PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA

[JohnP68]

Last few days I've had several blue screen of death situations, with the above error message (and a STOP 0x0000050 error). I've not changed any hardware recently. Running Vista for a few months now and had no particular problems up until now. I've run a memory check and have performed a check on the system hard disk with no errors reported.

Any ideas what the cause could be? Other than the above, doing a google seems to suggest that the only way to sort it is to try removing various hardware on a trial and error basis to see what's causing it.

[Funk]

Are you using the memory stick to take advantage of the pre-caching that Vista does? If there's a fault on the memory on the stick then that could well be the culprit.

0x0000050 PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA is most likely to be a memory issue of some sort, I think.

[JohnP68]

No, no memory stick in use, so must be something else.

[ThePassenger]

Last time I saw Windows do that it was XP... but it's still a reasonable question:

Are you using an ATi graphics card?

[wolves_wanderer]

Try removing the RAM a stick at a time and see if you still get the problem. I have had messages similar to this when overclocking and the memory is getting unstable.

[Stu R]

wolves_wanderer said:

Try removing the RAM a stick at a time and see if you still get the problem. I have had messages similar to this when overclocking and the memory is getting unstable.

definately the first thing that springs to mind here from previous overclocking experience.

[JohnP68]

It's a NVIDIA graphics card.

If it's a memory problem, wouldn't this be picked up by memtest or the Vista built-in memory checker (both of which I've run and found no problems)?

[wolves_wanderer]

JohnP68 said:

It's a NVIDIA graphics card.

If it's a memory problem, wouldn't this be picked up by memtest or the Vista built-in memory checker (both of which I've run and found no problems)?

In theory yes, in practice not always.

[Funk]

Weirdly I also had this error for no apparent reason the other night. I reseated the RAM and it seems to be working fine again.