Continuous BSOD minutes after start-up

[friden]

Was gaming when the game crashed a couple times on me, then I got this BSOD.

http://i.imgur.com/8O3BgSt.jpg

After rebooting, I'd get that same BSOD again within a few minutes of getting to the desktop. It seems starting the game up was a sure way to trigger it, but so was doing nothing, or simple browsing.

When I tried to boot in safe mode, it would get stuck on the driver classpnp.sys.

I swapped my new RAM (3 months old) with some old RAM (~4 years old) and that seems to have fixed the issue, but I would like to know more about what caused it if possible.

I have attached my dump files, as well.

Thank you.

 

[x BlueRobot]

The dump files just seem to be pointing to page faults occurring with non-paged pool pages.

 

[friden]

What precisely would that mean for me, though? I'm not terribly savvy when it comes to more in-depth hardware and software issues, and none of my searches were giving me definitive answers here. Is there anything for me to be worried about? Or should replacing my old RAM modules be fine?

Still running the old RAM, hoping to RMA the new stuff that was defective (well, what I believe to be defective). I just want to know if that will solve the problem or if I should be taking other measures.

 

[x BlueRobot]

Stop 0x50's are caused mostly by two things: drivers and RAM. Since, you have had no problems with the old RAM, then it most likely caused by the RAM.

 

[friden]

Stop 0x50's are caused mostly by two things: drivers and RAM. Since, you have had no problems with the old RAM, then it most likely caused by the RAM.

That is very good to know, thanks a lot for the help everybody.

 

[x BlueRobot]

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