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Hi, I acquired a used PC in March which was built late last year. The specs are below:
-OS: Windows 7 ultimate
-CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition
-Mobo: GIGABYTE GA-790FXTA-UD5
-RAM: 2 kits of 2GB G.Skill F3-12800CL9D-4GBNQ (DDR3-1600)
-Video: MSI nVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
-HD: 300GB (I don't remember the make)
Starting in May, I began to have intermittent problems with corrupt NTFS, failing services, registry corruption, and the dreaded BSODs with bug-check codes of 0x1a (Memory management), 0x4e (PFN list corruption), and 0x50 (page fault in non-paged area), all in ntoskrnl.exe. The issues began to occur more frequently in the last month. What seemed peculiar was that the errors occurred on cold boots, but after a few restarts, the system stabilized. I tried updating drivers, running scan-disk, and memory tests, all coming up negative.
As the problems seemed to be getting worse (first few boot attempts each time), I did some more research, and it seemed to indicate bad RAM, although memory tests continued to come up negative. So I pulled 2 sticks of RAM out of the 3rd and 4th slots. The problems continued. Finally, I pulled the RAM from the 1st and 2nd slots, and replaced them with the 2 sticks I originally removed. Viola, no problems logged in the event viewer and no more BSODs, now since 7/17.
I'm assuming one of the pair I pulled is bad, but before I start the RMA process, I thought I would double check that my conclusion is sound. Am I diagnosing this correctly, or is there something I'm missing?
Thanks,
Dave
-OS: Windows 7 ultimate
-CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition
-Mobo: GIGABYTE GA-790FXTA-UD5
-RAM: 2 kits of 2GB G.Skill F3-12800CL9D-4GBNQ (DDR3-1600)
-Video: MSI nVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
-HD: 300GB (I don't remember the make)
Starting in May, I began to have intermittent problems with corrupt NTFS, failing services, registry corruption, and the dreaded BSODs with bug-check codes of 0x1a (Memory management), 0x4e (PFN list corruption), and 0x50 (page fault in non-paged area), all in ntoskrnl.exe. The issues began to occur more frequently in the last month. What seemed peculiar was that the errors occurred on cold boots, but after a few restarts, the system stabilized. I tried updating drivers, running scan-disk, and memory tests, all coming up negative.
As the problems seemed to be getting worse (first few boot attempts each time), I did some more research, and it seemed to indicate bad RAM, although memory tests continued to come up negative. So I pulled 2 sticks of RAM out of the 3rd and 4th slots. The problems continued. Finally, I pulled the RAM from the 1st and 2nd slots, and replaced them with the 2 sticks I originally removed. Viola, no problems logged in the event viewer and no more BSODs, now since 7/17.
I'm assuming one of the pair I pulled is bad, but before I start the RMA process, I thought I would double check that my conclusion is sound. Am I diagnosing this correctly, or is there something I'm missing?
Thanks,
Dave
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