Windows 7 Blue Screening A LOT lately..


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I haven't changed ANY of my settings or anything..

My computer isn't running very hot, I haven't been running very many applications to make it BSOD, ..

The only thing I can think of is bad memory..

But .. I'm 99% sure my memory is fine.

What do I do .. :(

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Test the memory.

In memtest86+, I'm going to assume the more things you have in the Errors category.. the worse your memory is .. eh?

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In memtest86+, I'm going to assume the more things you have in the Errors category.. the worse your memory is .. eh?

Uh, any error is cause for the immediate replacement the memory. I had a stick of memory with a single faulty bit (not even a full byte--just one single bit that was stuck on 1), and although I was lucky to have only gotten one BSOD from that, I got plenty of random data corruption (which I first thought was the result of a bad HDD, but it turns out that it was really one single bad bit of memory). Fortunately, I had a habit of keeping hashes on all important data, so I was able to quickly detect data corruptions when they did happen, but it's not something that I ever want to experience again.

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Uh, any error is cause for the immediate replacement the memory. I had a stick of memory with a single faulty bit (not even a full byte--just one single bit that was stuck on 1), and although I was lucky to have only gotten one BSOD from that, I got plenty of random data corruption (which I first thought was the result of a bad HDD, but it turns out that it was really one single bad bit of memory). Fortunately, I had a habit of keeping hashes on all important data, so I was able to quickly detect data corruptions when they did happen, but it's not something that I ever want to experience again.

I wonder if errors can be an issue of heat...

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I had this problem with a copy of 7000 that had been installed for a couple of months. It was registered with a valid beta serial but after network problems in my area Windows decided it wasn't genuine anymore and it would bluescreen everytime win32k.sys tried to change the build string to display the "This copy is not genuine" message under the build string. After that it just kept BSOD'ing every couple of hours even after the network issues has been resolved. After reinstalling with the latest build the BSOD have stopped, so it might not be a hardware issue, but a Windows issue.

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I wonder if errors can be an issue of heat...

Anything is possible, but it's unlikely because, with no moving parts, memory is fairly heat-resistant. If your memory's still covered by warranty, you can just RMA it.

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Anything is possible, but it's unlikely because, with no moving parts, memory is fairly heat-resistant. If your memory's still covered by warranty, you can just RMA it.

How many moving parts does a CPU have? :o

lol

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How many moving parts does a CPU have? :o

lol

The CPU also generates much less heat than RAM and is also much more complicated...

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The CPU also generates much less heat than RAM and is also much more complicated...

I think you have that heat thing backwards. Or maybe I should take the heatsink and fan off of my cpu and glue it on my ram.

Everything in a PC is solid state besides the non-flash drives, that must mean they don't generate much heat! Heat can ruin any component.

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I think you have that heat thing backwards. Or maybe I should take the heatsink and fan off of my cpu and glue it on my ram.

Everything in a PC is solid state besides the non-flash drives, that must mean they don't generate much heat! Heat can ruin any component.

Which is why I said that it's possible. But it's unlikely because the amount of heat needed to cause problems for RAM is pretty high. It's much more likely that there is a defect than that this is a problem with heat. You are just splitting hairs.

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You can also get errors when you overclock the ram and/or you don't give it enough voltage. It can in some cases also be caused by the memory controller.

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