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BSOD every boot - PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA (ntoskrnl.exe)
Hello 7forums, this is my first post. I read the posting guidelines, hope I've got in most of what is needed below.
Since last friday on the 26th of october my computer is blue screening every time I use it. The computer BSODs immediatelly after the Windows loading screen on 100 % of all boots.
Before that, it has been working fine for 1.5 years with the occational blue screen, but nothing that did not go away immediatelly on a subsequent boot and did not return for multiple days or weeks.
The error message is PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA. No dll is mentioned anywhere on the blue screen.
I have not installed any new hardware recently. I used it fine 2 hours before it stopped working, and before that multiple weeks without any changes to HW.
Here is what I have done so far to try to resolve the problem.
* Booting in safe mode fails with BSOD, same thing with 'last known good config'
* Tried to repair windows. Repair fails on 'repair boot' with another BSOD "verification of KnownDLL failed". After reboot again I'm back to PAGE_FAULT... BSOD again.
* Viewed the minidump files in BlueScreenViewer. The last one with the same message that looks relevant does NOT seem to have a driver on the call stack, there is only ntoskrnl.exe.
* I've run checkdisk from repair cmd-line, no reported errors on any disks and all files seem to be there fine.
* I've removed all 4 memory sticks and tried rebooting with only one of them in the motherboard on boot, regardless of which are there still the same BOSD.
* I've run memory test twice from my F12 boot menu, no reported errors with all 4 sticks connected.
* I have 2 graphics cards. I've tried to boot with just one of them, but regardless of which one is in the motherboard I still get the same BSOD behavior.
* I've tried getting rid of dust inside my box and rebooting, no change in result.
* Read somewhere that running sfc /scannow may help, but that command fails with a message about there being is a pending repair that needs reboot first, but reboot/repair fails as mentioned above.
* Booting from my Windows install DVD does not change anything either
All this is done with no other peripherals connected to the computer except monitor, keyboard and mouse.
When my computer BSODs now no new minidump files seem to be created anymore. It does say on BSOD screen that it is creating a dump file, but when I check in Windows/Minidumps from subsequent repair boot+cmd console, its just the same ones there as before and no new dumps.
I have not tried to reinstall Windows since I feel it is likely this is a hardware problem and that a OS-reinstall would be a big pain to go through (lost files, lots of time, etc) and likely not make any difference anyway. I guess it is possible that windows repair actually fixed something and then just failed to complete, but I find that rather unlikely under the circumstances. But it's hard to be certain, obviously.
My conclusions are this
- It seems unlikely this is a faulty driver, hard drive, memory stick or graphics card.
- The most likely problem is faulty motherboard, if it is not that it might perhaps be the CPU
- I read somewhere that PSU problem could cause this BSOD error, but it seems unlikely to me in this case
- It is unlikely that re installing Windows would fix this
What do you guys think, am I drawing the right conclusions here?
BSOD minidumps are attached. Computer specs as below
Motherboard
Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD7, Socket-AM3+, ATX, 990FX+SB950, DDR3, 6xPCIe(2.0)x16, CFX&SLI, SATA 6Gb/s, USB 3.0, FW
CPU
AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition, Socket-AM3, Six Core, 3,3GHZ/3,7GHz Turbo, 9MB, 125W, Boxed
CPU Cooler
Noctua NH-U12P SE2, Socket 775/1155/1156/1366, AM2/AM2+/AM3, 1300 RPM, 92,3 m³/h, 19,8 dBA
Graphics card
(in CrossFire mode) 2* XFX Radeon HD 6970 2GB GDDR5, PCI-Express 2.1, 2xDVI, HDMI, 2xmini-DisplayPort, 880MHz,
PSU
Corsair TX V2 850W PSU, ATX 12V V2.3, 80 Plus Bronze, Standard. 4x 6+2-pin PCIe, 8x SATA, 140mm Fan
SSD (boot disk)
Corsair SSD Force Series™ 3, 60GB, SATA 6 Gb/s (SATA3.0), 550MB/490MB/s read/write, SandForce® SF-2200
Disk (w/ Windows)
Western Digital Caviar® Green™ 2TB, SATA 3Gb/sec, RPM = IntelliPower, 64MB
OS
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium, x64, English, Full, DVD