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Memory problems, heat buildup & BSODs
Hi,
On and off for the past year now my computer has frequently rebooted itself once or twice shortly after starting windows, sometimes it then freezes up during the boot up, or reboots a second time, sometimes it does not. After this occurs the computer has generally tended to run fine without issues, at periods over the past year this issue has stopped for months at a time, and has recently picked up again, however now with more factors.
Not only does it now reboot, but my system is working harder for tasks it didn't used to, such as loading windows up. Also when running games ( Such as Skyrim, or Shogun, or even less graphically taxing games. ) it generates an immense amount of heat, and the fan becomes very loud. In the last week however I've been getting frequent bluescreens, I only managed to save one of the minidumps which I'm adding here, but other messages I've seen have both said "IRQL not less or equal." and "Page fault in non page area." though frequently I don't see them long enough to see what the message says. Today I got one that had to do with my ATI driver "Atikmdag". However I freshly reinstalled my drivers a couple of days ago by both uninstalling CCC, cleaning the registry and running driver sweeper.
I've also ran Memtest, through 7 passes and it showed no errors with my RAM. I currently have no method of testing my video card or motherboard in another computer, and having done both a safe mode virus scan with Windows Defender Offline, and having ran the methods above, I'm unsure as to what is causing these problems with my system. The issues seem to crop up mostly during startup, and when running heavy duty games though it also can happen randomly such as when loading the drivers up for safe mode, where it froze once. My screen has also frozen up ( with graphic crash lines ) several times, sometimes this is followed by a reboot and sometimes not.
I'm not overclocking my graphics and when the system crashes, the power stays on. So I'm sure it isn't to do with my PSU. I've not installed any new hardware or software recently that could conflict, and it's now at the point that I can't run a game for a long period of time without it closing itself down / crashing. And today my system ran out of memory and closed a good deal of the programs I was running at the time, ( Including the game I was running, an instant messenger, and DWM. ) However when I checked my resource manager seconds later, it said I had over 1000mb on standby, my CPU rises up to 90% when running most games, and my physical memory 40-60%, I'm unsure if this is related, but it's only recently that running these programs has actually been a strain for it.
My last minidump and my system information is below -
061112-33602-01.dmp
sysinformation.nfo