- Jan 4, 2017
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I have an ASRock 990FX Extreme mobo (only a couple months old) with a pair of 4GB Kingston HyperX Black DDR3 RAM (operating at 1600, a couple years old), and over the past few days, very literally starting on Monday 1/2/17, I have been getting Memory Management (0x1a) stop codes. It can be extremely frequent, sometimes happening within a few minutes of the computer booting up.
No system or driver updates appear to have been done shortly before these crashes started happening. I have since updated a few drivers that did have updates, with no change to the crashes.
Windows Memory Diagnostics - 5 passes, extended test - cleared with no found issues. I disabled the paging file, deleted it, and recreated it in case that was corrupted, but that wasn't the issue. I noticed in the Windows taskmanager, it reported 4GB was hardware reserved, so I checked my BIOS. It reported the RAM was working in single channel mode, but it saw both sticks properly.
I attempted to swap the position of the two sticks (a1>b1, b1>a1), no change. I also placed them in the empty slots(a1>a2,b1>b2), to no avail. I removed one of the sticks, and attempted to boot with just one(in a1), receiving the "NO RAM" beeps from my mobo. Assuming that stick was bad, I removed that, and placed the other stick in a different slot(b1). The computer booted, and appeared to be OK for a while, before reaching another Memory Management stop code.
So my question... what's most likely the issue? The motherboard, both RAM sticks failing simultaneously, or something entirely else?
No system or driver updates appear to have been done shortly before these crashes started happening. I have since updated a few drivers that did have updates, with no change to the crashes.
Windows Memory Diagnostics - 5 passes, extended test - cleared with no found issues. I disabled the paging file, deleted it, and recreated it in case that was corrupted, but that wasn't the issue. I noticed in the Windows taskmanager, it reported 4GB was hardware reserved, so I checked my BIOS. It reported the RAM was working in single channel mode, but it saw both sticks properly.
I attempted to swap the position of the two sticks (a1>b1, b1>a1), no change. I also placed them in the empty slots(a1>a2,b1>b2), to no avail. I removed one of the sticks, and attempted to boot with just one(in a1), receiving the "NO RAM" beeps from my mobo. Assuming that stick was bad, I removed that, and placed the other stick in a different slot(b1). The computer booted, and appeared to be OK for a while, before reaching another Memory Management stop code.
So my question... what's most likely the issue? The motherboard, both RAM sticks failing simultaneously, or something entirely else?
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