- Jan 19, 2014
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Hello guys, first time posting here, seeking for help.
So this problem started (kind of) about 3 months ago when I decided to upgrade from a Phenom II 955 to an i7 4770 non k, thus buying a new motherboard and a brand new stick of Kingston HyperX RAM. I had two isolated cases of a BSOD, apparently out of nowhere.
Now this would be OK, but I also decided to upgrade my graphics card from an AMD Sapphire 6870 to a Zotac GTX 770 2gb, and this is where the problem started to be more consistent.
Since I switched my GPU I've been having a daily BSOD either when watching a Youtube video, attempting to launch a game (especially FarCry 3) or sometimes when minimizing out of a game's window to the desktop. (NOTE: it doesn't happen every single time I do either of these things, just randomly once a day, at any time)
On a maybe related note, I have experienced a bit of screen tearing when watching Youtube videos as well.
I have completely uninstalled the video drivers and installed the newest ones, that seemed to fix the problem for two days but then it just started happening again.
The two error codes I got from the blue screens were "PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA" and "SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION". Sometimes the error stays long enough to be able to read it, other times it flashes so fast it's almost like a restart.
A friend hinted it to be a problem with the RAM, so I removed my older 4gb ram stick and I'm currently testing it with my newer one, also 4GB but Kingston HyperX (older one is just a regular Kingston ram, at 1333mhz)
My system specs are as follows:
CPU: Intel i7 4770 @ 3.4ghz
Motherboard: ASUS B-85M-G
RAM: 1x4gb kingston hyperX + 1x4b kingston 1333mhz (I also have a spare 2gb kingston 1333mhz stick which I tried but my pc would just black screen when I did)
GPU: Zotac Geforce GTX 770 2gb
PSU: CoolerMaster GX 750
HDD: WD Caviar black 1TB
OS: Windows 7 64 bit
Thanks in advance and apologies for any spelling or grammar mistakes as english isn't my first language.
P.S: It just happened again today, two times, both when trying to minimize a game (Team Fortress 2). Sounds like a GPU problem to me, but is it hardware or drivers?
So this problem started (kind of) about 3 months ago when I decided to upgrade from a Phenom II 955 to an i7 4770 non k, thus buying a new motherboard and a brand new stick of Kingston HyperX RAM. I had two isolated cases of a BSOD, apparently out of nowhere.
Now this would be OK, but I also decided to upgrade my graphics card from an AMD Sapphire 6870 to a Zotac GTX 770 2gb, and this is where the problem started to be more consistent.
Since I switched my GPU I've been having a daily BSOD either when watching a Youtube video, attempting to launch a game (especially FarCry 3) or sometimes when minimizing out of a game's window to the desktop. (NOTE: it doesn't happen every single time I do either of these things, just randomly once a day, at any time)
On a maybe related note, I have experienced a bit of screen tearing when watching Youtube videos as well.
I have completely uninstalled the video drivers and installed the newest ones, that seemed to fix the problem for two days but then it just started happening again.
The two error codes I got from the blue screens were "PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA" and "SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION". Sometimes the error stays long enough to be able to read it, other times it flashes so fast it's almost like a restart.
A friend hinted it to be a problem with the RAM, so I removed my older 4gb ram stick and I'm currently testing it with my newer one, also 4GB but Kingston HyperX (older one is just a regular Kingston ram, at 1333mhz)
My system specs are as follows:
CPU: Intel i7 4770 @ 3.4ghz
Motherboard: ASUS B-85M-G
RAM: 1x4gb kingston hyperX + 1x4b kingston 1333mhz (I also have a spare 2gb kingston 1333mhz stick which I tried but my pc would just black screen when I did)
GPU: Zotac Geforce GTX 770 2gb
PSU: CoolerMaster GX 750
HDD: WD Caviar black 1TB
OS: Windows 7 64 bit
Thanks in advance and apologies for any spelling or grammar mistakes as english isn't my first language.
P.S: It just happened again today, two times, both when trying to minimize a game (Team Fortress 2). Sounds like a GPU problem to me, but is it hardware or drivers?
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