BSOD- Due to OC?

[radical red]

So in the past week I've had 3 BSODs, yesterday I managed to notice the message. It said, "PAGE FAULT IN NON PAGED AREA"

So I read a bit about this, and it said it is caused by faulty memory. I run my laptop on OC when I play BF3. Even under OC, it's always been completely stable, never any artifacts, and the temps haven't been too bad either.

I was wondering if anyone can elaborate on this BSOD issue. Can Overclocking cause this?

Thanks.


-RR

[-GQ-gotya-ha]

Sounds like RAM issues. Are you able to remove the sticks and try them 1 at a time?

[radical red]

It's a laptop, and still under warranty. I cannot open it up. It will void the warranty. Not that I even know how to open a laptop. My main concern is whether is should stop OCing my gfx card.

[Ripper]

yea, try to run it without OC for a while and see if BSOD continue, since u cant open it up and try what Gotya said

[radical red]

Ok, just checked the memory dump, and the second BSOD was "SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED"

[Timosfrag]

You can dl memtest and burn iso cd, to test ram. http://www.memtest.org/
For cpu testing use prime95. http://www.softpedia.com/progChangelog/Prime95-Changelog-76537.html
Thats all i know :bsod:

[Storm_Seraphin]

Most laptops have a trap door, roughly just off centre on the underside, mostly held in with one screw (crosshead/philips) type. Most laptop ram/SDdimms are all on one card, some are on 2 depending on what manufacturer made it. ( HP & compaqs) are the same. ;) , look for the trap door see how many ram cards you have. if you have 2 take out one. try it. Yes overclocking anything can cause BOSD if you frequencies are off or slightly greater than spec, including voltages. standard laptops only use one fan to push air over the graphics card & cpu heatsinks & maybe one or two for case /chassis exhaust. ( just like an Xbox) :( too hot, for a closed chassis. graphics card Oc'ing in a laptop, is adding / will add to extra heat,