, so I just kept at it until it was successful. Regardless, my computer failed to boot even still. I decided to give DBAN a try. After wiping the hard drive entirely I ran some diagnostics on my hard disk and memory with no errors. When I tried formatting again, it consistently BSOD'd me right before prompting to either make repairs or format the drive with the following error:
PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
0x00000050 (0xF87C04AB, 0x00000000, 0xF77B94AB, 0x00000000)
partmgr.sys - address F87C04AB base at F87BE000, datestamp 00000000
I took a shortcut by (successfully) formatting the hard drive in my other computer. After popping that drive back into it's original box and trying to boot up once more, I was greeted only with my previous encounter.
I also restored the BIOS settings and gave a Windows startup diskette a try... Nothing. Really the only thing I can say I'm aware of that I haven't tried is a motherboard diagnostic.
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
0x00000050 (0xF87C04AB, 0x00000000, 0xF77B94AB, 0x00000000)
partmgr.sys - address F87C04AB base at F87BE000, datestamp 00000000
I took a shortcut by (successfully) formatting the hard drive in my other computer. After popping that drive back into it's original box and trying to boot up once more, I was greeted only with my previous encounter.
I also restored the BIOS settings and gave a Windows startup diskette a try... Nothing. Really the only thing I can say I'm aware of that I haven't tried is a motherboard diagnostic.
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.