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I have a fairly used gaming pc that none of the components have changed in for 3 months at least. 
Ryzen 5 3600x

asus rog b450f

32gb 3200mhz teamgroup ram (4x8)

evga 1080ti

samsung 970 m.2 ssd

inland 2.5” sata ssd

 

today randomly after no changes in my system for months I was listening to Spotify and playing league of legends with friends on discord and I got a random bsod(pic attached). I rebooted the system and everything was fine for about 3 hours then it happened again, same stop code. 
 

I googled this code and it said something like windows has shut down to prevent data loss. 
 

talked to a couple friends and they suggested bad ram. I ram windows memory diagnostic tool and it says hardware problems detected. This ram is about 6 months old. 
 

any suggestions on narrowing down what stick is having a problem so I can use my computer?

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1 minute ago, fuzz0r said:

Run memtest86 to make sure it is the ram.

If your RAM is only 6 months old, get them RMA'd.

currently have the pc up and running in windows, is there anything i can do from within windows? honestly was planning to upgrade to a 2x32 gb kit in the next month or so, so i just want to figure out which stick(s) are bad so i can use it reliable until then

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I play games - Look at my profile for specs

I love memes. I make bad memes, but I like dank memes, who doesn't?

I am good at editing videos and pictures, feel free to message me if you would like some work done.

 

Thanks!

Kole Overby

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Chaos Network

DanTheNali Videography

 

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17 minutes ago, Chaos Network said:

currently have the pc up and running in windows, is there anything i can do from within windows? honestly was planning to upgrade to a 2x32 gb kit in the next month or so, so i just want to figure out which stick(s) are bad so i can use it reliable until then

I don't know of any way to test which memory stick is bad from within windows.

I think you'll need to boot into memtest to find out.

Be sure to take pictures of any error codes.

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15 hours ago, fuzz0r said:

I don't know of any way to test which memory stick is bad from within windows.

I think you'll need to boot into memtest to find out.

Be sure to take pictures of any error codes.

i have no idea how or why, but it has now been stable going on 16 hours according to uptime in task mgr

"If you gon be bout it, be bout it bout it" ~ Gavin 'itsjusta6' Simon

I play games - Look at my profile for specs

I love memes. I make bad memes, but I like dank memes, who doesn't?

I am good at editing videos and pictures, feel free to message me if you would like some work done.

 

Thanks!

Kole Overby

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Chaos Network

DanTheNali Videography

 

Employee At:

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