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Ok, I need some techinical advice from those alot more able than myself.
This afternoon I arrived home from work and started up my PC as normal. I left the room, went to grab a glass of wine and came straight back again - unfortunately during this time it seems the PC wanted to die on me. I came back to a bright blue screen (I have been told its the ‘Blue screen of death’) and it said the following error occured;
PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
Well, firstly I am confused as to how I can have a page fault in an area that doesnt have pages… but then again, what do I know about the inside of a PC?
Anyway, I restared the PC and managed to log into my User Account. I have a second user account for my little sister who comes to stay with me occasionaly. Anyway, it was logging in when it suddenly had another error box, this time it told me there wasa problem with Windows Explorer and that it had found a problem and needed to close. I OK’d this and sat there for 5 minutes with the PC doing nothing.
I eventually restarted again and now have managed to log in. Anyway, I am slightly worried. I ran 3 virus scans last night and everything was fine before I shut down.
Can anyone shed any light to these errors or help at all?
Cheers,
R
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Ahoy its commonly useful to write down the error line that is printed in the blue screen. This one with the hexadecimal values and search for it on google.
PageFault is something with adressing memory that is out of range… the page that is adressed is not valid or not accessable.
Did you have a look to the event log in windows? there are maybe some more information what did go wrong
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**The non-paged area of memory is the memory which isn’t ‘paged’ out to your HD. The most common cause of this error is failing memory, the second most common cause is the address bus on the processor is messing up.
This can also be caused by overclocking your system or it’s getting too hot in the case. Check to make sure all of your fans are running properly.**
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Correct me if I’m wrong, but paging errors can also occur when your RAMs are not inserted in the appropriate manner. By this, I mean that RAMs have rules how to be placed into the DIMM slots - some motherboards use colour-matching, but I’ve also heard of symmetrical placement… On the other hand, if your PC’s been working perfectly for months now, this is obviously not the case.
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If you have more than one memory DIMM, try to move them around to determine whether one of those seems to be failing. It’d be even better if you had another bar from another PC to try it out. Maybe check to see if the DIMMs are firmly inserted (they might’ve moved or unseated after time, although it’d be surprising).
If you can determine the issue with this…
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best way to cheak memory is either try it in anotehr pc or run memtest.
