How to fix “Page fault in non paged area” error

Posted on April 23, 2009 at 5:33 am

I was recently working on a client PC and had to restart it due to a new application install. Upon restart, however, the computer blue-screened and displayed the following error message:

PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA

STOP: 0×00000050 (0xCD3DD628, 0×00000001, 0x804EFC9A, 0×00000000)

At first, I thought this was something to do with the application we just installed, so I decided to restart the computer in Safe Mode and uninstall the app. It seemed to have worked because the BSOD went away, but only for a short time.

After a few more restarts, the message came back again! After doing some research, I found out that this error message basically means that Windows is trying to find a piece of data in memory and it cannot be found.

According to Microsoft, this error can be caused by faulty hardware, anti-virus software, a corrupted NTFS volume or a bad system service.

One thing to quickly determine the issue is if you recently installed any new hardware on the computer, such as a video card, RAM chips, etc. If so, it means that there is something wrong with the hardware, most likely defective.

In my case, it was faulty RAM and I was able to figure that out because I removed one stick of RAM at a time and then restarted the computer. After the bad one was removed, the computer booted up fine.

If it’s a bad driver install, you can press F8 and choose the Last Known Good Configuration option, which will roll back any recent driver installs or registry changes.

If it’s a system service causing the error, you can login using Safe Mode and then go to Services under Administrative Tools in the Control Panel and disable the appropriate service.

If you’re still having issues with this problem, post a comment and I’ll try to help out. Enjoy!

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81 Responses to “How to fix “Page fault in non paged area” error”

Johnny Guru said on : April 24th, 2009 at 12:21 pm

First a kudo for writing some very interesting and useful posts. I noted in a recent one,”Page_fault_in_non-paged_area,” that readers are invited to post additional questions. Being a subscriber receiving these items via e-mail, I see no “link” to initiate a post back. I got to the one I’m using now by visiting the web site —

http://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/page-fault-in-non-paged-area-error/#respond

Suggestion: Can you add this option for e-mail subscribers?

Hman said on : May 18th, 2009 at 7:47 pm

I am having major issues with the page fault error, no matter what I do I keep getting the same blue screen. Cannot go to safe mode, last known config, anything just keeps going blue. It is a Dell XPS 400.

Please any help would be wonderful

ccb said on : May 23rd, 2009 at 3:45 pm

i turn on my laptop it acts like its going to boot up then the page fault in non paged area screen comes up and the computer restarts itself – it just keeps doing this unless i manually shut the laptop off – it even does it in safe mode and all the other options – help!!!!

Radbushi said on : June 5th, 2009 at 11:33 am

I’m haveing this page fault in a non paged area. It’s a new PC using Intel processer WinXP pro 64 bit. The system runs fine until I run windows update and thats when I get the page fault error. I have reinstalled Windows three times now and the same thing each time. I would really like to update windows, any suggestions?

Michael Sebastian said on : June 10th, 2009 at 6:26 pm

I have windows vista

I’ve tried restarting in safe mode, normally and last known good configuration but it keeps looping and going to the blue screen page_default …

and then offering to start in safe mode, safe mode w/ etc..

I’ve uplugged it & turned it back on w/the same results.

Any help would be appreciated

kapoor said on : June 13th, 2009 at 8:22 am

yeah..i get the exact same “Page fault in non-paged area” message. But my case is different. it happens when I’m close to the WiFi router. When i am in another room (little away from the router) its fine. so i dont know exactly what i have to uninstall?? pls help

Victoria said on : August 7th, 2009 at 6:31 pm

I am getting the same error. It had been deteremined to be caused by an update to my antivirus.firewall program…Eset. Unfortunately, after uninstalling the program, I now cannot boot to windows at all. I can occasionaly get in to safe mode, but not normal mode. I keep getting kicked back to the F8 screen.

Can you help me? I have not boot disks.

peter gillham said on : August 10th, 2009 at 2:25 pm

page fault in non paged area. However i cannot boot in safe mode or previous last known, keeps reverting back to F8 .Windows goes through the motions but stops.

Any suggestions ?

Andrew said on : August 12th, 2009 at 12:47 pm

Hello! First of all nice guide, but the problem I’m having is that I cannot use Last Known Good configuation or go into safe mode or any other mode. I cannot boot to Windows at all! Any other suggestion?

John H said on : August 13th, 2009 at 2:56 pm

Download the UBCD disk http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/. Boot into this and then go to the registry tools and restore your registry to a previous version. Reboot and you should be back up. If you continue to get the error restore to an earlier version of the registry.

Brian said on : August 14th, 2009 at 2:41 pm

I have been having the same exact problem since Wedneday. I cannot use Last Known Good Configuation or go into safe mode or any other mode either!

