Random ntoskernel.exe BSOD under varying conditions. Please help.

If you ran a memtest and you got an error . Run the memtest on each memory stick . Use one memory stick at a time .

justhekicker said:

Alright so memtest found and error on the 9th pass. This is actually a relief to actually find a tangible problem. Hopefully it is the only one. I will not have enough time this weekend to figure out if it is one stick, both sticks, or a mobo slot. I hope it's not a BIOS setting because i am totally lost if it is. I'll let y'all know as soon as i find out.

VistaKing said:

If you ran a memtest and you got an error . Run the memtest on each memory stick . Use one memory stick at a time .

Errors/red lines in Memtest 86+ means one or more RAM is faulty. But the fault may occur due to a faulty DIMM slot, too, which is a motherboard component. Using memtest86+, you can discriminate between a faulty RAM and a faulty motherboard.

How? Say you have two RAM sticks and two DIMM slots. You obtained errors at the test with all RAM sticks installed. Now, remove all the sticks but one. Test it in all the available slots, one by one. Continue the same procedure for all the available sticks.
How to make the inference that is it a RAM issue or it is a motherboard issue? Suppose you have got the result like that:
No code has to be inserted here. It is a RAM, a bad RAM.

But if you have got a result like that:
No code has to be inserted here. It is a motherboard issue. The particular slot is bad.

It might be a waste of time, but if the two sticks showed different results in a same slot, you should try at least one more test of the failing stick, in another slot.

As and when a single error pops up, stop testing.

You bought two sticks bundled ... that's a RAM kit. If you RMA, you send the kit back.

justhekicker said:

So with no BSODs I will say this is solved. Thanks guys for all your help :)