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... then you're in the right place to ask your question! Well, as long as the question is about your servers, your networks, or desktops you support, anyway.

My question is about a company laptop that I have to support. The question was closed and moved to superuser, why?

I include the question here so someone can point out how the question does not fit the letter and the spirit of the FAQ:

I have a laptop that fails to boot with the BSOD error ""page_fault_in_non_paged_area" STOP: 0x00000050 (0xEC6B738D, 0x00000000, 0x8649308C, 0x00000000) The laptop has 2 memory DIMMs. I removed each DIMM one at a time and the error remained with just one DIMM installed.

I have run spinrite 6.0 on the hard drive no errors found. Booted to recovery mode and ran CHKDSK /R, it found and fixed errors but still gets the stop error. Any other suggestions to try?

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That is a problem that sometimes occurs on ServerFault, where those sysadmins who only have to deal with huge batches of computers, forget what it's like to have to deal with those individual smaller issues. I've seen that problem occur a few times.

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Good question, and something that continues to come up.

For individual, help-desk or desktop tech type questions I always send them over to SU.

For larger architecture type questions, eg- "How do I change domain membership for a location worth of PC's?", SF is the place.

I voted to close your particular question on SF because it was specific to one PC having a problem, and it's very much a localized thing that anyone with an XP machine could see. Now, if you had rolled out a specific change via GPO, WSUS or something and it whacked a boatload of your domain PC's with the same stop error, then I'd have kept it on SF.

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Even if the environment is a business or IT setting, the problem itself may be a regular computer issue that people outside the IT field might encounter.

Out of curiosity, did you follow the link to the migrated question?

http://superuser.com/questions/98872/xp-stop-error-50-page-fault-in-non-paged-area

There's already an answer there. Does it really matter to you which site you get the answer from?

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