Scotty said on : September 9th, 2009 at 1:11 am

Greetings & Salutations to one & all:

I used to be very proficient on the computer, but with all of the vast changes that have taken place, I am at a lower level than a novice.

My 1-year old Gateway computer developed the BSOD terminal disease. I have files on that computer that I do not want to lose, so restoring to out-of-the-box condition is out of the equation.

I have downloaded “Registry Cleaners”, purchased one of them when it said that I had over 2,000 errors, but that didn’t stop the ever-growing BSOD monster.

In the end, I bought a used Dell off of a fellow who had it listed in Craigslist. The Gateway sits right beside the Dell, the BSOD staring at me like some sort of a prison guard, or worse yet, an executioner.

I have done everything I know, short of blasting the plagued thing into eternity. I do not know how to figure out which file, gig, or whatever the heck it is that has the problem that results into the BSOD.

Will someone PLEASE help me before the Mossberg 500 gets a shot at it??

Thank y’all, and be at peace.

“Beam Me Up” Scotty “to Mister” Rogers “neighborhood”.
(My name is Scotty Rogers).

Michelle Baiko said on : September 10th, 2009 at 5:41 pm

I am having the same issue/error code. I recently replaced a broken screen on my laptop with a used one. I have had “Page fault in non-paged area” issues such as this ever since. Could this possibly be the “bad hardware” of which you are referring to? The screen works fine.

Rubytuesday22 said on : November 8th, 2009 at 3:20 pm

Hi

Can you advise me because both my laptop and desktop pc come up with excatly same error within a day of each other, “Page fault in non-paged area”? Only link is a removable drive used on both to store and retrieve files from.

Help very much needed as I cannot boot either into Windows and need to save files from pc.

nana said on : November 19th, 2009 at 9:52 am

I am installing Windows and it it keeps on telling me page error in non page area and stops the process….I need help!

howard said on : November 23rd, 2009 at 11:07 am

I am running windows 2003 and get this error message:

page fault in non paged area

oxoooooo50 (ox9ab8f737, 0×00000001, 0xf789a4fc, 0×00000000

I can get into f8 menu, but last known just reboots, safe mode in any option, just keeps rebooting.

only going to disable reboot will I get the BSOD.
I have access to some ERD disks, but have yet to try them.
thx
Howard

Jim said on : December 2nd, 2009 at 1:14 pm

I am having the same issues with the page fault error, I keep getting the same blue screen, can’t go to safe mode, last known config, it just keeps going back to the same blue screen. I’ve found on other sources that it’s probably related to the Norton update, but I can’t even get in to remove the update.

Ronnie said on : December 14th, 2009 at 9:21 pm

I have the same problem with the page fault in nonpaged area! I can’t get it to go away no matter what I do! please help

shoe said on : December 24th, 2009 at 3:26 am

A few people here may have faulty ram. Anyone who’s reinstalled and found that that doest sort it, thats you.

Some of you are just needing an O/S reinstall. (the guy with the reg problems)

Ditch Norton, its a bloated, system-hogging unremovable peice of crapware. Good luck installing that b*****d. When you have, Get AVG (free or pay version, doesn’t matter).

This page_fault_in_nonpaged_area fault could mean faulty ram, however my RAM was working fine and then I installed windows 7. Now I get this nonpaged area memory fault (every couple of days)

Vlad said on : December 30th, 2009 at 6:21 pm

I was running AVG anti virus scanner and everything froze and i got bsod (blue screen of death) I am having major issues with the page fault error, no matter what I do I keep getting the same blue screen. Cannot go to safe mode, last known config, anything just keeps going blue. please i beg for help

Wally said on : January 2nd, 2010 at 12:14 pm

Does anyone ever get help on this? I see a lot of problems but no solution. I am trying to fix a computer from a friend that will not let me past the Blue screen of death with same page fault in non paged area even when I try to boot into safe mode and will not get past this error message.

I can not find any answers on google just request for help. Anybody have solutions to the problem(My friend never made a back-up disk for his Dell XPS 400 and he received no reinstall disk from Dell.) Dell computers are junk as far as I am concerned but I am trying to find out where the problem lies.

Can anyone help?

Anthony said on : January 2nd, 2010 at 4:33 pm

Both my M2N32-SLI Deluxe and Fatal1ty AN9 32X had video fail problems. Only after removing the second pair of newer OCZ PC6400 DDR 2 Rev 2.0 4-4-4-15 did the BSOD stop on the Fatal1ty and the M2N32-SLI Deluxe boards. My older dual channel OCZ PC6400 DDR2 Rev 2.0 have a sticker of 4-4-4, no 15 after it. I wonder if that was the difference. I was worried because I’d be able to play Crysis: Warhead in DX10 at max on my geForce 9800GTX+ OC 1G for maybe 25 minutes then the video would fail, monitor would not POST until reboot.

