Near to tearing my hair out...

Gerard · 27 Nov 2009 at 22:49

Got my 295 back today and so far nothing but problems, specifically after i install driver a blue screen with the old "page_fault_in_nonpaged_area.

This has happened on vista 64 and win 7 64, same error. Ive tried several driver revisions and no change, tried putting the card into a different pci-e slot, no change. Turned off my overclock, no change, plugged my power cable into the wall directly incase the surge protector was somehow affecting it, no change.

One thing i will note is that the other day while using my 3870x2 mw2 locked up and rebooted the system, ever since that i was getting an ati error message and was unable to reinstall the card on either vista 64 or 7 64. Im assuming its possible that the card crashing could have possibly affected the motherboard in some way as i had no problems before that.

Mobo is an asus p5q-e psu coolermaster modular 850, q6600, kingston hyperx ram 1066 2x2gigs.

Any ideas?

Reality|Bites · 27 Nov 2009 at 22:51

try it in another system to rule out yout motherboard.

Gerard · 27 Nov 2009 at 23:01

No other systems to try it in, ive another mobo but its an older board that doesnt support quad cores.

TaKeN · 27 Nov 2009 at 23:03

Tried removing and booting with one stick of ram?

Could be a dead/faulty stick causing you problems. Computers are a pita at the best of times.

Gerard · 27 Nov 2009 at 23:11

TaKeN said:
Tried removing and booting with one stick of ram?

Could be a dead/faulty stick causing you problems. Computers are a pita at the best of times.

Just going to try that now. Seriously getting on my nerves this =/

Gerard · 27 Nov 2009 at 23:20

No luck with the ram, tried one stick in all the slots same error.

TaKeN · 27 Nov 2009 at 23:34

Bah, I feel your pain. I'll try and think of some other things that might be causing it.

Gerard · 27 Nov 2009 at 23:49

The thing i find strange is earlier today before this arrived it was running fine with an 8500gt, seems a bit odd that 2 multi gpu cards just suddenly stop working on this board. Even tried updating the bios with no change =/

tommythetim · 28 Nov 2009 at 00:13

just a thought, have you tried locking the pcie to 101mhz?

Gerard · 28 Nov 2009 at 00:32

tommythetim said:
just a thought, have you tried locking the pcie to 101mhz?

Yup makes no difference.

jigger · 28 Nov 2009 at 01:53

Jump the CMOS
Update the BIOS
Check Voltages
Surface check your hard drive.

Reality|Bites · 28 Nov 2009 at 02:00

run a spyware and virus scan.

I use super antispyware.

Orangey · 28 Nov 2009 at 05:28

Are you using auto (SPD) timings in BIOS for RAM? Also, give your HDDs a proper checking with enterprise-grade tools, no seatools etc as they're all naff.

Gerard · 28 Nov 2009 at 09:34

OK so far ive checked 2 different video cards, the 295 and the 3870x2 and both blue screen on booting to windows, every time without fail.

Ive ran the full scandisk and no errors were found.
Ive tried different ram in the board, still get the bsod so that pretty much rules out dodgy ram as the other ram works with no probs in my shuttle.
Ive formatted windows 7 and installed vista 64, again bsod (page_fault)

Ive got a spare mobo here with a pentium d i can try the card on, but from the looks of things id say the motherboard seems to be the cause of the problems. Slightly hard to believe 2 gpu cards are bad whereas the single gpu 8500gt works fine.

TaKeN · 28 Nov 2009 at 10:05

All additional power connectors plugged into the board? and card?

It does sound very odd.

Gerard · 28 Nov 2009 at 10:21

TaKeN said:
All additional power connectors plugged into the board? and card?

It does sound very odd.

Yup, ive googled the error and ive found a few posts about it happening with the 295, problem is the posts were archived and no longer work.

Theres this post here same error no responses

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=90725&mode=threaded

basically the same error, asus mobo, 850 psu, dual card won;t work single card does.

TaKeN · 28 Nov 2009 at 10:33

I'd sign up to the Asus forums and get posting straight away..

I don't like the Asus asus p5q board. My friend bought one with a new cpu and ram last week, I spent the whole day saturday setting it up with my Radeon 4870 which I sold him. Each time you tried to install the ATi CCC and Drivers the computer would reboot itself!!

Strangely enough.. I installed Windows Service Pack 3 (this is on XP) and it stopped it happening.. very strange board.

Gerard · 28 Nov 2009 at 13:36

OK at the minute ive tried both the 295 and the 3870x2 in a different system thats on my desk, its an older gigabyte board with 2 igs of ram and a pentium d. Same issue, the nv card throws up the page_fault error and the ati card the kdmag.sys error.

The only 2 components form my main system is the ide hard drive and the dvd rom, even using a totally differerent psu at the minute, corsair 850. So looks like its possibly the hard drive causing the issue, not exactly sure how though. Gonna try a different sata drive and see what happens.

Gerard · 28 Nov 2009 at 15:10

Well after much messing i can only assume the card is at fault. Even in the windows install as soon as it hits the part where is installing display drivers it just craps out with a bsod. Ive tried a different motherboard, cpu, ram psu,optical drive and hard drive, theres really nothing more i can try. rma time again it seems

TaKeN · 28 Nov 2009 at 15:30

You say its only just come back from RMA aswell? :confused: