BSOD messages

[BiotechBen]

Hey, so I've gotten in the past few hours the following messages from BSOD's:

• Page fault in nonpaged area
• Critical system failed

Could this be from bad memory? It was having some trouble running at it's listed speed before, and now it's making me question if there might be something wrong.

 

Also running a WD Blue easystore 240GB ssd that is currently full. Could that contribute to errors as well?

Event logs show:

distributedCOM ERROR 

ntfs error (multiple different ones. One at most known BSOD times)

[Applefreak]

14 minutes ago, BiotechBen said:

Hey, so I've gotten in the past few hours the following messages from BSOD's:

• Page fault in nonpaged area
• Critical system failed

Could this be from bad memory? It was having some trouble running at it's listed speed before, and now it's making me question if there might be something wrong.

 

Also running a WD Blue easystore 240GB ssd that is currently full. Could that contribute to errors as well?

Event logs show:

distributedCOM ERROR 

ntfs error (multiple different ones. One at most known BSOD times)

You should run checkdisk on that drive and use sfc /scannow (run in cmd prompt) to check windows file integrity.

Make sure the SSD has a couple of GB of free space for the OS to dump and cache files.

[BiotechBen]

I ran sfc/scannow before and it came back negative....

[BiotechBen]

Chkdsk reports "windows has scanned the file system and found no problems. No further action is required"

[BiotechBen]

@Applefreak would it help to know that it only happens when playing Battlefront 2

[Applefreak]

6 minutes ago, BiotechBen said:

@Applefreak would it help to know that it only happens when playing Battlefront 2

How full is your drive?

[BiotechBen]

It's currently at 99% I'm getting a HDD today to supplement it. Moving basically everything over to the HDD

[BiotechBen]

I also seem to not have permission to view the dump files

[BiotechBen]

@Applefreak do you think that the full drive is causing errors?

[Applefreak]

2 minutes ago, BiotechBen said:

@Applefreak do you think that the full drive is causing errors?

Well, if you were to run out of physical memory, the os starts to use your drive as virtual memory. If the drive is full it can no longer do that. You can set the virtual memory allocation to a fixed value, however this means that the set amount is lost as free space. I would leave at least 10 GB of free space on that drive to be safe. It makes sense this happens while gaming as memory usage can be fairly high.

[BiotechBen]

with 8gb of vram and 16gb of DDR4 memory you think thats what is happening?

[Guest]

7 hours ago, BiotechBen said:

Hey, so I've gotten in the past few hours the following messages from BSOD's:

• Page fault in nonpaged area
• Critical system failed

Could this be from bad memory? It was having some trouble running at it's listed speed before, and now it's making me question if there might be something wrong.

 

 

I think you're onto something.

What exactly is the make and model of the memory? (And the rest of the system for that matter)

[BiotechBen]

@Applefreak 

-Ryzen 5 2600x with stock cooler (was running cheap Thermaltake before)

-ASRock B450 Pro4

-Seasonic FOCUS gm-550w PSU

-Corsair vengeance LPX 2x8 16gb CL16 RAM running at 2666 (rated for 3200 but unstable at that clock)

WD Blue easystore 240GB SSD (just installed a 2TB WD Blue HDD)

 

 

Lemme know if I'm forgetting anything

[BiotechBen]

whatever the problem was, it seems to have resolved itself for now. got the HDD set up and moved all the games over to there and it seems to be running pretty smoothly now.