BSOD upon startup, can't boot to OS

Hi everyone,

My Windows 10 (64bit) has always had issues with "page fault in nonpaged area" errors, usually when rebooting from sleep. Yesterday, my system crashed again again. Instead of booting up as normal, it crashed again with the same error, rebooted, and crashed again. My computer can no long boot to Windows.

I've searched online and have seen that it could be my RAM, so I tried running one stick at a time and it didn't help. I also tried to use a bootable flash drive (made with Media Creation Tool) to reformat my hard drive / reinstall Windows 10, but I get the same error/crash when I boot from the flash drive.

Here's my system specs:

CPU: Intel I-4790k
RAM: G.Skill RIPJAW 2x8GB
MOTHERBOARD: Asus Z97-A ATX LGA1150
STORAGE: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB SSD

Anybody have an idea on solving this issue? Any help would be appreciated

essenbe said:

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Thanks for the feedback esssenbe. I've updated my system specs as instructed. I can't follow the instructions for the "posting instructions" since I can't boot to Windows. I'm posting this on my MacBook (don't judge).

essenbe said:

sorry about that. Sorry you are being forced to use a Mac. What happens when youtry to boot into the USB/DVD Drive?

When I try to boot into the USB drive, the Windows 10 logo comes up, the dots circle once, and on the second time the system crashes and gives me the paged fault error

I don't like the UI of OSX, or the fact that it can barely run video games, but in the 5 years I've had that laptop, I've never had an issue like this. And, I've only had Windows 10 on my machine for a month and a half. So, that's something.

essenbe said:

Do you have a UEFI Install or a MBR? Have you tried to use the one time boot menu key (probably F8) for you or change the startup settings? Inyour boot menu in BIOS, tell me what your hard drive boot option is? does it list the hard drive or does it say Windows Boot Manager?

The USB shows up as both a UEFI and a drive. I don't have an MBR or UEFI besides that. I've used the F8 (F2/DEL on my computer) to access the BIOS and choose the flash drive as the boot option. In the BIOS, it shows Windows Boot Manager as 1st boot priority and the hard drive partition as 2nd boot priority. Neither of these choices work for me, and neither does the USB drive.

Someone on another forum recommended I try swapping out the hard drive as that may be the issue; I'm going to try that tonight.

FYI my computer has a Samsung EVO 250gb SSD.

I've tried to boot from every possible option (UEFI included) with the same result.