Windows 10 crash screen appears after installing Ryzen, B350, G.skill Flare X and 960 Evo.
Windows 10 crash screen appears after installing Ryzen, B350, G.skill Flare X and 960 Evo.
Hey there! I recently moved from an older i5 2500k configuration to a newer Ryzen 1600x build with an MSI B350 Tomahawk, 32gigs of G.skill Flare X 2400mhz, and a 960 EVO NVMe SSD, plus a TP Link AC1900 Wi-Fi card. The rest of the gear includes my old EVGA GTX970, a Crucial MX300 750GB SSD, an old 750W PSU, and the same case. Since then, I've faced several BSODs with Windows 10—some from different causes. After installing a fresh Windows 10 Education edition (needed for university work), I've encountered at least five distinct issues so far: DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (ndis.sys), SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION, PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA. Outside these crashes, the system runs smoothly—passed memory diagnostics twice with no faults, ran chkdsk multiple times, stress-tested CPU and GPU several times with good results, updated all drivers including the GTX970, and even applied a BIOS update for the B350. I'm a pretty tech-savvy person, so I trust my setup is correct. The tricky part is that my girlfriend’s system, which has a similar configuration (Ryzen 1600, ASUS B350, 960 EVO, 1050Ti), is working perfectly. I’m stuck and don’t know what’s causing the random crashes. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
What version of Windows is installed? Have you refreshed the BIOS settings?
The installation is the latest Windows 10 Education release – it functions properly on my partner's machine. I've already updated the MSI BIOS to the most recent version.
These issues appear post-installation. Possible causes include missing or conflicting drivers. Page faults may relate to the pagefile or RAM usage.
I understand the various error codes—what you were looking for was knowing their possible causes.