win 2000 server crashing?
 

hi

both my machines, a desktop computer and a notebook with 2k server are crashing way too often and going into the blue screen of death with a 'PAGE FAULT IN NON PAGED AREA'.... i first thought it was hardware from the stationary, but since the laptop started crashing too, i am really clueless?

did anybody running 2k server have the same issues by chance? suggestions highly appreciated, going nuts with this.

thanks

that error is usually caused by bad hardware, it's usually been the memory in my experience

true, but i have tried them all, swapping RAM, adding RAM, removing RAM, always happened, yet that can't happen on the laptop too, its a dell and i highly suspect that is defective, i was thinking about a problem in the very windows, even THO the desktop machine has been formatted l10 days ago and when i was done with the setup, crashed EXACTLY as before... it's really a pain in the ass, i even wanted to get new hardware, but its hard to figure out whats wrong really!

forgot to add this... i worked the whole last week without problems with the laptop, then one day i got that blue screen and after that 1st time, it used to happen more often... its really really strange... sounds also like a virus

what errors are showing up in the event log preceding the blue screen error?

well this happens quite often:

The Network Address Translator (NAT) was unable to request an operation of the kernel-mode translation module. This may indicate misconfiguration, insufficient resources, or an internal error. The data is the error code.

but its irrelevant i think. the thing is that this shit happens totally RANDOM and without any regular pattern, very often happens when i am surfing and i click a link that can be a download thing or a link in a forum, whatever....

fuck that, just crashed now, im gonna format and install 2k PRO now... we'll see.. thanks for the suggestions anyway