LATELY, I HAVE BEEN GETTING LOTS OF "PAGE FAULT IN NON-PAGED AREA" BLUE SCREENS. I BACKED EVERYTHING UP TO ANOTHER DRIVE, AND RE-INSTALLED WINDOWS CLEAN...SAME THING. THEN MY REMOTE MOUSE (PS2) STOPPED WORKING...BATTERIES WERE FINE, CONNECTED FINE, BUT NOT EVEN DETECTED AS A DEVICE BY WINDOWS. THEN I TRIED TO RE-INSTALL MITCHELL ON DEMAND (A PROGRAM WITH A KEY DISKET)...BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH!!! I RE-STARTED TO GET NOTHING...NOT EVEN A VIDEO CARD POST SCREEN, JUST BLACK.
...SO I TORE THE PC APART, UNPLUGGED ALL HARD DRIVES, DVD DRIVES, FANS, PULLED THE PCI DEVICES OUT...STILL NO POST.
THEN I UNPLUGGED THE PS2 MOUSE, AND IT WORKED! I RECONNECTED EVEYTHING PIECE-BY-PIECE, TRYING TO POST AFTER EACH PIECE. THE ONLY THING THAT DIDN'T WORK WAS THE FLOPPY DRIVE...I TRIED ANOTHER CABLE, THEN ANOTHER DRIVE, BUT STILL EVERYTHING I PLUGGED A FLOPPY DRIVE TO THE MAINBOARD...NO POST!
JUST FOR GIGGLES, I PLUGGED IN AN OLD PS2 KEYBOARD WITH THE FLOPPY & PS2 MOUSE REMOVED, NO POST!
CONCLUSION: I HAVE NO PS2 OR FLOPPY SUPPORT ANYMORE, YET EVERYTHING ELSE WORKS GREAT, AND MY PAGE FAULT ERRORS ARE GONE...THIS IS ONE OF THE STRANGEST PROBLEMS I HAVE EVER HAD, AND I AM GOING TO GET A NEW MAINBOARD SOON, JUST IN CASE THE PROBLEM SPREADS TO THE PCI BUS OR MY BELOVED SATA.
My old Asus A8N-SLI SE board was replaced a few months back. Here's what happened:
The onboard networking currently vanished - wouldn't appear in device manager, not a sausage.
Tried installing a PCI network card. Worked fine for a few days then caused BSODs if it was installed. Tried using a different network card. Fine for month, then it too vanished. After that, it refused to detect any sort of network card.
Then shortly after, it stopped posting if anything USB was plugged in, so I had to use PS/2. If i used USB, the power to it would waver (the light on my usb mouse was very dim and flickered).
I can only guess as to what happened, but the chipset was obviously completely screwed, I can only assume the same happened to you.
