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Recently (well a few months ago) I built myself a pc. I started it up and for the first few weeks it worked fine. I might mention now that, when i first built the pc it had 8gbs of RAM(2x4gb). It was after I installed another 2 that the problems started.
I began to get bluescreens almost daily. So this lead me to believe it was one of the new sticks. I took out the second two i installed; no luck, still got bluescreens. Usually it happened when I had a game up, but not always. Sometimes it was just mozilla, youtube and a document. If there were sounds playing before the crash they would constantly repeat(like the sound of a scratched CD or DVD).
I've been playing games such as AOEIIHD, War Thunder, and Dawn of Discovery. It most frequently happens on the last two. On War Thunder it happens randomly. When it's updating, playing, and closing(right when I hit the quit button). Dawn of Discovery it happens - like on War Thunder - right when I hit the quit button.
Besides the blue screens i've had the computer randomly lock up on me (though this rarely ever happens). Also Mozilla has crashed repeatedly, and randomly. Other times the games I have open will just disappear, no error report no nothin'! However the regular "Program is not responding" message does happen occasionally.

Computer makeup:
Cpu: i5 4570
Gpu: MSI 7850 2Gb Twin Frozer
RAM: Gskill-Ripjaws 1866 4Gbx4 (16Gb)
Psu: Rosewill 550w
Hardrive: 1Tb WD
SSD: SanDisk ExtremeII 120Gb (the OS is on this, along with a few games)
OS: Windows 7 (64bit)

Here's the specifics of events. Unfortunately it's not just one error code that pops up. It started as cfosspeed6.sys which when finding it wasn't a necessary driver I uninstalled. There was some respite after that, no bluescreen for a week or so. But soon they started up again. I hadn't installed any new software besides updating games and already installed programs. The following errors included dxgmms1.sys, win32k.sys, and sometime no .sys at all. I didn't write down all the 0x7(not necessarily 7) etc.. due to it being a boatload of numbers. Probably should have(and will once it happens again).
Since it seemed to be a memory problem I ran memtest for about 5 hours and with results. Apparently there were 65535+ errors. It scanned in the round-robin setting. First time tried all ram sticks simultaneously. Haven't tried each separate yet. Also, is it supposed to tell you anything besides that you have errors? like what the errors are?

Besides what I've said I'm not sure whats going on.
Any help is appreciated!
 
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ssddx
when testing ram... test each stick individually (one installed at a time) first.

then test by adding one more stick at a time (if all check out fine)

normally by doing that you can isolate which ones are the problem sticks.

gskill has a warranty so you can then contact them for a replacement stick(s)

if you have two sticks which check out as error free... try using just those. do you still have issues?

is doing a fresh windows install (using the ram which works fine) an option?
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when testing ram... test each stick individually (one installed at a time) first.

then test by adding one more stick at a time (if all check out fine)

normally by doing that you can isolate which ones are the problem sticks.

gskill has a warranty so you can then contact them for a replacement stick(s)

if you have two sticks which check out as error free... try using just those. do you still have issues?

is doing a fresh windows install (using the ram which works fine) an option?
 
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One came free with a mobo, so I bought another identical one to go with it. Then purchased another two. All of them are identical, same timing, and same speed. And also I forgot to mention my Mobo type; GIGABYTE GA-Z87X-UD3H.
 
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Mixing DRAM of itself can be problematic, even the same exact model, it may be a few things, but we might be able to stabilize them, not sure of the exact model, am guessing the 2 stick package is the F3-14900CL9D-8GBXL (red RJ Xs, so their base timings are 9-10-9-28, will want to set the DRAM freq to 1866, the base timings to those I just listed (if this is the set, if notlet me know the model #), then set the DRAM voltage to 1.575 (or as close as it allows) and find the CPU VTT voltage (may be just VTT) and set it to about 1.15 then give that a try
 
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Haven't run any more memtests at the present time due to my previous experiences taking forever (and i need the computer running for the rest of the day). Will run them soon as possible, hopefully tomorrow. As far as sets go, the RAM I have is here http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231455. The other stuff you(Tradesman1) mentioned about setting voltaged etc.. I'm guessing that would be done at the computer's startup, or somewhere once it's already on? I'm so knowledgeable that I know how to change voltages ;)
 
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@jinx

that would be done in your bios. which you access when the computer is starting up yes.

not sure what motherboard brand you have (look up the brand on google followed by "bios shortcut" and this key is what you press when you start the computer up to enter bios.

personally i think its a bit premature to be changing anything in bios. i think you should run a round of single ram tests first to weed out any bad sticks. of course it could very well be a ram timing issue... but its best to start with something easy (ram tests) before delving into bios (which you might not be familiar with).
 
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I agree completely. I'll let you know(probably tomorrow sometime) as soon as i've gotten them done.
Thanks for both of your help so far.
 
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Well, I've gotten one RAM stick done. They take around two/n'half hours each, so I will be able to post the full results tomorrow.. hopefully. First how do I attach pictures? The first RAM stick had 2192181 errors. So we'll see what the others say.

Update 2:56 : Started the next stick and no errors. Hopefully I got lucky and tested the bad stick first.
 
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Alright, so here's the first test with the errors.
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And here's the summary

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I'm guessing this means it was a bad stick and I should send it in for replacement?

The current test is continuing to go smoothly with no errors.
 
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Welp. I think its fixed. All of the RAM, except for the first one, checked out fine! Only have two of the good ones in now and so far no blue-screens, crashes or freezes. Hopefully that's all the problems gone!
Thanks for both of you guys' help! I'll keep this updated if anything goes haywire again ;)
 
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JinxOne

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So here we are about a month or so later. The bluescreens have begun to happen again. Its varied from 0x0000003B System_Service_Exception without a specific error to blaming Directx. They vary so much I don't really believe any of them are the real problem(I highly doubt all of them are corrupted). Its goes between no bluescreens one day to 6 another. I was at a LAN party and I got 6 or 7 in one day (thank goodness for the Reconnect button on League of Legends). I will run the Memtest again and see whats up(If it's the RAM: which I hope it is though I did get replacements).
 
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