Blue screen of death

BombayMix · 7 Sep 2012 at 23:12

My PC just crashed again with a blue screen. It says "Memory management" and not much else really. The sounds was still going, stuck on repeating a few notes. Not the first time it happened, was playing Civ V at the time. It happened once I was just browsing the net with the virus scanning going in the background.

Spec is a linked below bought from OCUK, of couse it not under warranty how.

Bacon? · 7 Sep 2012 at 23:17

My guess is the RAM. I take it it is 2 sticks of DDR3 RAM?
Take one stick out and try using the PC as normal with just one in. If this doesn't cause problems for a few days (if that) then switch it around. Also run Memtest, but know memtest doesn't always show errors.

shankly1985 · 8 Sep 2012 at 00:13

Download Blue screen View http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html And Post the Driver it show in Red, If it shows ntoskrnl.exe You might have damaged Ram. You will need to run memTest Over night.

It could also be wrong Ram settings in Bios timing etc.

trickynickyuk · 8 Sep 2012 at 06:28

my guess would be memory or you have an overheating problem what sort of temps are you getting also you could run prime 95 to see if it is stable though that also run memtest86

http://files.extremeoverclocking.com/file.php?f=103

http://files.extremeoverclocking.com/file.php?f=205

http://www.memtest86.com/

if unstable with these try running at stock and see if it still happens if it does after that i would contact CS Section on the form

trickynickyuk · 8 Sep 2012 at 06:28

my guess would be memory or you have an overheating problem what sort of temps are you getting also you could run prime 95 to see if it is stable though that also run memtest86

http://files.extremeoverclocking.com/file.php?f=103

http://files.extremeoverclocking.com/file.php?f=205

http://www.memtest86.com/

if unstable with these try running at stock and see if it still happens if it does after that i would contact CS Section on the form

trickynickyuk · 8 Sep 2012 at 06:29

sorry double post

op delete one please

BombayMix · 8 Sep 2012 at 11:33

shankly1985 said:
Download Blue screen View http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html And Post the Driver it show in Red, If it shows ntoskrnl.exe You might have damaged Ram. You will need to run memTest Over night.

It could also be wrong Ram settings in Bios timing etc.

It does highlight ntoskrnl.exe

Bug Check String: MEMORY_MANAGEMENT
Bug Check Code: 0x0000001a
Driver: ntoskrnl.exe

Two crashes in the last month, plus one a few months ago.

Also two other crashes that say:

Bug Check String: PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
Bug Check Code: 0x00000050
Driver: ntoskrnl.exe

BombayMix · 8 Sep 2012 at 12:21

Did a brief Prime95 + Core temp test. Temps a bit high, getting close to 90c then I stopped it. Cleared out a rather clogged main fan and it now about 15c less! :eek:

Doubt it that simple though. :rolleyes:

trickynickyuk · 8 Sep 2012 at 12:52

ouch it could be as simple as a bit of dust causing problems

shankly1985 · 8 Sep 2012 at 13:07

BombayMix said:
It does highlight ntoskrnl.exe

Bug Check String: MEMORY_MANAGEMENT
Bug Check Code: 0x0000001a
Driver: ntoskrnl.exe

Two crashes in the last month, plus one a few months ago.

Also two other crashes that say:

Bug Check String: PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
Bug Check Code: 0x00000050
Driver: ntoskrnl.exe

ntoskrnl.exe is the windows kernel witch controls memory management. You will need to run Memtest over night.
Download and burn the img file to a CD and boot from the disk and run the program.

areksnumbr1sxylady · 8 Sep 2012 at 14:02

Sounds like RAM problem I had exactly same issue, Corsair vengeance 1600 8gb ram??

However I know a guy who had same issues but the fault was his CPU.

BombayMix · 8 Sep 2012 at 14:43

Lazder said:
Sounds like RAM problem I had exactly same issue, Corsair vengeance 1600 8gb ram??.

Yep that's them. I thought Corsair was good quality?

areksnumbr1sxylady · 8 Sep 2012 at 15:47

BombayMix said:
Yep that's them. I thought Corsair was good quality?

Well some of them just burn including mine, but it was running at crazy speeds though :/

BombayMix · 10 Sep 2012 at 10:27

Memtest didn't show up anything.

If I was to replace the memory what would the panel recommend? (Spec linked below) Would I have to changes the overclocking settings OCUK set up if I replace? Not sure about the finer point of PC Bios.

shankly1985 · 10 Sep 2012 at 11:21

BombayMix said:
Memtest didn't show up anything.

If I was to replace the memory what would the panel recommend? (Spec linked below) Would I have to changes the overclocking settings OCUK set up if I replace? Not sure about the finer point of PC Bios.

If you have more than one stick, did you test them one at a time?
Run a checkdisk disk on the windows drive errors here can give the memory management bsod.