is my mobo dying?

[Arachnotronic]

So, I am running my sig i7 rig at stock, and I've been getting a number of BSODs. Latest one was "PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA" while I was just surfing the web. Is this a sign that my mobo is dying? Or that my memory's bad? Or maybe I just need to reinstall windows after having several mobos + GPUs on this install?

Help?

also, I set my memory to DDR3-1066 since running at 1333 always gives me BSODs fairly soon after boot (the mem controller of Gulftown only supports 1066, right?)

 

[janas19]

Sounds like a RAM issue. You run Memtest on them?

 

[VirtualLarry]

Yeah, sounds like a RAM issue to me too.

 

[Arachnotronic]

Now getting "DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL_TO", but the other BSOD stopped after I upped mem voltage.

 

[FalseChristian]

That's good. It was an obvious memory problem. If the mobo was defective it wouldn't give you an error message at all I don't think. The system would just fail.

 

[Arachnotronic]

Hey, so believe it or not, the issue was not with memory. It was actually a graphics driver problems. When I switched back to my GTX 580 from a 7970, I installed the highest version number in my folder -- which turned out to be a buggy beta.

Running WHQL drivers, works fine. Memtest86 ran multiple passes and passed 🙂