Strange BSOD behaviour

wiiksie · 8 Apr 2015 at 09:23

Hi,

I have a OcUK Titan MkII from 2013 (OS ssd drive and hdd data drive), and about 2 months ago it started the following weird cycle of behaviour:

The machine started crashing after about 10 minutes uptime with BSOD messages like IRQ_LESS_THAN_EQUAL and MEMORY_MANAGEMENT
Formatted OS drive and re-installed win7. Everything 100% fine for a week or two, no crashes at all.
Then (possibly after a bad driver via windows update) the crashes started again
Did a system restore to a previous point when the machine was known to be working ok, crashes persisted.

Purely based on the bsod, it seems like a memory issue...but the fact the machine runs fine for several weeks first, and then fails, has got me scratching my head (not convinced its a bad driver being distributed via windows update). Anybody have any suggestions?

bledd · 8 Apr 2015 at 09:52

Welcome to the forums.

Run memtest.

You can run it from a USB stick and boot from the USB stick.

-Is it overclocked?

wiiksie · 8 Apr 2015 at 09:56

I ran the win7 memory test at bootup, which didn't find any errors. But I have not yet used the 3rd party memtest86.

No, it is not overclocked.

wiiksie · 8 Apr 2015 at 09:57

In my (limited) experience though, memory failures tend to be persistent? Going from crash every 10 minutes to nothing over the course of several weeks seems really odd.