I recently suffered a power brief power outage which casued my Windows 10 PC to reboot.
When it began its reboot cycle, I got a "BSOD" with a notice saying:
Page fault in non-paged area
It then began rebooting itself and then this appeared:
KMODE Exception not handled
And then it began rebooting again where it eventually came up with:
Driver IRQL not less or equal
It just continually reboots into "Automatic startup repair" before showing these faults and rebooting again – stuck in this endless cycle.
To make matters worse, my BIOS is configured to not boot from USB drives so although I could make a Windows 10 recovery USB drive from another PC, I would be able to boot from it. Even worse, my BIOS is configured to fastboot so I can't even get into my BIOS to change these boot settings! No amount of pressing DEL or F2 can get me into the BIOS config utility
What can I do to interrupt this BSOD loop and resume normal operations?
For info: I have a Gigabyte Z170X Gaming 7 motherboard, and a wireless logitech keyboard – I don't have access to a wired KB
The OS is booting from an Intel 600p M.2 PCIe SSD drive. I have 2x GTX-1080 cards but not sure that's relevant unless something has gone wrong with the nVidia drivers.
Best Answer
Your boot hard disk is damaged.
Disconnecting the boot disk will surely get you into the BIOS so you can reset your boot options.
Use a Windows 10 installation/recovery media for repairing Windows startup. See for that the article Boot to Advanced Startup Options in Windows 10. In the worst case, you will need to reinstall Windows.
Use first a Linux live CD to save your data.