Hey,
I'm hoping I've got this in the right place, I'm not too good with hardware. Recently I've been having frequent blue screens on my two year old Win10 gaming rig, and all the codes (MEMORY_MANAGEMENT, CACHE_MANAGER, BAD_POOL_HEADER) seem to point to RAM issues. It's been running fine as long as I had it until about a week and a half ago, when the crashes started. I've ran a bunch of the Windows diagnostics (chkdsk, DISM/sfc, Windows Memory Diagnostic, and I also regularly defrag my drives) but those came up nothing, and I've bought new RAM sticks - these, specifically - to replace the ones I had, but it hasn't really had any effect. I've noticed Rainmeter is showing that my SWAP usage tends to creep up - despite having plenty of spare RAM to use - higher and higher until just before a crash, where it's usually in the 80% range. I never paid too much attention to it before the BSing happened but I don't remember it ever being that high, so while my word isn't exactly that of an expert, I'm assuming the crashes are because of (or at least related to) that.
Is there any way to reverse this trend? Would putting the two old sticks of RAM in alongside the new ones help alleviate it? I don't remember the exact make/model of them but I'm pretty sure they're another set of 2x8GB DDR4, the MHz doesn't immediately come to mind but I'm fairly certain it's 3000MHz as well. Speccy said 1199MHz, but Speccy's never been the most accurate in my experience, and it didn't even show the make/model there, just this.
Thanks in advance!
I'm hoping I've got this in the right place, I'm not too good with hardware. Recently I've been having frequent blue screens on my two year old Win10 gaming rig, and all the codes (MEMORY_MANAGEMENT, CACHE_MANAGER, BAD_POOL_HEADER) seem to point to RAM issues. It's been running fine as long as I had it until about a week and a half ago, when the crashes started. I've ran a bunch of the Windows diagnostics (chkdsk, DISM/sfc, Windows Memory Diagnostic, and I also regularly defrag my drives) but those came up nothing, and I've bought new RAM sticks - these, specifically - to replace the ones I had, but it hasn't really had any effect. I've noticed Rainmeter is showing that my SWAP usage tends to creep up - despite having plenty of spare RAM to use - higher and higher until just before a crash, where it's usually in the 80% range. I never paid too much attention to it before the BSing happened but I don't remember it ever being that high, so while my word isn't exactly that of an expert, I'm assuming the crashes are because of (or at least related to) that.
Is there any way to reverse this trend? Would putting the two old sticks of RAM in alongside the new ones help alleviate it? I don't remember the exact make/model of them but I'm pretty sure they're another set of 2x8GB DDR4, the MHz doesn't immediately come to mind but I'm fairly certain it's 3000MHz as well. Speccy said 1199MHz, but Speccy's never been the most accurate in my experience, and it didn't even show the make/model there, just this.
Thanks in advance!
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