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BSOD - page fault in non paged area, always occurs
Rather than just now and then, I'm getting the attached blue screen of death every time I start my PC up. No matter whether I boot normally, try to boot to safe mode, using a Windows 7 repair disk, or my installation CD, they all lead to the same BSOD soon after I get a message that windows is loading.
Things I've tried:
1. Changing out the (2 x 4GB) RAM sticks, so I have just one in at a time, swapped their places, used an old stick on its own, etc.
2. Resetting the BIOS.
3. Booting from Windows 7 repair disk, or windows installation CD.
4. Starting in Safe Mode.
5. Physically disconnecting the drive with Windows on it, and then booting from CD.
Any other ideas? I'm not even sure what exactly is wrong. From Googling the error and file name shown, it seems like this is a file system corruption of some sort - so I'd think that's a problem with the drive Windows is on - but I've ruled that out.
So maybe it's a problem with the RAM - the technical information at the bottom suggests it could be something like that, but as I mention I've tried all kinds of RAM configurations on the motherboard. I wasn't in changing any settings in the BIOS before this happened - but is it worth doing that? Most are just set to auto.
The BSOD first occurred after a game I was playing (WoW) froze on logout, and couldn't be ended even from task manager. So eventually, since nothing else under Windows worked, I had to physically restart the PC.
I'd be happy to change out another piece of hardware (e.g. motherboard) if I could be sure that was the issue. Does the information at the bottom of the screen shot mean anything to anyone?
Obviously if I could get into Windows, or at least a command prompt, I could get more info or run a chkdsk. But nope! Any help or ideas would be hugely appreciated.