Question : Problem: PC not booting due to unplugging of NIC

Processor: Intel Pentium 2.4 GHz
Motherboard: Intel 845 GBV
OS: Windows 2000 Professional
Modem: Motorola SM56 Chipset Internal
NIC: RealTek

I removed NIC and Modem from their respective PCI slots without uninstalling them before. I used to do this on my old PC (Intel Pentium MMX 200 MHz) with Windows 98 without any problems. But in this case my PC refuses to boot and gives the following error on Blue Screen Of Death:

STOP: xxxxxxxxx
A driver has corrupted the memory management system PTEs.
Address xxxxxxx base at xxxxxxxx, DataStamp xxxxxxxxxx - ntoskrnl.exe
Beginning dump of physical memory

After this screen, nothing happens. Every time the message is not shown. It was displayed only once. I managed to start Windows once but even after that it suddenly shut down by itself.

Any quick help will be greatly appreciated.

Answer : Problem: PC not booting due to unplugging of NIC

The problem seems to be with the machine. Typically the RAM and the Hard disk are the first place to look.

try using the free diagnostic utility from the vendor of your disk to check for problems with the disk.

fujitsu
http://www.fcpa.fujitsu.com/download/hard-drives/#diagnostic

IBM and Hitachi
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT

Maxtor/Quantum
http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/products/index.htm

Samsung
http://www.samsungelectronics.com/hdd/support/utilities/utilities_index.html

Seagate
http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/index.html

Western Digital
http://support.wdc.com/download/
www.westerndigital.com



Test the RAM

If you can swap out the RAM with known good modules for testing first if you can't do that then test the machine with one RAM module at a time until you tested every module. Other wise run the the following RAM testers.
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NOTE IF THIS DOESN'T FIND ANYTHING WRONG WITH THE RAM THIS DOESN'T MEAN THE RAM IS GOOD you would need to swap out the RAM with known good modules for testing. However if it does find something wrong then chances are the RAM is bad.

DocMemory PC RAM
Diagnostic Software
http://www.simmtester.com/PAGE/products/doc/docinfo.asp

or

http://www.memtest86.com/

or

GoldMemory
http://www.goldmemory.cz/