I recently download and installed Audacity 2.0.3. My computer is a Latitude D610 running Windows XP Service Pace 3.
After installing Audacity, I launched it. It barely got to the interface before my computer crashed with a BSoD saying “Page_Fault_in_Nonpaged_Area”.
I would like to use Audacity, so please help me fix this!
Note: Reinstalling Audacity didn’t help.
If the operating system crashes it is not an Audacity problem.
Although the error suggests a memory problem, it is still more likely to be a driver issue that is causing that memory problem.
The crash dump should give you more information. Please see:
http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/faq_errors.html#reboot .
As a simpler test, you could try removing any external audio devices you may have connected, or try disabling any “virtual” audio devices you may have installed that are software rather than a physical device.
There is no harm in testing the memory if you are concerned.
If Windows XP has it, you could try Start > Run and type in
mdsched.exe
(this is available on Windows 7 as a built-in memory tester).
If not you could try http://www.memtest86.com/ assuming this is a 32-bit computer.
The Microsoft memory tester http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp has not been available for some time now.
Gale