So long story short, the page fault in non-paged area was a bad set of dual channel DDR2 OCZ ram, thank goodness it’s lifetime warrantied.

Martin said on : January 4th, 2010 at 10:04 pm

If you have determined that hardware is not the issue by replacing the potentially problematic pieces you might try doing a recovery with your XP installation CD. It allows you to DISABLE software services before booting. It’s an option that might work.

Martin said on : January 4th, 2010 at 10:22 pm

Just a couple other notes on the recovery process. You’ll need the local administrator password and the program SERVICES you’ll be disabling will most likely be the last program that you installed before encountering the problem.

In my case it was SQL Server. It worked once I disabled the services and I was able to get a good backup of some critical local HD information. After I had what I needed I reinstalled the OS. I thought it was a good idea to have a fresh OS installation and I had the time.

Henry said on : January 7th, 2010 at 9:59 am

To fix this you need to REPAIR windows. Repairing does not mean wipe clean and start over. Repairing resets all Windows OPERATING files back to original. At worst some of your programs might have to be reinstalled, but better than losing all your data! To do this:

Insert windows XP Disk.

Once booted click INSTALL.

When asked for a new install or repair, click REPAIR.

IF YOU ARE PROMPTED TO FORMAT YOUR DRIVE EXIT AND START OVER. DO NOT FORMAT!!!

The repair will go through like you are fresh installing, but it is not, don’t worry. Again….if you are ever asked to format or create a partition then you will lose everything!

Once completed, it will reboot and you’ll be back in action. I’ve done this on machines that have the ‘pagesys’ whatever error and machines with viruses that destroyed windows operating system files.

Happy Computing

-Henry

kanhema said on : January 11th, 2010 at 2:41 pm

I have had this [page_fault] problem for a while now. I run a Linux OS and Windows 7 dually on my PC [in separate partitions] and both systems crash abruptly and W7 shows the BSOD and that [non_paged]error. My HDrive is 250GB and only 4GB is free, but i do not think this is a storage issue. Tried to run EasyBCD and Defrag to no avail. Rightnow I have a hammer and screwdriver in one hand and an XP CD in another, i dont know what to apply first. SOS

Tawanda Kanhema said on : January 11th, 2010 at 3:24 pm

Screwdriver prevailed. I took out the RAM chips one at a time and restarted. The PC is running fine so I am sure the second RAM chip is soaked. RE- I have had this [page_fault] problem for a while now. I run a Linux OS and Windows 7 dually on my PC [in separate partitions] and both systems crash abruptly and W7 shows the BSOD and that [non_paged]error. My HDrive is 250GB and only 4GB is free, but i do not think this is a storage issue. Tried to run EasyBCD and Defrag to no avail. Rightnow I have a hammer and screwdriver in one hand and an XP CD in another, i dont know what to apply first. SOS

Charles said on : January 11th, 2010 at 7:11 pm

Greetings-
I’m getting the same error as everyone above, on all modes.
I think I know the culprit program that was installed, but I can’t get into any mode to disable it. I also tried the XP Reinstallation Disc, but it won’t boot up at all…just keep getting the F8 screen which goes nowhere except the blue page fault error screen. What do you do if the Installation Disc doesn’t even work???
Thanks-

Warren Keats said on : January 12th, 2010 at 7:48 pm

I too had this page fault error. I found on the occasional times i could get the machine up in safe mode, I would detect a trojan rootkit with malwarebytes. It would quarantine the file which was in the windows\system32\drivers directory named hsnzbmz, sys attempts to delete quarantine or rename this file failed with wierd error messages like system cannot find file.

I eventually got it to boot to safe mode command prompt where i could get to the system32/drivers directory and delete the file. I then mounted the drive in another machine as a slave and ran antivir virus detector which found nothing wrong when the trojan was in memory antivir removed 4 instances of the trojan and quarantined them.

Upon rebooting the trojan was gone and i since have suffered no bsod’s after going thru all the posts pertaining to this problem bad memory chips seems to be the main rumour abounding about this error however i found it relates more to corrupted code within the non paged area which i presume was inserted by the trojan.

hopefully this helps anyone else with this problem

cheers waza

Henry said on : January 13th, 2010 at 9:14 am

There are a couple reasons the CD won’t boot:

1. You need to set the boot order of the computer to boot the CD first, then hard drive. Go into your BIOS – hit ESC, F1, F2, Delete, you have to watch the screen at first boot, it will tell you what key to push. You then have to go to boot order and make the CD first.
2. Upon booting, right after the BIOS screen flashes away, push the F10 button repeatedly. This will get you to a boot
screen enabling you to boot to CD. If you have a newer Dell, it will prompt you to hit F12 for the boot screen.
3. Your disk is scratched up and won’t boot.

