weird vista32 problems/bsods

Hi,

recently I ran into a lot of trouble with my otherwise nice LG P300/vista32 business.

It started two days ago with a message: invalid activation/product key, although its a legit copy of vista. I even wasn't able to run the genuine check again at this stage, cause firefox crashed when dl the validation exe. It was also not possible to start a cmd window or iexplore.exe. Everything just crashed.
Funny part is, a simple reboot solved the problem... I thought.

Atm I seems that vista is throwing every bsod at me it has to offer. I have to reboot a couple of times before I'm able to login without errors..

Types of BSODs I get:
1) memory_management
2) win32k.sys (problem detected/windows has been shut down..)
3) irq_not_less_or_equal
4) page_fault_in_nonpaged_area

What I did so far:
-I ran complete system/rootkit scan with Avira already. System seems clean.
-Tried to run the vista memory diagnostic tool, but it didn't start testing (0% after 1-2h)

Its quite frustrating and extremely annoying, since I have to do some work.

Any ideas or suggestions would be highly appreciated!

Cheers

 

4 different bug checks

Clean install !! :yes:

 

before doing a clean install, I would prefer to rule out possible hardware faults.

going for some linux live boot solutions now.


Update: memtest86+ spilled out **** loads of errors, so at least the ram is defective.
The activation error seems to be an independent issue. however, my vista installation is completely wasted now

 

Try testing with just one of the memory modules. If it fails, try just the other module. If you have one good module, run with just that for a while at least until you get more RAM.

 

thats what I did swarmer. Additionally, I had to jump back to a previous system restore piont, since the registry was corrupted (could not load registry hive something).
Guess the problem is fixed now.