I upgraded from 8GB of RAM to 16GB in my mini-ITX build, and since then my PC's been BSODing randomly every few hours. My RAM timings were set to the old sticks' timings of 9-9-9-24 for a few hours, so I manually set the timings to 10-10-10-27, then used the Intel XMP 1.3 profile with all the right timings, ran a few Windows Memory Diagnostic scans with no errors, went into the command prompt as administrator and entered sfc/scannow, flashed my BIOS to the newest version, ran dism.exe /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth in the command prompt as administrator...
I'm not entirely sure what the command prompt stuff did, but those steps were recommended to people with similar problems online, and they didn't help. I'm still getting BSODs about once an hour, Doom crashes after about 5-10 minutes of gameplay and my browser tabs occasionally crash en mass. Soon I'm going to test one 8GB RAM stick at a time, see if only one of them acts up. If that ends up the case, it's totally just a bad stick of RAM, but I'm worried I've overlooked something. If anyone knows of a better solution, I'd really appreciate it.
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Examples of my BSOD error messages: MEMORY_MANAGEMENT, IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA, PFN_LIST_CORRUPT. The memory management one has been my most common error message.
Here are my previous RAM sticks:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231428
Here are my new RAM sticks:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233280
My motherboard, which now has the newest BIOS flashed:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157526
I'm not entirely sure what the command prompt stuff did, but those steps were recommended to people with similar problems online, and they didn't help. I'm still getting BSODs about once an hour, Doom crashes after about 5-10 minutes of gameplay and my browser tabs occasionally crash en mass. Soon I'm going to test one 8GB RAM stick at a time, see if only one of them acts up. If that ends up the case, it's totally just a bad stick of RAM, but I'm worried I've overlooked something. If anyone knows of a better solution, I'd really appreciate it.
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Examples of my BSOD error messages: MEMORY_MANAGEMENT, IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA, PFN_LIST_CORRUPT. The memory management one has been my most common error message.
Here are my previous RAM sticks:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231428
Here are my new RAM sticks:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233280
My motherboard, which now has the newest BIOS flashed:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157526
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