If you get the CD to boot, it will prompt you to “press any key to boot CD” or something along those lines. When you hit a key, it will boot the CD.

Couple links about booting to BIOS:
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000192.htm
http://michaelstevenstech.com/bios_manufacturer.htm

Noel said on : January 14th, 2010 at 2:47 pm

Just purchased a new gateway desktop. Last night the system updated and when it went to boot this morning I got the bsod for page fault and the computer just cycles through restarts. Can’t boot in safe mode. No boot cd came with the system.

Henry said on : January 14th, 2010 at 5:10 pm

I’m not sure if Gateways are like this, but I’ve seen newer computers installed with a recovery partition. If you watch as the machine boots, it will say hit “??” to boot to recovery partition.
Big question is why a new machine has problems already, I’d take that sucker back if I was you.
-Henry

Anthony said on : January 21st, 2010 at 9:15 pm

Use a live Ubuntu disc, if you can’t boot into that, then it’s a hardware issue. If you can, then it’s a driver issue in windows. If you don’t have an XP Install disc I would suggest downloading one somewhere, provided you have access to another PC of course.

I had BSOD with a new 9800GTX+ OC 1GB a few weeks back and after much testing determined it had bad RAM and replaced the card promptly. Thank goodness for all these hardware monitor freeware programs that all agreed on it or I would have never known. The replacement card works like a charm.

Mark said on : January 22nd, 2010 at 8:09 pm

How would i be able to narrow down what service may be corrupt, if any? also im running AVG as someone else mentioned.. could this be a common issue? if is a bad ram chip, i have 2 how can i tell which one, if any is corrupt without going and paying to have them checked…i know i can take one out and turn on pc .. but is there some kinda test i can run during the trial n error period to be sure?

Charles said on : January 22nd, 2010 at 10:38 pm

Thanks to Warren, Henry, and all the other suggestions.

I’m just now getting back to report…

Before I was able to get back here to read the comments, I found my own way into the recovery console and went ahead with a repair install. It didn’t take the first time, and a number of files would not copy, but it did get me back to being able to load Windows and get back my previous settings. A lot was still missing, though (services, etc.), so I decided to do another re-installation from within Windows (upgrade installation) via CD. It was successful, but I had to go through the new installation activation process again. FYI for those who might run into this…the 800 number listed in the activation screen still works!

Anyway, I’m back up and running with no apparent issues. Though I did have a rootkit problem not long before this happened, I’m pretty sure that wasn’t the cause, as I had resolved that problem with Trend Micro’s Rootkitbuster with no apparent after-effects. I suppose it might have been a tmeporary issue with my RAM sticks, but I ran full diagnostics on those and they tested OK.

So, not sure what caused the fault, but I’m back up now and running fine.

Thanks to all for the advice.

Charles said on : January 23rd, 2010 at 6:02 pm

Mark – If you can get into the diagnostics menu (hit F12 during startup), choose “Boot to Utility Partition”. When the diagnostics menu appears, scroll down to “Symptom Tree” and run all the tests there for memory modules. It should tell if you have a RAM problem and which one it is.

This is what I did to help rule out the memory issue as the cause. Hope this helps.

Charles said on : January 23rd, 2010 at 6:06 pm

Sorry…to add…choose the “blue screen” symptom under the symptom tree menu, and that will open up the list of relevant tests, under which are tests for memory modules.

The other tests in the main diagnostics menu will allow for this too, but the symptom tree lets you choose tests specific to the problem.

Cheers-

Andre said on : January 26th, 2010 at 7:02 pm

Hello, I have a problem like your friend, I think it should also be the memory, because my computer is new and is crashing a lot!

Could it be the memory slots?

Henry said on : January 27th, 2010 at 11:31 am

I see a lot of people claiming to have memory problems. The program I like to use to test memory is memtest. It can be downloaded here:

http://www.memtest86.com/memtest86-3.5.iso.zip

You need to burn it to a CD and boot your computer using the CD.

DaveM said on : February 13th, 2010 at 4:42 pm

There is a current windows update KB977165 that is currently causing this. It worked for me! Here is the link.

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vistawu/thread/73cea559-ebbd-4274-96bc-e292b69f2fd1/

Robert said on : February 16th, 2010 at 5:43 pm

Hello, I have the same problem as Hman. No matter what I try, nothing can make my Dell laptop start. Not pressing anything in the F8 menu, nor the safe start mode or any other one.I didn’t recently install anything and the laptop is not too hot..Any clue?

Cy said on : February 18th, 2010 at 9:51 pm

Recd same error MSG can not restart in safe mode can not go any further believe problem may be newly installed anti virus software how can I remove software?

