PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA

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I have a brand new Windows 7 x64 install and it worked fine for 2 days but now I get a PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA BSOD every time I startup, I read it might be RAM related but I have a dual boot setup and XP works fine :confused:

Can it be that a Windows 7 update causes the BSOD since there were some updates installed yesterday?
Can I delete the updates in safe mode?

I know I can do a clean install again but that would mean another few hours of installing crap I'd rather not do, is there a way to re-install Windows keeping the installed programs working?
 
memtest it, windows 7 will use more memory than xp due to the way it caches stuff, it could just be that xp isn't trying to use the bad memory area.
 
Kotu said:
memtest it, windows 7 will use more memory than xp due to the way it caches stuff, it could just be that xp isn't trying to use the bad memory area.
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Could be, but it has worked fine for a few days.

One thing I did notice was that the NB voltage was reset to default which is too low for a 400Mhz bus overclock but after raising the voltage the BSOD remains, could that have caused a problem that remains now?
 
You really need to start your overclock from scratch and do your stress testing again. Just because XP worked ok doesn't mean Windows 7 will have the same tolerances.
 
Tested the memory with the Windows 7 diagnostic and it came up with no errors, which is what I expected as I made sure my overclock is Stress Prime stable.

As the install was only a few days old I decided to just reinstall Windows 7 and after a reinstall it worked fine again so I have no idea what caused the issue :confused:

One thing I did was enable AHCI mode and use drivers before Windows install but I forgot that I also have XP in a dual boot which isn't compatible with AHCI :(
Can I change AHCI to IDE mode if I need to use WinXP and change it back to AHCI for Win7 or will that give me problems?
 
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I had some issues with my PC BSODing and generally freaking out
Windows memory diagnostic was tried and it passed fine

Tried memtest from a CD and it errored within 3 seconds showing loads of memory errors
conclusion , windows memory test is useless
Try memtest and see what happens
 
Let memtest run for 2 complete passes over an hour and no errors.

And Windows 7 is still running fine now, so I guess the other install got borked somehow.
 
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