I had a working winxp home install on Friday, but today it froze up on me, and now when I try to load WinXP via parallels I get this error (blue screen of death): PAGE_FAULT_IN_NON_PAGED_AREA
Yipes. How's that for an odd error. I'll have to bug you for more information though: http://forums.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=16741
Here is a list: 1. Mac OS Version 10.4.10 2. Parallels Build # 5160 3. What kind of computer Macbook 4. Total Physical RAM 2GB 5. Hard Drives 1x75gb sata (toshiba) 6. If you are using a BootCamp configuration or not don't think so, no idea what that is. 7. Did you upgrade from a BETA I don't think so, I bought the package, and continued the downloadable upgrades until 3.0 came out. 8. With what Build did the problem start 5160 9. If Parallels Tools are installed Yes, I saw something about it after installing XP home. 10. Anything you have tried to get things working Re-install, keeps failing to boot...this time I got into the OS after a complete XP re-install and did a search, OS froze, and when I reboot I get this error now. 11. Anything specific about your set-up you think we should know see above. XP Home. 12. If you are crashing, upload some crash logs See screenshot 13. If you are getting an error message type it in and then attach a screenshot. ditto 14. If you are having issues with a specific component (i.e. mouse, keyboard, monitor) tell us what it is. General loading of the OS
Hello, this is a common Windows XP problem. First of all, try to use 'Last Known Good Configuration' option. In order to do it please restart your VM and press F8 during start-up. You will see 'Advanced Options' menu, choose the 'Last Known Good Configuration' option there. If it doesn't help, please read this article. Best regards, Stacey
chovy, Thanks for the info. Try Stacey's recommendation and let us know if that helps. Just a hint, if you are going to the M$ article, chkdsk can be run from the repair console upon booting from an XP install disk.
I get the F8 prompt automaticallly on boot. I've tried everything, safe mode, last known, normal, w/without networking...same error everytime. How do I boot up this chkdisk tool given a parallels partition? In other words, I have the CD, but how would I boot up from the CD into the paralles XP install?
I got the parallels XP vm to boot off the cd, and I entered "Repair" mode, then it asks which partition to load: 1: C:\Windows And when I choose "1" I get the same error (bluescreen with "PAGE_...." error).
Not sure what you mean, but this is what I did... started parallels, then picked "Choose..." from the OS manager/loader screen. Browsed to my Win XP Home SP2 folder, and tried to open winxp.hdd and this is what I got:
Hello, did you try to run Windows in the 'Safe Mode with Command Promt'. Can you do this? Best regards, Stacey
Quite frankly, the only thing I see as being left to try is to go through the package contents of the .hdd file and seeing if any of those items open.
Back-up your files first... Right-click on your .hdd file, select 'Show Package Contents', copy them all to your desktop, then see if you can't open any of them.
I gave up and re-installed, got same type of errors. It never rebooted when it got to the "Installing Parallel Tools" part...it just stuck there for over 2 hours. I rebooted, and now I get diff. BSOD -- "REGISTERY ERROR" or some crap. I am passing this off to the admin, before buying a winXP laptop. Guess I should look at vmware ?
Alrighty... try zapping Parallels off your system with their un-installer. If you don't need your files, delete your windows folder that has your .hdd file. Then, Restart. Now, install Parallels, and restart again. Create yourself a new VM and you should be good to go.
I did a memtest and it came back with different results each time, so I removed a ram chip, ran the test again, and then swapped the two and ran it again (to determine which ram chip was bad). Swapping the bad one out with a good one solved my problem. Re-installed OSX + parallels, and no problems since.