Fs said on : February 24th, 2010 at 10:12 am

Same here. This started after a windows update. XP Pro that has not been on for a few months. I do remember that it took 2 updates before the problem started and one was for explorer 8 the other not sure. I did do a few hardware checks but at this point I am just going to recover files and reload. Looks like too much time and effort to chase this one around.

Natasha The Bootleg said on : March 8th, 2010 at 11:40 am

First of all I know alot about adjusting and maintaing computer issues….If you plan on sticking with your same computer and cannot afford a new one then im your gal!!!!

first always make sure (reality here since no one plans on spending more money for fixes)

1.keep ur os/reboot disk with you at all times.or in a safe place because throughout the years or months u will frequently need this…..!

2. Any picture You have on your hard drive please upload them all to a photo storage site…..hence myspace and other networks allow instant web cam and can pull photos from a number of photo sharing sites……You need to always have you computer free of photos and vids. this tends to increase in numbers and size which will slow down your computer. if u know u have a memory issue and have this blue screen problem emmediatly start posting fotos and files to a storage site..Beacuse sooner or later u will have a blue screen that will never go away!!!

3. Dont be lazy!!!

4. take the startups programs and disable them.

5. regardless of lazy ness never save browsing history…mini files are always downloaded jst to even view the page.

6. page= fault error has to do with your visuals or graphics………hence page its a crash and time it takes to load an image and send information back an forth from your command. This means if u have slow internet use less graphic configuration…!

7. delete old drives. every update, your previous drive is still saved.

8. And music download programs….like limewire…..always keep the saved songs empty!!! that means upload them to a mp3 player or storage site. These programs will always affect the running of your programs because they are shared over and over and over and have addons that download with the file that can corrupt and confuse your hard drive. this happens whether your computer is doing fine eventually i garuntee the error out of no where was contributed to these programs.

9. Gaming computers are best as a professional use for office work only……the graphic capabilities allows this.

10. manually delete your programs that you do not use from ur control panel…..always delete unessessary files….1

11. keep your screen free of the shortcuts…if u plan on keeping your memory slighty full its best to have ur computer work less on the graphics because it does use a lot of memory.

12. also cleaning registry is pointless cus after every cleanup files are resaved to let the computer know they were cleaned so u replaced the memory 3 percent less..!!

ctrl,alt,delete and go to task manager….go to processes and end the prossess that are running and u are not using them.

13. a computer works its best at 14 gigabytes left…..so if you have 8 or 9 or up left thats a hint to start deleting….keep ur drive(safe drive or back up free 9gigs

14. virus software….I repeat do not buy it just have the trial or free version……It will list the files that are infected or are risk……..When u see the file write that file down , i know its long but manually is way better..a lot of firewall programs have repeatitive hotfixes and can corrupt your computer…also making download locations that is hard to find…this is how it searches the system for malware or spyware.

I have dell inspiron and have maintained my computer for 10 yrs as if it is still brand new ..its like my best friend and its my lifes work…..!

Your computer needs a re install thats why u should upload all ur files to a storage site regardless anything can happen and you can lose them all.

its better to clean the whole hard drive then add on to it over and over…….

Those with Windows Vista…Im sorry but it is required that you Re boot your computer several times a yr…due to excessive updates and bugs in the os. Its the only way to maintain your computer.

Xp is a strong os but like i said keep your system worried about opening your web browser or programs other then worried about how sweeet!!!!! Your computer display looks.

well email me or instant message me for help…..Im good on cleaning up computer space and great with preventing future problems as well dealing with reality of that this is a computer machine and you can maintain or extend its life with proper precations.

alonso.natacha@hotmail.com

Henry said on : March 8th, 2010 at 2:06 pm

Wow, what a nut job. Don’t email that fool “Natasha The Bootleg” for advice, unless you like bad advice. To sum up what they said:

1.keep ur os/reboot disk with you at all times.or in a safe place because throughout the years or months u will frequently need this…..!
>>>yes keep this.

2. Any picture You have on your hard drive please upload them all to a photo storage site…..hence myspace and other networks allow instant web cam and can pull photos from a number of photo sharing sites……You need to always have you computer free of photos and vids. this tends to increase in numbers and size which will slow down your computer. if u know u have a memory issue and have this blue screen problem emmediatly start posting fotos and files to a storage site..Beacuse sooner or later u will have a blue screen that will never go away!!!
>>>unless you have thousands like I do. Use external device to save pictures on and burn to DVD.

4. take the startups programs and disable them.
>>>yes, you can use msconfig to keep some programs from starting, but you dont need to stop them all.

5. regardless of lazy ness never save browsing history…mini files are always downloaded jst to even view the page.
>>>yes, this is a good idea.

