Help Ram Maxing out.

[DarkPhazon]

i5-4430@3ghz

16gb ram

windows 7 professional

 

Randomly my ram will max to 99-100% and computer becomes useless.

I can't even open window task manager to see who the culpret is.

 

I have gone thru and updated all drivers and still it happens.

I caught a glimpse of a process starting with ms.......... using lots of ram then black screen.

 

does anyone have any ideas?

[DIV1D3]

Dunno, try a malware scan, see if that comes up with anything.

[jscho]

How often does it happen? And does it happen when you do something in particular on your PC, like open a particular program?

[DarkPhazon]

Done scans and it happens in sleep mode during games during YouTube and idol. Gtx670

[LogicalDrm]

E: do you have some scheduled tasks?

[Nallown]

mspaint? well mspaint is known for draining quiet a bit of ram, last time I used it at work my computer exploded

 

Maybe try running in safe mode and use task manager to check whether it's a windows process running in bg. Highly doubt it though and also something else worth a shot is to uninstall all the bull crap while you're at it.

[DarkPhazon]

Only bloatware is ms word word pad ,paint etc.

Something in the background is the problem.

[deathjester]

i5-4430@3ghz

16gb ram

windows 7 professional

 

Randomly my ram will max to 99-100% and computer becomes useless.

I can't even open window task manager to see who the culpret is.

 

I have gone thru and updated all drivers and still it happens.

I caught a glimpse of a process starting with ms.......... using lots of ram then black screen.

 

does anyone have any ideas?

 

See if it happens with Skype closed. There was a Skype version that did this. If that is it, get new version.

 

If not? Go to ninite.com grab malware bytes. Let it update. Reboot computer and press f8 to get to safemode. run malware bytes.

 

If all that fails. Do a system restore. Type system restore in the star bar.

[ygohome]

Do you have anything in msconfig on startup that you don't recognize or looks suspicious? I'd probably begin by unchecking those from the msconfig startup tab that look suspicious or are possibly causing the memory issue, one at a time. Restart after each one you uncheck to see if you can identify the one causing the problem.

 

 

*edit:  Also keep in mind that if it is something from the msconfig startup tab, it may not be something obvious.  

 

For example, recently I was getting spinning circles all of the time when I had my laptop out of the office (outside my LAN), and eventually leading to BSOD out of memory.  The cause was an HP printer/scan program that launched at startup.  When it could not find my printers ip address it would continue trying to find it every 3 - 5 seconds... spinning circles, big slow downs, then out of memory.   Once I was on my LAN again and with the printer online, it was fine.  So now I uncheck that program from msconfig startup tab whenever I'm outside my LAN.   So the culprit may be something innocent looking like my hp issue was.  *FYI- my issue was a known hp problem:  http://superuser.com/questions/433891/windows-7-busy-icon-wont-stop-spinning

[DarkPhazon]

Ok so I have gone thru msconfig and gotten rid of things that I don't need and or are suspect and will see if that is the issue.

 

I will post again in a day or two either way the problem splits.

 

Thank You to everyone who has helped.

I talked with the it tech that built my pc and he thinks its a ram cleaner needed or malware scan or spyware issue but I will find out and keep this posted asap.

[Antistatic12]

Do you have a page file, if not turn it on and see if that alleviates the problem.

You say "windows 7 professional" you don't state is it 32/64bit??

Have you checked what starts up when windows loads, it could be something there.??

Go to programs and features and delete anything that you don't recognize. (Don't delete stuff like Asmedia / windows / Microsoft realtek. Just Google anything if unsure.)

[DarkPhazon]

MsMpEng.exe

 

This is the program that is messing with my computer.

It is also skrewing with the hdd rates and making it work hard as well

 

Ideas other than to kill antivirus

 

 

64bit

 

windows defender says its not on and when I click to turn it on it does nothing

Microsoft Security Essentials is limited to 50% at 5am it went into its resource over consumtion at midnight

 

 

 

FIXED!

[DarkPhazon]

Breaking News

 

nvstreamsvc.exe

 

This guy is the real problem.

I went in and denyed its access and will post when I have this as a solution or not.

 

Known Issue With Nvidia Gforce Expirience.

 

https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/672846/nvstreamsvc-exe-memory-leak/#4140328

 

 

Find the svc file and deny all access worked  but you have to re-apply access for any update to work