BSOD - Memory errors

Chives · 3 Mar 2011 at 15:05

Over the last few weeks I have had some BSOD Crashes. Today it did it again when I powered up the computer, it automatically launched this Windows Repair utility which after running for around 15 minutes, said it was unable to diagnose the problem. unfortunately I did not have my phone with me to quickly take a picture. If my memory serves me correctly, then these blue screens have been mentioning "PageFile" and a google after the first BSOD seemed to indicate Memory Problems.
Thanks in advance for replies.

Chives · 4 Mar 2011 at 10:06

Any one got any ideas on this?

Philtor · 4 Mar 2011 at 10:40

Download a Memtest bootdisk and run it for a few hours

Chives · 4 Mar 2011 at 10:50

philtorrens said:
Download a Memtest bootdisk and run it for a few hours

Excuse my stupidity but how does that work? Open it all up with 7 Zip and all I have is a bunch of unreadable files..

Philtor · 4 Mar 2011 at 10:56

You have to extract the ISO image using 7-Zip and then burn it with the likes of ImgBurn which is free. You should see one of the file names finishes with .iso which is the one you need to burn to a disk using ImgBurn (or whatever burning program you use). I would use ImgBurn as it's nice and simple and get's the job done.

Bashy123 · 4 Mar 2011 at 11:14

If you can tell us the exact error codes that you are getting we could tell whether or not RAM related. I've had a lot of RAM errors recently so any information can help