- Jul 19, 2013
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So I have this rig that I built myself back in March 2014, here are the specs:
Intel Core i7-4770 (non-k version)
ASRock Z87E-ITX
16GB Kingston HyperX 1600Mhz Low Profile RAM (2 sticks of 8GB)
Samsung 840 EVO 250GB SSD
Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB SSD
Western Digital Green 1TB 7200rpm HDD
Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 Ti
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Here's the set up: The Samsung SSD serves as the C drive, containing the OS. The other 2 drives are just for storage purposes.
The PC ran fine and superb from day one. I have a free version of Avast! antivirus installed just to monitor things out. It wasn't until a couple of days ago when I came back from work and proceeded to power on my PC as usual, and bam, this BSOD greeted me. To be specific, upon hitting the power button, the PC got past the BIOS, it also got past the "Starting Windows" screen, but right before it gets to the login screen this BSOD appears, and it's the "PAGE FAULT IN NON-PAGED AREA" type.
At the time I was utterly dismayed, because before this BSOD appeared I have had zero problems with this PC. Several hits of the reset button later only have I concluded that I have no chance of getting past the BSOD and hence no chance to boot normally into Windows. Attempts to boot into safe mode and loading the last known good configuration got me nowhere either; the BSOD just appears right before the login screen. I therefore popped in the Windows 7 installation disc and hoped that performing a System Restore would solve the problem. However, I was told that there weren't any restore points to restore from.
I therefore performed a clean reinstall of Windows. From there on, things seemed to have gotten back to normal, as I was able to boot normally into Windows, install the essential drivers and software, and play games. I even installed a new antivirus, which is BitDefender. I should note that I only reformatted the Samsung SSD; the other two drives were left untouched.
However, just two days after the clean reinstall, the BSOD returned (the same BSOD as mentioned above), to my horror. I had the PC restarted prior as I was configuring which software to run during boot in msconfig, and after I hit the "Restart" button, the PC never made it to the login screen after the reboot. This time however, I was able to launch startup repair and managed to perform a successful system restore, and I was able to boot to Windows after restoring. For the next 5 to 6 hours using the PC, it ran just fine without any issues or BSODs. It was only when I shut down or restart the PC the BSOD appears again, and for every instance of these BSODs I was able to rectify by performing System Restore, and boot normally to Windows after.
I've therefore done some Googling about the BSOD, and learnt that it is associated with RAM. But if this was to be a RAM problem, I would have gotten BSODs when I was using it midway. This BSOD only appears during boot up, and a System Restore is able to temporarily solve the problem. I'm just baffled. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Intel Core i7-4770 (non-k version)
ASRock Z87E-ITX
16GB Kingston HyperX 1600Mhz Low Profile RAM (2 sticks of 8GB)
Samsung 840 EVO 250GB SSD
Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB SSD
Western Digital Green 1TB 7200rpm HDD
Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 Ti
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Here's the set up: The Samsung SSD serves as the C drive, containing the OS. The other 2 drives are just for storage purposes.
The PC ran fine and superb from day one. I have a free version of Avast! antivirus installed just to monitor things out. It wasn't until a couple of days ago when I came back from work and proceeded to power on my PC as usual, and bam, this BSOD greeted me. To be specific, upon hitting the power button, the PC got past the BIOS, it also got past the "Starting Windows" screen, but right before it gets to the login screen this BSOD appears, and it's the "PAGE FAULT IN NON-PAGED AREA" type.
At the time I was utterly dismayed, because before this BSOD appeared I have had zero problems with this PC. Several hits of the reset button later only have I concluded that I have no chance of getting past the BSOD and hence no chance to boot normally into Windows. Attempts to boot into safe mode and loading the last known good configuration got me nowhere either; the BSOD just appears right before the login screen. I therefore popped in the Windows 7 installation disc and hoped that performing a System Restore would solve the problem. However, I was told that there weren't any restore points to restore from.
I therefore performed a clean reinstall of Windows. From there on, things seemed to have gotten back to normal, as I was able to boot normally into Windows, install the essential drivers and software, and play games. I even installed a new antivirus, which is BitDefender. I should note that I only reformatted the Samsung SSD; the other two drives were left untouched.
However, just two days after the clean reinstall, the BSOD returned (the same BSOD as mentioned above), to my horror. I had the PC restarted prior as I was configuring which software to run during boot in msconfig, and after I hit the "Restart" button, the PC never made it to the login screen after the reboot. This time however, I was able to launch startup repair and managed to perform a successful system restore, and I was able to boot to Windows after restoring. For the next 5 to 6 hours using the PC, it ran just fine without any issues or BSODs. It was only when I shut down or restart the PC the BSOD appears again, and for every instance of these BSODs I was able to rectify by performing System Restore, and boot normally to Windows after.
I've therefore done some Googling about the BSOD, and learnt that it is associated with RAM. But if this was to be a RAM problem, I would have gotten BSODs when I was using it midway. This BSOD only appears during boot up, and a System Restore is able to temporarily solve the problem. I'm just baffled. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
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