Issues with Ram and computer freezing

[Rorgash]

I have no idea what info you would need for this so i will leave it quite open.

 

I have 8GB corsair ram, 4-5 years old now with a 2-3 year old mobo

 

 

Lately my computer has slowed down to nothing before pretty much freezing, by using the task manager i managed to see that when everything went down that my ram was being 100% used but programs that used to use between 300k-100k kb were down to 6000k. It works great and can for 24-36 hours or so before the next freeze, this started to happen after i plugged in a 4th monitor to my graphic card.

 

im currently keeping things open to see exactly what is happening when it happens again but i thought that since in the past people here have been incredibly fast in figuring out what could be wrong that it would be worth a shot

 

normally im with games and all my tabs and such around 50% ram used and i have seen no increase from this to when everything freezes,  this has happened when i wasnt even at my computer doing anything.

 

Is it just my ram getting old? or is it my Mobo losing the connection to the ram?

[Mixzzz]

It may be your 4th monitor causing the problems, try to unplug it and check if it fixes the problems...

[Rorgash]

thought that aswell, but dont see how it can cause my computer to lose its ram

[flibberdipper]

thought that aswell, but dont see how it can cause my computer to lose its ram

More pixels = More memory usage.

[ross06187]

I have no idea what info you would need for this so i will leave it quite open.

 

I have 8GB corsair ram, 4-5 years old now with a 2-3 year old mobo

 

 

Lately my computer has slowed down to nothing before pretty much freezing, by using the task manager i managed to see that when everything went down that my ram was being 100% used but programs that used to use between 300k-100k kb were down to 6000k. It works great and can for 24-36 hours or so before the next freeze, this started to happen after i plugged in a 4th monitor to my graphic card.

 

im currently keeping things open to see exactly what is happening when it happens again but i thought that since in the past people here have been incredibly fast in figuring out what could be wrong that it would be worth a shot

 

normally im with games and all my tabs and such around 50% ram used and i have seen no increase from this to when everything freezes,  this has happened when i wasnt even at my computer doing anything.

 

Is it just my ram getting old? or is it my Mobo losing the connection to the ram?

 

it sounds like your having a program with a memory leek process or a system service.  it can be Malware  related run MB  to be safe.

 

is it running at 100% ram now?  when its get to 100% take some screen shots of the task manger process tab with it sorted highest memory first that should show you the culprit unless its service.

 

my laptop every now and then does this. windows is not a fan of been put to sleep and woken up daily 6-6 time without rebooting over a week.  Are you rebooting often, does the pc sleep allot?

 

More pixels = More memory usage.

 

thats more to do with GPU ram and not system ram, provide you are not running on-board graphics

[Rorgash]

I in general never restart unless i have to, i put it to sleep when i go to bed.

 

And no, It runs at around 40-50% all the time until suddenly it freezes up and it says 100% and my programs are only using like 6000k when that happens, so its not like a program hugs all the ram the ram is just no more.

 

Right now im using the resource monitor aswell as the task manager and processes to confirm this or see if its something else. if its like normal i should get the problem later today or tomorrow.

[Rorgash]

ok, got it again, and this time i could get more info, my ram isnt being lost and the processes list didnt show what used it all, what it did show again was that all the processes lost most of the memory they needed to run, so instead of having the 100-200mb they need they dropped to 60mb, and it showed me that at this time i had NO free ram and NO available ram, so something that doesnt show up as a program stole all my ram and drained my other applications of theirs