BSOD on start up

For several months I have been getting the BSOD at start up. Usually I could just restart and everything would be fine. Last night I couldn't get it to go after three tries. Any help would be wonderful. I hope I did everything right.

Some of the errors are CRITICAL_OBJECT_TERMINATION
and others are PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA

And both types refer to file ntoskrnl.exe

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If Part 2 testing shows errors, and all tests in Part 3 show errors, you will need to test the RAM sticks in another computer and/or test other RAM in your computer to identify the problem.

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Errors are sometimes found after 8 passes.

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