Not sure if this is in the right area but... I installed drivers for my Razer Mamba and Razer Nostromo. About 5 minutes later I got a BSOD with this error. Restarted, 5 minutes later, same error. It occurs EVERY 5 minutes like clockwork. I restored windows to last known good configuration, unplugged the hardware, even manually removed the drivers but still the BSOD persists. I tried messing with paging virtual memory but to no avail. Not sure what else I can do. Any ideas? Please this is really affecting my life as I need this PC for work!
PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA BSOD after driver installation
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Murissokah
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+1 above.
Had this happen to me for a good amount of time, was about do drive me mad. Ended up one of my memory sticks was missing a small resistor for some reason, and whenever an I/O happened on that one memory chip in which the circuit was missing the resistor, I'd get the crash.
My advice would be to try and run with one memory stick at a time.
Had this happen to me for a good amount of time, was about do drive me mad. Ended up one of my memory sticks was missing a small resistor for some reason, and whenever an I/O happened on that one memory chip in which the circuit was missing the resistor, I'd get the crash.
My advice would be to try and run with one memory stick at a time.
Update: It seems like the second stick of memory I tried on its own produces no BSOD (so far...fingers crossed). So what does this mean? It was a complete coincidence that my one memory stick crapped out 5 minutes after installing those drivers? Is there any way to fix or prevent this other than getting new RAM?
Murissokah
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This strongly indicates faulty RAM. If that is indeed the case, the drivers may be causing some intense memory I/O for some reason, that causes the memory to crash. Also, memory does degrade on its own, so the timing might indeed have been a coincidence. Anyway, if the stick is faulty, you should replace or remove it no matter what, nothing is worse for system stability than unreliable memory.
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