6. page= fault error has to do with your visuals or graphics………hence page its a crash and time it takes to load an image and send information back an forth from your command. This means if u have slow internet use less graphic configuration…!
>>> no clue what the hell they are talking about.

7. delete old drives. every update, your previous drive is still saved.
>>> no clue what the hell they are talking about.

8. And music download programs….like limewire…..always keep the saved songs empty!!! that means upload them to a mp3 player or storage site. These programs will always affect the running of your programs because they are shared over and over and over and have addons that download with the file that can corrupt and confuse your hard drive. this happens whether your computer is doing fine eventually i garuntee the error out of no where was contributed to these programs.
>>>If you use these programs, shut them down when not in use. By using these programs you are willingly downloading a file from someone else you don’t know, thus could be a virus. Use caution with these programs.

9. Gaming computers are best as a professional use for office work only……the graphic capabilities allows this.
>>> WHAT?

10. manually delete your programs that you do not use from ur control panel…..always delete unessessary files….1
>>>Don’t install billions of programs, then you don’t have to uninstall them.

11. keep your screen free of the shortcuts…if u plan on keeping your memory slighty full its best to have ur computer work less on the graphics because it does use a lot of memory.
>>> Complete BS. Shortcuts on your desktop don’t hurt a single thing.

12. also cleaning registry is pointless cus after every cleanup files are resaved to let the computer know they were cleaned so u replaced the memory 3 percent less..!!
>>B.S. again. I don’t recommend using registry cleaners unless your an expert. Those things can screw up a computer in a hurry.

13. a computer works its best at 14 gigabytes left…..so if you have 8 or 9 or up left thats a hint to start deleting….keep ur drive(safe drive or back up free 9gigs
>>> B.S. You comptuer does not work better with less space. No clue here what they are talking about.

14. virus software….I repeat do not buy it just have the trial or free version……It will list the files that are infected or are risk……..When u see the file write that file down , i know its long but manually is way better..a lot of firewall programs have repeatitive hotfixes and can corrupt your computer…also making download locations that is hard to find…this is how it searches the system for malware or spyware.
>>> HELL NO! Do not install trial virus software!! Download free AVG. Complete virus protection with no firewalls or other crap.

Your computer needs a re install thats why u should upload all ur files to a storage site regardless anything can happen and you can lose them all.
its better to clean the whole hard drive then add on to it over and over…….
>>> Use a backup software for instant recovery. I use Acronis and recommend that.

well email me or instant message me for help…..Im good on cleaning up computer space and great with preventing future problems as well dealing with reality of that this is a computer machine and you can maintain or extend its life with proper precations.
>>>Again,only Email if you like bad advice.

Mike said on : March 18th, 2010 at 6:06 pm

hi,

I have the same BSOD but it only comes on the first startup of the day, I power off with the button, then turn it back on and it boots up fine. Just wondring what would be causing the problem.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

marc said on : March 24th, 2010 at 11:55 pm

Thank you this helped fix my problem! =)

Vicky said on : April 1st, 2010 at 8:56 am

I have the same error message and nothing I do can get rid of it, I can’t do a thing with my machine. I ahve tried the reboot disc but nothing happenes the disc is not being read!

I’m pulling my hair out. The has been no change that I know of to my machine recently – can someone advise

Vicky

Zool said on : April 13th, 2010 at 12:00 am

You can try this step by repairing windows with your windows CD via recovery console and here is the tutorial how to use the recovery console:

zooltechnology.com/content/index.php/windows-optimization/Recovery-Console-A-step-by-step.html

John P said on : April 14th, 2010 at 8:28 pm

I was seeing this error intermittently (every five, six days)for several months. I was able to reboot every time but immediately got a Microsoft alert suggesting the problem may be caused by the antivirus program I am running. For me this is Norton Internet Security — saw the error with the 2009 version, and again with NIS 2010. I finally contacted Symantec and a technician spent almost an hour doing remote diagnostics, and possibly installing a fix he was reluctant to admit existed for a known problem. In three weeks since, I have not had one instance of this error. Who knows what tomorrow will bring…

George said on : April 19th, 2010 at 7:29 pm

I have the perfect solution for the BSOD on your PC. Get a MAC and your problems will be over. Your MAC will never crash like a PC. Get a MAC.

Luiz Dantas said on : May 1st, 2010 at 1:57 pm

Ola,
estou encontrando o mesmo erro, e minha maquina eh nova, acabei de montar, tive mta dificuldade em faze-la funcionar, entao testei praticamente todos os componentes de hardware, e as unicas instalaçoes q fiz foram dos drivers, da placa de video, da placa mae.
o que pode estar havendo?

