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| Thread ID: 100190 | 2009-05-29 09:50:00 | BSOD; PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA (with graphical artifacting) | Kindel (6640) | Press F1 |
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| 778002 | 2009-05-29 09:50:00 | Hi, I have a dual-boot system, XP and Vista (each on separate physical hard drives) and am recieving this BSOD message on startup with Vista, and just a straight black screen of nothing with XP. Both will reach the 'loading' screen that displays the Windows logo, but this will be heavily artifacted, and even the BSOD itself is artifacted in Vista's case. This leads me to suspect a problem with VRAM? Would I possibly be on the right track here? For the record the PC has worked fine in this configuration for several years, no new software or drivers installed, and it's with a 7600GT. |
Kindel (6640) | ||
| 778003 | 2009-05-29 10:15:00 | Take one step at a time - since its doing the fault on two Different OS's - sounds like a hardware problem. Download memtest86 (www.memtest.org) OR Direct Download (www.memtest.org) -- Burn the ISO file in the Zipped folder using your ISO burning software. If you dont have any, I suggest you try ISO recorder (isorecorder.alexfeinman.com) - to make the Bootable CD - select your OS in the download, install it, right click the ISO Memtest ISO file - burn/Create CD -- Next, then boot the Problem PC from this - any faults will show in red. IF there are faults with the VRAM - it may also show from the bootable CD. Edited: Do you have another graphic Card you can swap out to test the card ? |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 778004 | 2009-05-29 10:42:00 | Yeah I have a brand new 4850 in this PC but it requires a separate power connecter and a bunch of other hassel-inducing things. It is PCIe though so I'll try it I guess. Thanks for the suggestions, I'll do that ASAP before ripping the videocard out of this PC I'm on now Also, the BIOS is artifacting too, all the colours are wrong, and I've just noticed parts of POST are featuring the same vertical artifacting broken-lines as the Windows logo screens |
Kindel (6640) | ||
| 778005 | 2009-05-29 11:21:00 | odd, I can't edit my previous post =/ But I've just checked and I can get into Vista in safe mode with not artifacting, if that helps any. |
Kindel (6640) | ||
| 778006 | 2009-05-29 11:26:00 | Sounds like its the Video Card. Could possibly be the PSU also but I doubt it. Try that 4850 ASAP Blam |
Blam (54) | ||
| 778007 | 2009-05-29 11:31:00 | Memtest has finished, no errors in the RAM. Just quickly before I try the 4850, will putting an ATi card in a machine with nVidia drivers still work for basic operating? | Kindel (6640) | ||
| 778008 | 2009-05-29 11:34:00 | This Stop message usually occurs after the installation of faulty hardware or in the event of failure of installed hardware (usually related to defective RAM, either main memory, L2 RAM cache, or video RAM). If hardware has been added to the system recently, remove it to see if the error recurs. If existing hardware has failed, remove or replace the faulty component. Something has randomly died and/or your PSU is going bad What's your PSU? Start swapping video cards/memory sticks If you have the wrong drivers, windows just won't load them. However if the problem is still there you'd probably still get the artifacts |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 778009 | 2009-05-29 13:11:00 | Memtest has finished, no errors in the RAM. Just quickly before I try the 4850, will putting an ATi card in a machine with nVidia drivers still work for basic operating? Should work, PnP |
Blam (54) | ||
| 778010 | 2009-05-29 13:34:00 | Okay I can't try the 4850 in the machine in question due to lack of a 12-pin (or was it 6? Either way, I don't have the fat connector it needs in that PC) power connector, however I tried the 7600GT in this PC I'm on now, and it showed the weird artifacting during the Windows logo, so I thought "aha, it is the card that's the problem"....but then Windows booted normally and was perfectly usable =/ I then popped the 7600GT back into it's dual-boot PC and it refused to boot, same as before. Could it be that some feature of the motherboard on that PC tells Windows to cease when it detects the presumably faulty 7600GT, but the mobo on this PC I'm on now, which is a more bare-bones Intel mobo, doesn't have that feature and so Windows boots normally with the faulty 7600GT? |
Kindel (6640) | ||
| 778011 | 2009-05-29 20:34:00 | I tried the 7600GT in this PC I'm on now, and it showed the weird artifacting during the Windows logo, so I thought "aha, it is the card that's the problem"....but then Windows booted normally and was perfectly usable =/ Still the card. |
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