BSOD's mostly when idle

I remember having these blue screens back in the day and it turned out to be the RAM.

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
PAGE FAULT IN NON PAGED AREA
MEMORY MANAGEMENT

Definitely something to look into, doesn't mean RAM is fine if it passes memtest.
 
When there's a variety of STOP codes like that I don't think it really points to anything specific. Could be numerous things, I had all the codes mentioned and it turned out to be a faulty CPU
 
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Knowing my luck the stick of RAM I've left in will be the working one.


On an amusing note, the RAM I got isn't actually on the QVL list for the motherboard.


Would much prefer faulty RAM to faulty CPU, I can afford to buy replacement RAM so I'm not stuck without a PC waiting on it being returned. Can't afford that for the CPU....
 
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It'll be the ram not behaving running at the XMP speed. Turn XMP off and set the ram to the standard OEM recommended compatibility that AMD specify - I don't know what this is for AM5 as I'm on AM4. I had this problem and no matter what XMP profile I used, it wouldn't behave.
As soon as I turned off XMP and set my 3600mhz ram to 3200mhz (like AM4 prefers) it behaved and I never had random crashes ever again. Some motherboards just don't play nice with certain ram, it's luck of the draw.

Just set it to the stock speed and then do a proper stress test for hours at a time until you know it's stable. Then you can start raising the speed and retesting it until it crashes. Then you will find your sweet spot and can knock it back to that speed.
@mrk saved me from RMA'ing my parts, thanks to telling me this.

IF it's not this it'll be your GPU playing up/dying, as I had a RX580 8GB Powercolor decide to start restarting once at desktop doing nothing/random restart behaviour, on my 2nd system, and as soon as I changed my GPU with a spare I had, it never happened again.
 
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G-Man said:
Would much prefer faulty RAM to faulty CPU, I can afford to buy replacement RAM so I'm not stuck without a PC waiting on it being returned. Can't afford that for the CPU....
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Not saying it is definitely the RAM just stating the blue screens I got which turned out to be the RAM. You’ve not had a PAGE FAULT IN NON PAGED AREA but you’ve had the other two.
 
keef247 said:
It'll be the ram not behaving running at the XMP speed. Turn XMP off and set the ram to the standard OEM recommended compatibility that AMD specify - I don't know what this is for AM5 as I'm on AM4. I had this problem and no matter what XMP profile I used, it wouldn't behave.
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RAM has been running stock speed pretty much since the first BSOD.
 
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Now running with 1 stick of RAM removed but god knows how long it'll take to do anything.
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Wrong way to go around this. If you suspect its the ram then isolate it by running memtest86 if it passes then run testmem5 using anta absolute config.
Take things from there
I wont be surprised if the issue is the cpu. Ryzen cpus are notoriously unreliable
 
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RAM has been running stock speed pretty much since the first BSOD.
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Stock as in the speed on the box the ram came in claims it can run at? Or stock as in what AMD recommend for AM5?
As if the motherboard doesn't like the rams 'rated speed', it will cause BSOD's as I said. And XMP can also cause problems.

If it's not that it's 110% your gpu. As I said, in my 2nd build I had a Powercolor RX580 8GB do things like this when it was on it's way out, then I changed it and the problem went away, wouldn't surprise me seeing as yours is a Powercolor and this was too. They're very hit and miss lifespan/reliability/build quality wise... This went from working to playing up out of the blue very quickly.
Everyone thought it was the cpu, and it wasn't.
 
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Stock as in its running at 4800 instead of using the EXPO profile to run at 6000.


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Wrong way to go around this. If you suspect its the ram then isolate it by running memtest86 if it passes then run testmem5 using anta absolute config.
Take things from there
I wont be surprised if the issue is the cpu. Ryzen cpus are notoriously unreliable
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9 hours of memtest86 found nothing with both sticks in so I'd be surprised if it finds anything with 1 stick.

Remember most of the BSOD's are happening when the PC is idle.
 
Running since Saturday on one stick of RAM. No crashes at all.

Swapped to the other stick today and already 2 BSOD's so I'm very much leaning towards faulty RAM.
 
I know you've already ordered but the Kingston fury ram works very well on the Asus tuf board, I've got it and had virtually zero issues and has only improved with bios updates. It's also on the qvl list

I had a few random crashes early in the am5 life but only seemed to be on particular games, since bios updates it's been very stable.
 
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