- Sep 3, 2012
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Hi,
I have gotten the BSOD on my custom-built desktop about three times now over the last month. I can't really seem to find the reason for it happening though as it is sporadic and most of the time my PC runs normally.
I think it might be the RAM and here is why:
When I built my PC I bought cheap RAM thinking it wouldn't make too much difference to performance on my machine. It was a random low-end model, here is the product page where I got it:
Link
I bought two of these, therefore 16GB. The reason why I think it might be these is because 2 years ago I helped a friend build his PC using the same RAM and he had similar BSOD issues a few months later. He got someone at a shop to help him out and they put in some new RAM. He said it ran fine after that.
On top of that, the last time it happened this morning, I was playing Bioshock 1 and I seemed to be occasionally getting strange multi-colored artifacts which has never happened before. I ran Heaven to see if it was my GPU and that ran fine on full settings so I am pretty sure that isn't the problem.
The problem is I cannot really test whether the RAM is the issue. I can't seem to trigger a BSOD at will. I have also tried running MemTest and it is not failing (my friend had also done this at the time and it did not fail).
I don't really want to dish out more money on new RAM at this time and realise that wasn't the problem all along.
Does anyone here know what I could do to try and locate the specific problem? What usually would cause a BSOD like this? Next time it happens I will try to copy down the error message.
I am happy to provide any info which could be of use.
thanks for the help!
I have gotten the BSOD on my custom-built desktop about three times now over the last month. I can't really seem to find the reason for it happening though as it is sporadic and most of the time my PC runs normally.
I think it might be the RAM and here is why:
When I built my PC I bought cheap RAM thinking it wouldn't make too much difference to performance on my machine. It was a random low-end model, here is the product page where I got it:
Link
I bought two of these, therefore 16GB. The reason why I think it might be these is because 2 years ago I helped a friend build his PC using the same RAM and he had similar BSOD issues a few months later. He got someone at a shop to help him out and they put in some new RAM. He said it ran fine after that.
On top of that, the last time it happened this morning, I was playing Bioshock 1 and I seemed to be occasionally getting strange multi-colored artifacts which has never happened before. I ran Heaven to see if it was my GPU and that ran fine on full settings so I am pretty sure that isn't the problem.
The problem is I cannot really test whether the RAM is the issue. I can't seem to trigger a BSOD at will. I have also tried running MemTest and it is not failing (my friend had also done this at the time and it did not fail).
I don't really want to dish out more money on new RAM at this time and realise that wasn't the problem all along.
Does anyone here know what I could do to try and locate the specific problem? What usually would cause a BSOD like this? Next time it happens I will try to copy down the error message.
I am happy to provide any info which could be of use.
thanks for the help!
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