So my friend just gave me his ddr3 1333mhz 8 gigs. Every now and then my computer will blue screen im trying to build a computer for my mom right now and I am just wondering if the blue screening is hurting anything and if I can just leave it until I get money to buy more ram that will be a while because im only 15 and cant get a job until summer.
Getting blue screened
- Thread starter Benjermin
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data getting written at the time of the bluescreen can be lost, this can result in file corruption in files that are being downloaded or created. Best to isolate and fix the cause. Often you can run a tool like whocrashed and see what the suspected cause of the crash was.
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If the 8GB was made up of 2 x 4GB, then just try using each 4GB stick at a time. Maybe only one stick is bad. Also bluescreen crashes can have many causes (e.g. a device driver bug or any pretty much any miscellaneous hardware failure). So check out the details of the BSOD with "BlueScreenView" from Nirsoft and test ram with MemTest86.
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