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It has been shutting down on its own the last 5 days or so at random times. Here are my files
It has been shutting down on its own the last 5 days or so at random times. Here are my files
Jackie some system specs please very hard to help if we do not know what we are dealing with.
System Info - See Your System Specs
Now the dump files show an issue that could be anything so more important we see the specs.
As you mention memory it might be as well to run a memtest RAM - Test with Memtest86+ this must run for at least 8 passes or it is pointless to do it - unless errors come up straight away.
But first I would suggest you run this if you haven't already SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker
Jackie some system specs please very hard to help if we do not know what we are dealing with.
System Info - See Your System Specs
Now the dump files show an issue that could be anything so more important we see the specs.
As you mention memory it might be as well to run a memtest RAM - Test with Memtest86+ this must run for at least 8 passes or it is pointless to do it - unless errors come up straight away.
But first I would suggest you run this if you haven't already SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker
i7 4790K
Asus ROG Maximus hero vi
16GB G.Skill DDR3 2x8
1TB WD Black Hdd
120GB Hyper X SSD
EVGA GTX 760
650W OCZ psu
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Ran sfc /scannow and found no errors. Will check memory shortly
So I'm through my first pass of memtest86 and there is 12,120 errors so far. Does that mean there is something wrong with my ram?
Absolutely and now you need to find the offending RAM stick/s and or slot/s.
Now as I don't know what you have in place for the RAM I cannot specify exactly what to do but for example if you have 4 x 4GB RAM sticks in place then you need to take them all out and test them one at a time in slot one if that does not result in errors then the same in slot two and so forth.
If the testing results in errors in stick one then it needs to be put aside and stick two tested if it shows errors again put it aside and so forth for all of the sticks.
If none of the sticks show up errors in slot one then the problem will almost certainly be a bad slot and to find it further testing with a good stick in each slot will need to be done until you find the slot that comes up with errors.
Now usually it is the sticks that have the errors and I am just letting you know in my example of the worst case scenario because the testing as you know is a long and somewhat tedious process.
Hopefully you are running one or two sticks because there are no system specs for us to go on. But again if only two sticks do the same process after noting which stick is in what slot.
IE 4 x slots 1 and 3 are being used test stick one and two in slot one no errors then move to slot three and test the slot and because there were no errors in slot one it points the finger at slot three.
The slots are usually allocated by pairs ie 1&3 - 2&4 it depends on the motherboard manufacturer's specs slot designation to be used first. Again usually it is slot 1&3 but there are some that use slots 2&4 first before filling slots 1&3.
So some system specs would be very helpful please
System Info - See Your System Specs
Thanks for all your help. I have 2x8GB, so I will test both sticks separately.
Ok mate now it also depends on how many slots you have too because as I said they can be at fault though unusual.
So test both sticks in slot one and the secondary slot you were using - I am guessing the board has four slots and without knowing what the board is it is hard to know if 1&3 or 2&4 number slots are the first slots that are used.
So test the sticks in slot one then slot three if the errors come up in both it is most likely the sticks are bad. Anyway if you have access to soem spare sticks then it will be easy to test and the machien will run on one stick quite well in the interim.
The number is counted going away from the CPU as a general rule see my pic