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Is my RAM busted?

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  • Windows Vista
  • RAM
  • Blue Screen
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June 8, 2014 1:21:28 AM

I get the Special_Pool_Detected_Memory_Corruption BSOD immediately after windows loads up user select. The Blue Screen read:
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Technical Info:

Stop: 0x000000C1 (0xFFFFF98000032C10, 0xFFFFF98000032934, 0x00000000006B03E8, 0x0000000000000032)
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This happened after I took apart my tower and dusted everything. Before hand I was having lots of BSODs like Page Fault in nonpaged area, IRQL not less or equal, Drivers misusing PTEs, and Memory Management. Any help would be appreciated, and if you can help me out, tell me what you need to know.

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June 8, 2014 1:42:29 AM

Run memtest86 and see if it returns any errors
June 8, 2014 9:13:08 AM

Sorry for the late reply. I didn't know how long it would take so I went to bed. Also I didn't know if it made a text file any or not so I wrote it all down:

AMD Phenom II X4 965
CPU Clk: 3415MHz
L1 Cache: 128K 40012 MB/s Testing: 1024K - 2048M
L2 Cache: 512K 16950 MB/s 2047M of 4094M
L3 Cache: 6144K 9142 MB/s
Memory: 4094M 3740 MB/s

CPU: 0123 CPUs_Found: 4 CPUs_Started: 4 CPU Mask: ffffffff CPUs Active: 1

Time: 6:22:40 Iterations 240 AdrsMode: 64bit

Pass 5 Errors 65535+
Error Confidence Value 140
Lowest Error Address: 00058009010 - 14080 MB
Highest Error Address: 000700c4ff0 - 1792.7MB
Bits in Error Mask: 00000008
Bits in Error Total: 1 Min: 1 Max: 1 Avg: 1 Max Contiguous Errors: 1

Test|Errors
0 0

1 0

2 0

3 1332

4 6237

5 10620

6 65535+

7 2365

8 2356

9 2858

10 57




I tried to scroll down further to see if there were more tests but I couldn't figure out how to. It was not scroll locked.
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June 8, 2014 1:57:24 PM

Since it returned errors you have a bad stick of memory. Start running the test for a few hours, one stick at a time to see which stick is giving you trouble
June 8, 2014 1:57:49 PM

Or until it returns an error. Which might take ten seconds
June 8, 2014 10:53:40 PM

I only have 1 stick of RAM. It's a Corsair 4GB DDR3. Well, I have been looking for a reason to upgrade.
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