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Page fault in non paged area - BSOD
Recently I've been getting an on and off occurrence of "display driver has stopped responding and has recovered" and BSOD's showing “page fault in non paged area”. Under normal computer use such as word processing instand messaging, browsing the web and photo editing etc. apart from what I'm just about to explain is fine and the computer doesn't crash, nor drivers un-respond.
However, when I try and run minecraft in far render distance with mods, Optifine (a FPS booster), and far render distance in any architecture (x86 and x64) of Java (taking up a bit more RAM and video processing power), run a Minecraft server (the majority of where my RAM is going), have Firefox open with a couple of tabs or even sometimes just running minecraft and trying to record my screen with Camstasia alone, the PC will lock and jump to BSOD or if lucky the driver stop message will show up. The weird thing is when I check my RAM and CPU usage in task manager I peak around 80-90 at the most. I have also done many stress tests running Prime95 and Intel burn test following guides on the internet how to stress properly, plus memtest x86 with 12 passes which all come back clean.
In my motherboard settings I have changed the iGPU memory to 512MB, so that half a gigabytes is dedicated to the built in GPU. My question is, am I trying to run too much of an internal graphics? I have also tried an old DDR2 512MB GPU and this has also had the "display driver has stopped responding and has recovered" message, but I haven't any BSOD with it yet, as I haven't run the same amount of tasks for my PC to perform as mentioned above and below. However, after writing this I will try the same procedure to replicate the problems with the iGPU, but this time with the GPU card. And I'll post the results.
With minecraft running more things (such as mods etc. compared to most minecraft users) + the server hosted on the same machine or just minecraft (with no server) and screen recording software, is this too much for the PC to handle hence why Windows is crashing?
Much help appreciated,
Will