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Recurring BSOD - Memory_Management (Faulty SSD?)
Hi all, this is my first post on W7 forum's so give me heads up on protocol if anything is missed.
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Short story:
Computer has been giving me BSOD's increasingly at random over the last 3 weeks.
BSOD has always been the same titled "MEMORY_MANAGEMENT" with one sole exception which was titled "BAD_POOL_HEADER" or something along those lines.
BIOS and SSD Firmware are at their latest releases.
Included below are the dump files for the crash.
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Longer version:
My opinion at the moment is my crucial m4 SSD's are failing reads and writes causing the system to crash. I've had spontaneous crashes on steam aswell which is located entirely on a separate 256gb M4 SSD, game files also constantly require validation and often need to be downloaded again.
Plugins in chrome aswell as Skype crash repeatedly then launch and run without a hiccup seemingly at random. Crashes normally occur within a few moments of startup or not for a long time.
BSOD's did not occur for a few days after reformatting and updating SSD Firmware to 10G (From 00F), BIOS for the Z77 was updated at the same time.
System is water cooled however I do not believe this is at all relevant to the crashes since the Sinks have been attached properly and heat readings on all hardware never exceed 30C with the exception of the GPU under load.
I know NAND flash is always going to be more volatile memory than magnetic platters but I'm crossing my fingers I don't have to replace any hardware to fix this......
Any help/insights on PC health in general are greatly appreciated, thanks in advance to those who reply as this issue is almost rendering the machine unusable.