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    Gateway BSOD!

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by Mr. Man, Jan 8, 2011.

  1. Mr. Man

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    Hey all,

    I've been using 8GB of ram since November, and everything worked smoothly until recently. I started getting these BSODs that said things like Null_Pointer and Memory_Management etc, which leads me to believe that the 8GB ram was bad.

    I got the memory off of Newegg and they were quite reputable (at least to other buyers).

    I ran Memtest86 on it for about 5 hours yesterday twice. The first time I ran it no errors showed, but the 2nd time I had about 250 thousand errors in all. Coincidence?

    Checked heating of CPU and GPU, no overheating there. The highest temperature I reach while playing is 70s

    Any advice?
     
    Mr. Man, Jan 8, 2011
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    TANWare Just This Side of Senile, I think. Super Moderator

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    What CPU? Your memory errors could be from too low a voltage if you are running the x9100.................
     
    TANWare, Jan 8, 2011
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  3. Mr. Man

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    I am using the other CPU that you can't overclock. The 3.06 one
     
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    Here's the error I am getting in Memtest now:

    It's now 512 errors, instead of 250,000 errors

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    Just ran Windows Memory Diagnostics. Nothing.
     
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    take out 1 stick of memory and see if it works. if it does then try other stick by itself. will at least let you know if one of them is bad.
     
    bikerboy94, Jan 9, 2011
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    Interesting development.

    Tested the 2x4GB rams separately, for 30 minutes in each of the two slots. No errors. Then combined them back into 8GB and ran 2 tests @ 30 minutes using Memtest. No errors!

    I am beginning to think this is a software problem
     
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    Still getting a persistent BSOD, but noticing that they are also timed intervals. I will do a fresh OS install next week, but for now I've reduced the amount of ram from 8 - 4GB.
     
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    Update on the BSOD:

    After I pulled a 4gb stick out and ran the laptop with only 4gb of ram, it ran just fine without any BSOD.

    Now I've put the other 4gb back into the system to make 8 GB. Let's see how it holds up.
     
    Mr. Man, Jan 18, 2011
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