Hello,
This past weekend my 2 month old rig went into a BSOD loop just as I was loading a save in Endless Legend, just as the windows logo appears onscreen I'm greeted with errors like "page fault in non-paged area", "memory management", "irql not less equal", "system exception not handled" or a generic error page saying I may have driver issues.
I did some research in various threads and most of them pointed to faulty ram or even faulty dimm slots. Following their advice I ran memtest (each stick individually and in different slots, 4 passes at least in each configuration) and windows memory diagnostics and none of them showed any errors, just to be on the safe side I bought an additional kit (HyperX Fury 2x8gb 2133 mhz) and tested the stability of the PC. It did fine for about half an hour but eventually it went into a BSOD loop again, then I updated my MOBO Bios to no avail.
At this point I suspected a driver issue but I´m no expert on driver utilities so the easier way for me to discard this would be to wipe the SSD and install windows again. Using a CD the process ran fine up until 49% when it crashed yet again, making it impossible to finish the installation as it booted into the same error message that I had to restart in order to continue.
To circumvent this I booted into a spare HDD with the same OS and to my surprise the BSOD loop dissapeared. I used the pc normally for two hours and it remained perfectly stable, using disk management I quick-formatted the SDD and installed windows normally with zero problems.
I've installed nvidia and mobo drivers, malwarebytes antivirus and updated windows and apparently the problem was solved; to my dismay it bsod'd again (page fault in non-paged area) two hours into browsing the web and I dont know what else to do. It seems stable now but the underlying issue is still there.
My elimination process has ruled out ram, psu, cpu, gpu and driver issues. I suspect I either need to send my MOBO to warranty or my SDD has some issue I've yet to discover, my system specs are as follows:
Windows 7 Ultimate
Intel i5 6500 @3.2ghz
Gigabyte Ga-h170 Gaming 3 Motherboard
EVGA GTX 970
2x8gb Corsair Vengeance DDR4 Ram @2400 mhz
EVGA Bronze 650W Semi Modular PSU
Sandisk SSD Plus 240 GB
Everything except the SSD and the GPU were bought two months ago. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
This past weekend my 2 month old rig went into a BSOD loop just as I was loading a save in Endless Legend, just as the windows logo appears onscreen I'm greeted with errors like "page fault in non-paged area", "memory management", "irql not less equal", "system exception not handled" or a generic error page saying I may have driver issues.
I did some research in various threads and most of them pointed to faulty ram or even faulty dimm slots. Following their advice I ran memtest (each stick individually and in different slots, 4 passes at least in each configuration) and windows memory diagnostics and none of them showed any errors, just to be on the safe side I bought an additional kit (HyperX Fury 2x8gb 2133 mhz) and tested the stability of the PC. It did fine for about half an hour but eventually it went into a BSOD loop again, then I updated my MOBO Bios to no avail.
At this point I suspected a driver issue but I´m no expert on driver utilities so the easier way for me to discard this would be to wipe the SSD and install windows again. Using a CD the process ran fine up until 49% when it crashed yet again, making it impossible to finish the installation as it booted into the same error message that I had to restart in order to continue.
To circumvent this I booted into a spare HDD with the same OS and to my surprise the BSOD loop dissapeared. I used the pc normally for two hours and it remained perfectly stable, using disk management I quick-formatted the SDD and installed windows normally with zero problems.
I've installed nvidia and mobo drivers, malwarebytes antivirus and updated windows and apparently the problem was solved; to my dismay it bsod'd again (page fault in non-paged area) two hours into browsing the web and I dont know what else to do. It seems stable now but the underlying issue is still there.
My elimination process has ruled out ram, psu, cpu, gpu and driver issues. I suspect I either need to send my MOBO to warranty or my SDD has some issue I've yet to discover, my system specs are as follows:
Windows 7 Ultimate
Intel i5 6500 @3.2ghz
Gigabyte Ga-h170 Gaming 3 Motherboard
EVGA GTX 970
2x8gb Corsair Vengeance DDR4 Ram @2400 mhz
EVGA Bronze 650W Semi Modular PSU
Sandisk SSD Plus 240 GB
Everything except the SSD and the GPU were bought two months ago. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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