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Hi ive recently been getting BSOD's with the message "page fault in non paged area" does anybody know what this is or what causes it. Ive tried other forums but to no avail.

Storm_Raider,

The fact that you are getting both errors only adds a hardware failure possablity to the mix.
Most likely it a driver issue but I wouldn't rule out ram until it was tested, even if it's new.

I would first make sure windows is fully updated and then check for new drivers for all of your devices.
I would look at you network card driver first I saw a number of references to bad nic drivers at MS.
You should also check to see if there is a BIOS update for your motherboard.

Microsoft has an article on using their Driver Verifier tool if you want to try that route

Well it turns out it was my own fault for the BSOD's at the time i started getting them id upgraded RAM graphics card and soundcard. So after retracing my steps and by sheer luck i happened to check the IRQ allocations and well it turned out that my soundcard and graphics card were both sharing IRQ 18. So i moved the soundcard to a different pci slot and tada problem solved.

Thanks for your help anyway.