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BSOD on startup; PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
Hi!
Had this problem for about a week now, however it has been getting worse recently, last week my laptop blue screened once or twice, and this morning it happened within 2 minutes of booting up, every time I restarted it. I can start my PC and log into windows, and sometimes get a few programs running, but not enough time to run any diagnostics or even view log files. I can't start the machine in safe mode either, it crashes and restarts while loading drivers.
System Specs:
Dell Studio 14z
Intel duo (? -- I'll double check when I get home)
5GB PC3 8500s RAM, (I know weird number, not sure how they got that)
Windows 7 home premium x64
Can't think of anything else off the top of my head that could be relevant.
I've done a little research on it, seems like its either:
A) bad hardware, RAM/HDD/L1/L2 cache or processor itself. or,
B) bad driver. (I'm leaning towards this problem)
I'm up at school at the moment, so I don't have direct access to it at the moment, but I have extra PC's that I can use at home to post/run some HDD tests on if needed. I can probably get the logs from the laptop HDD as well via that.
Here's what I have tried doing so far:
-Ran Windows memory check tool, no RAM errors (not Memtest86, I know, but I don't have a bootable USB key with memtest on it, or a CD drive for my laptop. I should have one by tonight though, so I'll be running that overnight, will post results tomorrow.)
-Removed the single 4GB RAM module I could find on my PC and restarted with just the 1 GB that's somewhere else on the motherboard, same results.
-Removed the HDD to back up some data and am now running chkdsk on it from my desktop.
-Tried system restore, but I get a different bluescreen, didn't think to take a picture of it, I'll post it when I get home tonight. IIRC it was a IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL error.
Can't get the crash dump files from here, but I'll try and post them when I get home tonight, but here's the bluescreen info:
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...blahblahblah shutting down your computer...
cpuz135_x64.sys
PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
blah blah blah
***STOP: 0x00000050 (0xffffffff00000028, 0x0000000000000000, 0xfffff8800A414603, 0x0000000000000005)
*** cpuz135_x64.sys - Address FFFFF8800A414306 base at FFFFF8800A412000 datestamp 4e779f0d
Thanks for your help!