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    Vista Memory_Management BSOD?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Snowfall, Sep 26, 2008.

  1. Snowfall

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    New guy here.

    So I'm a CGT Major that well, needs softwares to do my works and studies. So installing the lovely - and pricy - things onto my Asus G1Sn Notebook with 4Gigs of RAM, running on Vista Home Premium, everything seemed fine and dandy...

    Until two days later, where everything went from 'odd' to 'what just happened to my notebook?!'

    You guessed it right, folks - Blue Screen of Death. I've been working on my notebook for almost three months or more, and it worked like a charm without any problems until I installed the Adobe softwares like Flash CS3 and Fireworks CS3.

    Now, ever so often I get the BSOD that states something about Memory management - tried the memtest, and it states there's a faulty RAM module on my notebook, even though it worked fine for the past three months or so. However, I only get the Memory management in a rough 1:4 ratio whenever I start up my notebook after shutting it down. And whenever there is a BSOD and my notebook is forced to restart, the thing works like a charm without any signs of problems until after I start it up again after shutting it down.

    Now I sometimes get other BSOD problems, or things stopped working in some cases for almost a week now. Windows search host has stopped working, Logitech USB driver fault, Antivirus fault...

    Any advice or suggestions for this, other than sending my notebook to the manufacturing for check-up? Because I am not too inclined to send my notebook that I need for my work and studies.
     
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  2. Andy

    Andy Notebook Prophet

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    Is there a Minidump folder in the Windows directory ?
     
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    Yes. What do you need from it?
     
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  4. Andy

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    The latest Minidump of the latest BSOD you got. Upload it in zip format as an attchmnt.
     
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    You said you did a memory test, and it found bad RAM. So... remove or replace the bad RAM.
     
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  6. Andy

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    Oh yeah, bad RAM. :no: Chuck it out.
     
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  7. Snowfall

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    ...So, I have to perform surgical procedures on my notebook?

    ;_;...Which one's the RAM card?

    But on another note - attachment...here.
     

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  8. Andy

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    Test each RAM module individually, with Memtest and Vista's memory diagnostic tool.
    Then remove the faulty module. The crashes are due to memory corruption.

    Or just upgrade the memory (RAM) module/s. If DDR2, memory is cheap online.

    (RAM modules will be accessible by removing the thermal module cover at the base of your notebook)
     
    Andy, Sep 26, 2008
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