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windows 7 - How do I resolve BSOD: PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA?


I have been troubleshooting this for a few days and cannot fix this.


Computer specifications:




  • mobo: ASUS Sabertooth X58 LGA 1366 Intel X58 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard




  • CPU:** Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 (Bloomfield) @ 2.67 ( no OC )




  • RAM: 6144MB RAM




  • GPU: 2x NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 1Go in SLI (sli is not enabled at the moment anyway)




  • Drives:




    • OCZ RevoDrive OCZSSDPX-1RVD0120 PCI-E x4 120GB PCI Express MLC Internal SSD [RAID-0].
      (I know this could potentially cause trouble, but I had the BSOD before using this drive.)




    • Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31500341AS 1.5TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive - bare drive






Click here for a log of a crash I just had.


Click here for a log of a crash I had 30 minutes later, note that it's another driver.


It seems to be occurring randomly so far. I haven't noticed any kind of pattern.


I tried:



  • Windows memory diagnostic (went smoothly at 1066mhz)

  • As I said, it was still happening on my HDD, so when I bought the revodrive I installed a new OS on there and still got the error. I believed it happened and I had no drivers installed at that point (not 100% sure)


  • Changed the following registry value to 1 (true):


    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager
        \MemoryManagement\ClearPageFileAtShutdown

  • Tried to lower the RAM clock even more.

  • Made sure the RAM timing was set to the value that was recommended by the manufacturer.

  • Verified if the motherboard was in good physical condition (yes and it's brand new).


There is one thing to note, when I got the new motherboard, I installed the new drivers WITHOUT formatting and the I removed the motherboard drivers that I could remove from the control panel (pretty much the first things that have been installed). Could this cause an issue even on the other drive (revodrive)?


I'm getting tired of this, spending so much money and cannot get this to work correctly.



Answer



Sounds like a bad memory subsystem to me (probably RAM modules). If you're getting dumps for varying processes, and you've tried multiple drives and re-installing, then it's probably not drives or a Windows setting.


If you don't have other RAM sticks to swap in for testing:



  1. Ensure you have the latest BIOS for the motherboard. (Asus Support) - Currently the latest version is 0802, released Jan 17, 2011.


If that doesn't help...



  1. Go get Memtest86+ and run it for 3 days straight. We do a minimum 72-hour burn-in on all new systems, and have caught plenty of bad RAM in the 3rd day.


It may be a faulty motherboard, but 90% of the time it's the RAM. Unfortunately unless you have replacement parts to swap in and try, it could take a while to find the cause.


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