Ramdom BSOD

[hinz]

Since building this system about a week ago I've been experiencing random BSOD in vista.

I've attached the minidumps below

System specs are

ASUS P5K AiLifestyle Series iP35 Motherboard
Corsair 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 XMS2 Memory Non-ECC Unbuffered CL5(5-5-5-12) Heat Spreader Lifetime Warranty
Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 2.33GHz
Western Digital WD3200AAKS 320GB SATAII 16MB Cache 7200 RPM
Xpertvision 8500GT Sonic edition 256MB 128bit DDR3 DVI TVO PCI-E
Samsung SH-S183 SATA 18x DVD±RW/RAM Black - Bare Drive OEM
Corsair VX450WUK 450W PSU
Asus TA-210
Hauppauge WinTV-Nova-t PCI Freeview

 

[howard_hopkinso]

Hello and welcome to Techspot.

4 of your minidumps crash with memory corruption. Faulty or incompatible ram is definitely a suspect.

Go and follow these instructions for testing your ram.

Regards Howard :wave: :wave:

 

[hinz]

I've tested the RAM with memtest about 2 days ago and it did 24 passes with no errors.

Do you still think the RAM is the problem? Or could it be the motherboard.

 

[howard_hopkinso]

As I said, it could just be a ram compatibilty issue. Try running your system with just one stick of ram and see if that helps.

Memtest86+ is not perfect, nor is any other ram testing utility and some faulty ram can pass Memtest.

You might also want to take a look at this thread HERE and see if it helps.

Regards Howard

 

[hinz]

I'll take a look that post.

It's an strange problem cos it's not happened so far today after I swapped memory modules and then swapped them back. Usually it will BSOD within 15/20 mins when i start up in the morning. Otherwise it seemed to occur once a day.

Is there any way I can try and induce a BSOD if there is still a problem there?

thanks for your help, very useful

 

[howard_hopkinso]

It may have been possible that one of the ram sticks wasn`t properly seated and by removing and reinserting them the problem has now ceased.

Just run your system as you usually do and see if the problem returns. Hopfully, it won`t.

Regards Howard

 

[hinz]

Just had another two BSODs :-(

Here are the minidumps

 

[howard_hopkinso]

One minidump crashes at MpFilter.sys. This is part of the Windows Onecare live application.

The other crashes at win32k.sys. This is a Windows core OS file and is probably not the culprit.

Try running with just one stick of ram and see if your system then becomes stable. If it doesn`t swap to the other stick of ram and test again.

You could also try uninstalling Windows Onecare Live.

Regards Howard

 

[hinz]

Just sorting the pagefile at the moment, think I'm just gonna send the memory back if it doesn't sort it, and then reformat and reinstall windows again