Josie B said on : May 4th, 2010 at 4:06 am

I have been getting this page fault in non-paged area all of a sudden in Windows 7!!! I thought this error was only for old operating systems like Windows 98 and Windows 2000. What the heck?

Maninder Singh said on : May 11th, 2010 at 10:22 pm

hi..
I am facing the problem ” Page fault in non paged area”, while trying to install Windows XP..

I have changed my HDD as well as RAM to solve it but problem is as it is….

please suggest me the solution..
thx..

Sims the man said on : May 20th, 2010 at 11:16 am

Hi guys i have the same problem, i have been trying to install xp and i get the same message. I have formatted my pc several times thinking it was a program error but it still continues. This is starting to get in my nerves. I am just going to disable my VGA card and try to slot out faulty ram as the gentleman above mentioned.Hope it works…

paul said on : May 24th, 2010 at 3:45 pm

“George said on : April 19th, 2010 at 7:29 pm

I have the perfect solution for the BSOD on your PC. Get a MAC and your problems will be over. Your MAC will never crash like a PC. Get a MAC.”

Macs are the worst ever, why would I want that trash? Stick with PC, the choice of BILLIONS!

A fly said on : May 25th, 2010 at 3:20 pm

Billions of flies can’t be wrong… Eat a PC.

Yame said on : June 3rd, 2010 at 9:13 am

Thanks for this article, I replaced my ram and my pc worked again.

John P said on : June 5th, 2010 at 5:18 am

A follow-up on my posting April 14th, 2010 at 8:28 pm
It’s June 5th and I have yet to experience another of these errors. In my particular case, a bug in Norton “Internet Security” seems to have been the culprit.

Neill said on : June 5th, 2010 at 10:01 pm

SO iv been having a lot of interesting blue screens since i have built new comp. I have done a defrag, a check disc, and a mem check. Found no issues. I cant recall what the last driver i downloaded was i want to say it was a usb driver. but not sure how to remove it. any help would be wonderful.

John said on : June 18th, 2010 at 11:35 am

I was getting this error on a client’s computer when trying to boot into safe mode. If the “AV Security Suite” rogue anti-virus is present in the machine, you may run into this problem. I was able to alleviate it by slaving the hard drive into another computer and running MWB.

Frank said on : July 5th, 2010 at 7:29 pm

I removed 1 stick of ram (2gb) and restarted – restored to last good config – and booted, just fine. After re-boot, I noticed that my clock had changed to July 5, 2099??? I changed it to 2010, and all is good now.

cp69 said on : July 7th, 2010 at 6:11 pm

I only have this problem when I go online. Offline, there’s no problem at all.

Please help.

Jon-Luc Holmes said on : July 8th, 2010 at 1:06 am

To fix this, what you have to do is put your Windows Setup Disk in – NOT THE RECOVERY DISK! Then, reformat the hard drive, or in my case the partition, and, then, reinstall windows on that partition. Mine boots up, starts windows, reboots, and launches repair and crashes. I have Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit on 3gb RAM with a 2.5 gigahertz processor. I use my computer for heavy gaming with the highest quality setting with loads of mods from the best mod sites like gtagarage.com for GTA games. My problem is caused by a trojan which comes as part of an application to hack the xbox360 gamerscore.

Jon-Luc Holmes said on : July 8th, 2010 at 1:07 am

Neil said, “So, I’ve been having a lot of interesting blue screens since I have built new comp. I have done a defrag, a check disc, and a mem check. Found no issues. I cant recall what the last driver i downloaded was i want to say it was a usb driver. but not sure how to remove it. any help would be wonderful.”

Did you download the driver from a random website or the company’s website?

Jon-Luc Holmes said on : July 8th, 2010 at 1:09 am

I read through it again and this error message is caused by viruses. All other websites say that.

Jon-Luc Holmes said on : July 9th, 2010 at 9:20 am

I have this problem, too, but mine doesn’t come up with an error caused under the issue. I think mine is caused by a virus and the Windows 7 Setup DVD crashes as well. So, I have to mount my PC onto another PC and reformat it which will take an hour because it’s 1tb. Then, I put my setup DVD in once my hard drive has been put back into my PC. Then, I install Windows 7 Back onto my PC.

Papa said on : July 9th, 2010 at 8:58 pm

I have this error message when a specific event happens. We bill our state’s Medicaid for medical services and they require a dial-up ad-hoc connection. Our ancient computer died and we’ve had to go to a USB modem. It worked twice. Now, when we submit, it will go through the entire process and when it ‘logs off’ we get the blue screen and this error code. We’ve tried using generic USB modem drivers to no avail. The problem is there aren’t many USB modems being manufactured out there and they all have pretty much the same chipset.

If anyone knows a solution, I’m all ears.

