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Frequent PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA & IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Hello, I'm new to the forums, and I tried searching for this, but gave up after about 30 minutes of reading threads that were different from my problem. A few days ago, I started getting BSODs while playing Might and Magic Heroes VII. It got to the point where even launching the game would cause the BSOD immediately. I tried installing and playing Heroes VI, and it worked fine for a while, but then the BSODs started happening again. It seems to come up after playing Heroes Vi for about 30-60 minutes. This makes it really hard to reproduce to see if anything I do fixes it.
Anyway, it seems to randomly be either PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA or IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL in the BSOD error message. I'm not extremely computer savvy, but I've tried the following with no effect:
- Using older NVIDIA drivers - I tried version from January, thinking some new video card driver update was killing me.
- Reinstalling Windows 10, leaving files intact - This computer was running Windows 8.1 up until about a month ago, so I thought maybe something was wrong with the upgrade. I'd not encountered any problems since the upgrade until a few days ago.
- Running MemTest86 - I started thinking maybe I had some bad RAM, so I ran MemTest86 yesterday. I didn't know about this forum, or I would've saved a screenshot. I did 8 passes with no errors. It took about 18 hours, so I'm not too keen on running this right now for a screenshot, but I will if it's necessary.
- Ran disk Error Checking tool from Windows - I run this after most of the BSODs. Says everything's fine most of the time. Sometimes, after the page fault error, it'll say there's a problem, but I'll run "chkdsk /r /f" and then restart and it does the check and possibly fixes stuff. I'm not sure where the logs are for that. I've done a fresh install of Windows since last running chkdsk, so any logs would be gone anyway.
- Fresh Install of Windows 10 - I thought maybe the problem was something from the upgrade, so I created bootable USB flash drive installer this morning, using instructions here https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/2...dows-10-a.html. Windows installed new drivers for everything, as far as I could tell. I installed only Steam, Malwarebytes, Chrome, Logitech Setpoint, Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client, and Might and Magic Heroes VI (which installs Uplay). I played Heroes VI for about 45 minutes and it gave the PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA error.
I'm not sure what other information I can provide that's not already in the .ZIP file here. It looks pretty comprehensive. Please let me know what else I can do to help.