
Simple memory operations like reading data from particular memory locations may work normally, but the processor's ability to perform essential memory management operations, including virtual memory, aren't tested by memory testing programs.Īnother possibility is a faulty cache. The processor's integrated memory controller (IMC) can sometimes cause memory problems. If the memory test passes, you may have a faulty processor. It is being retained for reference by other readers. The question author can skip this section.

(I've added this section for the benefit of other readers here who may be experiencing similar problems but not have tried memory testing.) As suggested by harrymc, the first thing to try is generally to run a memory testing program, such as Windows Memory Diagnostic (included in Windows), the original MemTest86 (maintained by PassMark Software), or the open-source Memtest86+. The most likely cause of this type of crash is defective memory.

Are we sure this is faulty RAM right? It'll get fixed once I replace it right? No way to know which stick/s are faulty? Have to remove them and run memtest again to know which one? I've run memtest all night and I've a lot of errors. This time it was SPECIAL_POOL_DETECTED_MEMORY_CORRUPTION. I've opened C:\MEMORY.DMP with WinDbg 圆4 and here's the result: How do I open the MEMORY.DMP generated by Windows and what do I look in there to see what's causing the BSODs? The BSODs started just after fresh installing Windows 10. I might have had just a couple of BSODs over the 3 years of Windows 7 so I don't think it's a hardware related problem.

Updated BIOS to latest version (from 0802 to 0803 on ASUS Z-97E).Updated the GPU drivers to the latest (Nvidia Geforce GTX 970).Run 2 passes of Windows Memory Diagnostic.The BSODs error are either MEMORY_MANAGEMENT or ATTEMPTED_WRITE_TO_READONLY_MEMORY. I did a fresh install on my SSD (formatting it previously) and after a few days of using the computer I started to get random BSODs.

I downloaded the latest Windows 10 Pro build image (1803) from Microsoft and used Rufus 3.1 to create a bootable flash disk. So after 3 years of using a fresh install of Windows 7 圆4, I've to upgrade to Windows 10 because of job reasons.
