Windows 10 Page File Issue

[PsyRose]

Hey all,

I have recently been having a very strange issue with my page file in Windows 10 Pro. I have a 250gb EVO 850 for my OS and various other drives for other programs, documents etc. It is a pretty standard install of Windows 10 with just a few things tweaked for better performance in audio software (i.e. Cubase).

For the past little bit (it might have even been since upgrading but I didn't notice) whenever I place my page file on my SSD and restart windows creates its own temporary page file stating there was an error. This happens no matter what min/max values I put. The temporary page file that windows creates is also a whopping 32gb! I do have 32gb of physical ram installed so I don't think it is a sheer coincidence but I have tried everything I can think of and it still panics every restart and adds its own page file.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I think it works okay if I put the page file on another drive, which is a possibility, but I want to contain all of the OS to one drive just in case I have to unmount the other drive etc. It's not a huge deal but I really want to figure out what is causing it.

If anyone could help it would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

 

[Lutfij]

Did you go through this tutorial? On a side note, can you please pass on your full system's specs and make sure your BIOS and device drivers(namely chipset and storage) are all up to date?

I'm also curious about this:

...(it might have even been since upgrading but I didn't notice)...

Are you speaking of upgrading your old OS to Windows 10 or are you speaking of adding new components to your system?

 

[PsyRose]

Hey, thanks for the reply! Everything should be up to date although I am about to check my bios now just in case. I did go through all the steps of that tutorial already and tried many different min/max values but none of them took and windows always replaces it with its own "temporary page file" that is always the same size as my ram, 32gb. As you can see below my computer is actually reporting an insanely high amount of virtual ram.

I have also tried setting all my drives manually to 0gb page file and then manually deleting the page file but it still defaults back to the windows create a temporary page file error.

Here are my system specs:

OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
Version 10.0.10586 Build 10586
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name ROSEWOODPC
System Manufacturer Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
System Model Z97MX-Gaming 5
System Type x64-based PC
System SKU To be filled by O.E.M.
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz, 4001 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. F4, 5/30/2014
SMBIOS Version 2.7
Embedded Controller Version 255.255
BIOS Mode Legacy
BaseBoard Manufacturer Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
BaseBoard Model Not Available
BaseBoard Name Base Board
Platform Role Desktop
Secure Boot State Unsupported
PCR7 Configuration Binding Not Possible
Windows Directory A:\WINDOWS
System Directory A:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume3
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "10.0.10586.0"
User Name ROSEWOODPC\Rosewood
Time Zone Atlantic Daylight Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 32.0 GB
Total Physical Memory 31.9 GB
Available Physical Memory 23.4 GB
Total Virtual Memory 63.9 GB
Available Virtual Memory 52.8 GB
Page File Space 32.0 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
Hyper-V - VM Monitor Mode Extensions Yes
Hyper-V - Second Level Address Translation Extensions Yes
Hyper-V - Virtualization Enabled in Firmware Yes
Hyper-V - Data Execution Protection Yes