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Memory Issues?
Hi,
I've had several crashes yesterday and today, and I'm a little stumped by them.
It started while I was playing WoW, bluescreen out of nowhere. No file specifically mentioned, but the error was MEMORY_MANAGEMENT, first part of the error code was 0x0000001a.
Shrugged it off, a one off thing's not too bad, loaded WoW back up, after 20 mins WoW crashed:
The instruction at 0x005595fc referenced memory at 0xffffffff. The memory could not be read.
Now, two crashes in quick succession, both talking about memory got me a little worried, downloaded memtest86+ and gave that a run. Completed one pass fine, wanted to play some more games, and the computer was stable the rest of the evening.
Now, today I was playing WoW and it crashed yet again, this time I screenshotted it:
Once again mentioning memory issue.
And finally, a couple of hours later, playing TF2 this time I had another bluescreen, this time it said the error was with dxgmms1.sys
Googling that particular file led me to these forums, which is why I'm posting here now. I had the idea to give memtest a proper long run while I was posting this (on my laptop) as that'll probably take a few hours to get a good number of passes in just to confirm its not a RAM issue, but of course that means I can't actually get hold of the minidumps windows made with the bluescreens... I'll post those once the memory's checked out XD
With all the memory errors getting mentiond, I thought that the issue would be with the ram, but so far it seems to pass memtest perfectly, so I'm a little stumped by what the problem could be. With the dxgmms1.sys bluescreen, that's made me consider that it could be a problem with the ram on the graphics card? I'm not sure if there's programs to test that ram like with memtest, but a few weeks ago I was running 3dmark Vantage and Heaven graphics benchmarks with no errors as well.
So... any ideas without the minidumps?
Edit:
Thread answered itself :x
Now what? Do I have to try the ram sticks 1 at a time to find the faulty one? Or is there a way from reading through all that junk to see which one is the dead stick?
Edit2: Right, I've removed all but the 4th stick, given the errors were happening at 4263Mb, but its run three passes of memtest without any errors now.
Last edited by iviv; 05 Jun 2010 at 14:00.