PC Getting repeated bluescreens after installing MSI GTX 970 Gaming Video Card

[Sharpe Vil]

So, I've been going at this with google all night, hoping for any answer that isn't "Your video card doesn't work."

Here's what's going on. Earlier today, I replaced my old Radeon video card with the MSI GTX 970 Gaming card. After the installation, however, the computer began having frequent crashes every 5-20 minutes. The two errors I would get were "MEMORY_MANAGEMENT" and more commonly "PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA".

So, after fiddling with a number of things, updating all drivers, completely removing all traces of drivers and reinstalling them, I was still getting crashes both of programs and the system itself. As a last ditch effort, because this computer had very little data on it (It was a hand-me-down I got from a friend earlier in the week) I decided to completely wipe the hard drive and reinstall windows 7.

I began a custom installation of windows 7, deleting all existing partitions from the hard drive. Partway through installation, I got yet another BSOD. Here's the relevant information I can see from it, not including text I assume is in all similar BSODs:

Ntfs.sys

PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA

Technical information:

*** STOP: 0x00000050 ( 0xFFFFFAC006EC0198, 0x0000000000000000, 0xFFFFF88001EDC1DE, 0x0000000000000005)

*** Ntfs.sys - Address FFFFF88001EDC1DE base at FFFFF88001E57000, DateStamp 4ce792f9

Here's what's in the computer to the best I can tell:
Motherboard: ASRock Z77 Pro3 P1.50
Processor: Intel core i5-3570 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Graphics: MSI GTX 970 Gaming
2 4gb ram sticks
Corsair CX600 Power Supply

 

[logainofhades]

Try running one stick of ram, at a time. It could be that one or both have went bad. You could run memtest86+ to test it as well. What was your old GPU, and have you tried using it again?

 

[Sharpe Vil]

The old gpu was an XFX R7750. Radeon card. I haven't tried putting it back in yet.

I'll try the ram test, but I'd be very surprised. I got the PC only about a week ago, and had reinstalled Windows and been using it successfully without a single crash until yesterday. It was only after I had changed graphics cards that I began getting near-constant BSODs.

 

[logainofhades]

If it works, when you have it back the way it was before you installed the new GPU, then either the GPU is bad, or that power supply is going bad. It is known for having low quality capacitors.

 

[Sharpe Vil]

Is there any way I can test which it is? It could potentially be the power output if the other graphics card isn't pulling enough power to trip it.

 

[logainofhades]

Without another known good PSU, or a system capable of handling that card, no. The 7750 doesn't use much power.

 

[Sharpe Vil]

The correct answer ended up being the simplest. My card simply wasn't installed correctly. I'm not sure what I did wrong, but after taking the card out, putting the old card in, then swapping the cards again, the problem was fixed.

 

[logainofhades]

Sometimes it is the simplest things that escape us. :lol: Glad it works now. 😀