Thanks in advance.

zubin mujawar said on : July 19th, 2010 at 8:44 pm

I have this problem only when installing Kaspersky on my PC. At other times, I don’t get this error message. What may be the fault?

Any help will appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

GAURAV said on : September 2nd, 2010 at 12:47 pm

Great, I just took out one of my memory chips and restarted. It really worked for me. It was a bad memory problem. Great and thanks.

Black Gold said on : September 4th, 2010 at 6:25 am

i’m having same problem. page fault error and some time other errors in blue screen. i have run diagnostic in my windows7 it says ram is fine but when i use xp sp2 or sp3 it comes again. some times it pc works fine but because of light prob in PK pc restarts often. so plz help me out

Fatbloke said on : September 6th, 2010 at 6:40 am

Some similar problems… but if it helps others, I thought you may like to know that my problem stoped as soon as I turned off the NDAS network drive driver.

FB

Moriah said on : October 29th, 2010 at 6:08 am

I was just on my Windows computer earlier and was doing fine until it closed Internet Explorer and showed the blue page with “page fault on a non page area”. It lets me on to the normal computer, but after a certain amount of time, it boots me off. Does anybody know how to fix it?

Jak Knife said on : November 5th, 2010 at 9:36 am

I had problems with windows live messenger, internet explorer 8 and also windows explorer keep closing with the error message “…….. has encountered a problem and needs to close”, also sudden system crashing leading to the blue screen etc, eventually other programs kept closing driving me nuts for a few days, I tried running anti-virus/malware programmes etc etc to no-avail.

Eventually on the Blue screen (Blue screen of death) the error messages kept changing and I spotted that it mentioned possible memory fault, having installed an additional upgrade 256mb ram chip a few weeks before (the PC worked fine/better since then), I removed it and tried running the system again with the other (old) RAM chip(card)only in place and the PC has worked great since then, albeit a bit slower.

I will try reinstalling the other RAM card again by switching and both together and see if it works OK, maybe a faulty connection when installing the card was to blame as I had a similar problem with a network card not working (just took it out and pushed it back in), the system did recognise both RAM cards making 512MB, but for now I am so glad that is all the problem turned out to be, even a single upgrade card wont cost much.

Another tip…..

buy/install same RAM cards in pairs or upgrade using 1 RAM card, less things to clash or go wrong.

Goes to show never reformat the drive unless you have exhausted all other possibilities!!!

Good luck everyone.

Jak

Jolisa said on : July 20th, 2011 at 10:08 pm

I am really confused what to do….. i’ve read this post over but no luck. I’m still confused on the whole part of “how to fix it”. Any help?:O -Dumb it down for me-

Technician said on : July 23rd, 2011 at 8:52 am

This may be due to a defective Ram,just replace one by one and u can rectify the error…

M.Vladov said on : August 10th, 2011 at 12:10 am

Hello there,
My laptop just crashed like this but I can’t log in Safe mode – it gives me the same screen. When I tried system restore or last known configuration it begins to think but when the laptom reboots – same screen:

PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
Tehnocal information:
*** STOP: 0×00000050(0x8020C410, 0×00000000, 0x8A95B05B, 0×00000000)

Windows automatic repair can’t fix it. I didn’t installed anything new. I watched a movie and it crashed.
Please if someone have any ideas, share them.
Thanx

helve said on : August 21st, 2011 at 5:35 am

Bonjour

Mon problem c’est un peu special: j’ai ajouté une carte graphique, il s’échauffe très vite, mais de temps en temps je peux quand meme ouvrir Window XP, la qualité d’image est nettement amelioré, mais pas de son, mais la plus part de temps, je n’arrive pas a ouvrir, on m’a donne la famouse message”page_fault_in nonpages_area”, quand je suis decidé d’enfin d’enlèver la carte graphique, mon PC cesse de fonction…aidez moi SVP
cdlt
Helvé

Glenn said on : September 4th, 2011 at 10:33 am

Hi, thanks for this forum. I just had my pc fixed after a fault and started getting the “page fault in non paged area” error. The people who fixed my pc said I had an error in one of my Ram cards so they charged me and replaced it. I have done what you mentioned, took one out and left one in. PC ran great with no problems. Swapped them and same error. A trip back to the repairers I think to get a replacement. Thanks again!!!

Rainer said on : September 5th, 2011 at 9:01 am

I am tryin to install Windows XP (SP2) om my Computer, but after the partition menu anything i press brings up the ”PAGE FAULT IN NONPAGED AREA” screen
Details: STOP: 0X00000050 (0XB92D72E0, 0X00000001, 0X8080C27E, 0X00000000)

help!

Maninder Singh said on : September 14th, 2011 at 7:23 am

this prblm is jst bcz of faulty RAM. Jst chng it n try. i solved d same prblm by changing RAM.

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