the drive was inserted on the mobo prior to booting up.
The usb drive was seen and it booted to the windows installation setup where i was able to choose which version of windows i wanted (win 11) and then immediately it gave me that error. im almost done with work so i will restart and try again.
I used a 64gb usb 3.0 drive for the media creation tool and it was automatically installed on that USB when i started up the media creation tool program on my computer.
i have noticed it is difficult to get the ram in the slots for this mobo as well. i will double check that, however, the computer posted and shows the proper amount of ram/speed.
i have not downloaded the samsung software from their website and it is using whatever drivers that windows has chosen.
*update*
i am in the middle of installing the OS with the media creation tool. was able to get it to work, however, near the end of installation, i received the same "Page fault in nonpaged area" BSOD. this happens every time i reinstall the OS.
I feel like it all comes down to the installation of the OS now. There is something missing. Is this a drive issue or mobo issue?
I also did a memtest86 and it came back with zero errors for the ram.
what an exhausting issue. its like nothing fixes this.
i checked device manager and i see this:
not sure what thats from. and also, my drivers for nvidia are still failing, however, the microsoft updates have updated with no issues.
the biggest constants are the page fault error when installing windows and the driver issues from nvidia which all of this could be tied together somehow.