- Jun 3, 2015
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I recently purchased an Asus Maximus Ranger VIII, i5 6600k and 16gb (4x4 gb) DDR4 2400mhz RAM. Installed everything, installed Windows and booted up. On the first boot up I had a blue screen error but did not think to much of it.
The first error I had was: PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA.
I shrugged it off as teething problems. Then when I was trying to restart my system, I would hear the hard drives shut down but it was as if the motherboard would not power off. I phoned Overclockers tech support and spoke to a guy who said he has the same problem with his and he just turns it off with the power switch and thinks it is something to do with the power saving settings. Advised me to look on google and see if I can find a guide to overcome this issue. So I did, there were a few guides mentioning power saving but none of them helped.
This brings me to my next issue, even the slightest overclock using the built in wizard starts causing blue screens, games shutting down and not booting back up until I restart, and even then it's very unstable so I have just reverted to optimized defaults and updating the BIOS.
I spoke to someone on the online web chat who helped me and asked me to perform a memory test usint memtest86. I did this and there were no errors with the RAM. They also asked me to take a look and see if there were any bent pins on the CPU.
The CPU has no pins, however the motherboard does but I did not notice anything bent on there either. Loaded the computer up again and started playing games, the same issue was happening now even on default bios settings. I had another Blue screen error this time saying.
SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED. Booted up, and another blue screen then saying KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE.
This time however the computer would not go to the post screen. I looked inside and noticed that the Q CODE LED had number 55 on it and the DRAM_LED light was light up yellow.
After fiddling around, it appears the Motherboard now wont boot to POST unless the A1 & A2 ram slots are empty. I have swapped the RAM out and tried different combos so I know it is definitely not faulty RAM.
PLEASE help as I am getting extremely frustrated and just want to play Fallout 4!
Thanks guys, sorry for the essay.
The first error I had was: PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA.
I shrugged it off as teething problems. Then when I was trying to restart my system, I would hear the hard drives shut down but it was as if the motherboard would not power off. I phoned Overclockers tech support and spoke to a guy who said he has the same problem with his and he just turns it off with the power switch and thinks it is something to do with the power saving settings. Advised me to look on google and see if I can find a guide to overcome this issue. So I did, there were a few guides mentioning power saving but none of them helped.
This brings me to my next issue, even the slightest overclock using the built in wizard starts causing blue screens, games shutting down and not booting back up until I restart, and even then it's very unstable so I have just reverted to optimized defaults and updating the BIOS.
I spoke to someone on the online web chat who helped me and asked me to perform a memory test usint memtest86. I did this and there were no errors with the RAM. They also asked me to take a look and see if there were any bent pins on the CPU.
The CPU has no pins, however the motherboard does but I did not notice anything bent on there either. Loaded the computer up again and started playing games, the same issue was happening now even on default bios settings. I had another Blue screen error this time saying.
SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED. Booted up, and another blue screen then saying KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE.
This time however the computer would not go to the post screen. I looked inside and noticed that the Q CODE LED had number 55 on it and the DRAM_LED light was light up yellow.
After fiddling around, it appears the Motherboard now wont boot to POST unless the A1 & A2 ram slots are empty. I have swapped the RAM out and tried different combos so I know it is definitely not faulty RAM.
PLEASE help as I am getting extremely frustrated and just want to play Fallout 4!
Thanks guys, sorry for the essay.
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